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Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on December 13, 2007, 03:13 PM:
I just wanted to wish all forum users a happy Christmas and healthy new year.
All good wishes to all....
Posted by David Pannell (Member # 300) on December 13, 2007, 04:02 PM:
The sentiment is reciprocated.
Compliments of the season to one and all.
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 13, 2007, 05:53 PM:
Ditto from the Oz-meister!
Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on December 13, 2007, 06:23 PM:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on December 13, 2007, 06:29 PM:
Also from me, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the members and their families.
Best,
Claus.
Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on December 14, 2007, 06:30 AM:
And to you, Lee and everyone here - God Bless, Shorty
Posted by Ricky Daniels (Member # 95) on December 14, 2007, 07:22 PM:
10 Days to go! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 15, 2007, 10:27 AM:
Hey everybody!!
What does Jolly Saint Nick need to get out of the insane asylum long enough to deliver presents?
Huh huh? Give up?
a ... "Sanity" Claus!
Ta da dump!!
When delivering presents, what does Santa send when he gets stuck in a chimney?
A "Claus four alarm!"
I gotta million of em!!
Ta da dump!!
Posted by Keith Ashfield (Member # 741) on December 15, 2007, 11:37 AM:
What does Mrs Claus say when she gives Santa the weather forecast?
"It looks like reindeer!" ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on December 15, 2007, 12:04 PM:
Now is it HAPPY HOLIDAYS or is it MERRY CHRISTMAS?
If you were planning to get me a gift this year, I say BAHUMBUG.
Now is the time of year to spend with families, and appreciate you have what you have because you were given a chance to have gotten it. And to think about those less fortunate who might not be as lucky as us.
I grew up in a wonderful family and have always had great Christmas seasons. But as an 47 year old adult I feel the holiday season is way to commmercial, and the true spirit while is always there is often over looked. So do not misunderstand me. I do like Christmas.
Happy New Year To All.
I need help rerecording a feature print. If you can help me and are reading this please send me private email. Would prefer to have this done in the USA.
Chip G
Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on December 15, 2007, 02:37 PM:
...actually, what "Mrs. Claus" says around here is "not more equipment!!!"
Claus.
Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on December 15, 2007, 04:18 PM:
True Chip!
It's not about the commercial, It's about the show!!
Who watches the show for the commercials!!??!!
My Christmas Wish was a print of Die hard.
Hey Everybody! How does Santa discipline the elves?
With a Candy caning!!!
Ya-hah Ya-hah Ya-hah!!
Or is that
HO HO HO!!
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on December 15, 2007, 05:55 PM:
Merry Christmas to all from down-under!
Pat
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on December 16, 2007, 11:04 AM:
Merry Christmas to everyone, and good holiday film shows!
Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on December 16, 2007, 12:06 PM:
The Christmas projector is a 28mm Pathescope Premier introduced around 1912 and was designed and built in the USA.
Victor also brought out a model for 28mm.
28mm was the first gauge designed for home use and used non-flam film. 28mm also basically introduced the idea of film rental libraries for home users. Over 1000 films were available.
The lifespan was only about ten years and was superseded by Pathe's intoduction of 9.5mm.
Maurice
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 16, 2007, 01:10 PM:
Christmas Wishes and a Happy New Year from down under, it was 30 odd degrees C here yesterday not the weather to be dressed in a santa uniform, or watching movies.
My daughter took me Christmas shopping this week, went to a jewellery store, she pointed out something and said Mum would like that, I could just see the price tag $600 I said no way, and she said Dad you have got it wrong $600 is the discount its $1800, needless to say we settled for something a lot less, the moral to the story if you do Christmas shopping and you wear glasses dont forget to take them along, or else.
Graham.
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on December 17, 2007, 02:47 PM:
Pathescope had this to say at Christmas years ago..
The thrill of Home CINEma must have been as good then as now eigh.
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on December 17, 2007, 06:49 PM:
What a great looking Ad Lee! It really recaptures the fascination of cine back in my youth, when the Pathescope Son was my dream machine, totally out of reach for me.
Posted by Adrian Simmonds (Member # 581) on December 18, 2007, 10:05 AM:
Graham,
loved your post !!
Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas,
and a healthy and happy New Year to you all.
(For me - I love Boxing Day -
when myself and Vicky get back home after visiting all our relatives, where we can settle down with a bottle of Champagne and enjoy watching
It's a Wonderful Life and Scrooge (Alastair Sim version of course)
From Adrian and all the gang at Derann
Posted by Alex Fox (Member # 94) on December 18, 2007, 12:18 PM:
A very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all from Canada
Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on December 21, 2007, 11:55 AM:
The Pathescope Son that Lee showed in the Ad was priced new at £78 in the 1954 edition of "Cine Apparatus" issued by Wallace Heaton Ltd. It was a sound version of the "Gem". But, as usual after the war, Pathescope built most of their cheaper equipment down to a price.
Can you imagine a sound projector without a speed governor? The only way was to start a film and then adjust the sliding rheostat arm until the sound appeared OK to the ear.
But. The motor got faster and faster as it warmed up! In one issue of "Amateur Cine World" magazine was a cut-out strobe disc for checking 16fps and 24fps speeds This was stuck onto the sprocket (met twice by the film) but it needed a small reading lamp (at 50 cycles) to read it.
Some of their expensive equipment was fine (Webo camera, Joinville and Pax sound projectors), and I could go on about the poor old "Prince" and "Princess", but I won't. And, as for their "Duplex". Oh!
Pathescope R.I.P.
Maurice
Posted by Mark Williams (Member # 794) on December 21, 2007, 02:36 PM:
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy new Year!!!
Mark W
Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on December 21, 2007, 05:48 PM:
I would also like to add my wishes to all on the forum.
Thanks guys, and have a very merry Christmas
Kev.
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on December 21, 2007, 05:56 PM:
Interesting comments from Maurice about Pathescope. I believe the 'Son' had a mechanical governor to control the speed at 24 fps. Clearly it did not work very well. But then much of the fun things about 9.5mm is working with, and improving, Pathescope's quircky projector designs, which are generally very simplistic compared with modern super 8 mm machines. For pure cine nostalgia, 9.5mm reigns supreme!
Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on December 22, 2007, 02:31 AM:
Paul
The "Son" instuction book inferred that the projector would run at the set speed but it never did.
Another thing was that the "Gem" was not made to run at sound speed so the "Son" made an awful clatter when it ran at 24fps.
But we must really thank Pathescope for introducing home movies.
Maurice
Posted by Alex Fox (Member # 94) on December 22, 2007, 12:31 PM:
Paul ,you are correct the Pathe Son does have a centrifugal switch on the motor shaft, access can be had via a small hole on the side of the projector for adjustment of this switch, an insulated screw driver must be used or make sure the m/c is disconnected from the power supply. Alex
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