equipment

Our overall collection contains over 3000 items, not only 35mm & 70mm professional projection and sound equipment, but narrow gauge (8mm, Super 8mm, 9.5mm, 12.5mm, 16mm, 17.5mm, 28mm) projectors, still, movie and video cameras, slide and epidiascope projectors.

British Thomson-Houston (BTH) 1930’s all British projection unit, (still in working condition), which would have been installed in many Odeon cinemas. It has a Type A projector head, D-block sound head and a low intensity carbon arc lamp which ran from a three phase motor generator set producing DC for the stage speaker magnets and the sound exciter lamp.

This projection unit was rescued from Stewarby Village Hall, near Bedford, UK - its twin is in the Milton Keynes Museum, UK

(click image for close-up of head)

American Simplex projector, circa 1930’s, which has a converted front shutter to rear shutter projector head, Westrex N1-B sound head with Western Electric Drive. A Monarc hand fed, low intensity carbon arc lamp is also fitted and all this is mounted on a WE Universal base.

(click image for close-ups of head and arc lamp)

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In addition we have editing machines, arc and xenon lamphouses, ticket machines, sound followers etc.



a	Western Electric 43A Valve Amplifier (click image for close-up of valves)
b	Premier AP GKB Slide Lantern with Colour Wheel (Serial No. 2273) (click image for enlargement)
c	Bell & Howell 70-DR 16mm cine camera (click image for enlargement)
d	Moviola Model D-20 35mm editing machine (Serial No. 49037) (click image for close-up of screen)
e	Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Gain Control LMI 32000-B (Serial No. 85989) Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Rack Frame Amplifier LMI 32158 (serial No. 85923) (click image for enlargement)