British Pathé has put some 80,000 of their old newsreels on YouTube. This is a massive treasure trove of cool stuff, and the many hours I will spend looking at them are fully justified as “work”. A lot the commentary is bland, foreigner-centered and uninformed, but the pictures are great.
Civil War in China. (1922) Not much analysis, but a a nice funeral.
Some of these are listed as unknown material with no date. such as. 8) I suppose I should comment and tell them what this is.
Some of it might be quite useful for research. Would you like to see a film of the official parade at the inauguration of the Japanese puppet government of Canton? With street drama and everything?
Or Nationalist troops in Nankin in 1927?
China Fish People (1930)?
An opium burning which I think is the one in 1919?
Not only is all this great content searchable, it is also free! This is the type of thing that convinces me that inventing the internet may not have been a mistake after all.
What are your favorites? You can go to the Pathe channel here https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe and click on the magnifying glass to search.
