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home movies were cut down versions of theatrical releases. In the silent
movie days, the reel size was generally 1,000 feet (about 10 minutes).
So a two-reeler would be 20 minutes long, etc.
"By the Sad Sea Waves" was a Harold Lloyd one-reel short released on September 30, 1917 by the Hal Roach Studio (Lloyd was still in his "Lonesome Luke" mode). Years later Roach made a deal with Pathex, and many of his shorts were released in the 9.5 mm format. Especially the original Our Gang movies. In the "Comedies C" links above and below you will find two Pathex versions of "By the Sad Sea Waves". The original 35 mm theatrical release was a one reeler (10 minutes): In 1926, Pathex released this film on two 60 foot bobbins as C-28 with a running time of 5.6 minutes. Viewers got the salient shots and storyline. In late 1929, as Pathex was being blown out by Kodak, they released C-123 on one bobbin with a running time of just 2.8 minutes. Viewers just saw the key shots and a short storyline. |
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The links at the top and to the right will take you to the film listings. Please send us info to fill in the holes in the tables. The table on the right shows the prefix category of Pathex films. The number in the "Films" column includes holes in the numerical lists. For example, we found F-25 yet only know ten film titles in the Fables category. The table below shows the number of titles in the catalogs we have. Does anyone have a Pathex catalog from the 1930's?
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| Prefix | Films | ||||||||||||||||
| Animals | A | 37 | |||||||||||||||
| Business | B | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| Comedy | C | 123 | |||||||||||||||
| Drama | D | 29 | |||||||||||||||
| Exercise | E | 52 | |||||||||||||||
| Fables | F | 25 | |||||||||||||||
| Art | G | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| Cartoons | H | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Dance | K | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Current Events | L | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | M | 34 | |||||||||||||||
| Super Reels | O | 62 | |||||||||||||||
| Pathe Review | R | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Science | S | 13 | |||||||||||||||
| Travel | T | 69 | |||||||||||||||
| Pathex Info | X | 5 | |||||||||||||||
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539 |
| The first column in the various Pathex film listings shows those in my collection. Many years ago decided it would be fun to try to duplicate the USA catalogs before I drop dead. I have about 73% of the possible film numbers and 79% of the known titles, but am also at about 73% of my life expectancy. If you have any I'm missing, I would be glad to buy or trade for them. I have over 200 duplicate films. A strange guy, but aren't we all? |
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