Film camera

First models of projector and Pathé Baby film camera, designed and manufactured by Victor Continsouza, commissioned by Pathé Cinéma, who sought to create new products that would allow the public to make filming and film projections in their homes easily and cheaply. The projector was launched on the market in Christmas 1922 and the camera in April 1923. They used a 9.5 mm film with central perforation enclosed inside a metal chassis, which avoided touching the film with their hands. The success of these devices for amateur and family audiences was immediate. From 1923 to 1946, the Pathé firm did not stop launching new and better models of cameras and especially projectors (with reels of one hundred and twenty metres, with an electric motor, with automatic rewinding, for sound films, etc.), with all kinds of accessories, which delighted amateur film-makers. The 9.5 mm film format was adopted by other brands, all of them European, as in the United States the 16 mm format and later the 8 mm format of the Kodak company triumphed.