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Thinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, histories and (re)use of 9.5mm film[

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dc.creatorvan der Heijden, Tim
dc.creatorSanti, Mirco
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-26T09:53:53Z
dc.date.available2023-01-26T09:53:53Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis contribution explores the materiality and histories of use of 9.5mm film and the Pathé Baby projector and camera. In December 1922, the French film production company Pathé Frères released the 9.5mm film format, which together with Kodak’s 16mm small-gauge, released the following year, would ‘bring cinema into the home’ and effectively popularise the screening, distribution, and production of home cinema and amateur films. This article aims to highlight the significance of 9.5mm film within the history of amateur film and to demonstrate the heuristic value of performing historical re-enactments with obsolete media technologies, such as 9.5mm film and the Pathé Baby, so as to better understand how they worked, how they were used at the time, and how their historical, material, and performative dimensions can be preserved for the future. It draws on a series of media archaeological experiments with the Pathé Baby projector and camera, as well as on the hands-on reconstruction of a 9.5mm film from 1929, made by the Italian artist, composer, and amateur filmmaker Pippo Barzizza (1902-1994). Utilising experimental media archaeology as a practice-based and sensorial approach to media historiography, the article investigates the materiality, functionality, and practices of (re)use of 9.5mm film as a remarkable early twentieth-century home cinema technology.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19196
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/thinkering-with-the-pathe-baby-materiality-historiesand- reuse-of-9-5mm-film/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20367
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject9.5mm filmen
dc.subjectPathé Babyen
dc.subjectexperimental media archaeologyen
dc.subjectmaterialityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleThinkering with the Pathé Baby: Materiality, histories and (re)use of 9.5mm film[en
dc.typearticle
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local.coverpage2023-01-27T13:30:24
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/thinkering-with-the-pathe-baby-materiality-historiesand- reuse-of-9-5mm-film/
local.source.epage125
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Materiality
local.source.spage94
local.source.volume11

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