While in New York he was approached by Charles Pathe, known as the “Edison of France,” in 1912 to work for his new venture Pathe Weekly, the first newsreel company in the United States.

To minimize confusion the five major newsreels—Paramount, Hearst Metrotone, Fox, Pathe, Universal— jointly operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken.

That might have been the final word on the visit, were it not for a new project, 30 years after Germany's reunification, to digitize thousands of East German newsreels. The movies being scanned, ...

Pathe News Pathé News was a producer of newsreels, cinemagazines, and documentaries from 1910 until 1970 in the United Kingdom.

Pathe will make (in addition to its present newsreels and short length pictures) feature films. Director DeMille will turn over to the group his features already produced and new ones to come.

British Pathé has signed a major deal to represent Reuters’ historic footage filmed before 1980. The deal encompasses complete, fully-digitised collections from early cinema newsreels from 1910 to ...