Pathé News
Industry | documentary production |
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Founded | 1910 |
Founder | Charles Pathé |
Headquarters | United Kingdom |
Website | www |
Pathé News was a producer of
History
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Its roots lie in 1896
The newsreels were shown in the cinema and were silent until 1928. At first, they ran for about four minutes and were issued fortnightly. During the early days, the camera shots were taken from a stationary position but the Pathé newsreels captured events such as Franz Reichelt's fatal parachute jump from the Eiffel Tower and suffragette Emily Davison's fatal injury by a racehorse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.
During the
In 1927, the company sold British Pathé (both the feature film and the newsreel divisions) to
Digitisation
The library itself was sold with Associated British Picture to
From March 2010, British Pathé relaunched its archive as an online entertainment site, making Pathé News a service for the public as well as the broadcasting industry.[5] In May 2010, The Guardian was given access to the British Pathé archive, hosting topical videos on its website.[6] In May 2012, British Pathé won the FOCAL International Award for Footage Library of the Year.[7] In April 2014, British Pathé uploaded the entire collection of 85,000 historic films to its YouTube channel as part of a drive to make the archive more accessible to viewers all over the world.[8][9] As of 2024, the British Pathé YouTube channel had 1.3 billion views and 3.09 million subscribers.[10]
By 2020, the British Pathé archive now includes material from the Reuters historical collection. Additionally, as historically the British Pathé newsreels covered events in the island of Ireland, while it was variously part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, and later a Republic, that part of the archive was shared with the Irish Film Institute's Irish Film Archive, curated as The Irish Independence Film Collection. This also resulted in a more accurate cataloguing of the locations, people, and the historical context, than the UK office would have historically had.
Television use
British Pathé produced a number of programmes and series as well as newsreels, such as Pathé Eve and Astra Gazette. In 2010, BBC Four reversioned the 1950s Pathé series Time To Remember, which was narrated by the actor Stanley Holloway,[11] and broadcast it as a thematic 12-part series.[12] BBC News continues to use extracts in its coverage of various events, such as Windrush, and World War II.
Name changes
British Pathé has been known under the following names:
- C.G.P.C. (1910–1927)
- First National-Pathé (1927–1933)
- Associated British-Pathé/RKO-Pathé (1933–1958)
- Warner-Pathé (1958–1970)
- British Pathé News (1990–1995)
- British Pathé (since 1995)
Pathé News in America
The U.S. version of Pathé News, which began in 1911 as Pathé Weekly, was no longer associated with the British version and Pathé Frères' other newsreels around the world after 1921, when Pathé Frères' American subsidiary,
In 1956, Warner Bros. discontinued the production of the theatrical newsreel and sold the Pathé News film library, the 38 theatrical short subjects, the Pathé News Magazine of the Screen, the crowing rooster trademark and the copyrights and other properties to Studio Films, Inc.—shortly thereafter named Pathé Pictures, Inc.— At this time, the new owners, Barnett Glassman, Samuel A. Costello and Joseph P. Smith acquired ownership and subsequently re-branded the name and film properties of both companies to Pathé News, Inc.
A 50% interest in the Pathé News Film Library was sold to Sherman Grinberg in 1958. The Sherman Grinberg Film Library licensed the marketing rights to the Pathé News Film Library. Pathé News, Inc retained the sole exclusive right to sell the library. The series of 38 theatrical short subjects and 81 issues of the News Magazine of the Screen series, Milestones of the Century, the Men of Destiny series, Showtime at the Apollo, as well as many other titles are marketed by Historic Films Archive, LLC.
In 2016, the children of Joseph P. Smith, acquired 100% of the stock. Today, Pathé News, Inc. is a family-owned private company.
Other U.S. newsreel series included
See also
- Oliver G. Pike – filmmaker for British Pathé
References
- ^ a b "British Pathé". YouTube. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "History of British Pathé: A Golden Age: 1933 to 1958". British Pathé. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- ^ The Story of British Pathé (BBC TV Documentary), Director Bill MacLeod, BBC4[when?]
- ^ "British Pathé". Freeman Clarke. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ Chapman, Ross (9 May 2010). "British Pathé Relaunch Extensive Archive". MovieScope Magazine. Archived from the original on 14 May 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ "British Pathé". guardian.co.uk. London. 2010. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ "Focal International Awards 2012". Focal International. 2 May 2012. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ "British Pathé releases 85,000 films on YouTube". British Pathé. 17 April 2014. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ^ Sparkes, Matthew (17 April 2014). "British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube". The Telegraph. London.
- ^ Silvera, Ian. "How Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reddit and WWII are powering British Pathé into the future". www.news-future.com. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ "TIME TO REMEMBER - THE END OF THE BEGINNING 1942 - reel 1 - British Pathé". Britishpathe.com. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "Four Programmes – Time to Remember, Stage and Screen". BBC. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
External links
- Official website
- British Pathé History
- British Pathé's channel on YouTube
- Sherman Grinberg Film Library - Home of the Pathé Newsreel Collection
- "News Magazine of the Screen" (Video). Internet Archive.
- "News on Screen" (Video). British Universities Film & Video Council(BUFVC).