Calella 2024

[Cliff Perriam]

Graham and I are off to Calella.

[Dominique De Bast]

Looking forward to see you. I arrived this afternoon in Calella. As an appetizer, I visited, yesterday, à 9.5 exhibition (actually, a cine amateur one, but it turns out to be mostfly dedicated to 9.5), in Barcelona.

[Dominique De Bast]

Yesterday night, first projection :a tinted 9.5 copy of Metropolis that serms to have different tinted scenes that the one projected in London recently.

[Dominique De Bast]

Friday''s cultural activities. First a visit of a placé where an important wine production was made at the Romans time.


Then visit of a castle

...where a famous tv show was shot.


I must confess I never watched Game of Thrones. But I liked the castles.



The activity was organized for all the Festimage attendees, not only the ninefivers, hence some unfamimiars faces on the group picture.

[Dominique De Bast]

Yesterday' s lunch




Digital projection, organized by the by the cinematheque, of 9.5 films.



And after dinner, 9.5 projections!



And a presentation of a led bulb that fits a Pathé Baby without modification!

[Dominique De Bast]

Pictures of today's activities will be posted, soon.

[Dominique De Bast]

The preceeding picture of forum member Javier Samaniego who manufactures those bulbs replacements was out of focus, so here is a new one.



The well waited for Saturday morning film market.


A 3D working 9 5 projector. I stupidely didn't picture the genius Josp Bl⁶ay, who built them. I will, next year. This fantastic 9.5 devoted also created 5 mini replicas of Pathé Baby projectors. I own now obe of them.


A few meters ametera meccano 9.5 projector was displayed!


I hope the 6 pictures are visible.

[Dominique De Bast]

Of course, the material and films are what people went for.


For an unknown reason, other pictures cannot be uploaded ( there is a size excess message although the photos were taken with my phone). I'm still in Spain, so I will see if I can sort that with my computer when I'm home.

[Cliff Perriam]

These machines were used to reperforate and slit 16mm to 9.5 mm.

[Cliff Perriam]

They were demonstrated by Wolf- Herman Otte at the cine fair on Saturday.

[Chris Bird]

Wonderful to see these pictures. I have to ask - does the Meccano projector actually work? I can see it lights up, but is it actually possible for it to transport 9.5mm film? I'm amazed if so, but I noticed the beater movement intermittent, and thought that maybe it does actually work.

[Dominique De Bast]

Yes, Chris, the meccano projecteur works, as the 3D ones do. I'm still working on classify the pictures and will post more, soon (if that works). Due to the French 9.5 magazine deadline approaching, I had to write an article about the festival. Days are too short.

[Dominique De Bast]

3D 9.5 projector.

[Dominique De Bast]

Saturday afternoon. The 9.5 amateur films projection.


Everybody is doing his best to achieve a good show.


It's real film!


Cliff Perriam making a tribute to Hugh Hale. On the right : Joëlle Penavayre, who's husband, Jean, a keen ninefiever, died last year, and Santiago Marre who was the preceeding organizator of the 9.5 festival of Calella.


Wolf Otte, the German ninefiver who allowed us to keep on filming those last years thanks to his reporfating machine, with young Alex, also ninefiver and also from Germany, who translated in an excellent English. For an unexplained reason, this year, the live transmission of the projections has not been possible.