"Newsreel” is an odd word. Once upon a time it was like the smell of napalm in the morning; yet now it stinks of the past and so many old-fashioned attitudes. It was part of the hope that in modern ...
The Pathé News company produced newsreels on events and places both important and strange for the greater part of the 20th century. That footage is now housed in the British Pathé archive, a ...
Before YouTube, before the Internet, before even TV, the way people got their news presented visually was through newsreels shown at movie theaters. Now British Pathe, the premier archive of these ...
Unless you're a dues-paying member of the Greatest Generation, you might be momentarily confused by the second scene of "Citizen Kane," which cuts abruptly from Charles Foster Kane's shadow-shrouded ...