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Brad Kimball
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From: Highland Mills, NY USA
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posted January 25, 2012 08:01 PM

We stopped seeing new projectors here in the states around 1979/80. Just curious when you ladies and gents "across the pond" stopped seeing them. Are they perhaps still being manufactured?

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted January 25, 2012 08:37 PM

I think Elmos were still widely in the UK market until 1985.

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John Clancy
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posted January 26, 2012 03:08 AM

I think Beaulieu was the last to stop production around the late 90s. Although Elmo GS1200s were still turning up new in the 90s.

The last budget projector was the Silma Blue Memory which was on sale new up until the mid-90s.

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Christian Bjorgen
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posted January 26, 2012 04:56 AM

I have seen images from the re-opening of a local electronics store here in 1994, and you can see two GS1200s on a shelf in the background, priced at 6999 NOK (about 700-750 GBP then).

I've also heard about certain stores here selling "left-over 8mm equipment" as late as the early 2000s.

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Lee Mannering
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posted January 26, 2012 05:25 AM

Phil Sheard turned a 1200 up still in its internal wrapping and was for sale in his shop over Christmas last which was a bit amazing for 2011. In the 90’s Perrys located many new Elmo GS800’s and Chinon machines as well with them swiftly selling as some of you will remember.

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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
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posted January 26, 2012 08:08 PM

I can't entirely agree with John about the GS being available in the 1990s as having tried and failed to find a used one in the late 1980s for a price that suited me, I then tried to find a new one via dealers ads in cine magazines in 1989, but it seemed that I was just too late. I ended up buying a used one from Derann the same year.

However, I believe the ST-180 was the last Elmo offered in UK shops and I think this could still be seen at the start of the 1990s. Occasional batches of 'new old stock' of other non-Elmo projectors appeared beyond then.

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John Clancy
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From: Cornwall
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posted January 27, 2012 04:42 AM

You may be right Adrian but what I was really referring to was that Elmo GS1200s were produced and sold even if they didn't appear in shops. I've seen all sorts of variants of the GS1200 that I have been told were manufactured in the early 1990s. And why not as all the spare parts to put them together were still at the factory so if an order came in why not flog one for big money?

Of course Fumeo were still producing machines to order as well and Phil Sheard nearly got the go ahead to have an all new variant of the Fumeo put into production about 10 years ago but it was going to be just that bit too expensive.

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