Byline: JOE HILDEBRAND
Thousands of hours of history and nostalgia are now freely available, with the launch of Pathe's famous cinema newsreels online.
The bi-weekly news bulletins, which played in cinemas from 1910 to 1970, kept the nation informed during two world wars, the great depression and the swinging sixties before the advent of colour television marked the end of the service.
Now, 3,500 hours' of footage has been put online for Internet users to either revisit, or see for the first time.
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell launched the new site in London, after funding was made available from the Lottery's New Opportunities Fund.
"National Lottery good cause funding has enabled British Pathe to bring about this world first, both in terms of technical achievement and in bringing 20th Century newsreel to the small screen of Internet users of all ages," Ms Jowell said.
The fund will also take a travelling Internet suite it calls a "digi- van" to disadvantaged areas throughout south London.
l The material can be accessed at www.britishpathe.com
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ICON CAPTURED: a still from a Pathe newsreel showing Marilyn Monroe taken from her celebrated trip to Korea in the early fifties, where she entertained American troops
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