Pope Blesses New San Francesco 1949

Star Item

Description

Full title reads: "Pope Blesses New San Francesco".

Rome, Italy.

SV Tramcar passing camera, revealing slum dwellings, under aqueduct. LV GV dwellings under aqueduct. LS Girl sitting outside dwelling. CU Ruined aqueduct pan down to dwellings at base. SV Man and Child outside dwelling...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45872
Sort Number:
49/026
Time in/Out:
01:18:24:00 / 01:19:35:00
Canister:
49/26
Film ID:
1409.15
Issue Date:
31/03/1949

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
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.
daredevil
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.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Push Button Paradise

Push Button Paradise

Super modern house shows off push button design and electric powered aids.

Pompey Sunk: Manchester Dis-United

Pompey Sunk: Manchester Dis-United

Wolves and Manchester United draw in FA Cup Semi-Final.

Leicester: 3 Portsmouth: 1

Leicester: 3 Portsmouth: 1

Leicester beat Portsmouth in FA Cup Semi-Final. Don Revie scores two.

"When The Lights Go On Again .."

Illuminated signs are switched back on in London and at the sea side.

America Welcomes Churchill (Aka Churchill Visits America)

America Welcomes Churchill (Aka Churchill Visits America)

Winston Churchill makes a speech on his arrival in New York.

 

 

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.
Death Row
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.
Buchenwald
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.
Churchill
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.
Battle
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.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
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.
Himmler