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OK its not a home cinema but. One of my hobbies is as a re enactor, a Vietnam US Army grunt. I met with the director of the Whitehorse military Show ( we are in the film industry, me camera ops, he set designer) three years ago and decided to run real film for the visitors, showing war films, news reels et al. We are in our third year of running the Rialto and each year the cinema set up gets better . The first year we were in an army tent, not good. Second year we had a cinema but no seating and very open to the elements, basically summer sun. This year we are compact and bijou with just 20 odd cinema seats and better light proofing plus a projection booth. The show is always over several aches in a field in the west country so power comes from military generators. This year we had the highest attendance, and ran cartoons, newsreels, Laurel and Hardy shorts plus features including The Dambusters, Reach for the Sky, Above Us the Waves et al. I made pro tickets that went down well and the cinema proved a great attraction to what is already becoming one of the best, and largest, military immersive history shows in the UK. This year I ran super 8 films, year before 16mm. Kit wise i relied on two Beaulieu 708 projectors, Sankyo 800 stereo and an Elmos ST1200. I have a desk fan to keep the projectors cool due to summer heat. I did use two GS1200's one year but the heat simply killed them, hence the use of a fan. And in all honesty the projector that worked with absolutely no issues what soever, and l'm talking about ease of auto threading, focus, et al was the ST1200. This simply is a superb projector. I have three but will always source more. thank you
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