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Projector

A small projector from the A/V department
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When I was becoming a teacher, they insisted you learn how to operate one of these while you were a student teacher. Two years after graduation, I never saw one in use in a school again.
Richard
Tue 05-09-2006
Where do you place the DVD?
Weebs
Tue 05-09-2006
Is that a bell and howell projector?
Tom
Tue 05-09-2006
oh lol its not
Tom
Tue 05-09-2006
todays movie will be a science film called "Your Testicles and you"
Joe
Wed 05-10-2006
hahaha
sam r
Wed 05-10-2006
hehe thats cool! it kinda looks like a miniature cannon-thing! :P
Tommeh!!!
Wed 05-10-2006
16MM, no less! :)
foxtrot_xray
Fri 05-12-2006
My high school actually used one of these for some of the health education movies we had to watch. Kinda nostalgic seein one again ...
Catherine
Thu 05-18-2006
If anyone would mind bringing that out, I've got a lot of really old (circa mid 1960s) home movies I'd like to watch. It seems the only place you can get a film projector is in abandoned schools for the mentally disabled.
GeekSpeek
Wed 05-24-2006
Aren't these antiques? Why do they let these things just sit around and decay like this?
Nancy
Mon 05-29-2006
I had one of these that came out of a storage room in a fire department. I found that they are not particularly valuable. I got $25.00 for mine and it was in good, working condition.
Gezal
Wed 05-31-2006
it looks more like a torture machine than a video projector to me
blot
Thu 06-15-2006
I put all my family's 8mm films on VHS years ago and now everything is DVD.
Nancy
Sun 06-18-2006
The projector is an "Ampro" brand 16mm sound projector. They were made from the late 1930's until the 1950's. I have one from 1942, these were common in schools, and very well built, mine still works.
Damon
Sat 07-01-2006
Damon, if you know how to make spare parts for your projector, you can keep it running infinitely. Parts are easy to build, especially for these old devices that require no circuit boards or things like that.
Raymond
Thu 10-26-2006
It takes me back to my grade 3 classes. Sadly that was many years ago.... Wow I must be getting old. LOL....SOB...
Canada
Fri 03-23-2007
YouTube has many information films on it, especially the ones by Sid Davis.
Richard Davies
Sat 04-07-2007
i have on of those projectors lol neat picture
Dean
Sat 04-07-2007
looks like a robot pet .
(:
apple
Sun 03-02-2008
That's an old model. Circa 1950's.
Tom
Thu 11-27-2008
what the hell, i would cherish this thing, would i be able to break in a pic it up?
jessef
Sat 04-18-2009
Wow, an old projector! Those were the days! : ) I love when machines are still in the "analog" mode.
MARIE, CMT
Tue 05-11-2010
Oh, I remember these bad boys from my school days. You almost needed an engineering degree to thread the film through the sprockets. If it wasn't done correctly, the film would get stuck and the bright lamp would burn a hole in it.
Larry D
Wed 01-12-2011

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