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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”866162″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”2\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”162486″][vc_single_image media=”11533″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”588803″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”1″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”207555″][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=”184245″]<\/p>\n

Pitching the Archive<\/strong><\/h6>\n

[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes” text_color=”color-855811″ uncode_shortcode_id=”100890″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”][\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”138066″]UK
\nRepresenting by <\/span>Eric Cambronne<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”666776″]BOTANICAL GARDEN
\nAranciera\u00a0 May 27 12 p.m.
\nENG<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_separator sep_color=”color-855811″ type=”dotted” uncode_shortcode_id=”111544″ sep_color_type=”uncode-palette” el_height=”10″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”749376″]British Path\u00e9 is considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world. Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news, and this is how the story of newsreel began. The name Path\u00e9 originates from a network of French businesses run by the Path\u00e9 Brothers in 1896. The company was established as Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Path\u00e9 Fr\u00e8res in Paris by the four Path\u00e9 brothers Charles, \u00c9mile, Th\u00e9ophile and Jacques. During the first decades of the 20th century Path\u00e9 was the largest film equipment and production company in the world – as well as a major producer of phonograph records. They were the tech pioneers of their time and were introducing innovation across all branches of the audiovisual sector while laying the first foundations of modern media industry.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator sep_color=”color-855811″ type=”dotted” uncode_shortcode_id=”513750″ sep_color_type=”uncode-palette” el_height=”10″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”207036″]Archiviogenico<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Archive footage is often understood as a visual record of the past \u2014 a \u201ccapture\u201d of people and events fixed in space and time, preserved, catalogued, and stored within a footage library, ready to be revisited whenever a project calls for relevant extracts. It is commonly used to illustrate a narrative, reinforce a point of view, or serve as an unexpected witness to forgotten facts. In this sense, archival footage can also lend credibility to contemporary statements by grounding them in documented traces of the past.
\n<\/span>This short collection seeks instead to isolate fleeting or \u201coffbeat\u201d moments filmed by British Path\u00e9 camera crews \u2014 not to remove them from their historical context in order to judge or reinterpret them retrospectively, but to magnify what the camera inadvertently captured: gestures, expressions, and fragments of human presence that reveal a more universal and intimate dimension. These moments resist becoming obsolete or reduced to fixed truths simply because they belong to the past.
\n<\/span>The selected snippets also invite reflection on conditions and events that have gradually disappeared into the fabric of time. By shifting perspective, they encourage us to reconsider who we are in relation to those who came before us. This form of selective observation becomes a kind of mental exercise \u2014 one that sharpens our intellectual agility and allows us to step back, recognise continuities across generations, and rediscover the shared traits that connect us with our predecessors.<\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator sep_color=”color-855811″ type=”dotted” uncode_shortcode_id=”513750″ sep_color_type=”uncode-palette” el_height=”10″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”11543″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”152101″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”716818″]Eric Cambronne<\/strong><\/p>\n

License Executive at British Path\u00e9. Represents the British Path\u00e9 newsreel archive library and supports film & documentary makers, producers, researchers and archive enthusiasts in their projects and content creation.
\n<\/span>British Path\u00e9 is home to a treasure trove of news films from the 20th century. Spanning the years from 1896-1978, the entire archive collection of 85,000 films includes authentic footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science, and culture and more.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”1″ bottom_padding=”1″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”183712″][vc_column width=”1\/1″][uncode_share layout=”multiple” bigger=”yes” separator=”yes” css_animation=”bottom-t-top” title=”share”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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