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
https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/847324726daf1c3212c08e94fa37f0aa
Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia / Memoryscapes, Guglielmo Baldassini, Battaglia nel parco, 1927
https://www.memoryscapes.it/archive/battaglia-nel-parco/cartoline-italiane/
Le Téléphérique – Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain, Adrien Bonnefoy, Luge à Couvette, 1928
https://www.letelepherique.org/films-luge-%C3%A0-couvette-672-4387-0-1.html
Le Téléphérique – Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain, Adrien Bonnefoy, Patinage à Monnetier, 1932
https://www.letelepherique.org/films-patinage-%C3%A0-monnetier-672-4957-0-1.html
Le Téléphérique – Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain, Camille Giraud, Jura Clairvaux – Le Poizat – Ardèche, 1975-1976
https://www.letelepherique.org/films-jura-clairvaux-le-poizat-ard%C3%A8che-672-5629-0-1.html
Pathé Baby Collection, Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, filmmaker unknown, Documentaires colonies – le Japon sous la neige, year unknown
https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2346
Normandie Images, André Noufflard, Le Chien de Zeinis Joch – Retour par mauvais temps – Galtür (522), 1934
Normandie Images, André Noufflard, B. peint sur la neige (74), 1927
https://www.memoirenormande.fr/medias-b.-peint-sur-la-neige-74-614-3705-1-0.html
Yorkshire Film Archive / Northeast Film Archive, Peter Dobing, Family Magazine Fifth: Christmas 1951
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
Steve the 95 Collector Collection, Walton Film Productions, At Home With Sabrina, 1950s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTyrj8mHeQ
Pathé Baby Collection, Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, Composition Mr R. Conzette, Pathe-Magazine Revue Universelle des Sciences, Arts, Industries, Voyages, & Sports, No. 05, 1926
(2’41: Mœurs et coutumes.- Curieuse manifestation du féminisme en Suisse)
Pathé Baby Collection, Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, filmmaker unknown, Bruges, Belgique – Les Dentellières, 1911
https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2390
Normandie Images, André Noufflard, Balbina Au Piano I – Fresnay (237), 1929
https://www.memoirenormande.fr/medias-balbina-au-piano-i-fresnay-237-614-3954-1-0.html
North West Film Archive, Alf Frankland, Preston Ladies Football and T.A. Volunteers, circa 1945-55
https://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=0281agw16941q2d340304nxZYm4815b49Hq
Grahame Newnham Collection, Pathex, Here It Is, 1920s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcknhU7PDE
Kinolibrary Collection, filmmaker unknown, Woman films with 1920s Pathe Moto 9.5mm Camera, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB4WnUKjCfA
Pathé Baby Collection, Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, Composition Melle G. Jousset, Documentaires Colonies. Les montagnes de Kaastskil, 1911
https://library.princeton.edu/pathebaby/node/2345
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Alice Kessler, Two Short Amateur Films Featuring Hansi and the Kessler Family Pets; Hansi Visits Schonbrunn Zoo, circa 1931
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 Green Ball Collection, filmmaker unknown, Pathé Baby 1918, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKUx1_vYLY
MB Corp Collection, Admira Ledvinka, Reklama na mbcorp pathé 9,5mm, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCDECr5Ybk4
Grahame Newnham Collection, filmmaker unknown, Hints, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB3W-HZwQjY
NPO Science Video Museum, Masaharu Kusunoki, Tokyo, Yokohama, 1935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NvfQ90SuHs
Yorkshire Film Archive / North East Film Archive, Peter Dobing, Beneath the Lights: A Family Film 1949
https://www.yfanefa.com/record/26945
Moninos Collection, filmmaker unknown, 9 5mm 4 Jaja Ping pong La fichere oldies, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RoqgSpf2Uo
Moninos Collection, filmmaker unknown, 9 5mm 8 La Fichere, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsrwqYO1tf8
Grahame Newnham Collection, Charlie Chaplin, Charlot au ciné, 1914
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 who supported the screenings.
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.
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.
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 in the Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in Austria (https://efilms.at//), where you can ‘watch the historic film through an innovative film player showing contemporary images, geographical mapping, and shot-level analysis.’
I recommend reading the ‘Description’, ‘About’ and ‘Administrative History’ notes for all films, as they shed light on familial relations between filmmakers, geographical and chronological links, as well as giving a broader historical context to these personal films.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Fuchs family at the beach – home movies, 1933?
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003333
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Johannes Vosskamp & Fritz Jasper, Journey into Blue, 1933
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004459
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Johannes Vosskamp, Duisburg Nazi Party members go to Nuremberg for Reichs Party Day, 1935
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004411
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Friedrich Apfelthaler, 1938. Hitler in Vienna, Herbert in Winter
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724926
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, City Hall, May 1, 1938
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724931
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Max Bandera?, National Socialist Motor Transport Corps [Part 1 of 3], 1938
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724922
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, Partisan shootings, Russia, 1941-1942
* warning – this film contains footage of atrocities *
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724932
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Friedrich Apfelthaler, Springtime in Vienna, 1942
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724929
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, filmmaker unknown, A Film from Contemporary Life. Pictures from Russia, Summer 1942. The “Paradise”
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004565
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive,
Hans Wolfgang Lindemann, 35. Lukow – Bobruisk – Smolensk 1942
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn560128
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Herbert Apfelthaler, RAD “Soldiers of Work”, 1943
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn718542
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Moshe Shapiro, Untitled [Jewish family at DP camp in Italy], 1946-1947
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn539095
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, Moshe Shapiro, Untitled [Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp; Jewish family; protesting British policy against immigration], 1946-1947
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
https://www.memoirenormande.fr/medias-sculptures-de-la-cathedrale-de-bourges-156-614-3784-1-0.html
CICLIC Mémoire, Jacques Griffon & Caméra Club de l’Indre, La queue du chat, 1956
https://memoire.ciclic.fr/1935-queue-du-chat-la
Steve the 95collector, Cherry Kearton, Sallys Day Out, 1934
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKRl1UdvALY
Filmcollectief, filmmaker unknown, Film About Monkeys Dressed as Humans, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i93tAxrv2Lw
Brulidr Collection, Hal Roach Studios, The Dippy Do Dah Club / The Knockout, 1923
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTI1pALTKE
David Winderickx Collection, filmmaker unknown, L’éruption de l’Etna, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0runuBp54gw
Mémoire Normande, André Noufflard, M. Hurpin cueille un essaim, 1926
https://www.memoirenormande.fr/medias-m.-hurpin-cueille-un-essaim-36-614-3673-1-0.html
La Pequeña Filmoteca, filmmaker unknown, Película casera, México, Ciudad de México, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJxjoeIxH8
Kinolibrary, filmmaker unknown, Bavaria, Costumed Skiiers, 1930s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4-iDsm9Rc
Steve the 95collector, filmmaker unkown, Le gladiateur combattant – étude de gestes et d’attitudes, year unkown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZdG_bCG6I
Denis-Carl Robidoux Collection, filmmaker unknown, Gators Galore, 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp1IANcmnkU
Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain, Gaston Grabit, Le diable rouge, 1955
https://www.letelepherique.org/catalogue-diable-rouge-le-527-8526-0-5.html
Unknown Cinema, filmmaker unknown, An Intrepid Parachutist, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bJGl1HUqDo
Home Movies – Archivio nazionale del film di famiglia, Aleardo Felisi, Palloni all’Arena, 1927
https://www.memoryscapes.it/archive/palloni-allarena/paesaggi-urbani/
Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain, Adrien Bonnefoy, Vols de mouettes sur le Léman, 1929
https://www.letelepherique.org/films-vols-de-mouettes-sur-le-l%C3%A9man-672-4654-0-1.html
Jeff Kreines Collection, filmmaker unknown, French Children in Canoe, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7p-sC9RBVM
Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain, François Paturle, Col de l’Iseran, Megève, year unknown
https://www.letelepherique.org/films-iseran-meg%C3%A8ve-672-9512-0-1.html
NPO Science Film Museum, filmmaker unknown, Otaka Family 9.5mm Movie and Kirigami Work, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzad1QJ65Xg
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 photo camera, a 9.5mm film camera, some directories of purchased films as well as amateur films on 9.5mm b&w and 16mm b&w and color. Because of its diversity, this collection is a perfect example of how we work with 9.5mm film at Lichtspiel. In the following we describe the handling of the 9.5mm amateur films and purchase films. We have different approaches for the two genres.
Amateur film is rolled out from the original reel or cassettes and visioned. This is the only way to describe in detail the content and plot of the film. Several short amateur films are rolled together onto a 16mm core and separated with a short leader. However, each film is cataloged individually in the database and described in detail in terms of content as well as form (format, material, condition, etc.). Approximately 120 meters of film are rolled onto one core. Once all the films have been cataloged, the core is placed in a 16mm film can. Before the can goes into cold storage, the AD value is measured and the entire database entry is checked by another person.
The process is slightly different for the library films. We don’t remove them from their original cassette. Each cassette is labeled with the inventory number. Cataloging is done with the help of the book “The 9.5mm Vintage Film Encyclopaedia” (Pedler, Wyatt, Moules, 2020). This book provides information about title and year of release of the library films. In addition, the online source “Filmathèque – Pathé-Baby” (1931, http://archive.org/details/filmatheque00path) was used. The “Filmathèque – Pathé-Baby” is a directory with almost all library films, which were produced by Pathé on 9.5mm. The directory is divided into different categories such as nature or cities and, unlike the “Encyclopaedia”, contains a description of the content of the film. This content has been included in the database. Several cataloged cassettes are placed together in a 16mm film can (120 or 240 meters). Here, too, the AD value is measured and the database entry is checked by another person.
We want to use the symposium “9.5mm: And Cinema Is Everywhere” in November to also discuss problems and issues of processing 9.5mm film and are looking forward to input.
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 Marshall, Dunara Cruise, 1937
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2572
Grahame Newnham Collection, Walton Films, Undersea Wonderland, year unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCupBT_MJLs
Nederlands Instituut Voor Beeld en Geluid / Amateurfilms, J.L. Clement, Flor Aquarium Deel 1, 1942
https://www.amateurfilmplatform.nl/films/flor-aquarium-deel-i
Nederlands Instituut Voor Beeld en Geluid / Amateurfilms, J.L. Clement, Flor Aquarium Deel 2, 1942
https://www.amateurfilmplatform.nl/films/flor-aquarium-deel-ii
Cinémathèque de Bretagne / Gwarez Filmoù, Raymon Maréchal, Paris dans l’eau, 1948
Screen Archive South East, Lewis Rosenberg, Dinard, 1930s
https://screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/detail/6222/
Princeton University Library – Rare Books and Special Collections, Mademoiselle G. Jousset, Documentaires Français: Trouville, year unknown
