Soundtrack is currently missing for this whole issue.
Mostly shot in London.
M/S of a man the roof of a building (Pathe House?) looking through a telescope. We see several shots of London landmarks - Nelson's Column, London Coliseum,...
Soundtrack is currently missing for this whole issue.
Mostly shot in London.
M/S of a man the roof of a building (Pathe House?) looking through a telescope. We see several shots of London landmarks - Nelson's Column, London Coliseum, Big Ben.
Studio shot of a rotund monk looking at the sky through a lens. Animated diagrams by Joe Noble illustrate the history of telescopes and refractors and explain how they work. View through a telescope of Westminster Abbey (?) the wrong way and the right way up. A man and woman in period costume (could be Galileo or Newton?) look through a French window at the sky using a refractor. Brief shot of the milky way, presumably seen through this telescope.
Several shots of a young man in a garden looking through a telescope with a framework around it. Shots of a massive telescope at an observatory - could be in United States of America. Animated diagrams relating to modern telescope equipment. One seems to be informing us that the 200 inch mirror at Palomar, California, is big enough to park a truck on.
Back to the young man on the building. We see the view he is looking at - a silhouette of a woman's legs as she puts on one of her stockings.
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 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.
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.
Animals are often the forgotten army of World War I. They displayed unwavering courage even when exposed to extreme conditions. British Pathé pay tribute to these forgotten warriors.
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.
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.
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.
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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