British Pathe's Cutest Animals (1/7)
 

The British Pathé archive holds some of the first ever moving images of animals, and indeed animals have long proved a popular subject matter. Before the days of David Attenborough and the Discovery Channel zoos were often the destination of choice for equipment-heavy camera crews. In this gallery we’ve compiled photos of “cute” animals from different decades within the archive.

Famous Last Words

From well-constructed and contrived quips to completely natural and seemingly spontaneous comments, there's something fascinating about people's last words. British Pathé...

BERNARD SHAW - A TRIBUTE

Lady Nancy-Astor (Britain's…

MR CHURCHILL IN RUSSIA

Winston Churchill "I'm…

BASEBALL MAKES ITS BOW aka BASE BALL MAKES ITS BOW Dublin issue

Franklin D. Roosevelt …

A small nocturnal creature from Africa, their real name is galagos but most people call them ‘bush babies’. This bush baby is being filmed in 1957 at Ifracombe Zoo.

The Death of King George VI

THE KING'S SPEECH

To mark the 60th anniversary of the death of King George VI, we've created a gallery featuring stills from a selection of original British Pathe...