to market the Pathé vertical-cut discs abroad were abandoned in 1925, though they continued to sell in France until 1932. In mid-1922, Pathé introduced a lower priced label called Perfect. This label became one of the most popular and successful "dime store" labels of the 1920s, and survived beyond the end of the US Pathé label - discontinued in 1930 - right up to 1938. In January 1927, Pathé began recording using the new electronic microphone technology, as opposed to the strictly acoustical-mechanical method of recording they used until then. 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. The Pathé and Pathé-Marconi labels and catalogue still survive, first as imprints of EMI and now currently EMI's successor Parlophone Records. The film division of Pathé Frères still survives in France. See also List of record labels Pathé News Pathé Pictures Pathé Records (Shanghai & Hong Kong) References External links Official webpage of Pathé (now just a film distributor) Pathé cylinder recordings, from the Pathe Records on the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project French record labels Vertical cut record labels 1894 establishments in France 1928 disestablishments in France Record labels established in 1894 Record labels disestablished in 1928 Defunct record labels of France Jazz record labels EMI