9.5mm silent film - X20 - "HINTS" - American Pathex release from the 1920s

Here is an early 9.5mm short (30ft) silent notched film from Pathex in the USA.

X20 - "Hints" - a little promotion film for the newly introduced 9.5mm home movie film gauge.

The intertitles on the little films were held just for a few frames - a notch on the edge of the film stopped the projector each time for a few seconds to allow viewers to read the titles - an ingeneous way to keep the actual film prints nice and short and cheap!

Although 9.5mm was a French development and launched in France in 1922 (a year before the American 16mm film gauge), it was soon marketed around the world.

In the USA the company (a French Pathe-Baby 'franchise') was Pathex
The camera we see in this little film is the French made "Baby" with the clockwork motor attachment. The projector is also known as the "Baby" also made in France.

Many 9.5mm films were issued by Pathex in the USA, but with the slump and concentration on American products the 9.5mm film gauge dissapeared in the USA by the early 1930s.

For more information and printed film lists goto:
http://www.pathefilm.uk/95ninefive.htm
then select Film Catalogues / American Pathex