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Alan L. Hitchcox
Film Handler

Posts: 47
From: Willoughby, OH, USA
Registered: Apr 2006

posted August 11, 2007 01:41 PM

I recently purchased a decent collection of films from a local collector. Two of movies are in a format I have never seen before.
The film appears to be 8-mm wide (I haven't actually measured it yet), but it does not have rectangular sprocket holes on the side. Instead, it has a slot in the center axis of the film between each frame. Plus, the film is not mounted on an open reel; it's in a metal cannister with an opening where the film comes out. The cannister appears to hold about 50-ft of film.
The film is in a box from Pathex, which I recognize as a popular name from the 1930s or earlier.
Can anyone shed some light on this format and know of someone who has a compatible projector?
Thanks for your help.
-Alan

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Alan Hitchcox
Willoughby, Ohio USA

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Mark Todd
Film God

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From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003

posted August 11, 2007 02:36 PM

Sounds like 9.5mm or do you know that gauge and this definately isn`t that.
Theres a 9.5mm gauge interest section further doen on the forum if it is, certainly sounds like it. If its actually 9.5mm wide then bobs your uncle.
The name certainly sounds right for 9.5. with its center sprocket.
Best Mark.

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Alan L. Hitchcox
Film Handler

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From: Willoughby, OH, USA
Registered: Apr 2006

posted August 11, 2007 11:21 PM

Thanks, Mark. You're absolutely right.
I did a little checking and actually found catalog listings for the two titles I have. From what I read, 9.5 mm was the first home movie format, introduced in the 1920s. It was overtaken within a few years in the US by 16mm, probably with a big push from Kodak. I also read that it remained popular in the UK and continental Europe until the 1950s.
It's an interesting format, but I can't get involved because I'm already in too deep with 8 and S8.
-Alan

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Alan L. Hitchcox
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posted August 11, 2007 11:22 PM

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