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Just a quick note to nine fivers that I have finished setting up a permanent display area for Grahame's collection here at USC. If you are ever in Los Angeles stop on by as in addition to Grahame's we have thousands of other pieces including Technicolor cameras and equipment, 55mm Fox cinemascope camera, a huge wide format collection, endless 8 , Super 8 and 16mm cameras and projectors, Lumiere, Moy & Bastie, Prestwich, Bell & Howell, Akely. The list goes on and on.
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Dino, what a wonderful display, and such a great tribute to Graham! I am sure his family are delighted with the way you have preserved his collection for posterity. -
Fascinating to see Graham's collection.
I didn't spot a Son projector, which had a lot of critics in it's time.
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FANTASTIC to see this laid out so beautifully in its new home. And I can only imagine the work involved in shipping all of that across the world - those 17.5mm projectors alone must have been quite a job. Bravo!Comment
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Excellent Dino. It is such a shame that the late Paul Van Someron’s collection has never been displayed when donated to the museum in the north of England. Sorry ,cannot think of the name of it at the moment. I will remember it in about half an hours time. It’s the same place where you can still see Cinerama etc.. Pathescope was so synominus with home cinema, film collecting and amateur filming in this country it deserves to be celebrated more.
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Dino's museum at UCLA is now definitely on my list of places to go on my next visit to LA!Comment
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Paul...It's at USC though (To many here in LA mixing up the 2 schools is practically fighting words but I have woeked for and love both)...haha....and Alan yes I had to make some choices in the display. There is currently no Son, no Specto, and no ACE. I have been thinking of making a small separate area strictly for the multiple different Ace projectors he had as that was his first ever machine, I feel it deserves its own area, as does the Specto because that is my favorite machine and extremely important to the British Ninefive history....The Son I just don't like...haha...I do have a Gem with an aurator in there though, which is basically a son : )
....Bottom line is we are expanding the machines we have on display and eventually all will be displayed...Comment
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Dino, the museum, I mentioned was the one at Bradford. I visited it many years ago and was not very impressed as many of the “hands on” exhibits had been broken by out of control School parties. As a teacher myself, I was quite annoyed with the lack of control by those who were supposed to be in charge. With regard to the ACE there were basically 3 versions of this. The first being designed for the 30 and 60ft cassettes. A super reel attachment was available for a while I believe. There were quite a few versions of the Specto as well. The last and best being the Specto 500s. My late friend Gerald McKees book The Home Cinema is a goldmine of information about home cinema projectors from 1922 to 1940, particularly with regard to 9.5 mm and Pathescope. He was one of the Founder members of the Vintage Film Circle which was formed shortly before Group 9.5. Still going as a labour of love by Patrick Moules, who publishes the magazine “Flickers” from time to time when he has enough contributions from members who subscribe.😉Comment
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Thanks Dino, I'm sure your efforts are appreciated by us all.
like many others my first 9.5 was the Ace and my dream as a youngster was to graduate to a Son!
Didn't happen, life got in the way, perhaps for the best?Comment
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I would say you dodged a bullet....
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Great to read the late and very much missed 9.5 fiver Grahame Newnham's collection has been preserved . Still it's a shame it had to leave the U.K. though .Comment
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