About British Movietone

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Updating every Tuesday with a new Archivist Presents slot, and every Friday with a Movietone Moment, you have found the YouTube home of British Movietone News!

British Movietone is arguably the world’s greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 – 1986.

Shot on 35mm film, this global archive contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky happenings. It was the first newsreel to include sound, the first to use colour film, the first to break many exclusive stories, and is your first and last stop for newsreel footage.

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Holiday Camp - 1945 | The Archivist Presents | #341

I have booked a little holiday at a holiday camp in Kent, I hope it is as fun as this one! At Blankenberghe, near Ostend in Flanders, Belgium, there is now a holiday camp for troops. Here they can swim, with suits provided, or take a deck-chair on the front. British troops (KS) walk along railway…

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Miners Strike - 1972 | Movietone Moment | 25 February 2022

On this day in 1972, miners accepted a pay settlement after a seven-week strike. Here is a British Movietone report covering the miners' strike. And so the miner's strike goes on - pickets posted at all supply sources, miners and coal officials soon to meet. MS chimneys and rooftops. MS chimneys…

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Spooky Seance - 1932 | The Archivist Presents | #340

My friend Lauren is writing a book about a Victorian medium. I thought she might like this newsreel featuring a seance filmed by British Movietone in 1932. It's a very strange little film! Movietone releases some extracts from record of seance made in studio early last year. Lady Conan Doyle att…

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