Siouxie

https://www.britishpathe.com/

Newsreel archive British Pathé has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. This unprecedented release of vintage news reports and cinemagazines is part of a drive to make the archive more accessible to viewers all over the world.

https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe

rivingtonpike

Cool

Cabbagetown

most or many of them are actually only short videos, of 2 or 5 minutes.

But still interesting.

Shard

If anyone else is wondering why Pathe was called Pathe, here's what Wikipedia says:

Its roots lie in 1896 Paris, when Société Pathé Frères was founded by Charles Pathé and his brothers, who pioneered the development of the moving image. Charles Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. After the company, now called Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frère Pt'honographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel with Pathé-Journal. French Pathé began its newsreel in 1908 and opened a newsreel office in Wardour Street, London in 1910.

Pulaski

Well they were made to support feature films at the cinema, and the paying cinema customer, who had paid to see an entertainment film, wasn't interested in watching a half hour documentary about the Suez crisis, the Jarrow march, or the building of the Hoover Dam.

scot47

But the News then was in 3 minute chunks ! Now in the TV age we get sound bites of 30 seconds !

MarkG

I'm not so sure of that. I remember going to see movies as a kid, where they sometimes showed a documentary beforehand.

Pulaski

Sorry, I didn't mean all of the 85,000, and I'm sure some were much longer, but many were just "news shorts".

Shard

A Pathe film on Pathe c.1954.

Did not know that the "The rooster is the oldest trademark in films" !

http://streaming.britishpathe.com/hl...85475.mp4.m3u8