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Pathé News, Inc.


  • [The company, Pathe News, Inc., began around 1931 when RKO Radio Pictures acquired the Pathé news newsreel along with other Pathé Exchange assets. In addition to the newsreel, Pathé News also produced and distributed educational and news-oriented short films. Pathé News continued to operate until it was sold in 1956 along with the Pathé newsreels and other films. In 1961, Joseph P. Smith and partners, created a new entity, also named Pathé News, Inc., no longer producing newsreels, but licensing and using films from the Pathé library.]

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    • Pathe News

  • Identifies LC/NAF RWO

  • Identifies RWO

    • Has Affiliation

        • Street Address: 35 W. 45th St.
        • City: New York
        • State: N.Y.
        • Country: United States

    • Descriptor

        Motion picture industry

    • Associated Locale

        United States

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Motion picture production

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    • Earlier Established Forms

      • Pathe News

    • Sources

      • found: Pathe news. Pilgrimages to Theodore Roosevelt's grave, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Herbert Hoover--excerpts, between 1931-1932:(film not viewed)
      • found: SunnyCV WWW site viewed September 7, 2023Steve Schoenherr, history of the newsreel page (Pathé News, Inc. appears to have originated around the time that Joseph Kennedy merged Pathé and RKO in 1931)
      • found: Pathe news. Excerpt no. 1 [MP] 1926:interior title (Pathe news)
      • found: LC database, September 7, 2023(access point: Pathé News, inc., New York)
      • found: Film daily yearbook, 1933 viewed September 7, 2023 via the Internet Archives(Pathe news; produced by Pathe News, Inc.; 35 W. 45th St., New. York, N.Y.; distributed by RKO Distributing Corp.)
      • found: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939, 1951:p. 646 (Pathé News, 1927-1930, © Pathé Exchange, Inc.) p. 647 (Pathé News, 1931-1934, © Pathé News, Inc.)
      • found: Pictures in Motion WWW site, viewed September 7, 2023The Story of British Pathé--The Birth of the News page (The USA Pathé-Cinema arm, including Pathé news, was sold in 1921. It was run by Pathé Exchange and then by RKO; Warner Brothers purchased the newsreel arm in 1947, then sold it; Pathé news disappeared from cinemas in the 1950s)
      • found: Ward, R. When the cock crows : a history of the Pathé Exchange, ©1916:p. 151 (the crowing rooster of Warner-Pathé news [formerly Pathé news] will stop crowing August 23, 1956 when the pioneer news service will discontinue; the new ownership, an investor group headed by banker Serge Semenenko, retained the name "Pathé News, Inc." but changed the focus from a news-gathering company to a library of documentary footage)

    • General Notes

      • [The company, Pathe News, Inc., began around 1931 when RKO Radio Pictures acquired the Pathé news newsreel along with other Pathé Exchange assets. In addition to the newsreel, Pathé News also produced and distributed educational and news-oriented short films. Pathé News continued to operate until it was sold in 1956 along with the Pathé newsreels and other films. In 1961, Joseph P. Smith and partners, created a new entity, also named Pathé News, Inc., no longer producing newsreels, but licensing and using films from the Pathé library.]

    • Editorial Notes

      • [Do not confuse with the newsreel title, Pathé news, which was produced and distributed in the U.S. by Pathé frères from 1911 to about 1914, and then by Pathé Exchange, Inc. from 1914 to about 1930.]

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    • Change Notes

      • 1988-07-11: new
      • 2023-09-11: revised

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