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extras became available during their
lifetime.

Aperture

Notch Detector

Claw

Film path Pathé Baby projector
would re-engage and the film would start to
advance again. If it was deemed that the
title or scene contained too much
information to be read in the time the claw
was declutched, then not to worry, the title
would be printed on the next frame as well,
and another notch inserted to stop the film a
second time.

One of the films in my collection is a tour of
the Louvre M u s e u m FILM
in Paris, which of course contains many DIRECTION
scenes of paintings – well you guessed it,
there are many notches in that film and my
guess is that it runs for close to 8 minutes – Heavy line - First notch and corresponding
not bad for 30 feet of film.
frame.
Thin line – second notch and corresponding
The second generation of the Pathé Baby frame.
projectors were designed to take the larger
60 foot enclosed canisters, and at a later You might be wondering why the film could
time again, Pathé introduced 300 foot
“Super” reels, also with notched titles and at be stopped in the gate and not go up in
smoke – well the Baby had a very modest
the same time their “Super Attachment” to lamp – it was 20 volts at 6 watts – hardly a
enable these little machines to hold the 300
foot reels. Motors and a variety of other