Introduction

Part I. Baby Cine. Kinship through technology: three eighths of an inch

Chapter 1

9.5mm kinship and the creation of a new participatory media literacy

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

Chapter 2

The Pathe Baby attitude: voluntariness, amateurism, craft, and electricity

Mats Bjorkin

Chapter 3

Framing fragments: a young English woman and her
9.5mm Pathe Baby Cine during the 1930s

Heather Norris Nicholson

Chapter 4

Women and the ‘Baby’ Cine: gendered approaches to interwar amateur filmmaking in Britain

Paul Frith

Chapter 5

The sensation of colour: Josef Mroz and his short-lived colour process Mroz Farbenfilm

Stefanie Zingl

Part II. The world of
9.5mm: pioneers, experimentation, and recovery

Chapter 6

An Arctic trial. Pathe Baby into the extreme lands: the case of the
9.5mm amateur film about the Nobile Expedition to the North Pole (1928)

Andrea Mariani and Luca Mazzei

Chapter 7

The Pathe-Baby projector: a tool of the Catholic church

Elvira Shahmiri

Chapter 8

Pathe-Baby Films of North Africa

Nicole Beth Wallenbrock

Chapter 9

In Search of
9.5mm Widescreen

Guy Edmonds

Chapter 10

A (brief) history of Taiwanese cinema: Pathe-Baby and its early years during the Japanese rule of Taiwan (1920s?1930s)

Wei-chu Shih

Chapter 11

They survive on Nine-Point-Five: the lost films on the
9.5mm gauge and the need for their preservation

Chris Bird

Part III. The social gauge: cine clubs and archival networks

Chapter 12

A mixed economy:
9.5mm in cine club environments - Crystal Productions-Bournemouth film club

Zoe Viney Burgess

Chapter 13

The Social Gauge:
9.5mm and amateur cinema communities

Ryan Shand

Chapter 14

Filmclub
9.5 Bern. Exploring the collection and participation practices of a Swiss amateur cine club

Eliane Maurer

Chapter 15

Extending the influence of cinema:
9.5mm in Catalonia (1924-1940)

Enrique Fibla-Gutierrez, Mariona Bruzzo, Rosa Cardona, and Ignasi Renau

Chapter 16

The Grahame L. Newnham collection and the USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

Dino Everett

Appendices

* Appendix 1: Index of Film Archives with
9.5mm film collections

* Appendix 2: Costs and Availability in the UK (between 1922 and 1950)

Index