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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 15, 2014 12:48 PM
I have just one 9.5mm print (I like having act least one print of each gauge in my collection), and I'm just curious of the date (age) and such of the print.
It is a "Pathe-O Gram" print, with that stated on the first images, "Pathe safety Stock" (wound around a triangular image under the "Pathe-O-Gram"), curious, as I was expecting early Kodak stock.
It is a Mickey Mouse cartoon entitled "Haunted House" and appears to be complete, as it is on a very full metal 200ft reel. Very cuious reel, in that it doesn't have the usual super 8 or standard 8 middle to it, but these two holes in the middle. I assume that this was common for 9.5mm?
I must say, I have always been fascinated with the fact that the sprocket was in the very middle of the film, instead of on the edges, which nearly every other film gauge has it ...
So, can anybody date this thing for me?
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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posted March 19, 2014 12:42 PM
Maurice, your magnificent! Totally awesome ...
Fairly old reel then. I like it, though I can't project it.
As a general rule, have 9.5MM films aged well or not?
I'm curious, as, apparently, they used they're own stock and not necessarily "Kodak Safety stock" (which a lot of the early standard 8mm and double sprocket 16MM were printed on).
Once again, kudos to one Mr. Leakey!!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
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posted March 28, 2014 12:36 AM
Osi, the three holes on the reel is indeed the normal standard for 9,5. The earlier films were however mounted on small black cartridges and there were notches on the film itself. The first 9,5 projectors (known as Pathé Baby) stopped the film each time there was a notch so the projection could be longer. Of course, the notches were put on images like titles or statues or anything that doesn't move on the screen. The projection restarts automatically and many 9,5 projectors from that time still work. The purpose of Pathé (the company that invented the gauge) was to make it afordable and easy to use to a large audience as possible so Pathé used the middle perforation system, the notches, the cartdriges and the safe ininflammable filmstock. It is interesting to note that 9,5 is still alive and it is still possible to film in that gauge.
-------------------- Dominique
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