Spreading A Little Happiness! 1932

Star Item

Description

Full title reads: "Clapham, London. Spreading a little happiness! Churls - indeed - are those whose hearts do not thrill to this happy picture of Xmastide at Dr. Barnardos Boys' Home."

Clapham, London.

(Over the title card we hear boys of the Home singing a Christmas carol.)

A...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
5265
Sort Number:
32/103
Time in/Out:
01:05:39:00 / 01:07:07:00
Canister:
32/103
Film ID:
689.05
Issue Date:
26/12/1932

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
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
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
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
Spread A Little Happiness

Spread A Little Happiness

Christmas celebrations at Dr Barnardos Boy's Home in Kingston.

(Don't Spread Germs - Trailer)

(Don't Spread Germs - Trailer)

Short trailer film telling people to use disinfectant to avoid the spread of germs.

This Freedom!

This Freedom!

Women replace long skirts with shorts for tennis in Australia.

"Spreading A Little Happiness!"

Boys at a Dr Barnardos home welcome their Christmas pudding with bagpipes.

Kids Picnic

Kids Picnic

Children from Dr. Barnardo's go on a country picnic. Essex.

(Don't Spread Germs - Trailer)

(Don't Spread Germs - Trailer)

Short trailer film telling people to use disinfectant to avoid the spread of germs.

Japanese Sailors Exercising

Japanese Sailors Exercising

Footage of Japanese sailors in training during the First World War.

 

 

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
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.
WW1
The Duke of Edinburgh has many talents, but it is his unique way with words that often receives the most attention. 
LULU'S WEDDING
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.
 Before_Famous
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.
Transport_Inventions