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I Never Eat December Snowflakes. I Always Wait Until January. December Archive Streaming
National Library of Scotland / Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Isobel Hutchison, Copenhagen Dock / Angmagsalik, Greenland, 1927 https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/5359 Louis Pelletier Collection, filmmaker unknown, Château de glace, Montréal, hiver 1937-38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz5jGhQpsQs Louis Pelletier Collection, filmmaker unknown, Courses de raquettes au Parc La Fontaine, Montréal, 1938 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ2drSWw88 Nasjonalbiblioteket, filmmaker unknown, Private opptak: K.N.A.’s israce ved Lillehammer, 6/3-1932 […]
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The female gaze. November Achive Streaming Programme, selected by Anna Briggs
Pathé Baby Collection, Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, André Calmettes & Charles Le Bargy, Le Retour d’Ulysse, No. 1, 1909 https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2688 Pathé Baby Collection, Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, filmmaker unknown, Une Grande Tragédienne: Sarah-Bernhardt, year unknown https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2334 Grahame Newnham Collection, Pathé Frères, Kalidja la Danseuse Tunisienne, 1911 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgw-78munaI […]
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Le cinéma chez soi. October Archive Streaming Programme
‘Become a film director with the PATHE-BABY camera, capture unforgettable memories in motion, like the ones you’re about to see on this screen.’ Grahame Newnham Collection, filmmaker unknown, Visite aux usines Pathé Cinéma, 1924 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVKaVAR9iE CICLIC, filmmaker unknown, Visite des usines Pathé à Joinville, 1929 https://memoire.ciclic.fr/1564-visite-des-usines-pathe-a-joinville CICLIC, Maurice Raby, Promotion du Pathé-Baby, 1938 https://memoire.ciclic.fr/10534-promotion-du-pathe-baby UK […]
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Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, IT
1 to 8 October 2022 The Lichtspiel / Kinemathek curated a program of 22 9.5mm films coming from three different collections: Fondation Jêrome Seydoux Pathé, Cinémathèque Suisse and Lichtspiel itself. The films were screened throughout the week as opening programs. It was amazing to see them on a screen of this size. Thanks to all […]
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Splicers
I have been taking pictures of the different models of splicers for 9.5mm for a while now, and every time I think I have found all our models, another one pops up. So I will start showing pictures, and add them as I stumble across. back
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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
In less than a month the Fondation Jeròme Seydoux Pathé, the Cinémathèque Suisse and the Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Berne will be showing a selection of Pathé-Baby films at the Silent Film Festival in Pordenone. We created a little teaser for it. back
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The Banality of Evil. September Archive Streaming Programme.
September Archive Streaming Programme: The Banality of Evil, selected by Anna Briggs All the films featured in this month’s selection are from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive collection. They document the years leading up to, during and after World War II. Several of these films are featured […]
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Visions. August Archive Streaming Programme.
August is when you start seeing things. The stars fall in August. You wake to days with the feeling you’ve already lived through them. People pass out in the street and on airplanes. The moon talks to you. August is the month of visions. Mémoire Normande, André Noufflard, Sculptures de la Cathédrale de Bourges, 1928 […]
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Processing a 9.5 movie collection
The Kinemathek Lichtspiel received the collection Kohler-Carrard in the year 2021. At the same time, Isabelle Hasler, student at Bern Academy of the Arts, started her internship at the Lichtspiel. Her main task was to examine and catalog this collection. The collection of the family includes some written documents about the handling of a […]
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La mer. July Archive Streaming Programme
July Archive Streaming Programme: La mer, selected by Anna Briggs La mer / Qu’on voit danser / Le long des golfes clairs / A des reflets d’argent Home Movies – Archivio nazionale del film di famiglia, Guglielmo Baldassini, Tuffi lacustri, 1928 https://www.memoryscapes.it/archive/tuffi-lacustri/cartoline-italiane/ National Library of Scotland / Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba Moving Image Archive, James […]
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Saizo Kirigakure, a discovery in Japan
When it comes to 9.5mm’s discovery and restoration, I always recall the Ninja character “Saizo Kirigakure”. The original film (only three minutes) was obtained by Raiko Sakamoto, one of the professional benshi performers in Japan, who happened to live in FPS’ neighborhood. One day in 2007 he brought it to us, and we decided to […]
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Impressions from the opening of the exhibition
Saturday June 11th we opened the exhibition on the birthday 9.5mm. Our museologist Peter Fasnacht gave a tour, one of our technicians, Vladimir Malogajski explained some special equipment, David Landolf projected the films. Eliane Maurer and myself introduced the analogue and digital elements. Check out our agenda for more events to come! back
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Carte blanche à Normandie Images. June Archive Streaming Program
Programme de streaming pour le mois de juin: Carte blanche à Normandie Images, sélectionné par Agnès Deleforge (chargée des collections) Agnès nous présente la collection Pathé-Baby des peintres André et Berthe Noufflard et a choisi quelques perles parmi les 733 films réalisés par André Noufflard entre 1925 et 1940. L’intégralité de cette collection unique est […]
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100 year old wisdom
On my visit to Switzerland in a room with a view out over a paddock – occasionally Alpacas were spotted too – I found a hundred year old wisdom printed on 9.5mm film: “Attention! Ce film comporte un double début de bande. Détachez et conservez le premier, il vous servira à réparer votre film en […]
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I walk the line. May Archive Streaming Programme
In May our bodies – for better or for worse – weave collective geometry as we march, parade, dance, line up, strut and stroll together. Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, filmmaker unknown, Les fêtes religieuses de Séville, year unknown https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2465 Grahame Newnham Collection, Dave Fleischer, Betty Boop in ‘Parade of the […]
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Technology of Memory – Memory of Technology. April program by Tim van der Heijden
April Archive Streaming Programme: Technology of Memory – Memory of Technology, selected by Tim van der Heijden “Le Cinéma Chez Soi” Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid / Amateurfilms, Jos A. Huygen, Tom de Snelfotograaf, 1928 https://www.amateurfilmplatform.nl/films/tom-de-snelfotograaf Limburgs Museum filmcollectie, Werner Mantz, Werner Mantz: Vroegste Films (1), 1928-1929 https://www.amateurfilmplatform.nl/films/werner-mantz-vroegste-films-1 Steve the 95collector Collection, family Stephenson, The […]
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9.5mm from the American Continent part 1: Georgia
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia holds two 9.5mm film collections and three Pathé projectors, and now in 2022, we are awaiting the donation of a 4th projector with 80 film cartridges. Our Walter Bergmann Collection includes a Pathé Brevette projector (on the left in attached […]
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“New life” March program by Anna Briggs
March Archive Streaming Programme: New Life, selected by Anna Briggs ‘When daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver-white / And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight’… Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, Mademoiselle G. Gousset, Visions Champêtres, year unknown https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2398 […]
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Carnival / Fasnacht in Basel
In some parts of Switzerland February and March are very popular months. Basel and Lucerne for example feature big carnival processions. Whether some procession will take place or not ist currently still in the air (14.02.2022). We would like to offer a glimpse into the procession from somewhere around 1926, that shows how things were […]
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The notched title mechanism or how to watch porn in the 1930s
I would like to tell you about a collection of 9.5mm films that were handed over to the Austrian Film Museum in the 1970s. It’s a compilation of pornographic films, 13 reels in total, set in France in the 1930s. Some of the films have titles, often handwritten, and some are tinted, covering the film […]
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“Love and Marriage” February Program by Anna Briggs
February Archive Streaming Programme: Love and Marriage, selected by Anna Briggs Cupid is paying us a visit this month, bringing his bow and arrow, handfuls of heart-shaped confetti, love potions, yards of tulle, rose petals and boxes of chocolates. ♥ Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Mario Cessi, Corsa nel grano e […]
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“Happy Birthday 9.5mm” January Program by Anna Briggs
Happy Birthday! January Archive Streaming Programme: Happy Feet, selected by Anna Briggs Let’s waltz into this new year of centenary celebrations with some films that will make you jump up and shake your tail feather. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Slow-Motion Dancing Scenes, year unknown https://collections.ushmm.org/ […]
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Bigger than 9.5
Paul Goy, the last president of the Bernese 9.5mm club, told me one day that there was a Super 9.5mm format back in the 1990ties. To my great astonishment, he even gave me a piece of film: You find a lot more information about this new format in the French magazine “Objectiv 9,5” from December […]
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The mysterious Mister Loertscher – Part II
There was an active 9.5mm Film Club in Bern until the mid-2000s. Through various donations, parts of the film collection of the “9.5mm Filmklub Bern” as well as their documents such as protocols and lists of members found their way into the Lichtspiel. For our restoration project, this collection is very interesting, which is why […]
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In the dead of the night
On the phone my daughter Ronja. Out there, where we usually deposit the trash, there are two wooden boxes. A big one and a smaller, long one. Ronja knows her father, knows that he is a collector and hunter, hunting from one fleamarket to the next. The devil knows why. In the boxes are filmreels, […]
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The 9.5mm slitter
Hi my Lichtspiel friends, From my collection in the UK I would like to offer you this slitter for making two strips of 9.5mm film from 35mm stock. It was made by the late Bill Crumplin who was a great boffin and tinkerer and who made much of his own equipment for amateur filmmaking. He […]
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The mysterious Mister Loertscher
Not less then 60 films from one Mr. A. Loertscher are part of the collection of 9.5mm films in the Lichtspiel. His films are from a such variety that the curiosity to learn more about him becomes greater by every film title I read. Among his films are classical family and travel films but also […]
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Gladiateur combatant
Because this is also personal, I will start with my winter swimming excursions – in particular one from last November. The Lichtspiel did a so called „Advent calendar“ and everybody could present a film of their choice. The water had a perfect 9.5 degrees that day. We showed two films on this particular window, one […]
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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 […]
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MAPPING ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS OF CHAPLIN’S SHOULDER ARMS (MASh)
Film archives, collectors, and film history buffs! Check out our new project MAPPING ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS OF CHAPLIN’S SHOULDER ARMS (MASh) and participate! https://lichtspiel.ch/MASh
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Lichtspiel at FIAF congress
The Lichtspiel is invited on 9.4.2019 at the 75th FIAF congress (International federation of film archives) in Lausanne.
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KlangHeimlich
