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Posted by Tim Drage (Member # 285) on August 29, 2005, 04:21 PM:

Hi... some unrelated discussion on filmshooting.com messageboard got me thinking about this...

When I was a kid my local cinema used to have some kind of projection onto the closed curtains before the film started... it seemed to be light shining through a rotating cylindrical image, not a film projection... Anyone know anything about these? Ie what it was called, whether they were common in the past?

I'm talking early 80's here I guess, at a fairly old fashioned local cinema (ABC in Jesmond, Newcastle... no longer a cinema I think [Frown]

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The projection was of epic sci-fi ish scenes of stars and ancient greek legendary imagery if I remember right... as a kid it had a great impact on me, possibly because it reminded me of 'Ulysses 31', one of my favorite cartoons at the time! (and now for that matter! [Smile]

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I think it must have been an image on a glass cylinder of some kind, with the light shining thru the whole thing... you could see 2 layers superimposed moving in opposite directions if i remember correctly?

Anyway... I'm not sure quite what my question is! [Smile]

But thought some of you might know what I'm talking about, and at least reassure me that I didn't dream it! [Smile]

Any links/pictures/info/memories generally would be cool, thanks!

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