Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
C/U panning across an old, bearded man called Joseph Clark, flanked by his two sons. The sons pick up a 10 hundred weight girder on their shoulders and walk off across a yard. Other men and their father...
Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
C/U panning across an old, bearded man called Joseph Clark, flanked by his two sons. The sons pick up a 10 hundred weight girder on their shoulders and walk off across a yard. Other men and their father look on. One of the sons balances on the other one's arm - the lifter also picks up a 56 lb weight for good measure with the other hand. The final stunt shows 86-year-old Mr Clark lying down with a plank on his front. Two of his sons climb up and stand on the plank. Another 4 stone is added to the plank - 29 stone altogether! (Location is somewhere in England.)
At an unidentified location we see various shots of a lion tamer man in a cage with 5 lions. He gets them to stand on plinths on their hind legs. One lion stands on two posts while the man forces its jaws open and puts his head inside.
In the United States of America we see a man taming fish. He holds fish heads in the water and large fish eat out of his hand. Some turtles keep getting in the way so the man tosses them roughly to one side!
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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