These projectors made my day, when the teacher brought one into the classroom. They were a bit noisy, but that was ok 👍🏻, as long as you didn’t have to do written work.
I went to school in 80's and 90's, right at the transition from 16mm movies to VHS tapes. I was the class projectionist. I loved threading the film through the machine and rewinding it when the movie was over. I also remember the big media carts with a CRT television set strapped to the top and a vcr on the middle deck. Putting a videocassette into the vcr just didn't have the same feel.
I’ve always wanted to own one of these. I’ve been fascinated by then since my schooldays in the 70s. I spent more time watching the projector than I did watching the films.
@@sriramramamoorthy1589 Hi. The sound is part of the film. It's either a very thin magnetic strip on the film, or more commonly an optical signal on the film read by a sensor in the projector.
@@sriramramamoorthy1589The reel has soundtrack along it.. Sound reader techology and tools are inbuilt part of the projector.. Sound Box is connected to the projector for sound
I haven't fed one of those since elementary school in the 70's, yet when I saw the profile view in this video, I recalled exactly how to feed it and recalled some of the malfunctions and how to remedy them. How in the world is that still etched into my brain!
because its like riding a bike . I was a film projectionist in the 80s and when I saw a VICTORIA 8 35MM the other day I still knew how to do it. I used to do no handed windmills in breakdancing in the 80s and I'm now 51 and can still do it after a 30 year break from it. muscle memory
I have this exact same one. Got mine direct from work after they told me to toss it in the dumpster. Still works. Came with a bunch of short miscellaneous films by local entertainers and students from back as far as the 60s
I got mine in almost the same way. They had everything on the ramp from the school's basement for sanitation to pick up and thrown out. So on the way home I went to the ramp in the back of the school and picked up the projector. But there were no films since they were using VCRs in the school at that time. But when I went to school we had one in English language class and we watched and analyze the short films for there meaning. We also would get discounts to go to the movie theater to analyze and wright about the movie we saw.
I was a projectionist all through school (Elementary, Jr Hi, and Hi School) Used this same type of the Bell & Howell projector ... I was showing a movie on one like this in the jr hi auditorium to a class on Nov 22, 1963 when a teacher crying while storming in the auditorium shouting for me to turn this projector off and directing all the kids to go back to their classroom as Kennedy was just assassinated.
Yes, I remember these projectors quite well. In the late 1960s and 1970s I've lost count of how many films I've seen, mainly at school, using one of these projectors. I figure Bell and Howell made more than a million of them in those days. Another feature I remember was the optical sound track on one side of the film.
When I was in school in the late 90s, we still watched films on this kind of projector. I was always very fascinated by the projector and often looked more on the machine than on the screen. My school did not have a VHS player at the time. In 1999 I switched school and the new school only used VHS. I remember seeing the very same educational film there, on VHS, but the quality of the rental tape was a thousand times worse than on the 16 mm print.
I taught film-study courses in high school Fine Arts Departments for 40 years, using 16mm Singer-Graphlex projectors rather than Bell & Howell or other brands that were self-threading and could tear up film that had splices or torn sprockets. When the VHS and DVD eras impinged on the nostalgia, I had amassed a decent collection of 16mm films and would still try to use the movie projector, which fascinated the students (who by then also were into computers and had trouble recognizing typewriters!). Glorious years, though disposing of the films and hundreds of books about film/film-makers is difficult now in my forced retirement.
These self threading machines were the last generation before everyone started switching over to video tape. I cut my teeth on the original machines that were manufactured post WWII when you had to manually thread the film through all the sprockets and tensioners. In those days you had to know what you were doing or you'd tear up the film. This was in the days when most of the projectors were either Kodak or Kalart. (sp?) Bell & Howell came much later and they pioneered the auto-thread units.
I'm not to sure of the model but when the school where I worked at was throwing out old items a 16mm Bell & Howell was in the junk pile they put outside. And since they cosidered it to be garbage, When I left to go home I went around to the things they put out on the ramp for Sanitation to pick up and pulled out the projector and took it. I still have it Today.
I need one of these bad. Everyone’s out buying the new tech and I’m going backwards. Those people that don’t have one of these are missing out. Awesome video!
Fun fact: Before the age of video tape or streaming, many libraries would lend you a 16mm projector and you could borrow movies from the library as well!
In my highschool, we had a section in the library where we could either check out a VHS tape and have it for like a couple days, or we could pay a small fee like 75p to buy the VHS and keep it.
Thank you for bringing back many warm memories of countless school classroom movies. My favorite such memory is of our Spanish teacher, Mr. Russo, who spoke multiple languages. He would play parts of the movies backwards where the audio sounded like an alternate word in English or Spanish. The one I remember is “ola,” backwards sounded somewhat like “hello” (technically more like “aloe). It was quite the endearing quality in a teacher who would mix learning with levity. Also, I was taught to read by Dr. Seuss, so I tended to “hear” such things myself. I will now search for another learning tool from the last century: we also watched quite a few “filmstrips” in my elementary school years; these were shown while a vinyl phonograph record was played along to narrate. A few intrepid teachers would add use a knob on the phonograph to pause playback to add their own commentary or illustrations. Edit: I remembered to subscribe! 😅 Thanks again!
I got ASMR feelings from these in elementary and middle school 30 years before “ASMR” was invented. That and when the whole class had to do a Scantron test with pencils.
Many years ago as a ground photo systems tech in the US Air Force I would repair these daily while stationed at Elmendorf AFB Alaska. They were used to show movies at the remote sites throughout Alaska. It was the only form of entertainment at the sites. No video (VCRs) yet back then, no internet. Our film library would send out the popular movies in the 16mm film format.
@@MrCoconutcat… these days your answer is as close as a Google or Bing search. Just type in 16MM projector repair and they will come up. I had no problem finding several, although you should probably e-mail them with questions concerning price and shipping.
i was so amazed by this technology when my teacher would set one up. to watch a 15 min video i would keep looking at the projector most of the time. wondering how it worked. :)
Autoload??? Darned kids better git offn mah lawn. I was "that kid" in 3rd grade whom the teacher allowed to thread the MANUAL projectors before films were shown. When these came around later, THEY TERK MAH JERB! Seriously, this brought back long suppressed memories. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Now back to your regularly scheduled quarantine drinking...
Oh...I can smell the celluloid...I miss holding that film in my hands and seeing each frame against the light and rewinding it when its done. The red tape at the end. First 16mm film I remember seeing was Charlotte's Web (1973) in December 1987 when I started that hobby and the last was Summer and The Colt. Those days will never come back and is just a memory.
I used to make films back in 1974 it took a long time but I managed to make lots of films *edit* you cant find the flims anymore because I have all the flims in a box they somewhere' + they are not on prime video or anything Cruz I said I have the flims and no won Elise saw them but me and the people who saw it in 1974
*secret message* I also made some horror movies also I helped in some flims like in terror of mecha godzilla I was titanosurus they changed my name for other reasons
At some point I'm hoping I can save up and find one of those or something like that since just a few weeks ago, I got an old 16mm film reel at a place selling vintage goods that was going out of business.
Actually, you're wrong! 1592 is indeed a year! It occurred 427 years ago in the sixteenth century! However, with regards to this projector........did you not realise I was JOKING!
Personally, I would've liked to own a reel-to-reel projector, but nowadays, you would have to rent film reels of movies, TV shows, etc., which isn't feasible. Nowadays, I own a projector, hooked up to a DVD player and I own a DVD collection. Sometimes, we have to go with the next best thing!!!
Cool Old Stuff, Where do you get your film strip? Does your film already come with the projector? Can you play today's movies on it? That looks like an excellent home theater system
This projector was mavel to see as kid growing in the 70s. Where can one buy it, any possibility of finding spaghetti western on 16mm , if so where? Help
That projector is of Japanese manufacture. But it is not from 1952. In that year there was no automatic threading. I know the model from having worked with one of those. It is from the early eighties.
Agora colocar essa imagem em uma onda transportadora para ser visto em uma outro progetor de imagem. Podemos colocar varias projeçoes em uma onda transportadora. Incluindo tres imagens ou mais. Aquelas letrinhas que vemos nos videos antigos.Como uma legenda por exemplo e uma outra projeçao de imagem.
8 mm is the width of most home movies. 16mm is the width of higher quality movies. 35mm is the width of professional movie house films. 70 mm is exciting to view as it has even more to view per film cell.
These projectors made my day, when the teacher brought one into the classroom. They were a bit noisy, but that was ok 👍🏻, as long as you didn’t have to do written work.
I FULLY understand!
I went to school in 80's and 90's, right at the transition from 16mm movies to VHS tapes. I was the class projectionist. I loved threading the film through the machine and rewinding it when the movie was over. I also remember the big media carts with a CRT television set strapped to the top and a vcr on the middle deck. Putting a videocassette into the vcr just didn't have the same feel.
Top load vcr.
Same Same! miss those days
I’ve always wanted to own one of these. I’ve been fascinated by then since my schooldays in the 70s. I spent more time watching the projector than I did watching the films.
how is sound rendered, is there a tape player turned on side by side in sync
@@sriramramamoorthy1589 Hi. The sound is part of the film. It's either a very thin magnetic strip on the film, or more commonly an optical signal on the film read by a sensor in the projector.
@@sriramramamoorthy1589The reel has soundtrack along it.. Sound reader techology and tools are inbuilt part of the projector.. Sound Box is connected to the projector for sound
I haven't fed one of those since elementary school in the 70's, yet when I saw the profile view in this video, I recalled exactly how to feed it and recalled some of the malfunctions and how to remedy them.
How in the world is that still etched into my brain!
because its like riding a bike . I was a film projectionist in the 80s and when I saw a VICTORIA 8 35MM the other day I still knew how to do it. I used to do no handed windmills in breakdancing in the 80s and I'm now 51 and can still do it after a 30 year break from it. muscle memory
I have this exact same one. Got mine direct from work after they told me to toss it in the dumpster. Still works. Came with a bunch of short miscellaneous films by local entertainers and students from back as far as the 60s
Want to sell it?
I got mine in almost the same way. They had everything on the ramp from the school's basement for sanitation to pick up and thrown out. So on the way home I went to the ramp in the back of the school and picked up the projector. But there were no films since they were using VCRs in the school at that time.
But when I went to school we had one in English language class and we watched and analyze the short films for there meaning. We also would get discounts to go to the movie theater to analyze and wright about the movie we saw.
I was a projectionist all through school (Elementary, Jr Hi, and Hi School) Used this same type of the Bell & Howell projector ... I was showing a movie on one like this in the jr hi auditorium to a class on Nov 22, 1963 when a teacher crying while storming in the auditorium shouting for me to turn this projector off and directing all the kids to go back to their classroom as Kennedy was just assassinated.
Yes, I remember these projectors quite well. In the late 1960s and 1970s I've lost count of how many films I've seen, mainly at school, using one of these projectors. I figure Bell and Howell made more than a million of them in those days. Another feature I remember was the optical sound track on one side of the film.
When I was in school in the late 90s, we still watched films on this kind of projector. I was always very fascinated by the projector and often looked more on the machine than on the screen. My school did not have a VHS player at the time. In 1999 I switched school and the new school only used VHS. I remember seeing the very same educational film there, on VHS, but the quality of the rental tape was a thousand times worse than on the 16 mm print.
I taught film-study courses in high school Fine Arts Departments for 40 years, using 16mm Singer-Graphlex projectors rather than Bell & Howell or other brands that were self-threading and could tear up film that had splices or torn sprockets. When the VHS and DVD eras impinged on the nostalgia, I had amassed a decent collection of 16mm films and would still try to use the movie projector, which fascinated the students (who by then also were into computers and had trouble recognizing typewriters!). Glorious years, though disposing of the films and hundreds of books about film/film-makers is difficult now in my forced retirement.
These self threading machines were the last generation before everyone started switching over to video tape. I cut my teeth on the original machines that were manufactured post WWII when you had to manually thread the film through all the sprockets and tensioners. In those days you had to know what you were doing or you'd tear up the film. This was in the days when most of the projectors were either Kodak or Kalart. (sp?) Bell & Howell came much later and they pioneered the auto-thread units.
I'm not to sure of the model but when the school where I worked at was throwing out old items a 16mm Bell & Howell was in the junk pile they put outside. And since they cosidered it to be garbage, When I left to go home I went around to the things they put out on the ramp for Sanitation to pick up and pulled out the projector and took it. I still have it Today.
I need one of these bad. Everyone’s out buying the new tech and I’m going backwards. Those people that don’t have one of these are missing out. Awesome video!
*cough cough* hipster *cough cough*
Hie.Got a Bell and Howel 1692 vintage.perfect working condition.might sale
"Everyone's out buying new tech"
8-Bit guy, LGR, techmoan, me: what
This units gave off a cool aroma and when the teacher pulled these into the class everybody got excited.
Fun fact: Before the age of video tape or streaming, many libraries would lend you a 16mm projector and you could borrow movies from the library as well!
I wouldn't find it fun lugging one of those projectors around! LOL
I remember it well. But we didn’t have automatic threading. Had to do all that manually.
In my highschool, we had a section in the library where we could either check out a VHS tape and have it for like a couple days, or we could pay a small fee like 75p to buy the VHS and keep it.
been animating a projector in blender for a creative project and this video has been super useful as reference! thank you for posting it 👍
Phenomenal, love this! Love all film projectors!
As a kid my friend father had old Disney movies..this was in the early 80s
my late father was the no = 1 = mechanic in =PAKISTAN = of all the bell & howell projectors modelS---
I deeply love 16mm and 35 mm projector s
Thank you for bringing back many warm memories of countless school classroom movies. My favorite such memory is of our Spanish teacher, Mr. Russo, who spoke multiple languages. He would play parts of the movies backwards where the audio sounded like an alternate word in English or Spanish. The one I remember is “ola,” backwards sounded somewhat like “hello” (technically more like “aloe). It was quite the endearing quality in a teacher who would mix learning with levity. Also, I was taught to read by Dr. Seuss, so I tended to “hear” such things myself.
I will now search for another learning tool from the last century: we also watched quite a few “filmstrips” in my elementary school years; these were shown while a vinyl phonograph record was played along to narrate. A few intrepid teachers would add use a knob on the phonograph to pause playback to add their own commentary or illustrations.
Edit: I remembered to subscribe! 😅 Thanks again!
I remember that we had these projectors at school except on the models we had the cover doubled as an external speaker.
I got ASMR feelings from these in elementary and middle school 30 years before “ASMR” was invented. That and when the whole class had to do a Scantron test with pencils.
Many years ago as a ground photo systems tech in the US Air Force I would repair these daily while stationed at Elmendorf AFB Alaska. They were used to show movies at the remote sites throughout Alaska. It was the only form of entertainment at the sites. No video (VCRs) yet back then, no internet. Our film library would send out the popular movies in the 16mm film format.
I need to fix mine, it's the same kind, can you help me or do you know someone who can fix it
@@MrCoconutcat… these days your answer is as close as a Google or Bing search. Just type in 16MM projector repair and they will come up. I had no problem finding several, although you should probably e-mail them with questions concerning price and shipping.
@@rupe53 ok thanx, I'm gonna buy a worm gear and fix it myself
👍Que bellísimo aparato es más natural que los televisores de hoy 📽️
Thanks mate. Just bought that same projector. Works greats
Reel to reel films wow. Give a goose bum wow
Damn I miss these days do any of you guys I would love to find one in good shape👋👌🏼👍 these were the elementary days in class long time ago.👍
Loved this video. I recall volunteering to operate this projector as a Naval Cadet, more than 40 years ago!
That's quite some responsibility! (rolleyes)
It is awesome old projectors
i was so amazed by this technology when my teacher would set one up. to watch a 15 min video i would keep looking at the projector most of the time. wondering how it worked. :)
That's quite some projector.......if it can play VIDEOS!!! (rolleyes)
Autoload??? Darned kids better git offn mah lawn.
I was "that kid" in 3rd grade whom the teacher allowed to thread the MANUAL projectors before films were shown. When these came around later, THEY TERK MAH JERB!
Seriously, this brought back long suppressed memories. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Now back to your regularly scheduled quarantine drinking...
Very popular those days
This projector was in our school fifty years ago
Teachers loved those autothread projectors.
Great memories nerding out in the audio visual squad! haa
Oh...I can smell the celluloid...I miss holding that film in my hands and seeing each frame against the light and rewinding it when its done. The red tape at the end. First 16mm film I remember seeing was Charlotte's Web (1973) in December 1987 when I started that hobby and the last was Summer and The Colt. Those days will never come back and is just a memory.
I was the designated projector operator from 2nd grade on.
Your parents must have been so proud! (rolleyes)
Me too! I think it was my 2nd grade teacher’s way of dealing with an out of the ordinary student.
When I was making films in 16mm I had several projectors. Most were the Kodak Pageant models, being more reliable and easier to maintain.
Hello any chance you want to sell one of them? only if you are in San Diego Ca
@@danreyaya Sorry I'm in Texas. I got out filmmaking some years back and sold most of my gear.
I used to make films back in 1974 it took a long time but I managed to make lots of films *edit* you cant find the flims anymore because I have all the flims in a box they somewhere' + they are not on prime video or anything Cruz I said I have the flims and no won Elise saw them but me and the people who saw it in 1974
*secret message* I also made some horror movies also I helped in some flims like in terror of mecha godzilla I was titanosurus they changed my name for other reasons
At some point I'm hoping I can save up and find one of those or something like that since just a few weeks ago, I got an old 16mm film reel at a place selling vintage goods that was going out of business.
Those things are awesome
Just like me! (rolleyes)
Wow! I had NO IDEA that they had film projectors in 1592! They were clearly more advanced in the sixteenth century than I thought?
1592 is not a year..it's model number
Actually, you're wrong! 1592 is indeed a year! It occurred 427 years ago in the sixteenth century! However, with regards to this projector........did you not realise I was JOKING!
very vintage 👍👍👍
I operated them in 7th 8th and 9th grade. I was the projector boy.
WOW, I LOVE IT!!
Personally, I would've liked to own a reel-to-reel projector, but nowadays, you would have to rent film reels of movies, TV shows, etc., which isn't feasible. Nowadays, I own a projector, hooked up to a DVD player and I own a DVD collection. Sometimes, we have to go with the next best thing!!!
Can you mount this projector to the ceiling like you can one of todays projectors?
Barang antik sngt mantul masih gres kayanya proyektor 16mm itu.
Cool Old Stuff, Where do you get your film strip? Does your film already come with the projector? Can you play today's movies on it? That looks like an excellent home theater system
This projector was mavel to see as kid growing in the 70s. Where can one buy it, any possibility of finding spaghetti western on 16mm , if so where? Help
That projector is of Japanese manufacture. But it is not from 1952. In that year there was no automatic threading. I know the model from having worked with one of those. It is from the early eighties.
Tienes un tesoro conservarlo es romantico de antaño.saludos de Costa Rica.
Super!!!!!!!
ha i love this sound
My dad used to show home movies on one.
these things were built like tanks. they also weigh about as much as tanks
*jaw drops to floor, puts jaw back in place* A PROJECTOR!? IN THE YEAR 1592!?
Do you know a guy who can fix mine, my projector is the same as this one
Good video
So it comes with a woodpecker?
I saw 3 of these projectors at an antique store
There is a sound control inside - sound or silent - How does it work?? OPEN THE CONROL PANEL!! SHOW THE INTERIOR!!
What year of manufacturer is this as I bought a bunch of storage room items with five projectors in it and this is one of them.
Wonderful projecter I want to purchase
Maravilloso, fantástico!! saludos amigo.
What kind of lens comes with this thing?
Old is gold
It was very heavy that I do remember and why when others had access to it did they never wind the films back
Dime cuánto tiempo puedes grabar con 8,16 y 35mm
So how much would a bell Howell reel go for
All of a sudden I'm back in the 1960s in a darkened classroom.....
You must have a bloody Tardis then! (rolleyes)
Agora colocar essa imagem em uma onda transportadora para ser visto em uma outro progetor de imagem.
Podemos colocar varias projeçoes em uma onda transportadora.
Incluindo tres imagens ou mais.
Aquelas letrinhas que vemos nos videos antigos.Como uma legenda por exemplo e uma outra projeçao de imagem.
Cuanto pide usted por este proyector?
bom projetor. Ótico e magnéticos.
wow
very nice, i have Siemens 1966 and Ampro 1947 :)
600 m reels? Automatic?
But there is some flutter in sound
cool
What movie is that?
Is this projector available for purchase. Now. a days there is no Film Reels. If DVD is also Can b used. Any information please.
There is plenty of film still available for sale on Facebook and Ebay and on 16mm collectors websites
today got one seems working but need film 10$ at a local goodwheel and no im not in a richy area
I want this projector. Can I buy it ?
Can I use a few seconds of this footage on a vid that I’m working on
Wait, which movie is that?
My father had one but it disappeared. I want one! A working one! Hard to find.
Hie Blondy.have u managed to get the Bell and Howell yet.looking to sale.I have a 1692.perfect working condition.
Bu makinenin gürültüsü çekilmez. Ben eskiden Eiki marka çalışırken şıkır şıkır ses çıkaran 16 mm projector kullanmıştım.
😍
este proyector esta en venta
Where can I get this?
Çok beyendim süper bir Cinema makinası.
Cool how come my reels won't turn?
I have a dinosaur projector...
So old school
the projector is very noisy I have the same one but it is very quiet.
What size of Reels does this take up too.
Should be able to handle 2300ft reels
Kids today have know idea?😅😅
Does it have built in speakers?
Yes it does
i love it
What is cost now
Mantap made in England.....dulu Filmnya Robot Merah RB..jepang punya...
Tito film pake ini
i got a 1592 but does not play in reverse.. anyone ??
Err, why would you want to watch a film backwards? (rolleyes)
Take the back cover off and see what's happening. Could be a gear or belt issue
what means 16mm?
That how wide the film is.
8 mm is the width of most home movies. 16mm is the width of higher quality movies. 35mm is the width of professional movie house films. 70 mm is exciting to view as it has even more to view per film cell.