British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube (inc. loads of United ones)

As a history buff I'm delighted. Some great footage of my home county in addition to all the fantastic United footage.
 


Touching stuff, especially Sir Matt's words.
 
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Cina and SteveJ at the Brit Awards, 1936
 
See photo above.
 
This is amazing. Thank you! The commentary for the '68 final is amazing. Such a friendly highlights commentator!
 
The videos are incredible.

Madrid were right cnuts back in the day:



Pulling an injured player back onto the pitch :nono:
 
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United of '28!



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Wait that's Leeds, feck!
 
Brilliant stuff thanks, enjoying seeing the matches my Great Uncle played in! For those of you that don't know, he was called Tom Jones and played between 1926 and 1933. And no, its not unusual!
 
Awesome stuff from the '57 cup final:



Was looking for Edwards throughout most of it, the first time he gets announced on the commentary is completely miskicking a lay-off from a freekick at 3:17 :lol: Delightful drag back from the number 8 afterwards though (Liam Whelan according to wiki).
 
Ubik said:
Awesome stuff from the '57 cup final
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Dear God...that Villa team was savage, absolutely savage. They were looking to destroy the Babes with the way they played so aggressively.

And for us to play with Blanchflower as the keeper for much of the match...wasn't there a system set where we could have our goalkeeper get back to playing as the keeper? I'm surprised he played as the right winger for much of the match!
 
mazhar13 said:
Dear God...that Villa team was savage, absolutely savage. They were looking to destroy the Babes with the way they played so aggressively.

And for us to play with Blanchflower as the keeper for much of the match...wasn't there a system set where we could have our goalkeeper get back to playing as the keeper? I'm surprised he played as the right winger for much of the match!
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He had a broken jaw and a heavy concussion, no substitutes in those days so he stood on the wing as nuisance value.
 
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He had a broken jaw and a heavy concussion, no substitutes in those days so he stood on the wing as nuisance value.
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No wonder Aston Villa won that match lol.

Anyways, I've now realised how far football has gone since those days. Player protection has exponentially increased from those days, and the addition of substitutions has really changed the game.
 
1970 World Cup first time substitutes were allowed. Amazing how it skewes the facts. Just two examples: Theo Walcott is officially the youngest player to play for England, Duncan Edwards is now 7th. Fair enough?...... Well not really, Duncan Edwards was picked for a full International (You didn't get capped for friendlys then) and he had to be good enough to play for 90 minutes with no substitutes. All those younger than him played in meaningless friendlies and all but one were substitutes.
David Beckham is the most capped outfield player, sounds impressive, but he is a full 18.8 matches behind Bobby Moore if you count minutes played for his country. Bobby Charlton and Billy Wright also played much more. Moore started and finished every one of his 108 games whereas Beckham started only 99 and was taken off in 43 of those. He is ony about 4 games worth of minutes in front of Bryan Robson!
 
Big Jim Holton said:
1970 World Cup first time substitutes were allowed. Amazing how it skewes the facts. Just two examples: Theo Walcott is officially the youngest player to play for England, Duncan Edwards is now 7th. Fair enough?...... Well not really, Duncan Edwards was picked for a full International (You didn't get capped for friendlys then) and he had to be good enough to play for 90 minutes with no substitutes. All those younger than him played in meaningless friendlies and all but one were substitutes.
David Beckham is the most capped outfield player, sounds impressive, but he is a full 18.8 matches behind Bobby Moore if you count minutes played for his country. Bobby Charlton and Billy Wright also played much more. Moore started and finished every one of his 108 games whereas Beckham started only 99 and was taken off in 43 of those. He is ony about 4 games worth of minutes in front of Bryan Robson!
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It's incredible to know these bits of facts and knowledge. It just goes to show how dedicated the past players were to the sport and how much football has changed when comparing the present to the past.
 
I wonder what it feels like to have to upload 85,000 hours of footage only for it to get to like 98% and for a 'Rendering Failed' error message to pop up
 


Interesting one this. 1968 World Club Championship. Seba Veron's old man scores and Best gets sent off for retaliation.
 
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