Althouse: "British Pathé, the U.K. newsreel archive company, has uploaded its entire 100-year collection of 85,000 historic films in high resolution to YouTube."

April 20, 2014

"British Pathé, the U.K. newsreel archive company, has uploaded its entire 100-year collection of 85,000 historic films in high resolution to YouTube."

"The collection, which spans 1896 to 1976, comprises some 3,500 hours of historical footage of major events, notable figures, fashion, travel, sports and culture. It includes extensive film from both World War I and World War II."

Wow. Beautiful.

It's all here. Explore! I'll cherry-pick one:

ADDED: From 1947, "No more babies!"

32 comments:

Anonymous said...: The skeleton that the Hindenburg leaves behind hints of Dresden.; 4/20/14, 7:40 PM
n.n said...: A woman's "final solution". Yes, very rational, and not without precedent. It really is an effective means to reduce the problem set. At least until the dodos realize their choice is suicidal.

The reporter's questions, on the other hand, are entirely prescient. Nature imposes penalties on those women, and, to a later extent, men, who reject their biological imperative. It imposes a progressive burden on those societies who choose to normalize dysfunctional behaviors.

People who lack foresight, and a deep distrust of humanity, humanity's ingenuity, and humanity's morality, should not be permitted free reign in a civilized society. Her concept of "planned parenthood" dehumanizes men, women, and our younger selves, babies, before and after birth.; 4/20/14, 8:01 PM
madAsHell said...: The interview with Margaret Slee/Sanger sounds like it was rehearsed, and scripted. Regardless, she sounds like a bitter woman.; 4/20/14, 8:03 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Damn it, this post reminds me I missed The Rockford Files.

It's on MeTV Sunday evenings 5 pm MST.

That Jim Rockford was a heck of a character.

Tarnation, I could listen to the theme song of TRF in repetition with more pleasure than watching most new TV produced today.; 4/20/14, 8:32 PM
Jazzizhep said...: I am not the greatest at remembering dates. Are Margaret's comments before or after she lobbied for eugenics and sterilization of the poor and mentally deficient?; 4/20/14, 8:34 PM
David said...: Planned Parenthood know best. Always has.; 4/20/14, 8:41 PM
David said...: The skeleton that the Hindenburg leaves behind hints of Dresden.

Or perhaps Auschwitz?; 4/20/14, 8:42 PM
Birkel said...: Sanger wanted, by her own unequivocal statements, to limit black births. She was a eugenicist of the first order. She was evil.; 4/20/14, 8:56 PM
William said...: She sounds exactly like you think she would sound.......I think Hindenburg deserves recognition as the biggest fuck up of the twentieth century. As a member of the German General staff, he approved unrestricted submarine warfare. That's what brought the Americans in on the Allies' side and ensured Germany's defeat. The German General Staff also did more for Lenin than give him a train ride. The Bolshevik revolution was subsidized by the Germans. On a tactical level that worked out better than the submarine warfare, but there came a time when the Red Army entered Berlin and raped every woman in sight. So, on a strategic basis, the Bolshevik revolution did not serve to enhance Germany's long term interests. Last but not least, Hindenburg accepted Hitler's appointment. Hitler had been convicted of a felony and, under the Wehrmacht constitution, was not eligible to serve office.....So there you have it: engineer of German defeat in WWI and enabler of the rise of Lenin and Hitler. Can you name anyone else who fucked up on this scale? It's entirely fitting that his hot air namesake perished in such a fiery debacle.; 4/20/14, 9:59 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Without God there is not every, but most all, reason(s) to kill would-be problems aka black babies, according to racists like Democrats and Sanger.

They see a problem, distance themselves, then proclaim solutions to jerk-off their conscious, which was feeling blue.

Myself, albeit from different ethos, I agree now more with Tool that were Apocolypse to arrive it would come with some sense, fleeting due to the burning flesh and whatnot, of ignored-to-our-peril acknowledgement of considered foresight.; 4/20/14, 10:05 PM
Mary Beth said...: I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time watching these. Thank you for letting us know about them.

I watched the Hindenburg video and then later found one of an acrobat with the stage name "Ben Dova". With a name like that, I had to do a search about him. His real name was Joseph Späh and he happened to be on the Hindenburg when it caught fire. He was suspected by some of sabotaging the airship.
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In the "no babies" video she says it's a personal decision for the parents to make. If they're parents, doesn't that mean they've already made that decision?; 4/20/14, 10:43 PM
Donna B. said...: Broad access to original sources is a good thing, so "Thanks" British Pathe!; 4/20/14, 10:58 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Do you realize that they are selling Dean Martin DVD's for $100.00 plus this very moment?

Think about what people buy Dean Martin Roast's for $100 plus (easy payments) and then think about how easy it is for us to secure our safety.

The dumb majority, those who, sure sure may only be 2-40 per cent of our population, would buy and allow that infomercial to remain scares me.

It scars my brain.

It, my cortex used for the thought and stuff, is damaged now thinking of $100 Deano DVD's.; 4/20/14, 11:04 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Pissing on the still-breathing-but-soon-to-be-dead is what Bill Kunstler celebrated.

Is that okay because Art?

Fame?

Success in court?

Deviancy?

Change?

Pedestrian, NOT!

?; 4/20/14, 11:23 PM
Biff said...: I just spent an hour (that should have been devoted to desperately needed sleep) watching a bunch of these reels. The videos are fascinating. The only disappointment is that the narration is recent, rather than contemporaneous with the footage. As a result, many of the reels are marred by a restrained, but very real, Labour Party / BBC-style journalist bias. If you went solely by the narration, you'd be forgiven if you believed that Attlee was the savior of Britain and that Churchill was a footnote.; 4/20/14, 11:57 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: There are too many wrong predicates to respond, even in aggregate, or perhaps especially so, clearly.

It is easy to understand how one could form an "argument from ignorance" for various motives.; 4/21/14, 1:21 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: They have not a stand,

but a clump of shit to squish down as they pat-their-backs for climaxing mind-summits.; 4/21/14, 1:29 AM
Saint Croix said...: Roe v. Wade itself was not motivated by feminism. The feminism came later, explicitly in Casey. But the motivations of Roe were more aligned with the population control movement.

Specifically our unelected rulers wanted the young, the poor, and the single moms to have abortions. They wanted to get rid of unwanted children, on a theory that this would improve our society. And also they wanted to limit reproduction because of liberal fears about scarce resources.; 4/21/14, 1:58 AM
J said...: SHE sets the cultural norms. "No more babies" is practical,intelligent, and humane.The propaganda is so subtle.Note she proposed it for European women not Chinese or Indian or African or Arab.; 4/21/14, 2:10 AM
J said...: "No more babies".Sounds so reasonable doesn't it?Or as she puts it practical,intelligent, and humane.What a load of codswallop.Notice too that she is only talking about European women.Just after the continent was depopulated for six long years.; 4/21/14, 2:13 AM
Rusty said...: The have some good clips of people actually making things.
At a time when British engineering was at it height.; 4/21/14, 5:56 AM
Anonymous said...: Re Margaret Sanger Slee: I blame Big Oil, Koch Bros circa 1947; 4/21/14, 6:24 AM
Michael said...: This one is particularly horrific...poor guy, hell of a way to go

http://youtu.be/Qg0Jj-2x5rM; 4/21/14, 7:34 AM
John henry said...: Just by way of no harm I would point out that Margaret Slee/Sanger had 3 kids herself.

Perhaps she viewed them as disappointments.

John Henry; 4/21/14, 7:54 AM
Kevin said...: Why does the Arnold Schwarzenegger one have so many views? I have a feeling I know why the bomber going into the Empire State Building one does....; 4/21/14, 8:56 AM
Bob Ellison said...: Who knew Margaret Sanger Slee was such a talented tightrope walker?; 4/21/14, 9:23 AM
Audacity17 said...: Amazingly, she made these comments at the beginning of a long baby boom. Talk about out of step with society.; 4/21/14, 10:10 AM
Jeff with one 'f' said...: Regarding the "No more babies!" video: there were an estimated 7 million peasants killed by the Soviet-engineered famines of the 1930s, the estimated number of deaths sustained worldwide during World War II: 72 million. But Europe and the United States needed fewer new humans.

Progressivism was and is a culture of death.; 4/21/14, 10:40 AM
tim maguire said...: And when we've gone without having babies for 10 years, how, exactly, do we return to having babies? Are all the maternity wards, doctors, midwives, etc. to be taken out of dry lice and thawed, ready to pick up where they left off?

How are schools to cope with a 10-year gap in students?

Yes, rational and logical.

Did she have any babies?; 4/21/14, 11:18 AM
chillblaine said...: Mrs. Slee would be gratified at the industrial scale in which we now liquidate our unborn, largely thanks to government sponsorship. However, she would be delighted at the wholesale change in our culture.

There is no longer any stigma or social pressure to change behavior. There are over one million abortions every year in this country. Yet there has never been a piece of popular entertainment produced that explores the range of emotions that men and women experience about their abortions.

I know that the movie "Juno," had an uplifting message, but it was more about adoption. The pro-life character that Juno meets in front of the abortion clinic is clearly depicted as an outlier, a kooky Asian girl in suburban Minnesota. That must have been the only way the script got past Ilyse and Cecile.; 4/21/14, 12:10 PM
CatherineM said...: Thank you. I love the Pathe videos. I go into a video time wasting spiral every time.; 4/21/14, 12:25 PM
Right Brainworks, LLC said...: "No more babies." That is not Planned Parenthood. That is Planned Extinction.

I suppose the argument is more nuanced than I am able to grasp.; 4/21/14, 9:50 PM