Pathé Baby
Camera
Pathé Cinema
French
Pathé Baby
Pathex
ca. 1925
Metal, leather and glass
Overall (camera): 5 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 4 in. (14 × 3.8 × 10.2 cm)
Overall (case): 5 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13.3 × 13.3 × 7 cm)
Overall (box): 2 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 5 3/4 in. (7 × 15.9 × 14.6 cm)
Gift of Lyman F. Milliken
1978.0191.0001
DescriptionBlack leather-covered, rectangular, 9.5mm magazine, hand-crank motion picture camera with eye-level viewfinder, fixed f/3.5 lens in original box. The camera accepts 10 meter spools in the magazine.
Inscriptions Embossed in black leather on the door on the left side of the camera: PATHEX MADE IN FRANCE / Engraved in white on lens: TRIANAR KRAUSS F 2cm No 218685 / Engraved in white on apeture switch around lens: 3.5, 5, 7, 10, 14 / Embossed in black leather around hand crank on right side of camera: TWO TURN TO THE SECOND / Engraved in silver on the footage dial on the right side of the camera: Counter 1200 Pictures / Engraved on plate under door inside camera: CONTINSOUZA PARIS BREVETÉ EN FRANCE ET A L'ÉTRANGER CONSTRUCTUERS ÉTABLESSEMENTS / Stamped in plate under door inside camera: 007867 / Printed in gold on top of original green box: Pathex MOTION PICTURE Camera IN LEATHER CARRYING CASE
