The Story of British Pathé - Voice of Pathé

[@adminimer5176]

This is an absolute GEM of a documentary, I have been a fan of old British Pathe films/clips, and these new documentaries are a true treasure. I am so happy this was posted, thank you sooo much! British Pathe is a true time capsule, I just can't get over how happy I am that these documentaries have came out. I am truly grateful, love and thanks from the USA!

[@britishpathe]

Glad you like them!

[@deerhoda7574]

I enjoyed this history lesson. Well done, thank you.

[@glorialange6446]

I am an American and I still love watching Pathé newsreels What a great documentary this is.

[@Funeeman]

🇬🇧🇺🇲👍

[@ragingman100]

I’ve absolutely loved watching all these old videos. Thank you for sharing!

[@GM-qq1wi]

Pathe is one of the best things on youtube and it was created decades ago for a different type of audience. What a priceless time capsule.

[@Henry30065]

As a boy in the 1960’s going to the cinema with my brothers and parents, seeing the Pathe news and travelogues brings back many very happy memories.

[@iXpress]

British Pathe is the British Museum of media records. *No pun intended here.

[@KbB-kz9qp]

American here - I like seeing old Pathe videos 😀

[@senianns9522]

The musical backing was so amazing! All themes positively played and audience enchanting! So patriotic and invigorating! No one left the cinema feeling down!

[@alan-u7e5f]

I think this is the best video of any from any source I have seen on You Tube. Well done British Pathe' & thank you for producing it.

[@jackrice2770]

I was the last cohort to experience the movie theater as a multi-genre experience. The sequence was almost legally required: first a couple of cartoons; then a travelogue; about a twenty-minute Pathe newsreel that covered everything from the consequential to the obscure and banal; then the feature; then another round as above; then the second feature. For about a dollar, US, I could spend an entire afternoon at the movie house. Add in popcorn, a drink and, if I was really flush, some candy. There were ushers, usually teenagers, who kept some sort of order and the real possibility of being kicked out was enough deterrent to keep all but the most incorrigible in line. Thanks for taking this old man down memory lane. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

[@jjforcebreaker]

Wow this is fantastic. I'll save this one to see in a couple of days, to give it my full attention. Thanks, BP!

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

British Pathe films/clips & voice 😊 a beautiful sound to listen too 😊 love love love as a child & still love listening 😊

[@NgaTaeOfficial]

Why, Mr Cholmondley-Warner, what an absolutely smashing and informative film!

[@alfyryan6949]

Bob Danvers-Walker, arguably the most famous voice in history

[@wolfman6941]

No arguments about it.

[@mikebennett3812]

As a young teenager; I recall Bob Danvers-Walker as the 'the man with the gong' an a 1960's quiz show called 'Pick a Box' or something similar.

[@christopherwheeler688]

'Take Your Pick' was hosted by (Your quiz-inquisitor) Michael Miles, voiced by Bob Danvers-Walker and the 'gong man' was called Alec.

[@samirabedi6353]

The British nation has provided great services to humanity

[@iXpress]

😂🤣😂 ... nice one

[@theofarmmanager267]

You can’t beat the British sense of humour

[@naturalcambion3747]

Fascist!

[@LuluDumpling]

True but also committed heinous atrocities over the centuries

[@theofarmmanager267]

@@LuluDumpling no imperial power - from the Romans to Gengis Khan to Britain to Russia ever did anything for wholly altruistic reasons. Their main focus is always selfish with any benefits to the oppressed being a side effect. I’m British and not ashamed of the Empire because it was what every country aspired to do - just the British were the best at it for a period of time

[@MichaelStBede]

Just before the 44min mark, a young CLIVE DUNN appears, the well-known comedy actor known to many millions as Lance-Corporal Jack Jones of Dad's Army.

[@Rodentpinkytrotters]

Indeed - 43:52 "They don't like it up 'em..."

[@amcguigan2389]

Fascinating; learned so much. Exceptionally well done. Thank you!

[@jsa-z1722]

I absolutely loved this video. 🏆

[@rsc9520]

Me too !!!

[@paulhelman2376]

Ed Murrow's voice had a similar compelling quality for American radio listeners

[@jsa-z1722]

I’ve always loved British Pathe ❤

[@jacksugden8190]

I remember Danvers-Walker’s voice on the game show Take Your Pick! with Michael Miles up to the late 60’s on (Associated-Rediffusion) television.

[@ceciliaflorencenapier4595]

Brilliant film reminded me just how important Pathe News was! I always went to the cinema to get the news as well as from the wireless keeping up to date! Thank you for showing! 94 years young now! They showed truly life as it was!

[@HazimEvilGame]

Good👍🏼

[@rjmun580]

The part of Bob Danvers Walker was played by Miles Cholmondley Warner.

[@richardbrown1189]

Remarkable story about the family living on the beach for eleven years. I can't help thinking that it must have inspired the Monty Python 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch. "We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We 'ad to go and live on a beach!"

[@atomictraveller]

well done, and thank you for the after word for those of us with the consideration.

[@chlorineismyperfume]

Community service announcements are more valuable than we realise.

[@johnrudy9404]

Mr. Chumnly-Warner and his pal Greyson.

[@lindsaycaress450]

We watched Pathe news in the cinema as children .

[@duckbizniz663]

I don't know when this documentary about Pathe was made. But Ms. Joan Bakewell stated that we (she means the British people) were amazed that NHS or healthcare can be free for everybody. She claimed that it was "wonderful", "she could not believe it", and "free." I am amazed that a grown person from a modern, industrialized country would believe modern, researched, and evidence-based medicine is free. That advanced, research-based, evidence-based medical care is not free. I have been watching BBC News the last few years and it seems that the average UK citizen find NHS fall far short of what they want and expect. And highly trained healthcare professionals are desperately under paid. In fact most UK physicians, nurses, pharmacists, ... are leaving their profession or moving to another modern, industrialized country for better pay. Free high quality healthcare service and medical technology is free for everybody is lie. Nothing is free. Everything requires someone to exert effort using raw resources to make a final product. The effort by that worker and the raw resources used cost something. If you want it then you will have to trade for it. In most modern society we use money as the instrument of trade for that thing we want. I am amazed that Ms. Joan Bakewell, who is British, buys into this free healthcare socialist lie. The British people invented the modern, industrialized world. That modern world was created by the incentive driven trading system known as free-market capitalism. Yet an educated English woman like Ms. Bakewell believes a valuable service-product combination like healthcare is free. No wonder the Chinese people living in Communist China have not kicked their incompetent pseudo-socialist government out of power.

[@westcommonroom9737]

Kenneth Horne voicing the pre-fabs?

[@lynnecromack4933]

Amazing how many ex-servicemen went into early television.

[@neilforbes416]

17:00 There's the major difference between Australia's Cinesound and Movietone compared to Britain's Pathé. Australia's narrators made sure to use their *Australian* accents rather than adopt that *stodgy* laa-de-daa Upper-crust accent of Pathé's announcers!

[@nigelhamilton815]

Didn't. Bob Danvis walker appear o take your pick.?

[@mrjoneseastend]

Yes he did, the Yes, No round - don't ask!

[@nigelhamilton815]

@@mrjoneseastend the things you remember. 🤣🤣

[@john07973]

Good stuff 👍 we had a backbone then

[@neilforbes416]

9:51 Australia's Cinesound and Movietone newsreels *KEPT IT REAL!* They *DID NOT* stage bullshit pranks like this piece of nonsense!

[@uwusmolbean]

Such a shame the once decent and beautiful UK has been subverted and destroyed

[@snotwurfit]

It's still decent and beautiful. I don't know what you are insinuating. Come on, say what I think you're really thinking...

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Ah yes! Upperclass greed, hypocrisy, & mass ignorance.

[@vickicali]

​@@snotwurfitYeah I suspect we know.

[@HYUKLDER1]

When Britain was full of real British people and not having its culture, traditions and public safety trashed by Blair's third-worlders.

[@RussellJamesStevens]

Happy memories of Britain when it was still GREAT BRITAIN ( BEFORE THE LUNATICS TOOK OVER THE ASYLUM)

[@rayg4360]

What would all those that fought, think of the Country now !

[@zh9652]

trans alantic accent play it's part please make a come back👍

[@x92Vendetta]

23:15 I have one of these whistles 😮 Does it have a proper name and what was its purpose? I think it was used to tell people to turn lights/candles out at night or to close curtains to prevent light to be seen from above, could be wrong though

[@kidmohair8151]

28:18 “…I didn’t realize, that women could be so useful…” ah patriarchy… it's still here.

[@edwardrodgers9383]

Good old Australia sent the Brits food-parcels: good old Aussies!🤺🇬🇧🇦🇺👌- then, on visiting Britain, Australians were expected to line-up as Aliens!👺🤺🇦🇺🦘

[@JT-qd2sk]

Have to admire the British stiff upper lip and keep calm and carry on attitude ❤

[@Zuk22Zed]

Amazing Documentary (didn't watch the full video)

[@neilforbes416]

Pathé, Schmathé! *Australia's Cinesound and Movietone newsreels did this much better, and *without the plum in their mouth!* Cinesound and Movietone presented the weekly newsreel features in the years before TV was introduced in September, 1956, and continued to offer content to the fledgling TV stations when they were established. And they did so in the typical EGALITARIAN, STRAIGHT-FORWARD, HONEST AUSTRALIAN WAY!

[@liltick102]

5:02 whuddup

[@carsyoungtimerfreak1149]

Very nice documentary. It shows that not a lot changed in 70 plus years. Media are still left wing and the government still tells us what to do, say and how to behave... No progress, very sad!

[@vickicali]

Now we have so many living rough due to high cost of housing. History repeating itself especially for working class.

[@juliaforsyth8332]

Still slum tenements in the 60's.

[@kiltedjohn1000]

bobby howes dad of chitty chitty bang bang actress sally ann howes

[@johnmartin4650]

Paternalism……not a bad thing . Better than the maternalism we have now .

[@laurastuart3814]

I would like to see what the Germans were watching.

[@drxym]

Pathe really went downhill after TVs became a thing. Still interesting, but they were more like mini features on esoteric subjects than news reporting.

[@stephenwilliams926]

The modern brits look back with hate at this period of our nation for some reason 😮

[@markshrimpton3138]

Well this Briton doesn’t.

[@PrestageP]

Hmm 🤔 i see you have changed the channel picture back to normal from pride colours.

[@AzGamerAlan]

Kay ni om om kuno

[@edwardrodgers9383]

That's the way it should be!😂

[@alanmarr3323]

Many pre-fab desigs were American!

[@samirabedi6353]

جيل عظيم

[@samirabedi6353]

The great British people liberated the Arab peoples from the authority of the Ottomans

[@LuluDumpling]

My grandfather fought with the Ottomans against the British Britain sliced us up & handed over our lands to occupying invaders

[@samirabedi6353]

الامة البريطانية قدمة خدمات للبشرية

[@WagnSund]

Pathetique!

[@BobbyDaz]

PROPAGANDA MACHINE

[@indigohammer5732]

Caps Lock broken, eh?

[@BobbyDaz]

@@indigohammer5732 Nope

[@atomictraveller]

gooses love a propaganda. but my idea is that a society hook line and sinkered by collusion is doubtlessly best gonig to experience change by criticism. that's been utra effective for west papuan resistance to indonesia for the last sixty odd years. you want to try breaking the machine instead of writing things on it. and remember, as soon as a liar's game is up, they always give you a nic ehand written note to explain everything that happened.

[@Gyokuro_Ch.4801]

How is it propaganda?...

[@atomictraveller]

@@Gyokuro_Ch.4801 when i say free west papua.

[@praguhbis]

They were not heroes of Dunkirk but cowards of Dunkirk.

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

The UK was a great nation, now it is as dead as a corpse.

[@indigohammer5732]

W⚓

[@HYUKLDER1]

They either stayed and were captured for years but lived, or they gambled their lives on escaping from the French beaches at great risk of death, whilst being attacked by German aircraft and shore guns, to be able to return another day, fight and liberate Europe which they later achieved.

[@praguhbis]

@@HYUKLDER1 A coward has thousand excuses.

[@bw6524]

​@@praguhbis Millions of Germans surrendering at the end of the war? Hundereds of millions of Indians submitting themselves to the rule of a few thousand British? All cowards. How does your logic apply to that?