Date: 19/04/2014 06:53:02
From: Spiny Norman
ID: 520027
Subject: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Thousands of hours of historical footage showing major events, celebrities and simple day-to-day life from 1896 until 1976 has been uploaded to YouTube.
British Pathé, the newsreel maker which documented all walks of life on video during the 20th Century, has uploaded its entire collection of moving images to YouTube.

The archive of 3,500 hours of footage was digitised in 2002 thanks in part to a grant from the National Lottery, and is now freely accessible to anyone around the world for free.

More – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10772434/British-Pathe-uploads-85000-historic-films-to-YouTube.html

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Date: 19/04/2014 08:45:32
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 520039
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Excellent, thanks Bill.
Bookmarked.

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Date: 19/04/2014 09:18:35
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 520040
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Peak Warming Man said:


Excellent, thanks Bill.
Bookmarked.

ditto * 2

Just watched the Wright Brothers first flight.

It had 40 odd “dislikes”. Why do people do that?

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Date: 19/04/2014 15:04:43
From: Bubblecar
ID: 520142
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Brilliant, ta to all concerned.

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Date: 19/04/2014 15:18:35
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 520144
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

just watching one about women collaborators in france. the two fingers up behind someones head getting photographed is shown. i thought it a relatively new thing.

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Date: 19/04/2014 15:36:36
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 520145
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Actors of the Commedia dell’Arte by François Bunel the Younger, a 16th century French history painter.

oh dear…

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Date: 19/04/2014 16:00:32
From: PermeateFree
ID: 520147
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

>>John George Haigh

The man being directed in to the car is serial killer John George Haigh otherwise known as the “Acid Bath Murderer”. In the 1940s he was convicted of killing six people although he claimed to have killed nine. Haigh didn’t actually use the acid to kill his victims, instead he used 40 gallon drums of concentrated sulphuric acid to dispose of their bodies. He then forged victims’ paperwork so he could sell their possessions and collect large sums of money. Haigh was executed in 1949.<<

http://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/faces-of-evil/8

Wonder if the Snowtown murderer’s were inspired by Haigh?

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Date: 19/04/2014 19:54:22
From: Lord_Lucan
ID: 520225
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

They were good days, good memories.
I was tempted to post a comment there but the plod these days are educated chaps, can trace a chap from anywhere.

Thanks for the link by the way.

http://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/fascinating-footage/0

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Date: 19/04/2014 20:06:51
From: Mr Ironic
ID: 520228
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

the two fingers up behind someones head getting photographed is shown. i thought it a relatively new thing.
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Vee for victory…

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Date: 19/04/2014 20:33:18
From: dv
ID: 520234
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Good

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Date: 2/05/2014 19:23:46
From: Bubblecar
ID: 526236
Subject: re: British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

Think I’ll browse through some of these this evening, then probably watch some archaeology documentaries.

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