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Author Topic: Toshiba Photophone 35/70mm opinion Bhaskar Dhungana Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Kathmandu, Nepal Registered: May 2002 posted 07-25-2004 12:52 AM                    Has anyone come across Toshiba Photophone 35/70mm projectors? I was thinking about purchasing it so I wanted to know what you think about it.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 07-25-2004 07:15 AM                     The Photophone machines are very rugged but requires a good projectionist to handle the machinery. Parts are still available from Japan and Chennai.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-25-2004 09:07 AM                     Toshiba had 2 different 35/70mm machines I believe the Crown and the Imperial One of them was a BX100 with photophone soundheads on steroids and the other was a DP70 lookalike with a lot of Brenkert when you opened the door  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-25-2004 07:51 PM                     I briefly owned a pair of the Crown DP-70 look alikes and they were really not very good. The pair I got came out of a porno house in Oakland, CA. They had a gear stripping problem that was never really resolved and hence not many pair were sold here in the states. They were quickly relinquished to the Chicago Cinema Museum where at least one of them still resides today. There is a photo of it in the F-T picture warehouse. There was a collector in Sun City, AZ., now deceased, that had a pair of the Brenkert look alikes and reports from friends that visited him said he ruined alot of mint I.B. Tech prints on them. I still have a Japaneese 16/35 projector head that is missing the 16mm parts. i'd like to aquire them if anyone knows where I might get them. Will post the name of the manufacturer when I get back.... but its definately not Toshiba Photophone. There are some Phillips similarities in this machine though. Mark @ CLACO (Now live in Fallon, NV.)  |  IP: Logged

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