version of Pathé News, which began in 1911 as Pathé Weekly, was no longer associated with the British version and Pathé Frères' other newsreels around the world after 1921, when Pathé Frères' American subsidiary, Pathé Exchange, was spun off as an independent business. BBC News continues to use extracts in its coverage of various events, such as Windrush, and World War II.īritish Pathé has been known under the following names: In 2010, BBC Four reversioned the 1950s Pathé series Time To Remember, which was narrated by the actor Stanley Holloway, and broadcast it as a thematic 12-part series. This also resulted in a more accurate cataloguing of the locations, people, and the historical context, than the UK office would have historically had.īritish Pathé produced a number of programmes and series as well as newsreels, such as Pathé Eve and Astra Gazette. Additionally, as historically the British Pathé newsreels covered events in the island of Ireland, while it was variously part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, and later a Republic, that part of the archive was shared with the Irish Film Institute's Irish Film Archive, curated as The Irish Independence Film Collection. īy 2020, the British Pathé archive now includes material from the Reuters historical collection. As of 2021, the British Pathé YouTube channel had 822 million views and more than 2 million subscribers. In April 2014, British Pathé uploaded the entire collection of 85,000 historic films to its YouTube channel as part of a drive to make the archive more accessible to viewers all over the world. In May 2012, British Pathé won the FOCAL International Award for Footage Library of the Year. In May 2010, The Guardian was given access to the British Pathé archive, hosting topical videos on its website. įrom March 2010, British Pathé relaunched its archive as an online entertainment site, making Pathé News a service for the public as well as the broadcasting industry. On 7 February 2009, British Pathé launched a YouTube channel of its newsreel archive. The British Pathé archive now holds over 3,500 hours of filmed history, 90,000 individual items and 12 million stills. In 2002, partially funded by the UK National Lottery, the entire archive was digitised. The feature film division is now part of StudioCanal and is not connected with Pathé, the French company and original parent of British Pathé. The library itself was sold with Associated British Picture to EMI Films and then others, including The Cannon Group (which split the feature film and newsreel divisions) and the Daily Mail and General Trust, before relaunching in its own right in 2009. During the newsreels' run, the narrators included Bob Danvers-Walker, Dwight Weist, Dan Donaldson, André Baruch and Clem McCarthy among others. Pathé eventually stopped producing the cinema newsreel in February 1970 as it could no longer compete with television. In 1958, it was sold again to Warner Bros. (French Pathé News continued until 1980, and the library is now part of the Gaumont-Pathé collection.) Pathé changed hands again in 1933, when it was acquired by British International Pictures, which was later known as Associated British Picture Corporation. In 1927, the company sold British Pathé (both the feature film and the newsreel divisions) to First National. By 1930, British Pathé was covering news, entertainment, sport, culture, and women's issues through programmes including the Pathétone Weekly, the Pathé Pictorial, the Gazette and Eve’s Film Review. After 1918, British Pathé started producing a series of cinemazines, in which the newsreels were much longer and more comprehensive. 1931 Pathé newsreel of Mahatma Gandhi arriving in Londonĭuring the First World War, the cinema newsreels were called the Pathé Animated Gazettes, and for the first time this provided newspapers with competition.
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