Here’s An Article on BritishPathe.com a collection of more than 12 million historic photographs, capturing scenes from the Boer War to the D-Day landings. The images, which date back to the turn of the 20th century, have been captured from the archives of the British Pathe newsreel, a cinema news service that pre-dated television.
The unique collection has been created by re-scanning every inch of the archive’s 3,500 hours of 35mm film.
Pathe brings the past to the present
Way Cool!
Every project like this brings the past
to the present…vibrant and alive…with
an immediacy that’s a bit unnerving
If the internet did not exist, such projects
would not happen…the internet will continue
to evolve into time machine and a portal
to the rare historic treasures which most
of us will only see via our computer screens…
Someone had the vision and someone made a
considerable financial investment to scan
every single frame of the pathe newsreels…
Wish that the “yanks” would do the same
with theirs…