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Film Description
A DVD that brings together the full inventory of short hand-coloured features from the Pathe Pictorial archive, a collection that showcases the natural beauty of Great Britain before the advent of colour film usage in Pathe newsreels. Filmed and originally distributed in the 1930s, these films were colourised using hand-stencilling techniques and offer a fascinating glimpse into how places have changed.
Films featured: A Shropshire Gem, London's Lungs, Along the Tees, The Palace of Stuarts, Down the Rheidol Valley, Glimpses of York, When Henry I was King, The Broad-Acred Country, Lakeland Glimpses, In the West Country, Down in the Forest and The River.
Bonus features: 'Around Britain 1930-59'. Contains: Melodies of the Motherland (c. 1930), Hometown - a showcase for town and city centres in the 1950s. Locations include Coventry, West Bromwich, Tamworth, Stoke, Stafford, Leicester, Birmingham, Derby and Liverpool, Two Minutes in Kent, To Help Keep Our Unemployed Employed, Canterbury, A Bumper Crop, HopmPickers Off to Kent, Hop Pickers' Barbecue, Cockington Village and Amphibious Caravan.
