A Wonderful New Instrument within Reach of All: Pathe's Invention It has long been the aim of inventers and manufacturers of cinema projection machines to perfect an instrument suitable for use in the home, at a price within the reach of all. Experiments lasting over a period of 15 years culminated within the last 12 months, and on Thursday Pathe Orient placed on the market one of the most remarkable projection machines ever devised to bring the pleasures of the cinema to one's own fireside, at a total cost of $60. It is anticipated that it will do as much to revolutionize the cinema industry as the Kodak has done to popularize the art of photography.
This little machine, called the "Pathe Baby' stands only 12 inches high and is in every respect as excellent as one of the large commercial machines, Furthermore, the complicated mechanism and danger from inflammable films has been eliminated in the smaller machine. Each reel of film is but 10 metres in length, but because of the reduced size of the photographic impressions, this reel equals approximately 500 feet of ordinary film. In addition, there is an ingenious mechanism which precludes the necessity of a waste of long footage in explanatory titles, since only one impression of a title is needed, the film passing on at the usual rate of speed.
The film is made absolutely fireproof by a recently discovered secret process thereby eliminating one of the gravest dongons of cinema projection. This film costs but $1.50 per reel, considerably less than a roll of ordinary Kodak film. There is a great variety of subject matter contained in these special cinema reels, covering such fields as science, travel, comedy, drama, sport and religion, which are at present available locally. These films come in special containers from which it is impossible to remove them except for the purpose of projection. This has been arranged in order that the film may never have to be manipulated by hand, thus assuring their being kept in perfect condition, with all their delicate photographic, qualities intact, and free from scratches or abrasions.
Instead of using the high power flaming are lamps, whose delicacy requires constant care on the part of the operator, the 'x'athé Baby" is equipped with a specially constructed, elongated electric light, with an electric plug that may be attached to any ordinary electric light socket. Behind the light is a small convex ground mirror which diffuses the light rays equally through the powerful lens which magnifies the photographic impressions on the film some 500
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