Information Series delving into film and newsreel company British Pathé's archive. For more than half a century, the film and newsreel company British Pathé documented almost every aspect of life - the remarkable and the run-of-the mill, the extraordinary and the everyday.
Entertaining Britain While the company was famous for its pioneering news reports, it also produced immensely popular 'cinemagazines', which entertained cinemagoers for decades. Initially made to boost the nation's morale after the First World War, entertaining strands such as Pathe Pictorial and Eve's Film Review were designed to appeal to women who were interested in fashion, celebrities and movie stars - and offered plenty of handy hints for those running the home. In the 1930s, the arrival of synchronised sound increased the popularity of cinemagazines, and the company launched Pathetone Weekly - a strand that featured what Pathe believed were the 'novel, amusing and strange' dimensions of our national life. Technical Spec Video Codec: x264 CABAC Video Bitrate: 1372 Kbps Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1 Video Resolution: 832x468 Audio Codec: HE-AAC Audio Bitrate: 128 Kbps ABR 48KHz Audio Channels: 2 Run-Time: 59mins Framerate: 25FPS Number of Parts: 4 Part Size: 630 MB Source: PDTV Encoded by: JungleBoy Release Notes Merged subtitles
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