Accessories

  

               

Pathé Baby fitted with redressing mirror, to throw pictures on screen at right angles (as listed in 1930 catalogue). The reversed pic might not have worried some, particularly if titles were few, but it was no doubt also used for back projection.

 

                

Model C Dynamo (as listed in Pathescope catalogues 1929-30); the main difference from Model D is that the model C has a plug-type output, as shown in the second pic. The model D has two screw-type outputs, as per 3rd pic. The Instructions are for a side-mounted dynamo.

Now some motor details. In order these are an early "B" type; the later "B" type; the 1922 "R" type; early "S" type from 1926; 1928 French "S" type; 1928 "S" type; 1929 "S"; the "C" type from 1930. The three pix on the second row show how the semi-automatic speed control worked; when the motor tried to speed up at a notch (mech stopped, therefore no load), the inner weights shown in the second of these pix would tend to fly out, so increasing braking force.

                                                  

Some random motor instructions.

     

He has loads of bits for Babies, too:-

                    

French version of two way switch (the switch is made out of a multicoloured bakelite material) and its pic from the 1926 Catalogue and an entry from Cinéma Chez Soi No. 90, then English version and 1938 Catalogue pic.

          

These are English variants of the two-way switch; the Catalogue is 1926, the pictures are the earlier and later types respectively.

The American market took a completely different approach to motorisingtheir Pathé Baby's, although they where still made in France. They were first introduced to America in December 1925, under the trade name of Pathex. (An editorial comment here. I have sometimes wondered quite why there seems to be so much Pathex material in the UK, most notably spools and some Baby bits. Did Pathé plan a huge sales push which fizzled, leaving them with huge stocks? I suppose there is an answer in Kermabon or whatever, but company history bores me - has anyone done the work?)

                                   

The first three are David's earliest American machine, a Model D with motor speed via a slider on the added resistance block. The next two are also a Model D projector, but with speed control by a potentiometer/resistance with rotary knob. The  last three are close-ups to show detail of the motor mounting and the spring with which pressure of the motor roller on the shutter can be adjusted.

These pix below are a Model G machine, with a later motor version. Note that, altho' there is a slit in the side for the American motor, the decal on the side is Pathé.

     

Yet more bits.

          

The first two are the Pathescope Super condenser, alleged to allow more light thru, tho' I am not clear what is the physics behind this claim. I've cheated a bit on the blurb by mocking up an English-only version; I saw no reason to tidy up a load of foreign stuff to give you the whole thing. The third pic show an add-on version of the rack and pinion focussing, to replace the rather trickier lever mech of early machines.

Baby Enlarger Attachment

I've never see even a photo of one of these before, just adverts. Dave R has done a splendid job in showing exactly what it is and how it works. The idea is you put some photo-sensitive film in the big end, to copy whatever frame you have in the gate. Exposure must have been trial and error.

                          

                

Baby Magnifier Attachment

This was supposed to approx double the size of the projected picture. What it must have done to the brightness, tho'.......

               

This apparently does the same job as the cone-shaped PathMagnifier lens. The third pic shows a Pathexor Krauss lens, one of two better-quality lenses available for the Baby, the fourth another, the Hermagis.

                 

                         

Another splendid series of pix from Dave Richardson, tho' I admit they are not projectors. There are some good pix of a motorised attachment for the Baby Camera under Gear.

Below are of miniature titling outfits designed to attach to the front of a Baby camera or a Motocamera, the latter having 2 different size kits. Not quite sure whether the last pic is the same thing as the others but, hey!

          

                         

Why did anyone ever need anything else?