# For the history fans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493 "2003-04-09T04:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/1 "2003-04-09T04:21:58Z")
[British University Newsreel Database](http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/newsreels/index.html) From the site: > [@](#): > > Contains 160,000 records of British cinema newsreel production 1910 - 1979 and a large collection of digitised documents. Now linked to Pathe newsreels. Looks like fun! ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/2 "2003-04-09T04:45:13Z")
Cool. Ohmigod. I’m a geek. Worse yet, I’m not even a technology geek. I’m a history geek. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/3 "2003-04-09T23:32:09Z")
I suspect we are all some kind of geek 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/4 "2003-04-09T23:55:16Z")
Do they have footage of what happened to King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/5 "2003-04-10T00:19:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*Do they have footage of what happened to King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934? \*\* I was just going to ask the same exact thing! Are you interested in Aleksandar too? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/6 "2003-04-10T00:29:19Z")
Can one access these films at the site? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/7 "2003-04-10T01:30:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I was just going to ask the same exact thing! Are you interested in Aleksandar too? \*\* No, but I am interested in the history of film censorship, and that newsreel in question (as you already know what it is, I won’t tell you) is of interest because of efforts made in 1934 to prevent its’ release to the general public. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/8 "2003-04-10T01:33:01Z")
_Ooh! Ooh!_ Something for me to bookmark tomorrow at work. “Umm, I’m doing _research_ for this article in the July issue . . .” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/9 "2003-04-10T01:40:19Z")
It’s not hard to find over the web-I know of several places where you can find it. I believe it was the first assassination ever caught on motion picture. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/10 "2003-04-10T02:00:54Z")
Wow! Newsreels from every year’s Test cricket matches between 1910 and 1939…I am in awe. _Must…resist…urge to buy…_ ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-history-fans/167493/11 "2003-04-10T03:15:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*_Ooh! Ooh!_ Something for me to bookmark tomorrow at work. “Umm, I’m doing _research_ for this article in the July issue . . .” \*\* I was hoping you would see this, **Eve.** I thought of you, but you have no email listed. Have fun 🆒