Pathex 9.5 mm:
The Original Home Movies!
Affordable home movie outfits were marketed as early as 1922. The Pathe company's then unique camera took moving pictures on a film strip just 9.5mm wide,
and sprocket holes were punched down the centre, between each frame. Projection was on the Pathe "Baby" projector which, like the camera, was hand cranked.
It was all great fun, and easy to use. The Pathe home movies were a popular success in Europe, and in the Americas too, where the brand name was "Pathex".
Thousands of these outfits were sold. But the Pathex and Pathe Baby cassettes became obsolete by the early 1940s, and so did the projector that went with them.
Just how many of the cassettes remain stored away in the backs of drawers, cupboards and cabinets? There may well be some in your home. The cassettes were
made from stamped tinplate and measured two inches across. A modification in the 1930s enabled the introduction of a two and threequarter inch version, which held
more film. Examples of both versions are still coming to light. It is of course the film they contain that excites the imagination!
Happily, we can still reproduce the original moving pictures, in up to the minute video formats, and you can at last view these glimpses of family life from so long ago!
Cost of transfer is the same per screen minute as other film gauges (see our Cine to Video page) but there will be a small additional charge to mount your film on a
9.5mm film spool, usually £10.
We specialise in handling Pathe Baby, Pathex and Pathescope movies from all nations. Pathescope was the original brand name for 9.5mm film in the United
Kingdom. Production of Pathescope film stock and apparatus continued until about 1962, thus giving the "centre sprocket" gauge a forty year life span. We handle
ready-spooled 9.5mm at standard rates, and we take extra care to ensure you are pleased. In fact, we guarantee it!
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