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35mm filmstrip projectors; Overhead presentation projectors (all models) Stereo cameras and stereo slide projectors through its TDC subsidiary; Slide Cube Projector, circa 1970; In 1934, Bell & Howell introduced their first amateur 8mm movie projector, in 1935 the Filmo Straight Eight camera, and in 1936 the Double-Run Filmo 8.
Built for Excel – and designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, [2] the manufacturing facility was located at 320 E. 21st St., Chicago, Illinois. They started making budget 8 mm movie cameras in 1939 through a subsidiary run by Briskin's sons, such as the Revere 88 Movie Camera and the Revere 85 8mm Projector. That company was later merged into Excel ...
CHICAGO — Periodically, whenever the Chicago Film Society gets together and talks about the future, conversation winds back to the same existential concern: Does the general public even know ...
DeVry was founded in 1931 as the De Forest Training School in Chicago, Illinois. [2] School founder Herman A. DeVry, who had previously invented a motion picture projector and produced educational and training films, named the school after his friend Lee de Forest. [2]
IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.
Known as "Pop" Lubin, he constructed his own combined camera/projector he called a "Cineograph" [2] and his lower price and marketing know-how brought reasonable success. In 1897 Lubin began making films for commercial release including Meet Me at the Fountain in 1904. Certain his business could prosper, the following year he rented low-cost ...
A movie projector (or film projector) is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras. Modern movie projectors are specially built video projectors (see also digital cinema).
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