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Paul Adsett
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posted November 14, 2013 09:25 AM

Robert,
These projectors only use a 10 watt bulb, so the screen size in the Pathe advertisement (above) is, to say the least, slightly exaggerated. [Smile]

In practice, screen size is limited to about a 30 ins wide silver screen.

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Robert Crewdson
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posted November 14, 2013 10:02 AM

Thanks Paul, typical advertising, but no bad for the time, in the 50s TV screens were 14 inches, and for many years 18 inches was the largest you could get.

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Paul Adsett
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posted November 14, 2013 10:44 AM

That's right. My parent's first TV, in 1956, was a 14 ins Phillips, so the 30 inch glass beaded screen used for the hand cranked Pathe Ace looked huge! [Smile]

Happy memories of cranking through such great silents as Blackmail, The Informer, White Hell of Pitz Palu, ETC.

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Robert Crewdson
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posted November 14, 2013 01:07 PM

You had some great films Paul. I remembered that in some museum I had seen a TV with a 9 inch screen and a huge wooden cabinet. My first screen was a glass beaded 40 inch, which at the time seemed huge; we thought it was like sitting in the cinema.

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Ken Finch
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posted November 18, 2013 12:29 PM

Hi Janice, Yes its me again!! re convering the Baby to modern lighting. Look through old posts and you will see Dino has done it and so have I using a little 12volt 10 watt halogen bulb and the 2 pin ceramic socket. All obtainable quite cheaply from your D.I.Y. store as is also a suitable lighting transformer to run it. Ken Finch. [Smile]

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Janice Glesser
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posted November 19, 2013 02:33 AM

Hi there Ken [Smile]

I will be looking into the conversion eventually. The holidays are coming up and lots of other projects are ahead. However, I will be researching all the threads and you can expect once I get started you know I'll be ready with plenty of questions.

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