Film camera

Manufacturer	Pathé Cinéma
Name	Pathé Professionnelle
Place	France
Date	after 1908
Register	859

A 35 mm camera manufactured from 1908, it was launched on the market in 1910 by the French company Pathé, one of the most important firms in the world in the production of films and manufacture of film devices. For two decades, the Pathé Professionnelle was considered a benchmark in cinematic filming, thanks to its multiple qualities. The best film directors of the time used it. In 1904 Pathé acquired the reproduction rights to the film's intermittent drive system, which had given the Cinématographe Lumière such a good result, to include it in its new camera. The first original feature of the device is the external arrangement of the two cases of the reels located on top, which were soon copied by their American competitors for their new models. The mechanism was very precise and provided excellent image stability; The projection window was long and ensured a perfect grip of the film at the time of frame exposure. The shutter was variable and had two moving blades. The crank was placed on the back of the device and had three modes: normal speed, frame by frame and reverse direction. It also had a viewfinder, footage counter, a level and high-quality German lenses, which allowed filming in dim light.

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