‘White sails enhance the beauties of Windermere’ is in the title sequence for this archive film of the annual regatta on Lake Windermere, 1934, published by Pathe Archive. The commentary describes the ‘white wings’ of the large fleet of yachts. The short clip provides an evocative glimpse of sailing between the World Wars.
Created at the beginning of the 20th Century by the Pathé brothers, the newsreel was the world’s first televised news platform. Pioneering the technology and methods of cinema, British Pathé stayed at the forefront of filmed news for decades. Releasing three newsreels a week during that period, British Pathé was the way the people of Britain experienced world events until the advent of television.