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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted April 24, 2008 03:52 AM

Have a look at this promo for the 16mm RCA from 1957.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WUUqXN-8nw

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Maurice

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Kevin Faulkner
Film God

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From: Essex UK
Registered: Jun 2003

posted April 25, 2008 06:14 AM

They don't make them like that anymore.
I have to say that once I finished watching that one I sat and watched loads of the others including the Elmo stereo demo film which was shipped with the GS machines.
Some good projector vids on Youtube.

Kev.

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GS1200 Xenon with Elmo 1.0...great combo along with a 16-CL Xenon for that super bright white light.

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Jeff Taylor
Film Handler

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From: Chatham, NJ
Registered: Aug 2005

posted May 29, 2008 04:05 PM

That RCA with the reversing action was a rare bird. I probably owned 20 or so 400's, and went through a school system that used dozens of them and NEVER ran across that reversing model.

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted May 30, 2008 02:07 AM

Theres an old beast of a RCA projector on Ebay at the moment if anybody is so inclined:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=260244728802&Category=1 1722&_trksid=p3907.m29

You don't see many of these around these days.

-Mike

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Jeff Taylor
Film Handler

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From: Chatham, NJ
Registered: Aug 2005

posted May 30, 2008 01:40 PM

They are bulletproof, very easy to work on, easy to thread, gentle on film, and quiet running, but stay away from the downsized "junior" model with a line voltage amp--get the senior model with the 6V6 amp if you decide to try one.

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John Whittle
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Northridge, CA USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 30, 2008 06:27 PM

There is also a coupling cap in the preamp stage that opens and you loose most of the volume from the amp. An easy fix and restores full volume. The Senior amp is actually a very good RCA design.

The very rare RCA Magnetic/optical projector also ran in reverse. It was a bit of a trick with a two sprocket machine since you have to drive the flywheel when running backwards (much like the Kodak Pagents that had reverse).

John

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