The City Of London Reel 5 1951

Star Item

Description

Excellent Quality Black and White shots of the City in the 50's - 1951?

Top shot of men on Stock Exchange floor. Various groups of men with bits of paper on Exchange floor, and near telephone booths. MS two men,one wearing a top hat, looking at wall charts. Four men making notes and dealing....

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Mike
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
84434
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:21:23:00 / 01:40:21:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2929.02
Issue Date:
1951

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
An Iceland Item

An Iceland Item

Travelogue featuring Reykjavik - housing, climate, street scenes, industry, volcanos, etc.

Women As Pedestrians

Women As Pedestrians

Wives and other relatives of London Dock Police take part in a ten mile walk from Rainham to Tilbury.

The Wheeled City - With Eve In Copenhagen

The Wheeled City - With Eve In Copenhagen

Various shots of cyclists on the streets of Copenhagen.

Pavement Clock

Pavement Clock

Jeweller, Mr. Dyson, puts clock into pavement outside his shop.

Women Workers In Budapest

Women Workers In Budapest

You Can't Trust Them! - French Police Are Strict In The Examination Of The Delegates Passports

You Can't Trust Them! - French Police Are Strict In The Examination Of The Delegates Passports

French police examine delegates' passports.

Inside The Gates Of Soviet Russia

Inside The Gates Of Soviet Russia

Good footage of Petrograd in Russia, including street scenes.

Madeleine Bastille

Madeleine Bastille

Good shots of boulevards and buildings in Paris, France. 1910.

 

 

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