Film projector

The Pathé Kok, created in 1912, was the first experience of the French company Pathé with small-format family cinema. It incorporated a new 28 mm wide film, with asymmetric perforations (three perforations on the left and one on the right of each frame) and, above all, it was made of cellulose diacetate, which was non-flammable, unlike the cellulose nitrate film commonly used at the time by professional cinema, which was highly flammable. This device was initially offered for the projection of films from the Pathé catalogue, which were sold or rented (more than one thousand three hundred titles, chosen from the great French and American hits). The first model of this projector was equipped with a dynamo, so that the manual drive of the handle, which rotated the reels with the film, generated at the same time the electricity necessary for the projector lamp. In 1913, a camera for this projector was also launched on the market. In Europe, the Pathé Kok had little commercial success, and production stopped in 1920. In fact, Charles Pathé was already preparing a successor, much cheaper and more manageable: the popular Pathé Baby.