’Caraboat’ aka Caravan/Boat: A House You Can Float (1968) | British Pathé

In this feature from Pathé Pictorial in 1968, we get a look at a very unique mobile home. This vehicle is a cross between a caravan and a boat, aka ’Caraboat’, and it is seen in action floating down Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews & Classic Movies: #BritishPathé #History #Caravan #Boat #Transportation #Invention Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: (FILM ID:) Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. M/S of a car towing a caravan through a village. The car stops by the river (River Thames); a man and woman get out and attach an outboard motor and some buffers to the caravan as commentator tells us the caravan is also a boat. The man pushes the Caraboat into the water, watched by some elderly people on a bench. Various shots on board the Caraboat; the woman makes a cup of tea as the man steers; then she sits and admires the view through the window on a rainy and gloomy day - how nice to be indoors! A few shots from the river bank show the contraption drifting along and coming under a bridge. Cuts exist - see separate record. BRITISH PATHÉ’S STORY Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.