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Clinton Hunt
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waharoa,North Island,New Zealand
Registered: May 2010

posted October 20, 2015 11:35 PM

I recently won on e-bay a Super8 demo film for Sankyo Sound-600 projectors, it cost me US$13.99 plus P&P but as I don't see these sort of films for sale I did the buy-now.
It runs for about 2 mins and is less than 50ft and is on a normal 50ft plastic Super8 reel,in colour(well it's red now) and has Japanese spoken audio.First part shows the controls and mostly focuses on the volume and the last half is silent showing a Japanese landscape - strange that that part was silent?
I presume it was used to demo or educate the customers or dealers for that projector from 1979,
but it is VERY short!
Anyone else got these sort of films?
Cheers from New Zealand,
Clinton [Smile]

[ October 21, 2015, 05:01 PM: Message edited by: Clinton Hunt ]

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted October 21, 2015 04:40 AM

The only film I ever got was a sound only demo (?) with the Eumig S710D, clear film striped with music on, only about 20ft.

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted October 21, 2015 05:00 AM

The Eumig sound track only film (approx 25ft) which came with my new 807D was to be used for test recording.
The top polystyrene pieces with Eumig projectors have a small round hole. This is where the small spool was stored.

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 21, 2015 08:37 AM

Elmo GS1200 has a demo film and I have it. It shows what stereo machine can do.

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Bryan Chernick
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Bothell, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2010

posted October 21, 2015 11:55 AM

I've never seen a projector demo film but I know the old console stereos would often come with a demo record. Sometimes this was used to highlight the new stereophonic sound when it first started coming out. At that time many people may have only had mono records and were not completely sold on the new stereo thing.

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Clinton Hunt
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waharoa,North Island,New Zealand
Registered: May 2010

posted October 21, 2015 05:06 PM

Here's some pics from the e-bay auction that I won [Smile]

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