Pathe News clips on You Tube (1 Viewer)

[Jim Daniels]

The weird world of British Pathé
British Pathé has uploaded 3,500 hours of historic footage to YouTube. Stephen Moss dives into the archive and discovers the mind-boggling strangeness of our recent past
Human fish and the 10-stone toddler: the weird world of British Pathé | Film | The Guardian

The Irish related clips are patronising but amusing

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[Hector Grey]

They have footage from 1916. O'Connell st was bombed to fuck. I mean, we knew that already, but jayses.

 

[Hector Grey]

"Maybe this is the price Eire had to pay for sitting on the fence."

Chilling.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

All those clips were on the British Pathé site these donkey's years, I was kinda disappointed there wasn't anything they hadn't digitised before. All it tells me is how incurious most people are. #historyhipster