The Story of British Pathé - Voice of Pathé

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • The voice that was synonymous with Pathé, above all others, belonged to Bob Danvers-Walker. His son Michael and film historian Ian Christie recall the man who got Britain through the Blitz and beyond.

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  • @adminimer5176
    @adminimer5176 25 дней назад +41

    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!

  • @iXpress
    @iXpress 26 дней назад +21

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

  • @glorialange6446
    @glorialange6446 24 дня назад +13

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

    • @Funeeman
      @Funeeman 18 дней назад

      🇬🇧🇺🇲👍

  • @ragingman100
    @ragingman100 25 дней назад +11

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

  • @jackrice2770
    @jackrice2770 22 дня назад +4

    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.

  • @Henry30065
    @Henry30065 5 дней назад +1

    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.

  • @alfyryan6949
    @alfyryan6949 25 дней назад +15

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

  • @GM-qq1wi
    @GM-qq1wi 22 дня назад +3

    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.

  • @KbB-kz9qp
    @KbB-kz9qp 23 дня назад +4

    American here - I like seeing old Pathe videos 😀

  • @MichaelStBede
    @MichaelStBede 25 дней назад +5

    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.

  • @mikebennett3812
    @mikebennett3812 11 дней назад +1

    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
      @christopherwheeler688 4 дня назад

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

  • @paulhelman2376
    @paulhelman2376 23 дня назад +3

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

  • @jsa-z1722
    @jsa-z1722 25 дней назад +4

    I’ve always loved British Pathe ❤

  • @samirabedi6353
    @samirabedi6353 26 дней назад +63

    The British nation has provided great services to humanity

    • @iXpress
      @iXpress 26 дней назад +12

      😂🤣😂 ... nice one

    • @theofarmmanager267
      @theofarmmanager267 26 дней назад +9

      You can’t beat the British sense of humour

    • @naturalcambion3747
      @naturalcambion3747 25 дней назад +2

      Fascist!

    • @LuluDumpling
      @LuluDumpling 25 дней назад +11

      True but also committed heinous atrocities over the centuries

    • @theofarmmanager267
      @theofarmmanager267 25 дней назад

      @@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

  • @patriciaoreilly8907
    @patriciaoreilly8907 2 дня назад

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

  • @chlorineismyperfume
    @chlorineismyperfume 25 дней назад +4

    Community service announcements are more valuable than we realise.

  • @NgaTaeOfficial
    @NgaTaeOfficial 7 дней назад

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

  • @jsa-z1722
    @jsa-z1722 25 дней назад +3

    I absolutely loved this video. 🏆

    • @rsc9520
      @rsc9520 25 дней назад

      Me too !!!

  • @jjforcebreaker
    @jjforcebreaker 22 дня назад

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

  • @ceciliaflorencenapier4595
    @ceciliaflorencenapier4595 24 дня назад +2

    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!

  • @rjmun580
    @rjmun580 23 дня назад +1

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

  • @amcguigan2389
    @amcguigan2389 24 дня назад

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

  • @richardbrown1189
    @richardbrown1189 20 дней назад

    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!"

  • @johnrudy9404
    @johnrudy9404 24 дня назад +1

    Mr. Chumnly-Warner and his pal Greyson.

  • @atomictraveller
    @atomictraveller 25 дней назад

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

  • @john07973
    @john07973 5 дней назад

    Good stuff 👍 we had a backbone then

  • @EagleEvilGame
    @EagleEvilGame 7 месяцев назад +2

    Good👍🏼

  • @zh9652
    @zh9652 25 дней назад +2

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

  • @westcommonroom9737
    @westcommonroom9737 21 день назад

    Kenneth Horne voicing the pre-fabs?

  • @carsyoungtimerfreak1149
    @carsyoungtimerfreak1149 14 дней назад +1

    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!

  • @nigelhamilton815
    @nigelhamilton815 25 дней назад +1

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

    • @mrjoneseastend
      @mrjoneseastend 22 дня назад

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

    • @nigelhamilton815
      @nigelhamilton815 22 дня назад

      @@mrjoneseastend the things you remember. 🤣🤣

  • @Coolhoodie1
    @Coolhoodie1 26 дней назад +3

    Amazing Documentary (didn't watch the full video)

  • @JT-qd2sk
    @JT-qd2sk 26 дней назад +5

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

  • @juliaforsyth8332
    @juliaforsyth8332 25 дней назад +3

    Still slum tenements in the 60's.

  • @laurastuart3814
    @laurastuart3814 21 день назад +1

    I would like to see what the Germans were watching.

  • @kiltedjohn1000
    @kiltedjohn1000 24 дня назад +1

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

  • @edwardrodgers9383
    @edwardrodgers9383 15 дней назад +1

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

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 20 дней назад

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

  • @Pr3stag3
    @Pr3stag3 25 дней назад +3

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

  • @HYUKLDER1
    @HYUKLDER1 25 дней назад +14

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

  • @stephenwilliams926
    @stephenwilliams926 24 дня назад +1

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

  • @drxym
    @drxym 23 дня назад

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

  • @alanmarr3323
    @alanmarr3323 22 дня назад

    Many pre-fab desigs were American!

  • @edwardrodgers9383
    @edwardrodgers9383 15 дней назад

    That's the way it should be!😂

  • @liltick102
    @liltick102 23 дня назад

    5:02 whuddup

  • @uwusmolbean
    @uwusmolbean 23 дня назад +6

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

  • @AzGamerAlan
    @AzGamerAlan 26 дней назад

    Kay ni om om kuno

  • @samirabedi6353
    @samirabedi6353 26 дней назад +2

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

    • @LuluDumpling
      @LuluDumpling 25 дней назад +2

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

  • @samirabedi6353
    @samirabedi6353 26 дней назад +2

    الامة البريطانية قدمة خدمات للبشرية

  • @BobbyDaz
    @BobbyDaz 26 дней назад +7

    PROPAGANDA MACHINE

    • @indigohammer5732
      @indigohammer5732 25 дней назад +1

      Caps Lock broken, eh?

    • @BobbyDaz
      @BobbyDaz 25 дней назад

      @@indigohammer5732 Nope

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller 25 дней назад

      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
      @Gyokuro_Ch.4801 25 дней назад

      How is it propaganda?...

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller 25 дней назад

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

  • @samirabedi6353
    @samirabedi6353 26 дней назад +1

    جيل عظيم

  • @WagnSund
    @WagnSund 24 дня назад

    Pathetique!

  • @praguhbis
    @praguhbis 6 месяцев назад +2

    They were not heroes of Dunkirk but cowards of Dunkirk.

    • @christianfreedom-seeker934
      @christianfreedom-seeker934 26 дней назад

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

    • @indigohammer5732
      @indigohammer5732 25 дней назад +3

      W⚓

    • @HYUKLDER1
      @HYUKLDER1 25 дней назад +4

      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
      @praguhbis 25 дней назад

      @@HYUKLDER1 A coward has thousand excuses.

    • @bw6524
      @bw6524 25 дней назад

      ​@@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?