Pathescope movies preceded 8mm by decades. I recently came across a shoe box containing a few Pathescope reels. While these are not true “found films,” they are none the less lost to those involved. The reels are dated from December of 1926.

Charles Pathe’. Inventor of the 9.5 Pathescope format.

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