The Story of British Pathe

Season 1

2011 · 4 episodes · 4h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Birth of the News

   18 Aug 2011 · 60 min

   For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world.

2. 2

   2. The Voice of Pathé

   25 Aug 2011 · 60 min

   The company's output really came into its own during the Second World War, when the distinctively clipped and relentlessly chipper commentaries by its announcer Bob Danvers-Walker provided stirring encouragement during the Blitz - and offered authoritative advice on how housewives struggling to feed their families on the ration could overcome privation and to 'make do and mend'.

3. 3

   3. Entertaining Britain

   1 Sept 2011 · 60 min

   While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which entertained cinemagoers for decades.

4. 4

   4. Around the World

   8 Sept 2011 · 60 min

   In the age before mass tourism made international travel affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds.