Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
In London we see a man called Mr Will Butler taking his model yacht for a ride on his tricycle. Several shots of the working parts of the steam-powered yacht. Mr Butler launches the yacht on a lake and...
Titles read: 'PEEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE WORLD'.
Various locations of events.
In London we see a man called Mr Will Butler taking his model yacht for a ride on his tricycle. Several shots of the working parts of the steam-powered yacht. Mr Butler launches the yacht on a lake and we see it chugging along. The yacht tows a boat carrying six children and Mr Butler across the water.
In Puchberg we see various shots of the oldest man in Austria celebrating his 103rd birthday. A crowd of people watch him being congratulated. He is wearing the medals he won in the Austro-Italian war of 1859. The man holds his baby great, great grandchild then poses with some of his 108 descendants.
In California, United States of America, we see a new flivver plane built by Waldo Waterman coming in to land. It can carry two people and their baggage and apparently doesn't slip, spin or stall. The plane takes off and we see air to air shots of it in flight.
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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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