One of the world’s best news and entertainment video film archives, British Pathé began recording every aspect of global culture and news, for the cinema in the 19th century. With their unique combination of information and entertainment, British Pathé’s documentaries, newsreels, serials and films changed the way the world saw itself forever. In other words, it was YouTube before YouTube. In an ironic twist, all 85,000 newsreels are now searchable and viewable ON YouTube. With an unparalleled collection of historical events an immense catalogue of moving images, British Pathé encompasses one of the world’s most prodigious and fascinating documents of the modern age. The bad news is, this translates to 3,500 hours of filmed history that you can get lost in, including some of these clips here, like the World’s tallest man at 8’11″, 50s fashions in Paris, Arnold Schwarzenegger winning Mr. Universe in ’69, not to mention some monkeys and The Beatles.
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