New permanent 9.5 exhibition

[Dominique De Bast]

The Fondation Seydoux-Pathé, in Paris, displays again permanently 9.5 material (together with other gauges Pathé dealt with). The place choosen to show this beautiful material is near the cinema room where several projections are held every day (yesterday afternoon, I saw a 35mm copy of the silent Belgian film Maudite soit la guerre, with a live piano accompaniament.

To cope with the forum size limitations, I had to cut large parts of the photos. The original ones don't look that bad 😉

[Dominique De Bast]

Other pictures.

[Dominique De Bast]

Last ones.



That good news comes along with another one : two new French books :



Le cinéma partout et pour tous means the cinema everywhere and for everyone.

If you visit Paris...https://www.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pathe.com/

[Douglas Meltzer]

Dominique,

Thank you for the pictures. What a wonderful exhibition!

I read a great review of Elvira Shahmiri's book. I wish it was available in English.

[Daniel Bottom]

I searched for her book, and could only find it on "Rakuten", sort of like a French ebay i guess, was all set to buy. I got to the address section, and it looks like they only deliver in France. Dommage grrr !

Another book I'd like is " Pathé-Baby, le cinéma chez soi"

Does anyone know how to get these books delivered to England ?

I have the other two books "Pathe Grand Empire du Cinema" and "Projecteures et Cameras" both are good reading although I did have to use my "Collins Robert" dictionaries !

[Dominique De Bast]

Doug, thanks for that link.

Daniel, I suggest you to try to buy from the Fondation Seydoux's site. Click on the book(s) you wish, and there will be an "ajouter au panier" (add to the basket) option : Les Éditions - Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé

[Daniel Bottom]

That's great Thanks Dominique <just clicked on link> MD! There's loads I'd like to buy!

[Dominique De Bast]

Happy you find your bonheur, Daniel 🙃

[Simon Wyss]

Thanks for this. Un peu chaotique, l’exposition. Many thanks for the books hint!

[Dominique De Bast]

Thanks for this. Un peu chaotique, l’exposition. Many thanks for the books hint!

They are working on a little presentation document for the visitors.

i bought both books there, but since I will travel to London tomorrow, I will start reading next week.

[Juergen Kellermann]

The projector book is very good. Everything you need to know about 9.5mm, 17.5mm and 28mm equipment that was available. It is very nicely produced and printed. Ordering from the Foundation website is easy. And postage to Australia was only EUR 5.

[Yoram Benz]

I was just there this Saturday and picked up those two books as well! Apparently the collection is twice as large but room was made for the expo.

[Dominique De Bast]

Fantastic! Indeed, there is less displayed than during the 100 years anniversary, but at least, it's going to stay. They may make future exhibitions with more material, who knows? The fondation has a cinema in which they mainly show silent films (with a piano accompaniament), often in 35mm.

[Dino Everett]

The small Pathé Baby Le Cinéma Chez Soi book has an amazing picture of the 17.5mm automatic titler from the Pathé Natan studio that I put up on the site here Not sure why it was in the 9.5mm catalogue but it has become one of my favorite pictures ever. All three of the newer books from the Foundation are on the site now as they were very easy to order, and postage was virtually nothing to the USA.

[Dominique De Bast]

The small Pathé Baby Le Cinéma Chez Soi book has an amazing picture of the 17.5mm automatic titler from the Pathé Natan studio that I put up on the site here Not sure why it was in the 9.5mm catalogue

Dino, the caption of the picture says : "the filming of the Pathe Baby titles on automatic machine". Is that wrong (or did I misunderstand your message)?