London Street Scene / Turn Out of a Fire Brigade

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand, advertising its latest show 'My Girl'. The second part is a different film altogether, spliced onto the first and is R W Paul’s Turn Out of a Fire Brigade filmed in November 1896 in Newcastle at the Westgate Road fire station. The film date is 1896.

Patchwork Family

Herää Helsinki!

Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

Look at Life: Market Place

A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets.

Ride on the Tram Car through Belfast

In 1901 people in Belfast paid their tram drivers in carrots.

Like It Is

This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area.

Sunshine in Soho

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

Cattle Market in Derry

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

The London Nobody Knows

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

Imphal Bazaar

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

sunday market tape 1

not the first sunday market, but the first tape of it

High Performance Imports: Volume 5

This time High Performance Imports visits Ebisu Circuit for the draft matsuri, tours the Veilside factory and attends some drag meetings.

Petticoat Lane

Join the Sunday morning crowds at the famous East End market, home of London's rag trade.

Look at Life: Shopping by the Ton

A visit to Smithfield Market, Covent Garden and Billingsgate, at their busiest time, the early morning.

An Eastern Market

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Palm Sugar Milk Coffee

In the last 1 year (2023-2024) the street coffee hangout culture in the city of Yogyakarta developed very quickly. Firman shaleh is one of the people who has a big influence in the development of the hangout culture, he opened one of the first street coffee in the kotabaru area and paved the way for other street coffee to open. Despite experiencing various obstacles, Firman and the periphery continue to inspire and impact various street coffee cultures in the city of Yogyakarta.

Here is the News

A day in the life of the Manchester Evening News.

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The Coast of Commerce

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

Hyde Park Corner

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital (today the Lanesborough Hotel) can be seen on the right of the picture. The road stretching away in the centre of the picture is Grosvenor Crescent. The busy two way horsedrawn traffic movement is seen on what would today be Grosvenor Place and Apsley Way (the road layout now is different to 1896). The approximate camera position would be today on Apsley Way, just east of the Royal Artillery Memorial. Not to be confused with another Hyde Park Corner film by British Pathé made in the same year but with a different view. (That film looks north towards the triumphal arch at the corner of Hyde Park next to Apsley House.)