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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-22-2000 03:48 AM

Can anyone ID this circa 1927 slide/effects projector?

If anyone's got a manual, it would be super.

There's one being progressively destroyed in the booth of a theater, & I'm wondering about whether it would be worth trying to resurrect it.

It looks sort of like the Byrd's Brenograph, but not exactly. The newspaper story from when the theater opened stated the booth had an effects projector with effects that sounded similar to the Byrd's. The booth has a couple of ca. 1927 Brenkert carbon arc follow-spots, etc., & other nifties; but I think the original movie projectors were Simplex.

I'm ashamed to show you a picture of what the one in the booth looks like now; it looks like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz after the flying monkeys got hold of it.

The lamphouses may be missing from it also, I was wondering if they could be replaced by the cans from some small old stage fresnel spots.

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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 07-22-2000 11:07 AM

It sure looks like a Brenkert Master Brenograph to me. Look on the Manuals Download page for the Brenkert Catalog # 26. It has some info on this machine.

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Bill Enos
Film God

Posts: 2081
From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 07-24-2000 09:08 PM

Looks pretty much like a variation on our Master Brenograph Model F7. Our Brenograph is in excellent condition and in use every night for screen ads.

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Robert Throop
Master Film Handler

Posts: 412
From: Vernon, NY USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-25-2000 08:12 AM

I believe it's an F3 Brenograph, a predesessor to the F7.
About 1980 I visited the booth of the Pyramid Place Imax theatre in Niagara Falls,
Canada. They had an F7 that had been converted to xenon. They were using small Cinemeccanica lamphouses (450 or 900 watt).
They were using it for preshow slides. I wonder if it's still there?

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David Johnson
Film Handler

Posts: 54
From: Melbourne Vict Australia
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 07-27-2000 11:30 PM

The Plaza Theater in Melbourne once had one that looked just like that, it was called a "Chicago"?
David

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Robert Throop
Master Film Handler

Posts: 412
From: Vernon, NY USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-28-2000 08:41 AM

Chicago Cinema made an effect projector that was very similar to the Brenkert. The pedestal for the CC was enclosed, sort of a small version of the Simplex LL1.

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