My own first encounter

My own first encounter with 9.5mm was at the AMIA conference in Los Angeles in the year 2000: the late William O’Farrell improvised a song on stage which still goes round in my head sometimes, „ah those beautiful 9.5“, and we saw the blow-up to 35mm of a Pathé Newsreel from 1928.

Over subsequent years I have seen many amateur films in this format, sometimes as projected originals and often on a 9.5mm visionneuse/viewer or an archival inspection bench prior to digitisation. I have also enjoyed browsing through the catalogues of Pathé from different years, and have been amazed at the number and variety of films that were available to the aficionados of the ‘cinema chez soi’.