Newsreels

Sujets Divers (Various Subjects)

1910–1940: newsreels and documentaries 
5 hours - Pathé Collection

This collection features a wide variety of items in terms of both content and length (ranging from under a minute to over 10 minutes). While it covers the 1910-1940 period in general, the majority of the material dates from 1910 to the 1920s .

Examples of subjects:

Rehabilitation centre for people disabled during World War I (5’)
Acrobat leaping from a car moving at 80 km/h (1’)
Convicts leaving for the Ile de Ré (2’)
Flooding in Paris and its suburbs in 1910 (8’)
The plague in Manchuria (10’)
Laying the foundations of a Muslim centre (14’’)