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The site has gotten much bigger than I expected, so some assistance in navigation seems necessary.
The site is divided into a number of main sections, which appear on the left side of the Welcome Page, and are largely self-explanatory. Just clicking on any one of these normally takes you straight to the section. However, just to make it easy for you, and on this page only, clicking on one of the main section headings (shown in blue just below) will only take you to the relevant part of this Contents page. This is because each section itself is further subdivided, and this enables you to see what is there. Or you can just scroll down this page. This
16 (Which now includes a separate sub-section on 8mm).
Sales, wants and supplies is a bit out of this main structure and the link in this case takes you straight there.
From the more detailed listing, a click on any blue sub-heading will take you straight to that section of the website. You can use the Back arrow to return to this Contents page, but the main headings are repeated on the other principal pages, as listed just above, so you can skip direct to another part if you wish.
Further links are provided at the end of every page (including this page) and usually at the beginning, too, to help you skip around the site as you like.
9.5 9.5 Silent, covering
Babies 1, ie about the Pathé Baby/Home Movie (there is a Babies 2 as well and a Babies 3, called the
Richardson Collection)
Coq d'Or, Duplex (with a section on the Monaco projector), Toy Projectors and a General page for random silent machines. I have also started a page for Baby Film Catalogues, covering French and English films and another for Baby Equipment.
9.5 Sound, which further divides into
The Lost Chord - a history of one man's search for the ultimate in 9.5 sound repro
Silent to Sound - some of the efforts to get sound from silent machines, especially 9.5
Pathé Vox - stuff about this seminal 9.5 machine.
Cinegel Royale, tho' I spose you could argue it belongs in multi-gauge. Indeed, I have found that I did start
in Multi-gauge ages ago and forgot.
History - a short history of 9.5 by Paul van Someren and Pat Moules, with
additional sections on NovaScope, Pathescope Monthly and its Baby Cine predecessor
Joinville Equipment - pix and catlogs from the last few years of Pathé 9.5
French bits. These are translations I did of some French articles about
9.5 producers and stencil colour, this last one having an extra
page on Pathécolour.
9.5 Miscellany - stuff with no other obvious home.
Equipment Catalogues etc, which covers:-
Spare Parts. Pathé used to produce such beautiful, clear, detailed parts lists.
Gear. Some of the huge range of ancillary bits and pieces available for cine.
Pre-War and Post-War catalogues - some of these were gorgeous, too.
Posters. Peter Spooner gave me some copies of cinema posters, and I picked
out some that were relevant to 9.5.
16 16mm is not really my thing, but there are some pretty projectors, so I needed
a section.
Various - including Ampro, Danson and Kinox. Lot of Victor documentation.
GB L516 and BTH have their own pages.
8mm as I was getting more stuff but couldn't face all the changes needed to have a new section.
Multi-Gauge - Projectors that can do more than one gauge have always tended to
fascinate me, so I gave them their own section, which also includes some
general material not restricted to any one gauge. It divides into:
FLICKERS magazine
Heurtier, which includes a short piece on the Cinegel Royale, tho' most is in 9.5 sound.
Buckingham Movie Museum - a pictorial tour
Restoration - some thoughts on what is and isn't legitimate, with a link on to -
Back From the Bodge - an example of restoration.
Film Catlogs - some of the catalogues put out by various home cine distributors.
Film Dimensions I am trying to draw together in one place all the info I can glean on film dimensions, with
a table to summarise.
Argenteuil film fair, as I need a home for all the pix I have taken.
17.5 I suppose it was my near-obsession with 17.5 (and 28mm) that started me on this website. The 17.5
saga has grown from an initial article I wrote for ACE, which has acquired several more chapters and
still continues. It has gotten too big for just a serial approach, so I've split into projector types to give a
less random structure, with just the first two episodes as a kind of general introduction.
Pathé Rural The small cinema network in France, how it worked and a history.
Rex The original 17.5mm silent machine, known in France as the Rural
Home Talkie This was the basic UK machine, virtually nothing else was sold here.
Rural Sonore This was the original French Sound 17.5, a development of the silent Rural
Super Rural Few if any made it to the UK, tho' it was advertised as the Super Talkie.
Advertising - Some genuine Pathé advertising placards for 17.5 releases, plus equipment brochure and
film catlog extracts. Also some examples of silent Rural programme posters.
28 Oh dear, another obsession. Only three sections tho':-
My 28mm Story - this has a sub-page with copies of projector manuals
Catalogue - info on my 28mm catalogue and contents of DVD's from 28mm prints.
Reporting - When I do any significant amount of work for anyone else, I think
it helps me and them to report in some detail on what I have done
and, of course, some of it is new stuff of (hopefully) wider interest.
Photo Gallery This site is mostly about projectors and pictures of projectors, so.... There is also a Son
(ugh!) of Gallery.
Miscellany Lamps - data on projector lamps, with a link to pix of lamp conversions bought together from elsewhere on the site. I have opened a page
for articles etc about projector light output.
35mm pix - pictures of various old and some very new machines
Books - these are some of the very few books, mags etc to do with cine
Care and Repair - a beginner's guide to looking after narrow-gauge film
Aunt Em - projector problems or questions? Try Aunt Em
Chateau Nerdistan - a glimpse inside
Links - Links to various people and places you might find helpful, and contact details for me.
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