Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Polish Newsreel item. Title reads: "Powrot z niewoli".
Gdansk, Poland
LS Plane carrying nineteen Polish sailors from the "Gottwald", freed after a year of captivity on Taiwan by Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai Shek, flying into the airport at Gdansk. MS Eager and excited crowd of relatives waving. (3 shots). LS Plane taxiing and crowd running towards the plane. MS Looking down at faces of crowd from plane. CU Joyful woman waving flowers. Pan across crowd surrounding plane to sailors walking down steps of plane and immediately being engulfed in a sea of overwrought relatives. First off the plane is Captain Szemiot and his deputy Nawrot. Various shots of couples reuniting. A small girl is held up to embrace her father, Arczynski. MS Another young girl being embraced and kissed repeatedly by her father, steward Grzeskowiak. Various shots of happy crowd scenes.
Note: "Date received" on original paperwork reads: 14/06/1955.
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.
Comments (0)
We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.