35mm FILM ROLL - STILL PROJECTORS

Society for Visual Education Inc., Instructor 1000, Serial 2469, heavy duty machine

 

Automated frame cutter

After World War II while the rest of Europe was recovering from the wounds of this devastating war, Greece was plunged in a civil war that lasted for many years. The country was impoverished, people could not afford to buy the “View Master” and other similar devices so a cheap way was devised by splicing discarded films into single frames and viewed one at a time through a low priced plastic viewer illustrated below. The machine above was used to cut the 35 mm film into single frames which were than packaged and were sold cheaply to the public. I wish to thank my good friend George Panagiotides of Athens, Greece, for finding both of these unusual and extremely rare items.

Frame viewer