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Pedestal style projector for silent 16mm film. It has a 110volt 500watt lamp with a f1:6 2inch standard lens.

Interesting 'toy'. Little can be discovered about this artefact. It seems to work on 'rotoscope' principles providing 3-D images when viewed through the viewer. The images suggest the period in time however they do not look like true 3-D…

According to Gerald McKee the Bing projectors were a poorly machine in many respects.. The Bing British has a single tooth claw, no flywheel, no condenser no shutter thus the hand-crank ing was jerky and the light output poor. It runs Pathescope…

A slide projector with a fine performance. Illumination is by a 1000w lamp and it is air cooled. A range of slide ratios can be used and it has a long throw lens of 400mm.

An interesting projector developed post WW2 but with pre-war design. It has characteristic quite similar to the BTH machines of the day as well as American counterparts. It has a 1000watt. Lamp output and 1600ft. capacity. Its claim to fame is that…

The Simplex projector is a later model than artefact 18 in that it does not have control box operation. Otherwise it is an identical projector. The Ashcraft Suprex arc lamp is pure American in design and large to accommodate the largest cinemas ever…

This projector installation is particularly important. With the introduction of anamorphic prints in 1953/54. many smaller cinema chains and independents took advantage of 20th.Century-Fox eagerness to get CinemaScope widespread in the UK…

This projector is the No.2 of a pair which were installed in the Electric Palace, Bridport. It is thought to have spent all of its working life in that cinema. The model T was produced, somewhat late, to counter the problem exhibitors were having…

One of two such projectors made for and installed in TV studios date not known but thought to be in the 1950's though the fitted xenon lamp dates it. This projector is used for effects and special effects to produce background or cyclorama images…

The origin of this projector is unknown. It is thought to date from around 1916 and could have been produced as a Bioscope projector. It is a hand turned projector with a front shutter and has 1000ft. spool boxes complete with fire-traps. It is also…