9.5mm Film and Participatory Media Before the Digital Age

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97093-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

This anthology offers the first systematic exploration of 9.5mm amateur film culture, practice and consumption, from its launch in 1922 to the present day. It breathes new life into our understanding of participatory media and its origins in the early twentieth century, revealing how a web of experiences gave rise to a vibrant ecosystem of collaborative storytelling and grassroots cultural movements that continue to shape our understanding of media participation.

The collection brings together the work of emerging specialists, early-career researchers, and respected scholars from anthropology, film, media studies and international film archival networks. The 16 chapters in this volume offer fresh insights into early participatory media culture and confirm the ongoing influence and impact of 9.5mm film on global media studies.

The interdisciplinary approach and wide-reaching perspectives make it a valuable resource for cinema and media curricula, film archival projects, cultural and media anthropology, visual sociology, as well as gender, memory and migration studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria

Viney Burgess, Zoe

Viney Burgess, Zoë

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Baby Cine: kinship through technology—three-eighths of an inch

1 9.5mm kinship and the creation of a new participatory media literacy

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

2 The Pathé Baby attitude: voluntariness, amateurism, craft, and electricity

Mats Björkin

3 Framing fragments: a young English woman and her 9.5mm Pathé Baby Ciné during the 1930s

Heather Norris Nicholson

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

Paul Frith

5 The sensation of colour: Josef Mroz and his shortlived colour process Mroz Farbenfilm

Stefanie Zingl

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

6 An Arctic trial: Pathé Baby in the extreme lands—the case of the 9.5mm amateur film of the Nobile expedition to the North Pole (1928)

Andrea Mariani and Luca Mazzei

7 The Pathé Baby projector: a tool of the Catholic Church

Elvira Shahmiri

8 Pathé Baby films of North Africa

Nicole Beth Wallenbrock

9 In search of 9.5mm widescreen

Guy Edmonds

10 A (small) history of Taiwanese cinema: Pathé Baby and its early years during the Japanese rule of Taiwan (1920s–1930s)

Wei-Chu Shih

11 They survive on nine-point-five: the lost films on the 9.5mm gauge and the need for their preservation

Christopher Bird

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

12 A mixed economy: 9.5mm in ciné-club environments: Crystal Productions—Bournemouth Film Club 215

Zoë Viney Burgess

13 The social gauge: 9.5mm technologies and amateur cinema in Europe

Ryan Shand

14 Filmclub 9,5 Bern: exploring the collection and participation practices of a Swiss amateur ciné-club

Eliane Antonia Maurer

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

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

16 The Grahame L. Newnham Collection and the University of Southern California HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

Dino Everett

Geographical list of archives with known 9.5mm holdings

List of prices for 9.5mm Equipment (UK)

Über Autor(innen)

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is a visual theorist at the University of Cambridge as a visual theorist, academic supervisor at the Department of Social Anthropology, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. Her ongoing research and publications address questions of visual literacy and trauma, amateur media and the anthropology of memory and migration.

Zoë Viney Burgess completed her PhD in film at the University of Southampton (2024). She works simultaneously as a film curator at Wessex Film and Sound Archive, Winchester (UK), and as a senior research fellow in Screen Archives at the University of West London’s Practice Research Institute of Screen and Music (PRISM).