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Posted by Austin Seely (Member # 1643) on June 28, 2009, 08:28 PM:

Well so the story is I helped my friend move and he left a bunch of old stuff behind and said i could have whatever he left. so I found this old projector burried in the closet and I took it home and sure enough I threaded up and old home video from 1960 and to my surprise it actually worked! Played the film with working sound and everythinng. I dont know the first thing to do to go about selling it nor do I know how much it is worth.

Please any info you guys could give me would be very helpfull thanks!

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on June 30, 2009, 02:21 AM:

hehe [Big Grin]

...The first thing I would say is you underestimate yourself. If you were able to thread up a video and get it to play in a film projector, then you know waaaay more than any of us......
I believe that model is for regular 8 sound film, it looks like a nice one - I am tempted to try and lowball you and tell you it is only worth $10 and I'll take it off your hands to help you out, but you could probably get something decent on ebay for it. You could take option 3 and keep it and become one of us...---One of us--One of us--One of us... [Wink]

Posted by John W. Black (Member # 1082) on July 04, 2009, 11:35 PM:

We accept you,we accept you

Posted by John Whittle (Member # 22) on July 06, 2009, 08:48 AM:

There were three versions of this projector and they're all listed as Kodak Sound 8 model 1. You have to look on the elevator foot and you'll find a stamped letter (hopefully) which will tell you which version.

The best version is the last and you can easily check that by removing the lamp house cover and checking for a small 24 volt lamp instead of the large 110 volt lamp with build in reflector. That lamp is nearly impossible to find and will cost more than the projector.

On a good day the last version in verified working condition with spare lamp can go from $50 to $100. Maybe more.

John

Posted by Luis Gonzalez (Member # 1556) on July 14, 2009, 09:13 PM:

Join us Austin, you won't be sorry. Once you start you're hooked as I'm sure many of us can attest to. I can't pass up a yard or garage sale looking for stuff. It's like a treasure hunt
you never know what you'll find.

Posted by Darius Biggs (Member # 3239) on August 24, 2012, 08:56 AM:

Hi.
I would be very much interested in buying your Kodak Sound 8 projector [Smile]

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on August 28, 2012, 02:48 PM:

Darius, welcome to the forum, but this post is 3 years old [Frown]

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on August 28, 2012, 06:55 PM:

This projector looks very similar to the Kodak M100 projector. The only difference is the reel arrangement - the M100 could take 1200ft reels. Plus the M100 has autothreading.
The M100 is a great projector, and the one I had came with a stunning quality f1.0 20 mm lens, which I now use on my Eumig 938.

This is the projector that Kodak designed to showcase the new Super 8mm magnetic sound system on a professional quality projector. It is fitted with that superb, unbelievably sharp and flat field, fixed focus f1.0 Ektar lens. It had auto threading and a rotary knob which was used to totally remove the sound head from the film path for silent films. Lighting was 150 watt halogen with a high and low lamp setting switch. There was an analogue recording level meter and sockets for phono/tape/ microphone input. It has a big internal speaker housed in the wooden rear part of the projector. Plus, as you can see, it takes 1200ft spools. Picture quality, smoothness of running, and steadiness is better than anything I have ever seen on Super 8mm. The machine is built like a tank, being based on the superb 16mm Kodak Pageant design.
The down side is sound quality- not nearly as good as the 800 series Eumigs, and uses a hybrid valve/transistor amplifier. But it's a stunner, Kodak's best ever S8 projector, designed and built in Rochester NY in the days before US corporations off loaded everything to the far east, when quality counted for something, and before Kodak became synonymous with cheap plastic projectors and cameras. Goes to show just how much Kodak and America has really lost in the last few decades.

Those surely were the days!

Posted by Darius Biggs (Member # 3239) on September 02, 2012, 11:19 PM:

Is that other projector for sale?

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on November 07, 2018, 04:29 AM:

OK this is not for sale but I recently won on an auction site one of these,mine is the Kodak Sound 8 Model 1E with the halogen lamp 12v 100w.
It’s a great projector and after I gave it an oil it runs great [Smile]

Does anyone have an instruction manual that are willing to copy for me?
Thanks [Smile]

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