Season 1
4 episodes · Aug 18, 2011
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- S1E1
The Birth of the News
Aug 18, 201160mFor more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world.
- S1E2
The Voice of Pathé
Aug 25, 201160mThe company's output really came into its own during the Second World War, when the distinctively clipped and relentlessly chipper commentaries by its announcer Bob Danvers-Walker provided stirring encouragement during the Blitz - and offered authoritative advice on how housewives struggling to feed their families on the ration could overcome privation and to 'make do and mend'.
- S1E3
Entertaining Britain
Sep 1, 201160mWhile the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which entertained cinemagoers for decades.
- S1E4
Around the World
Sep 8, 201160mIn the age before mass tourism made international travel affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds.