Story about various ways of signalling. Part of the WAIT FOR IT! issue.
Shots of various forms of traffic signals. Shot of woman driving car and giving a hand signal. Shot of policeman on traffic duty. Shot of traffic lights.
Shots of a model of an ancient French semaphore tower,...
Story about various ways of signalling. Part of the WAIT FOR IT! issue.
Shots of various forms of traffic signals. Shot of woman driving car and giving a hand signal. Shot of policeman on traffic duty. Shot of traffic lights.
Shots of a model of an ancient French semaphore tower, passing signals with its arms.
Shots of soldiers using a heliograph to send messages over distances using mirrors and reflected light.
Animated explanation of the system of semaphore towers devised by Sir Home Popham. CU map of message sending system from Kent and Hampshire ports to London. Animation of older style of tower.
Shot of railway junction. Small models from the Science Museum are used to explain how railway signals are used. Shots in signal operation room of the Southern Railway near Brighton. A large illuminated board shows the position of signals on the railway network. Various shots of railway signals.
A young woman uses her thumb to signal that she wants a lift. A car drives past. The woman reaches down and shows some leg - the car swiftly reverses to pick her up.
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.
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.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General Pershing gather at the tomb of the unknown soldier to pay tribute on Armistice Day. Arlington, Virginia, America (USA).
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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