The
first issue of Pathescope Monthly was in September 1929, continuing until March
1941, with a number of
gaps due to wartime exigencies. Usually, the summer months from April/May to
August/September had only one issue every two months.Home 9.5 16 Multi-gauge 17.5 28 Pix Miscellany
PATHESCOPE MONTHLY
and GAZETTE
The
first issue of Pathescope Monthly was in September 1929, continuing until March
1941, with a number of
gaps due to wartime exigencies. Usually, the summer months from April/May to
August/September had only one issue every two months.
Thereafter, nothing more appeared until 1949, with the issue of a short series of roneo'd Newsletters. The Monthly re-appeared in November 1949, ending with the April/May issue for1955. The Monthly then became the Gazette, normally issued bi-monthly, including, a bit oddly, a December/January issue, going thru several changes of size and style before its final demise with the issue for April/May 1959.
There is huge scope for extracting material from the Monthly and Gazette for these pages, but my main reason for starting was to show what I feel was a particularly striking run of covers, starting in October 1930 with a picture of Anna May Wong and finishing with June/July 1932, before switching to pix of people covering the whole cover. All this was achieved with what believe is called "spot" colour - just a single colour in addition to black and white. And what an amazing run of releases!
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I have been working on tidying the pix up on computer but, tho' I enjoy doing it, 'tis hugely time-consuming and the slightly battered and very faded originals have a certain charm.
Here are some more scans I have done for various unknown reasons. First is the complete first issue from September 1929, with the cover from the November and December issues, plus several odd pages from the October issue.
Complete April/May 1953.
First and last pages from February 1933.
War-time and post-war issues.
I couldn't quite get the July/August issue, in the old foolscap size, onto a single scan, hence the odd presentation.
Odd pages.
I have mentioned elsewhere that I have scanned in about 60 issues of Le Cinéma Chez Soi, the pre-war French equivalent of Pathescope Monthly, from Grahame Newnham's collection. I'm looking for more copies, for loan of which I will happily exchange the two DVD's the CSC's take up. How's your French?
Now for one of the seminal issues - the announcement of 9.5 Sound in the April-May edition, 1938. What a splendid picture it presents, with silent and sound projectors, two gauges, films and film libraries. I wonder what might have happened without the war? And I have no idea why my combined version of the double-page spread on Fury Below comes up as such a small thumbnail.
