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Around the World

Series drawing from British Pathe's archive looks at how, in the age before mass tourism, it captivated audiences with enthralling stories from overseas.

For more than half a century film and newsreel company British Pathe documented almost every aspect of British life, but it also captivated audiences with enthralling stories from overseas.

In the age before mass tourism made international travel affordable and accessible to most of us, their sumptuous travelogues and anthropological documentaries offered British cinemagoers a rare opportunity to glimpse faraway worlds. For decades Pathe dutifully covered royal tours to every corner of the British Empire, but by the 1950s, when the first package holidays were sold, the company also recorded the experiences of the first generations of Britons who were able to indulge in leisure travel around the globe.

This film examines the unique footage captured by the company's cameras across five continents during Pathe's seven decades of international film-making.

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Wed 30 Mar 2016 00:00

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Director Jenny MacLeod
Executive Producer David Okuefuna
Narrator Verity Sharp

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