Titles read: "Would you believe it? Queer things the world over No. 8."
Various locations of events.
Extreme C/U of a bean that has been hollowed out by a Ceylon craftsman. Inside are six tiny elephants, carved from ivory. A pin is held beside them to show the size.
Titles read: "Would you believe it? Queer things the world over No. 8."
Various locations of events.
Extreme C/U of a bean that has been hollowed out by a Ceylon craftsman. Inside are six tiny elephants, carved from ivory. A pin is held beside them to show the size.
We then see a black and white cat sitting on the side of a sink and drinking water from the tap. Commentator says the cat will not take anything to drink but water.
In London we see various shots of Ely Place in Holborn. Bizarrely, this area comes under the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical commissioners of Ely, so is technically in Cambridgeshire! We see the 'Beedle' - a man who looks after the spot by day. Shots of a pub called 'The Mitre' down an alleyway - it looks like it belongs to a different age. Commentator says a watchman patrols the area at night and calls out the time and weather report.
Archive footage shows women playing tennis in 1900. We then see various shots from the same era of a man riding a water cycle along a river as a small crowd of people watch. The cycle is mounted on two floats. Another man has a go and wobbles the cycle from side to side "to give the folks on the bank a thrill"!
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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