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HOME MOVIES FOR DECEMBER
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LXYOXE even remotely interested in the design of post-war home movie projectors must first consider that tomorrow's movies are destined to furnish a greater measure of home entertainment than ever before. Also, when we think in terms of the post-war projector, we must throw out for the present, all those modernistic dreams of radio-television-movie projector combinations for the home which have been elegantly described by scientific writers probing the future.
Such super entertainment combinations are a reasonable probability, but not until after industry gets fully back to normal production and science has had further time to perfect ideas yet in
the dream stage. That will take years. In the meantime, there are cine fans like you and I waiting for improved projectors, and who confidently expect to find them available at a reasonable early date after the war has ended and manufacturing again turns to home needs.
With projector stocks completely exhausted, it is natural to expect that manufacturers will bring old molds and dies out of storage, and begin where they left off — turning out their prewar models. Yet it should be a simple matter for most projector manufacturers to supply the few improvements which even' seasoned movie bug has
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. . . with the lamphouse sealed against annoying escape of light toward ceiling.
with an attractive drop-head chairside cabinet. By merely raising the top panel, projector is brought automatically to screening position.
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