This is a duplicate copy of documentary also found on tape PM1863 and PM1864 - this version has been transferred from neg so is better copy. Footage is in slightly different order in this version.
Pathe retrospective. This reel is about musicians and singers. Library material...
This is a duplicate copy of documentary also found on tape PM1863 and PM1864 - this version has been transferred from neg so is better copy. Footage is in slightly different order in this version.
Pathe retrospective. This reel is about musicians and singers. Library material used should be found in more complete versions elsewhere.
Reel 3.
The very large Teddy Brown plays the xylophone.
Gertrude Lawrence sings a song standing at the piano with her arms folded. The song is "You're My Decline and Fall". George Posford the composer accompanies her at the piano.
Elstree Studios - the Pathe camera records a "picture in the making" - Richard Tauber in "Blossom Time." He sings a song at the piano.
Charles Coburn sings "The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" and Lily Morris sings "Don't Have Any More Mrs Moore", lifting her skirts up to show her bloomers as she dances.
Tommy Handley does a brief turn with a telephone. Carroll Gibbons plays "Someday Soon" on the piano (he seems to be wearing an identity bracelet - SL). Albert Sandler plays the violin (tune is 'Ochechonya' (sp?) or 'Black Eyes').
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.
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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