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Brian Collins
Film Handler

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From: Christchurch UK
Registered: Jan 2007

posted February 10, 2008 03:07 AM

Just to let you know that there is a Toei magnetic & optical sound projector on Ebay at this moment,

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted February 10, 2008 04:24 AM

A very rare item indeed.

This make and model is not listed in Jurgen Lossau's book "Movie Projectors" and this, according to Jurgen's introduction, lists over 2,800 projectors from all over the world.

But where do you buy standard 8 sound films with optical tracks?

Maurice

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted February 10, 2008 01:19 PM

Could somebody make a link please?

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted February 10, 2008 01:45 PM

Osi

I'm sorry that I do not know how to make a link, but if you go into eBay UK the reference number is 140205162967.

At the current time (1944 GMT) there are two bids up to £52.

Maurice

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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
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posted February 10, 2008 04:44 PM

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140205162967&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted February 11, 2008 09:11 AM

I saw it. This must have been one of the earliest generation super 8mm or 8mm sound made. Am I right, as I remember reading that magnetic sound as a rule didn't start until around 1961 or 2?

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Barry Johnson
Master Film Handler

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From: United Kingdom
Registered: Jul 2003

posted February 11, 2008 01:03 PM

Well actually owning one of these fabulous projectors I can tell you it is and was the one and only optical/magnetic sound projectors made.There certainly were never any optical prints that reached this country.In fact,optical sound was a seperate format.You have to move a gate mask over which would give you a smaller screen and you would alter the zoom lens to suit to give you a bigger picture.
It gives a great perfprmance on Standard 8 stripe with very good quality wow-free sound.The only peojector to come close to it was the equally brilliant Kodak stripe projector from the USA.
I certainly would not part with mine.
The other stripe projectors of the time was the awful CirseSound from Italy which has a sort of manual tension/picture-sound knob to keep things in sync.The projector to take centre stage after the Toei was,in my opinion,the Eumig range.

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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted February 11, 2008 01:32 PM

I recall speaking to a collector that obtained one of these projectors and a few optical films to go with it, and the films sounded pretty obscure. Does anyone know if any were sold commercially in Japan or the USA, or might they have been mostly company demonstration or instructional films?

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Barry Johnson
Master Film Handler

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From: United Kingdom
Registered: Jul 2003

posted February 11, 2008 01:40 PM

Optical films were of company promotion type and usually Japanese produced.It was a great concept,way before its time.

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