British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

[icymist]

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.

The HMS Barham Explodes and Sinks, 1941 Photo: British Pathé

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.

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

This is so cool!! I've been watching them since I found the site!
https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe

[KurtNYC]

1. Awesome news ! Thanks for sharing this!

I have had many jobs in the film industry and one that I really enjoyed was cataloging film collections.

Due to the expense and rarity of cameras and film, not that much film was shot in the early days. And reducing that number even further, celluloid, especially the earlier stuff, is extremely flammable. Many films of which there are no copies are lost forever.

YouTube and Hulu are two reasons I don't pay for cable. There are lifetimes worth of viewing on YouTube.

[eShirl]

2. k&r

[JNelson6563]

3. This is excellent!

Thank you for posting this!

Julie

[Roy Rolling]

4. Thanks! N/T

[malthaussen]

5. This is great news.

Now you can have a double feature, a newsreel, and a cartoon in one YT viewing.

-- Mal

[BootinUp]

6. Thats awesome, I'm anxious to check it out.

[cate94]

7. K & R

Wow! Thanks for posting.

[dipsydoodle]

8. There's some classic footage in there.

Back in the day we used to see that stuff at our cinemas here in the UK inbetween the A and B movies along with the Pearl & Dene adverts.

[Stuart G]

9. More info for this incredible..almost instant...."Library" nt

[ananda]

10. I watched the one on Queen Victoria's funeral.

The film quality was amazing, though it still has that funny speed.

It reminded me what horrible people she and her family were, but for
some reason the British people tolerated them and apparently loved
all the pomp and ceremony. I'll never get that, but it is interesting.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Excellent

I've been watch occasional Pathe newsreels from an archive site...They'll get a lot more exposure on YT....

[myrna minx]

12. What a gift!

[intaglio]

13. Brilliant!

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Amazing.

Thanks so much for sharing this link.

[NV Whino]

15. This is fabulous!

[workinclasszero]

16. wow thats great!

Thanks for the info!

[Paladin]

17. I am loving this!

So much crap on line, and then something amazing like this comes along. Genuinely uplifting.

[zeemike]

18. Wow...thank you for that link

that is a real gold mine for people like me that like that kind of thing...

[lovemydog]

19. Sweet

I subscribed to that youtube channel. I love that kind of stuff. Thank you!

[1000words]

20. OMG

This is awesome!!!

[Brother Buzz]

21. Are these the cool newsreels we used to see in the theater?

Cool Beans!

[dipsydoodle]

28. Yes - they would be.

Cool indeed !

[Omaha Steve]

22. K & R!

[progressoid]

23. Subscribing to this!!

THANKS!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

24. Oh...

WOW!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Bookmarked for future oogling.

[catbyte]

26. Thank you! That's fascinating.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Wow. Just what I need, another thing to eat up time I don't have!

No, seriously, that is so cool. Looking forward to checking them out.

[icymist]

29. I don't have the time to go through all of these.

I love it though! This is us.

[shenmue]

30. Subscribed over at You Tube

Thanks.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

31. K&R