Intertitle reads: "De Gaulle Comes Back". General Charles De Gaulle comes back into the political field with a stirring speech at Strasbourg, France.
LS view of a street in Strasbourg, teaming with people. LS the huge massed crowd listening to De Gaulle. CU MS People clapping and cheering. MS De Gaulle speaking from a balcony of the Town Hall, gesturing violently. Andre Malraux, author and De Gaulle's right hand man stands on the General's right. MS people clapping. MS De Gaulle calls out 'Vive La Republic, Vive La France". High shot of crowd. De Gaulle and crowd sing 'Le Marseilles", the French National Anthem.
Intertitle reads: "More Eggs For Breakfast". Holland / The Netherlands. The Dutch egg industry in full swing.
CU a tray of fluffy chicks. being taken out of the incubator CU hatching chicks struggling to get out of their shells. CU Newly hatched ducks are tipped into a trough of water. LS Ducks waddling about in their runs. LS CU Flocks of chickens grubbing in their runs. MS Eggs being graded by a conveyor belt machine. MS CU another machine mass stamps the eggs with the Holland trade mark. CU Eggs being packed into boxes.
Intertitle reads: "Strong Woman No. 1". Joan Rhodes a girl ju-jitsu expert is seen practising in a London Gym and being interviewed by John Parsons
MS CU Joan Rhodes exercising with bicycle and rowing equipment. CU she demonstrates her strength by supporting the weight of her trainer who hangs round her waist while she hangs onto gym ropes by her hands and feet. CU she tears a telephone directory in half. CU her face. MS she throws her trainer Mickey Wood, to the ground. CU J.P. interviewing her, She throws him to the ground when she shakes hands with her.
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.
Comments (0)
We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.