Motorway Views 1970-1979

Star Item

Description

Unissued / Unused material -

Various shots from bridge of traffic travelling along a very empty looking motorway.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
92128
Sort Number:
UN 4621 E
Time in/Out:
01:30:21:00 / 01:34:12:00
Canister:
UN 4621 E
Film ID:
3355.05
Issue Date:
1970 - 1979

Appears in...

Collections
Newsreels
Categories
Trade & Industry
WorkSpaces
empty M1 stock footage ad Favourites speed traffic

Comments (1)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

  • The appearance of a K-registered Hillman car at 03:23 means the earliest the film can have been shot is August 1971.

    I also can;t see any cars during the clip produced after 1974. A new date range of 1971-74 would therefore be nearer the mark.

    jamied 11th Dec 2012

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
daredevil
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Crowded Kent Roads At Holiday Time

Crowded Kent Roads At Holiday Time

Traffic jams on Kent roads during Easter holiday break.

(German Traffic Problem)

(German Traffic Problem)

German police try hard to solve traffic problems on the nation's Autobahns.

New Motorway System Across Australia

New Motorway System Across Australia

Sydney's new expressway eases the traffic congestion

France Looks At Motor Age

France Looks At Motor Age

Paris Motor Show, driving school circuit and inauguration of new motorway.

New Italian Motorway

New Italian Motorway

Various shots of the new motorway opened by President Moto.

Traffic Problem In Holland

Traffic Problem In Holland

Highways scenes of traffic jams and road excavations in Utrecht, Holland

English Aerial Views

English Aerial Views

Aerial views of English industrial estates, motorways, countryside and coastline

France Has New Autoroute

France Has New Autoroute

New motorway which links Paris with Normandy is opened.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler