British Pathé 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 Pathé originates from a network of French businesses run by the Pathé Brothers in 1896. The company was established as Société Pathé Frères in Paris by the four Pathé brothers Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques. During the first decades of the 20th century Pathé 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.