• 9.5mm film centenary events programme

    During 2022 and 2023 we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 9.5mm film format, first developed for home screenings then used to capture moving images. You’ll find upcoming and past events that celebrate the Pathé Baby format below!
    Upcoming:

    >>> 9 1/2 – Screenings

    Further screenings are scheduled for the year-long theatrical tour of the montage film ‘9 1/2’ from October 2022 to September 2023. More information here: https://www.facebook.com/nineandahalffilm
    >>> PATHÉ-BABY Le Cinéma chez soi – from 2022/09/06 to 2023/03/04 – Fondation Pathé – Exhibition

    The Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation continues to highlight its iconic devices and brands. After a first exhibition on Pathé-Rural, the first itinerant circuit of cinemas, make way for Pathé-Baby! For the brand’s centenary, the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation saw things big. An exclusive exhibition, an international symposium, special screenings, a carte blanche programme, workshops for young audiences and opportunities to view your 9.5 mm films thanks to the Foundation’s equipment made available to the public. A rich and varied programme to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the very first home cinema!

    https://www.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pathe.com/event/309

    >>> 9.5MM: AND CINEMA IS EVERYWHERE – NOVEMBER 17-19, 2022 – BERNE AND ONLINE – Conference

    One hundred years ago, the French company Pathé introduced the “Pathé Baby,” based on a new film gauge: 9.5mm. The Pathé Baby system was designed to suit the needs of amateur movie makers: it was simple, accessible, versatile, reliable, and safe. It also had to be inexpensive and portable. Projectors were made first, together with a catalogue of films reduced to the new format. A few months later, Pathé also proposed a 9.5mm camera, that worked with safety film.

    https://lichtspiel.ch/en/symposium-2/9-5/

    >>> « Du Pathé-Baby au 9.5 mm, l’invention du Cinéma chez soi » – 2022/12/05 – 2022/12/06 – Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé/INHA – Symposium

    https://www.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pathe.com/event/309

    Past:

    >>> The little apparatus’ : 100 years of 9.5 films (16, 17, 18 June 2022) – online – The University of Southampton’s Centre for International Film Research-  Conference

    This event aims to reflect on the diverse use of 9.5mm film throughout its 100 year history and create space for scholars, archivists and curators to explore and share new research in the field while opening up new avenues for inquiry.

    https://domitor.org/news-and-events/the-little-apparatus-100-years-of-9-5-films/

    >>> ‘9 1/2’ – global premiere – Home Movie Day 2022 – October 15 @ 7:30 pm – October 19 @ 5:00 am UTC+2 – Screenings

    15 October – In Bologna, with musicians from the Conservatorio G.B. Martini di Bologna playing the score live, as part of the Festival Archivio Aperto at Home Movies-Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, executive producer of the film.

    15 October – In Montréal, by Hors champ & Zoom Out at La lumière collective.

    15 October – In Timisoara, the film will be screened as part of the Analog Mania festival thanks to a partnership with Filmarchiv Austria.

    16 October – In Kobe, as part of Kobe Planet Film Archive’s Kobe Discovery Film Festival.

    18 October – In Niterói, at the university movie theatre Cine Arte UFF, by the Laboratório Universitário de Preservação Audiovisual of the Universidade Federal Fluminense