Case Study 2

PATHE

3,500 Hours Of Video...

12 Million Still Images...

75 Years Of Entertainment

British Pathe are one of the oldest media companies in the world. They were established in London in 1902, and by 1910 they were producing their famous bi-weekly newsreel the Pathe Gazette. By the time Pathe finally stopped producing the cinema newsreel in 1970 they had accumulated 3,500 hours of filmed history amounting to over 90,000 individual items. Over the last 30 years, all this material has been used within home videos, televisin programmes, advertisements, corporate productions, and most recently in Web Publishing.

Through the generosity of the Lottery Funded New Opportunities Fund it was possible to build this web site, and to encode the library for digital distribution.

British Pathe is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust Group. British Pathe footage sales are now managed by ITN Source.