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All new British Pathé: September 2009

British Pathé have upgraded their website and the whole digitised archive to give streamed viewing of all films and a faster, easier download process for schools in subscribing RBC, LA or national networks using broadband authentication tthrough the NEN to gain access to the high-resolution versions of the films and stills without charge for students and teachers to use and re-use creatively in their work.
:: http://www.britishpathe.com.

The new British Pathé website now provides access to streamed versions of the newsreels over the WWW with only a small off-centre watermark. The school's licence gives access authenticated through the NEN has been extended to allow use of materials through school-authenticated VLE. Pupil work may be kept in perpetuity. There is a really useful facility - 'workspaces' - for collecting sets of films into folders and films and folders have direct links for use in VLE and websites.

British Pathé has digitised its complete archive. The resources - 3,500 hours of film and 12,000,000 stills - cover 75 years of history from 1896 until 1970 - sports, games, food, and drink, science and technology, humour, transport, trade and Industry, social issues, religion, lifestyle and culture, politics, news, education and schools, animals and the living world - the whole universe and everything!

Access ... and support

: : To download the high-resolution files - films of stills - Schools, RBCs, LAs and national education networks - just go straight to www.britishpathe.com from school and your NEN connection will automatically log you into the Schools Licence - it's broadband magic!

:: To see the streamed films - go straight to the same url - www.britishpathe.com - and this time it will work from home or on a school trip or your local library as well as school.

:: Any questions? Ask your RBC, LA or national network or contact national support here at info@shapesoftime.net

:: No access? Ask your RBC, LA or national network - but please don't email British Pathé - that's not how it works - access is through the NEN.

How to Download a high-resolution still image from a film.

Click the little Flash icon below and it will open the film up in your browser - give it a few seconds though! Then click the arrow in the centre and watch! (there's no sound). Use back button to return to this page.
Film by Simon Finch, Northern Grid for Learning, using 'JING'
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stills pathe.swf - 4.4MB

How to Download a high-resolution film file

Click the arrow in the centre of the image above to launch the movie - give it a few seconds though! The sound - very strange - comes from the chosen film; an early sound - (late 1930's?) - animated cartoon about a little dog called 'Cobb' with, it seems, a predilection for chicken!
Film by Professor Zebra using 'JING'

:: You can download the swf file - but it is v. big, 14Mbs - click on Flash icon immediately below.
:: Watch the whole of the animated film in the Archive: Cobb
:: Explore the world of animated film in the Archive in the Animated Films Workspace.
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2009-09-24_1137_Cobb.swf - 14.1MB

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