{"id":27147,"date":"2023-10-26T01:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T05:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=27147"},"modified":"2023-10-24T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T05:15:09","slug":"a-kodak-projector-i-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-kodak-projector-i-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"a Kodak projector – I swan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1955 ad for a Kodak Signet 35mm slide projector<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Here is another pre-carousel projector from Kodak as shown in this rather wordy ad from the October, 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics. To promote the line of 2×2 transparency slide films, \u00a0Kodak made and sold well-designed and well-built 35mm projectors.<\/p>\n

Thanks is due to my good friend George Dunbar for spotting this advertisement and sharing it with us. Sadly, all film projectors – Kodak or not – are pass\u00e9<\/a> in these days of digital wizardry. Digital files and digital projectors have replaced the films and bulky film projectors of yesteryear. Mind you, our fairs and auctions are often a good place to spot a film projector to add to your collection.<\/p>\n

NB. The title of this post is a riff on the homophones “Signet and cygnet<\/a>“. \u00a0While pronounced the same, the meanings differ.\u00a0 The first spelling, with a capital ‘S’, means an official seal especially used in the UK (and a 1950s Kodak projector). The second spelling means a young swan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Here is another pre-carousel projector from Kodak as shown in this rather wordy ad from the October, 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics. To promote the line of 2×2 transparency slide films, \u00a0Kodak made and sold well-designed and well-built 35mm … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[14,21,1450,16],"class_list":["post-27147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-film","tag-kodak","tag-projector","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27151,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions\/27151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}