Box lid for a Pathe Gem 16mm cine projector.
Pathescope Ltd
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1930
Materials
Card, Metal
Measurements
230 x 450 x 230 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525256.5
Summary
Box lid for a Pathe Gem 16mm cine projector. It is a card box tray made of 3 pieces of cut card. Piece 1 - makes the 2 long side and the base, to which 2 end panels are folded and stapled at each corner. 1 end panel there is an original label which reads - Urgent Phone Hayes (M.....) In pen No 7341-B The rest of the label has been damaged. On the other end panel - Number 0 has been written in red paint On 1 long side In pencil £27-16-0 On the top there was a label most of which is missing possible to see that it was hand written in pen was a name and address. The bits that can been read are - Mullin --Mont Rise --Ridge Road -----IG356 --------Hulm --heshire in pencil 0/128 P40 There are 2 additional labels on the top and long side from previous catalouging that read - Pathe Gem p40 0-128c.1930
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.
Makers and roles
Pathescope Ltd , Manufacturing processes