After the company, now called Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frère Phonographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel with Pathé-Journal.

During the early days, the camera shots were taken from a stationary position but the Pathé newsreels captured events such as Franz Reichelt's fatal parachute jump from the Eiffel Tower and suffragette Emily Davison's fatal injury by a racehorse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

During the First World War, the cinema newsreels were called the Pathé Animated Gazettes, and for the first time this provided newspapers with competition.

Pathé eventually stopped producing the cinema newsreel in February 1970[3] as it could no longer compete with television.

During the newsreels' run, the narrators included Bob Danvers-Walker,[4] Dwight Weist, Dan Donaldson, André Baruch and Clem McCarthy among others.

The British Pathé archive now holds over 3,500 hours of filmed history, 90,000 individual items and 12 million stills.

[8] In April 2014, British Pathé uploaded the entire collection of 85,000 historic films to its YouTube channel as part of a drive to make the archive more accessible to viewers all over the world.

[citation needed] By 2020, the British Pathé archive now includes material from the Reuters historical collection.

[12] BBC News continues to use extracts in its coverage of various events, such as Windrush, and World War II.