[KineJapan] I was born but... film gauge

Markus Nornes nornes at umich.edu
Tue Aug 25 12:53:44 EDT 2020


Pathé's 9.5mm was popular because it was cheap and caught on.

But as mentioned, the boss definitely had 16mm—and that meant that he was
really monied. It's a small, but important, detail in the film's class
discourse.

Judging from the shape of the camera and how he's holding it, it's probably
a Bell and Howell. But I think Bolex was making cameras with this vertical
profile.

If you really need to figure it out, there are a lot of crazy
camera collector pages out there like this one:
https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/cinelist.html

Markus

[image: Screen Shot 2020-08-25 at 10.21.29 AM.png]
[image: Screen Shot 2020-08-25 at 10.20.12 AM.png]
---

*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

*Department of Film, Television and Media*
*6348 North Quad*
*105 S. State Street*
*Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*



On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:28 AM Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> I think the 9.5mm Pathe Baby was the home cinema camera of choice in 1930s
> Japan.
>
>
>
> *The Creeping Garden <http://www.creepinggarden.com/> *- A Real-Life
> Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed
> by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
> Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films
> <https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>
> .
> The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial
> Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing
> <http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",
> Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times*
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>
> .
> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter*
> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>
> .
> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian*
> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>
> .
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of
> Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Sent:* 24 August 2020 18:33
> *To:* kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Cc:* Desser, David M <desser at illinois.edu>
> *Subject:* [KineJapan] I was born but... film gauge
>
> Can anyone tell me the film gauge of the home-movie in I Was Born But...?
> It seems like it's too small for 16mm.  Is it 9.5?
>
> Thanks.
>
> You can reply to me privately if you'd like: desser at illinois.edu or to
> this list in case there is controversy.  😄
>
> David
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20200825/e85278b0/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Screen Shot 2020-08-25 at 10.20.12 AM.png
Type: image/png
Size: 789514 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20200825/e85278b0/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Screen Shot 2020-08-25 at 10.21.29 AM.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1008907 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20200825/e85278b0/attachment-0003.png>


More information about the KineJapan mailing list