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
Around the World In 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. For decades Pathe dutifully covered royal tours to every corner of the British Empire, but by the 1950s, when the first package holidays were sold, the company also recorded the experiences of the first generations of Britons who were able to indulge in leisure travel around the globe.
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 |