Thursday 12 January 2012

Britain is a country where old men can revisit the world of their youth through British Pathé News


I remember seeing Pathé News at the cinema when I was a boy. It was wedged between the 'B' film and the main feature. What I didn't know was that :

* the company was formed in the 1890's in Paris as the 'Société Pathé Frères' by Charles Pathé who pioneered the development of the moving image and adopted the cockerel, the national emblem of France as its trademark.

* British Pathé was set up London in 1902 and newsreels produced from 1910 until the 1970's and 40 years later in 2010, launched its archive of 90,000 reels free online.

So fellow post Second World Wa baby boomers : what was going on in the world when we were young ? :

1947 in the year we were born :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=49273

1948 at the age of 1 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=27603

1949 at 2 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=33095

1950 at 3 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=59551

1951 at 4 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=34326

1952 at 5 :
http://backup.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=53929

1953 at 6 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=31509

1954 at 7 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=38931

1955 at 8 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=40035

1956 at 9 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=32548

1957 at 10 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35008

1958 at 11 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35560

1959 at 12 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=41816

1960 at 13 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=41776

1961 at 14 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=42895

1962 at 15 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=42867

1963 at 16 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=42868

1964 at 17 :
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43822

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