What was Pathé-Baby?

Pathé cinemas were founded by Marc Ferrez and family, the first representatives of the Pathé-Frères (Pathé Brothers) company, which arrived in Brazil in 1905.

After the success of cinemas in the first decades of the 20th century, the projector and Pathé-Baby camera were launched by the French company Pathé-Frères in the early 1920s.

During Rio's urbanization process in the first decades of the 20th century, the landscape of Floriano Peixoto Square (Cinelândia) was also transformed. Francisco Serrador, a Spanish businessman, contributed both to movie theaters and movie attractions.

With more affordable costs and a format that facilitated easier manipulation of the camera, the technology that Pathé-Baby introduced to the market altered film consumption patterns and contributed to the development of the visual culture of amateur cinema from the 1920s onwards.