DROP ON "YOUR" HEAD

Question: What does a Christie brand new head looks like, after you (accidentally) drop it 35 feet?
Answer: Like this:

RESTORATION (DATE 26-JAN-08)

Ok. I went for acryllic paint and I am even less satisfied. I might have picked up the wrong paint. I don´t know.


For the time being, I am considering doing the drawing in AutoCAD and having it plotted out.

RESTORATION (DATE 24-JAN-08)

Framing knob: this is how it is supposed to look like.



...and this is one approach to trying to get it to look similar.

But I´m not very convinced with the results.

CUTE LITTLE PROJECTOR

Here are some pictures of a cute little projector that I have been working on. It belongs to an employee of one of the theatres I service. It is Japan made. Unknown year. Silver brand. Regular 8.

I particularly liked the way the designed the drive train, using the shutter blade as the main pulley.

RESTORATION (DATE 20-JAN-2008)

Yesterday I spent a good chunk of the day working on the projector. It was a beautiful day out, and thankfully not too hot.

Here you´ll see the projector stripped almost all the way. I have yet to remove the axles of the Continuos Drive Sprockets, and also finish the intensive paint removal. My latest guess is that it has, at least, 3 coats of paint applied in different times of its life. The latest one being the sloppiest.


I will try to start shopping around today for a auto body shop that will give it a nice paint job. Who better than the pros, huh? I could of course do it myself, but it would never come out that good.

This is the serial number of the projector, located on the operator side in the bottom.

This will be arbitrarily called the "Main Shaft" due to my (yet) lack of factory manual. Looks extremely complicated if you compare it to the rest of the machine.

Super8 FILM FOR SALE

UP FOR SALE is this Super8 Feature part:

SPECS

NAME: Chinatown
YEAR: 1974
FORMAT: Super8

VERSION: Feature (Part 3 of 3 ONLY)
LENGTH: 400ft/120mts.
RUNNING TIME: 17 min.

BASE: Estar
SOUND: Mono (Mag)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: Spanish (dubbed)
SUBTITLES: N/A

DISTRIBUTED BY: Marketing Film International

CONDITION OF FILM: Very good.
Little or no scratching. Color fade.

CONDITION OF BOX: Original. Excellent shape.
Little fading of cover (due to exposure to the sun).

(See picture).

Price: USD 25,00+shipping and hadling

*I would be willing to trade it for another title.

**Shipping to the US $12.00

Dragonfly_films is a member of eBay (USA), Todocolección.com (Spain), Mercadolibre.com (Latin America). For transparency´s sake I will publish this film in the buyer´s choice of auction site. Interested parties, email me or leave a comment on this post.

Super8 FILM FOR SALE

UP FOR SALE is this Super8 Condensed Feature:

SPECS

NAME: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
YEAR: 1977
FORMAT: Super8

VERSION: Condensed Feature
LENGTH: 400ft/120mts.
RUNNING TIME: 17 min.

BASE: Estar
SOUND: Stereo (Mag)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN: English
SUBTITLES: N/A

DISTRIBUTED BY: Columbia Pictures Super8 Division
CONDITION OF FILM: Very good. Little or no scratching. Color fade.

CONDITION OF BOX: Brand new. Not Original

but a replica of the original one. (See picture).

Price: USD 25,00+shipping and hadling

*I would be willing to trade it for another title.

**Shipping to the States (USD 12,00)

Dragonfly_films is a member of eBay (USA), Todocolección.com (Spain), Mercadolibre.com (Latin America). For transparency´s sake I will publish this film in the buyer´s choice of auction site. Interested parties, email me or leave a comment on this post.