Kalee VistaVision 35mm 8-perforation horizontal-running cine projector

Components for Kalee VistaVision 35mm cine projector

Components for Kalee VistaVision wide-screen system 35mm 8-perforation horizontal cine projector, manufactured by G-B Kalee Ltd, Leeds, 1954-5. Comprising base, main drive motor, feed spool box, and sound head.

This projector is not complete and has been assembled from two extant machines. Very few of these projectors were manufactured. VistaVision films were usually distributed as anamorphic 4-perforation vertically running prints capable of running on conventional 35mm film projector fitted with an anamorphic lens.

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VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its flat widescreen system by orienting the 35 mm negative horizontally in the camera gate and shooting onto a larger area, which yielded a finer-grained projection print. It is often referred to as 'lazy 8' due to the horizontal rather than vertical running of the film through the gate.

Measurements:: overall: 1277 mm x 665 mm x 1325 mm,

Object Number:: 2012-5105/1

type:: base - object component , motor , spool box and sound head

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Components for Kalee VistaVision 35mm cine projector

Components for Kalee VistaVision wide-screen system 35mm 8-perforation horizontal cine projector, manufactured by G-B Kalee Ltd, Leeds, 1954-5. Comprising mechanism block, lamp house, sprocket assemblies, and a box labelled "assorted parts for vistavision projector".

This projector is not complete and has been assembled from two extant machines. Very few of these projectors were manufactured. VistaVision films were usually distributed as anamorphic 4-perforation vertically running prints capable of running on conventional 35mm film projector fitted with an anamorphic lens.

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VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its flat widescreen system by orienting the 35 mm negative horizontally in the camera gate and shooting onto a larger area, which yielded a finer-grained projection print. It is often referred to as 'lazy 8' due to the horizontal rather than vertical running of the film through the gate.

Measurements:: overall: 645 mm x 1180 mm x 977 mm,

Object Number:: 2012-5105/2

type:: projector mechanism , projector lamp and sprocket wheel

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Components for Kalee VistaVision 35mm cine projector

Components for Kalee VistaVision wide-screen system 35mm 8-perforation horizontal cine projector, manufactured by G-B Kalee Ltd, Leeds, 1954-5. Comprising top spool box assembly, drive chain cover, top cover for mechanism block, take-up sprocket drive, cover for shutter housing, shutter housing, shutter, intermittent sprocket, dowser housing, dowser mechanism, aperture cooling assembly, sound head door, film gate assembly, and exciter lamp door.

This projector is not complete and has been assembled from two extant machines. Very few of these projectors were manufactured. VistaVision films were usually distributed as anamorphic 4-perforation vertically running prints capable of running on conventional 35mm film projector fitted with an anamorphic lens.

More

VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954.

Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the quality of its flat widescreen system by orienting the 35 mm negative horizontally in the camera gate and shooting onto a larger area, which yielded a finer-grained projection print. It is often referred to as 'lazy 8' due to the horizontal rather than vertical running of the film through the gate.