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Author Topic: anyone recognizes this projector? Floris Vanhoof Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Kiel, Antwerp, Belgium Registered: Oct 2017 posted 05-21-2018 11:17 AM                     I'd like to know the brand and model of this projector. Anyone recognizes it? Thanks Floris  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 05-21-2018 11:19 AM                     Yes, It's a Bell & Howell 500 series projector. Very old unit from the early 70's.  |  IP: Logged Bill Brandenstein Master Film Handler Posts: 413 From: Santa Clarita, CA Registered: Jul 2013 posted 05-22-2018 12:18 PM                     The supply reel is even a Bell & Howell design, 1200' capacity, from roughly the 1940s.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-22-2018 02:27 PM                     Mid 60's is when the 500 series came out. First versions were still tube amplifier and 1kw reflector filament lamp. Later series when the amp went SS and used a 250 quartz pre focus bulb. I was in High School AVA during this time when these new Bell&Howell units were released, being around 1966-67. I have two of these units. One is a 551, which is the tube and 1kw bulb and the other is a 2545 later model unit. That old supply reel were issued with the 179, two case units.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-22-2018 05:50 PM                     My high school science teacher would occasionally show Pink Panther cartoons on Fridays, provided everybody in the class did all their homework. I sat in the back of the classroom, running the projector while the teacher took a nap at his desk. That was the projector that I used to show them with.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-23-2018 05:29 PM                        Giggle! I have precisely the same memory of my adolescence (in 1980s London), except that the projector in question was a manual thread Eiki, and I was able to master the manual threading more effectively than the teacher (so she had me do it). Those Pink Panther prints must have been made by the truckload, and some of them shipped across the Atlantic. Is the Hell & Bowell in the picture one of the models that has the infamous crumbling worm gear? Other than that, my recollection of them is that they're pretty solid machines, but more fiddly than Eikis to keep the film path clean.  |  IP: Logged

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