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… and newsreels were the first available footage. Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era.

The Pathé News archive is known today as “British Pathé,” and contains all of Pathé’s work, along with the archives of Reuters, Gaumont, Visnews and others…

Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it….

… Spanning the years from 1896-1978, its collections include footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science, and culture. It is an invaluable resource for broadcasters, documentary producers, museum curators, and researchers worldwide. The entire archive of 85,000 films is available to view for free on the British Pathé website while licences can be acquired for other uses.

British Pathé also represents content from partner organisations, such as Reuters’ historical collection, which includes more than 130,000 items dating from 1910 to the end of 1984…

The entire Pathé collection has been available on its website since 2002. Now the 85,000 Pathé News items are also available on YouTube.

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* Phil Graham

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As we rewind, we might recall that it was on this date in 1910 that the British ocean liner RMS Olympic was launched. The lead ship of the White Star Line‘s trio of Olympic-class liners, Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname “Old Reliable”, and during which she rammed and sank the U-boat U-103. She returned to civilian service after the war and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930, made her operation increasingly unprofitable. Olympic was withdrawn from service and sold for scrap in 1935.

Olympic was the largest ocean liner in the world for two periods during 1910–13, interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger Titanic, which had the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913.

Pathe has the footage…