Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
In Vienna, Austria, we see several shots of an elephants playing instruments in a 'jazz band' - in fact the music is more like traditional Austrian stuff, not jazz! A small crowd watches while the elephants...
Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
In Vienna, Austria, we see several shots of an elephants playing instruments in a 'jazz band' - in fact the music is more like traditional Austrian stuff, not jazz! A small crowd watches while the elephants beat drums, dance in time with bells on their feet, turn a handle to crash cymbals and so on. Cute or cruel, depending on your point of view.
In Bulgaria we see the cultivation of roses for perfume - attar of roses - at Sofia. Nice shots of roses growing and men planting briar seeds. Seedlings are transplanted and roses grafted on, then the flowers are harvested.
Several shots of the overhead railway or monorail in Moscow's Park of Culture (Russia). Good shots of the streamlined double car zooming around the rail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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