More nostalgia from my old movies, taken nearly 70 years ago. Here's a few shots from my collection of 9.5mm footage, taken with the first movie camera that I bought back in the 1950's.
Sly's Piano Shop, in Auckland's Queen Street, strangely enough sold 9.5mm Pathescope cameras, the famous Pathescope Ace projector, and camera-ready cassettes of black & white film. Because of the frame size - almost as large as 16mm - the quality could be remarkably good, and the cost of film much less than the larger gauge. Most amateur movie-makers used 8mm in those days, and the frame size and quality left much to be desired.
I'd seen Sly's tiny advert in the Auckland Weekly News, and saved my lawn mowing money to acquire the camera I'd read so much about in the English Amateur Cine World magazine. £8/10/- from memory. That was 34 Saturday mornings mowing Nana's lawns - but looking back now it was well worth it!