Video Vault

[Topper]

Introduced by the famous crowing mascot, British Pathe's Web site presents
75 years of cinema newsreels dating from 1896 to 1970 and totalling 3,500
hours of free viewing. Visitors have viewed 750,000 free film clips in the
last 12 months and tens of thousands have ordered paid-for downloads.
There's a simple keyword search (the name of your home town may turn up a
few surprises) and then - after a registration and shopping cart order
process where you confirm the free preview option or choose to pay for
higher resolution footage - the downloads are all yours for immediate
viewing. An e-mailed confirmation with a Web link to the ordered file means
that you can easily run the film clip again later. From grainy turn of the
century monochrome to full colour snapshots of the swinging sixties, files
are in Windows movie format, with clear sound and mostly excellent video,
and although there is a watermark on the free films, it's easily ignored and
doesn't detract from the overall value of this amazing archive.

h**p://www.britishpathe.com

 

[spiney]

Also, those famous Public Information Films .........www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/ .(The one I remember is bodybuider Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) as Green Cross Man, I think it's in above list).

 

[spiney]

Public info films, if you have problem with above national archives weblink, also try: www.tv-ark.org.uk/pifs/pifs_a-f.html .

 

[rolfw]

Some nice links there.