Sad but committed

[Dino Everett]

So in my old condo I had a wall mounted 6 foot screen and a perfect counter bar in my kitchen to place the projector...Unfortunately in my current condo it has a weird layout that has almost no space for projection so I have to do and store everything in a small nook right when you enter. I currently use a white window shade as my screen, and place whatever projector I'm using on my desk where I pay my bills, use the computer, etc. I have my rewind mounted on top of an old dresser where I also have a victrola and a 17.5mm Pathe Rural that I am restoring. Thankfully I run a film archive so I store my films there and just bring home what I might want to watch....The pillow and torn boxes on the floor are for my dog who hates when I watch films cuz it interferes with playing with her.

The point for me in sharing this is simply to show that even when you don't have the space for watching films you can figure something out.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Dino,

Nice! Whatever works is great. I also have to keep setting up and breaking down the projection gear. I take over the living room when guests come over, but otherwise use a 20x30 foam board as a screen in my home office. It's also nice to see the Sex Pistols Live '76 set. I don't know why I went for the CD version over the vinyl...

I think your dog and Janice's Buster have something in common.

[Chip Gelmini]

We all have to start somewhere. Plus - we all have to do what we can to keep the hobby alive. So I think you're in a good spot just for that. As an alternative: Do you have another place to put the book cases and albums? You could take advantage of the zoom lens and that white wall if you do.....

CG

[Janice Glesser]

....The pillow and torn boxes on the floor are for my dog who hates when I watch films cuz it interferes with playing with her.

The point for me in sharing this is simply to show that even when you don't have the space for watching films you can figure something out.

Dino you are so right. Your setup looks perfect to me. When I moved to SoCal we had a house picked out, but one of my requirements was I had to have an area to screen my films. My son suggested I just project to the front room wall and that's what I've been doing ever since I moved in.

As Doug has pointed out...our pets have similar behavior when watching films. I think they just want our undivided attention 24/7. I don't think my cat like's TV either, he always disappears into another room when the TV's on.

[Dino Everett]

We all have to start somewhere. Plus - we all have to do what we can to keep the hobby alive. So I think you're in a good spot just for that. As an alternative: Do you have another place to put the book cases and albums? You could take advantage of the zoom lens and that white wall if you do.....

CG

CHIP - No, this is what my wife gives me for ALL of my stuff so it is here or nowhere, haha......

[Russ Green]

My dad used to put a white sheet over the t.v,it was one of the big old CRT type t.v's in a wooden case and project onto that a lot of the time,seem to have more happy memories of watching film on that rather than onto the screen we had,if it works and you enjoy it then thats all that really matters.

[Lee Mannering]

Back in 60's Dad got me a tv projector kit. It was a 12" magnifying glass sheet which you attached to a large cardboard box. You then taped this to the front of the TV and in the dark it would project a bigger picture. Back to front, but bigger. They had one set up in the London Science Museum.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

You can still buy them as magnifiers for phones and tablets, in curved and flat.

[Brian Fretwell]

Back in 60's Dad got me a tv projector kit. It was a 12" magnifying glass sheet which you attached to a large cardboard box. You then taped this to the front of the TV and in the dark it would project a bigger picture. Back to front, but bigger. They had one set up in the London Science Museum.

At a talk I saw a device that did that and seemed to show the picture the right way round (it was quite large) attatched to a Sony Trinitron small set.

[Ken Finch]

This reminds me of my very first “projector” that my dad made for me. It was called a Reflectorscope and the details of construction published on the 1937 Hobby’s Annual. It projected postcards, or in my case comic strips from Mickey Mouse Weekly, Dandy, Beano, or Eagle. Do you remember Dan Dare? The picture was illuminated by 2 60 watt bulbs with reflectors positioned in the front corners of a box. The pictures being in the centre of the rear with a 2 inch diameter lens in a tube on the opposite side. It was a similar system to those big back epidiascopes in the science labs at school but without the angled mirror for projecting pages from books placed at the base.😊