Movies: Charles Pathé

A magician's trick....

Native British birds, from common gulls and cuckoos to the rare Richardson's Skua, are filmed in their natural habitat....

A train arrives at Bel Air Station in Paris, France....

This was one of the earliest mass marches organised by the suffrage movement, and up to 15,000 women marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall to hear speeches from Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragette leaders (Ros Cranston, Make More Nois...

A couple of women stand in a field, using pitch forks to separate burning grass. Men run away from the event. Meanwhile, a third woman stands to the right, drinking what I would guess is water from a pitcher, instead of using it to put out the fire....

Early short film adapted from the Bible (Judges 4-5)...

A train ride with a view from the back of the train....

This two-shot newsreel fragment surveys the scene at a Votes for Women protest on Trafalgar Square in the summer of 1910, when suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies presented petitions signed by supportive menfolk of Britain...

A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army....

The Thames, although insignificant compared to the rivers of the continent, has its own charm that painters and poets like Turner, Bonington, Eugène Delacroix, Whistler and Seymour have tried to render on paper or on canvas. In this film no grandiose...