Editing Pathé (section)

=== Pathé Records ===
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The driving force behind the film operation and phonograph business was [[Charles Pathé]], who had helped open a [[phonograph]]<!-- cylinder records and machines only until 1906 --> shop in 1894 and established a phonograph factory at [[Chatou]] on the western outskirts of Paris. The Pathé brothers began selling Edison and Columbia phonographs and accompanying [[cylinder record]]s and later, the brothers designed and sold their own phonographs that incorporated elements of other brands.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hoffmann|first=Frank|author2=Howard Ferstler|title=The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound|publisher=CRC Press|year=2005|isbn=0-415-93835-X}}</ref> Soon after, they also started marketing pre-recorded cylinder records. By 1896 the Pathé brothers had offices and [[recording studio]]s not only in Paris, but also in [[London]], [[Milan]], and [[St. Petersburg]]. Pathé manufactured cylinder records until approximately 1914. In 1905,<ref name="PatheInAmerica">{{cite book|last=Copeland|first=George|author2=Ronald Dethlefson|title=Pathé Records and Phonographs in America, 1914-1922|publisher=Mulholland Press|location=Los Angeles, CA|year=1999|edition=1|oclc=44146208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6g4AQAAIAAJ|access-date=28 November 2020|archive-date=3 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703215827/https://books.google.com/books?id=K6g4AQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> the Pathé brothers entered the growing field of [[Gramophone record|disc records]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://obsoletemedia.org/pathe-vertical-cut-record/|title=Pathé vertical-cut disc record (1905 – 1932) – Museum Of Obsolete Media|website=www.obsoletemedia.org|date=18 May 2015|language=en-GB|access-date=12 February 2018|archive-date=9 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209044402/https://obsoletemedia.org/pathe-vertical-cut-record/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In France, Pathé became the largest and most successful distributor of cylinder records and phonographs. These, however, failed to make headway in foreign markets such as the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]] where other brands were already in widespread use.<ref name="discovering">{{cite book|last=Fabrizio|first=Timothy|author2=George Paul|title=Discovering Antique Phonographs|publisher=Sciffer Publishing Ltd.|location=Atglen PA|year=2000|isbn=0-7643-1048-8}}</ref>

In December 1928, the French and British Pathé phonograph assets were sold to the British [[Columbia Graphophone Company]]. In July 1929, the assets of the American Pathé record company were merged into the newly formed [[American Record Corporation]].<ref name="PatheInAmerica" /> 

The Pathé and Pathé-Marconi labels and catalogue still survive, first as imprints of [[EMI]] and now currently EMI's successor [[Parlophone|Parlophone Records]]. In 1967 [[EMI Italiana]] took control of the entire catalog. In turn, the [[Universal Music Group]] acquired EMI Italiana in 2013.