This is an absolute GEM of a documentary, I have been a fan of old British Pathe films/clips, and these new documentaries are a true treasure. I am so happy this was posted, thank you sooo much! British Pathe is a true time capsule, I just can't get over how happy I am that these documentaries have came out. I am truly grateful, love and thanks from the USA!
I was the last cohort to experience the movie theater as a multi-genre experience. The sequence was almost legally required: first a couple of cartoons; then a travelogue; about a twenty-minute Pathe newsreel that covered everything from the consequential to the obscure and banal; then the feature; then another round as above; then the second feature. For about a dollar, US, I could spend an entire afternoon at the movie house. Add in popcorn, a drink and, if I was really flush, some candy. There were ushers, usually teenagers, who kept some sort of order and the real possibility of being kicked out was enough deterrent to keep all but the most incorrigible in line. Thanks for taking this old man down memory lane. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
The musical backing was so amazing! All themes positively played and audience enchanting! So patriotic and invigorating! No one left the cinema feeling down!
@@LuluDumpling no imperial power - from the Romans to Gengis Khan to Britain to Russia ever did anything for wholly altruistic reasons. Their main focus is always selfish with any benefits to the oppressed being a side effect. I’m British and not ashamed of the Empire because it was what every country aspired to do - just the British were the best at it for a period of time
Brilliant film reminded me just how important Pathe News was! I always went to the cinema to get the news as well as from the wireless keeping up to date! Thank you for showing! 94 years young now! They showed truly life as it was!
Remarkable story about the family living on the beach for eleven years. I can't help thinking that it must have inspired the Monty Python 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch. "We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We 'ad to go and live on a beach!"
17:00 There's the major difference between Australia's Cinesound and Movietone compared to Britain's Pathé. Australia's narrators made sure to use their *Australian* accents rather than adopt that *stodgy* laa-de-daa Upper-crust accent of Pathé's announcers!
Pathé, Schmathé! *Australia's Cinesound and Movietone newsreels did this much better, and *without the plum in their mouth!* Cinesound and Movietone presented the weekly newsreel features in the years before TV was introduced in September, 1956, and continued to offer content to the fledgling TV stations when they were established. And they did so in the typical *EGALITARIAN, STRAIGHT-FORWARD, HONEST AUSTRALIAN WAY!*
Very nice documentary. It shows that not a lot changed in 70 plus years. Media are still left wing and the government still tells us what to do, say and how to behave... No progress, very sad!
Good old Australia sent the Brits food-parcels: good old Aussies!🤺🇬🇧🇦🇺👌- then, on visiting Britain, Australians were expected to line-up as Aliens!👺🤺🇦🇺🦘
Pathe really went downhill after TVs became a thing. Still interesting, but they were more like mini features on esoteric subjects than news reporting.
gooses love a propaganda. but my idea is that a society hook line and sinkered by collusion is doubtlessly best gonig to experience change by criticism. that's been utra effective for west papuan resistance to indonesia for the last sixty odd years. you want to try breaking the machine instead of writing things on it. and remember, as soon as a liar's game is up, they always give you a nic ehand written note to explain everything that happened.
They either stayed and were captured for years but lived, or they gambled their lives on escaping from the French beaches at great risk of death, whilst being attacked by German aircraft and shore guns, to be able to return another day, fight and liberate Europe which they later achieved.
@@praguhbis Millions of Germans surrendering at the end of the war? Hundereds of millions of Indians submitting themselves to the rule of a few thousand British? All cowards. How does your logic apply to that?
23:15 I have one of these whistles 😮 Does it have a proper name and what was its purpose? I think it was used to tell people to turn lights/candles out at night or to close curtains to prevent light to be seen from above, could be wrong though
