Historic British Pathe 2LO and Radio Caroline films now on web

Mike Barraclough has found that the British Pathe archive which contains many historic Radio Films, is available on the web.

He writes:
British Pathe have now made 128 kbp/s versions of all their archive material available for free download. I searched and found the ones below on Radio Caroline and 2LO, very easy process to download them.

Go to http://www.britishpathe.com/

Click on Advanced, put the identification number, e.g. 848.18, where it says Film ID, press Go and download the video:

313.09 Radio Caroline colour, short travelogue along the Thames and then feature on Radio Caroline, 4 minutes 47 seconds, they are looking for help in naming all the DJ's

313.10 The previous feature seems to end abruptly, in fact it goes straight into this which is Unit Four Plus Two singing Concrete and Clay at the Barbican building site, no more offshore footage.

313.11 This is a 9 minute reel of outtakes from the above two, short Radio Caroline outtake at 4 minutes 50 then all Radio Caroline from 5 minutes 40 to end.

315.01 This is another reel of outtakes from the above, Radio Caroline outtakes to 4 minutes 10 and from 9 minutes 45.

1755.21 At Sea Pirate Radio Afloat 1 minute 41 second black and white report of Radio Caroline when it first came on the air

1806.16 50 seconds black and white, Radio Caroline DJ Simon Dee presents its first birthday award to the Beatles on the set of help, John Lennon rings the Caroline bell!

If you want to look at the very earliest days of radio:
848.18 1925 3 minute film of 2 LO

Putting 'radio' in the basic seach engine gives 1259 hits, so there is a lot of other radio footage there to find with a more advanced search.

Mike Barraclough

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