Wot larks! Here’s yet another way to avoid working on my thesis- the British Pathe archive of newsreel footage has been released on You Tube. You can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe
Pathe News started in Paris and had opened a London branch by 1910. The four-minute newsreels were issued bi-weekly and ran in cinemas as part of the mixture of features that were shown during a ‘night at the pictures’ . They increased in length after 1918 and were silent until 1928. It amazes me that they were still in production until 1970.
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 
It’s terrific that they have been put on You Tube but many were already available at the Pathe website. Last night I watched this rather sad one. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stately-home-auctioned-in-melbourne/query/melbourne
Were they? I didn’t know that. The Internetty is too big for me!!
Did you see on the Walking Melbourne website that there are bits and pieces of Nareeb still floating around- the gates at the RBG and a stained glass window or two.
http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=874
I’d never heard of Nareeb. Thank you.
Oh no! This is such a fascinating distraction! Seriously though, thankyou for sharing it.