Bygones (1978)

No titles. ’Bygones.’ London. M/S of street sign: ’Wardour Street’. General view of traffic and pedestrians on Wardour Street in Soho. Several shots of film company signs on buildings - Columbia-Warner, Rank, Paramount, Embassy, Hammer, English Film Company. C/U of Pathe cockerel trademark (graphic). Archive footage: Charles Pathe looking at a reel of film with another man; C/U of hand-cranked camera; Queen Victoria in a coach; cricketer WG Grace; Suffragette campaigns; Emily Davison throwing herself under the King’s horse during the Derby. (Note: Emily Davison is commonly misspelt Emily Davidson). C/U of sign on wall: ’Library Cataloguing Room’. A woman sits at a desk, typing. Pathe’s chief librarian Harry Wynder comes walking out of the vaults carrying some film cans, and walks along an outdoor walkway to another part of the building. He talks of Pathe’s history and place in the film industry. A woman looks in a filing cabinet drawer at the card index. Stills of newsreel cameramen in action.