The "Pathé Baby": cinema at home

1922, the intuition of Charles Pathé

A century before Netflix, the famous industrialist and producer of French cinema Charles Pathé had the intuition that one could distribute cinematographic works even to private individuals. In 1922, under the name of «Pathé-Baby», the first projector for the general public allowing everyone to project films in their living room. A year later, the first portable cameras equipped with 9.5 mm film reels appeared in French homes…
A look back at the genesis of amateur cinema in 9.5mm through the views and cinematic practices of Maurice Bassin, Louis Colas, René Machabert, Amaury Laurentin and Jean Piollet.
A conference-projection by Olivier Meunier, director of film collections at the Departmental Archives of Puy-de-Dôme.