Dunkirk: A Historic Retreat Captured on Film

The video discusses the Dunkirk evacuation during WWII and highlights the role of Pathe in capturing this historic event on film. It details the digitization of Pathe's extensive film archive, a project that took four years and significant funding. The process involved rescanning thousands of kilometers of film, resulting in a unique library of 20th-century history.

What significant event took place at Dunkirk in 1940?

Who was responsible for capturing the moving pictures of the Dunkirk retreat?

How long does the entire Pathe movie library cover in terms of film history?

What was the cost of the project to convert Pathe newsreels to computer files?

What was the outcome of the painstaking process of rescanning the film?