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1933 ad for a 500 watt home movie projector<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Those were the heady days of home movies when people lugged out the heavy projector and its awkward screen. Today, we call such marvels ‘boat anchors’ – not much value to a camera collector, and only good if you suddenly need a projector.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many viewers remember Stewart-Warner<\/a> and the days of home movies? A 500w bulb gave great brightness to each movie but was very hot! Special projector bulbs were used with a relatively short life rating at full brightness.<\/p>\n

This ad in the January 1933 issue of American Cinematographer (page 38) extols “The New 500 Watt Stewart-Warner 16mm. Projector” as giving “theatre like brilliance” to home movies. My dad had a Eumig 8mm projector which while compact was still a heavy clunker as was my Braun 300 watt slide projector. When my newly minted wife upgraded me to a Kodak Carousel, I bought an extra bulb just in case – I still have both bulbs in working order today. But of course the days of 35mm slides – and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0home movies – are long over.<\/p>\n

My thanks to that diligent pursuer of photographic history, George Dunbar, for sharing this bit of nostalgia with me. Apologies to the 1945 movie of the same name<\/a> as my post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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