Seaside Birthday 1954

Star Item

Description

No titles.

Brighton, East Sussex.

Several shots of the snow-covered beach, pier and boats at Brighton. One boat is called 'Gracie Fields'.

A crowd of fully-clothed people watch mad members of the Brighton Swimming Club running out of a building and into the sea in their swimming...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43961
Sort Number:
NP 493
Time in/Out:
01:38:19:00 / 01:39:38:00
Canister:
NP 493
Film ID:
1331.22
Issue Date:
22/02/1954

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
Our Gracie Opens A Factory

Our Gracie Opens A Factory

Gracie Fields opens a factory.

Gracie Fields At Motorcycle Show

Gracie Fields At Motorcycle Show

Gracie Fields presents children with bicycles at Motorcycle Show, Earl's Court.

Gracie Home

Gracie Home

Gracie Fields returns to her home town from America.

Our Gracie Comes Home

Our Gracie Comes Home

Huge crowds welcome singer Gracie Fields home to Rochdale, Lancashire.

Gracie Fields Arrives In Brisbane

Gracie Fields Arrives In Brisbane

Gracie Fields arrives to Brisbane, Australia.

Our Gracie (Lner)

Our Gracie (Lner)

Gracie Fields opens a sale of handicrafts made by disabled men at Smethwick.

Gracie Fields - Maidstone

Gracie Fields - Maidstone

Gracie Fields christens a baby elephant 'Sally' at Maidstone in Kent.

Interview With Gracie Fields

Interview With Gracie Fields

Good footage of Gracie Fields talking into camera.

 

 

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