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Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive is known today as "British Pathé". Its collection of news film and movies is fully digitised and available online. [1]
Hearst Metrotone News 1914–1967; Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial 1915-1916; The March of Time (Warner Bros./Time, Inc.) 1935-1951; Movietone News (20th Century Fox) 1928-1963; Pathé News 1910-1956; Paramount News (Paramount Pictures) 1925-1957; Universal Newsreel (Universal Studios) 1929-1967
Cyril Frederick "Bob" Danvers-Walker (11 October 1906 – 17 May 1990) was a British radio and newsreel announcer best known as the voice of Pathé News cinema newsreels during the Second World War and for many years afterward. His voice was described as "clear, fruity and rich, with just the suggestion of raffishness". [2]
Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Spain in the early 1930s as Noticiario Fox Movietone [1] before being replaced by No-Do, in Australia and New Zealand until 1970, and Germany as Fox Tönende Wochenschau from 1930 to ...
In the U.S., newsreel series included The March of Time (1935–1951), Pathé News (1910–1956), Paramount News (1927–1957), Fox Movietone News (1928–1963), Hearst Metrotone News (1914–1967), and Universal Newsreel (1929–1967). Pathé News was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures from 1931 to 1947, and then by Warner Brothers from 1947 to ...
The latter was a project of the renowned Jerry Wald–Norman Krasna production team, lured by Hughes from Warner Bros. with great fanfare in August 1950. [174] Robert Mitchum, RKO's most prolific lead of the late 1940s and early 1950s, [175] costarred in Macao (1952) with Jane Russell, who was personally contracted to Howard Hughes. [176]
To rescue the 12 individuals and tour guide still stuck at 1,000 feet, engineers had to repair the elevator stuck at 500 feet, check the cables and then run a test round by sending it down to the ...
The channel features video simulcasts of TalkRadio programming in off-peak hours, but launches with three original programmes - The News Desk, Piers Morgan Uncensored, and The Talk. [77] 14 July – The BBC sets out plans for a new global news channel titled BBC News. It will replace its two existing news services for the UK and overseas. [78]