Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
Near Vienna in Austria we see various shots of model trains travelling along a railway. Engineers use the model railway to test out scale models before the bigger versions are built. We see men studying...
Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
Near Vienna in Austria we see various shots of model trains travelling along a railway. Engineers use the model railway to test out scale models before the bigger versions are built. We see men studying the models on the tracks.
Still in Austria we see various shots of swans on and beside a river. A swan sits on her nest with her babies. Nice shots of swans and signets on the river.
We then see several shots of two cockerels fighting in a farmyard enclosure. Two turkeys try to join in and each fight one of the cocks. A turkey pecks one of the cockerels and chases him about. For search purposes - cock fighting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
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