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Topic: 28mm Film & Projectors.
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Bernard Tonks
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 619
From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-19-2002 03:01 PM
Doing some clearing out I found a small length of 28mm film. I have heard of this gauge, but if anyone has any history about the film stock and projectors, I would be interested, thanks.I have sent a sample picture of some frames, which are poor quality, as I don’t have a transparency scanner, but you should be able to see the type of perforations adopted. 
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 03-19-2002 08:39 PM
I believe my 28mm hand cranked Pathe projector dates from 1908. It was found in an upstate New York home for the aged. They then went to a pair of Holmes Educator Eight 35mm sound machines, which I also acquired.The perforation pattern you show prevented the film from being threaded reversed laterally. But this was abandoned for later films
which had the same pattern on both left and right. The films that came with it are short documentaries. "Oil Well Fire"
was printed on red/orange stock (or tinted) to enhance the subject.
A cartoon is on yellow stock. Each film is about 200' to 400' in length, and came in a colored can with printed label. Of course 28mm
film is safety stock. I think it was invented to prevent standard
(35mm nitrate) film from being used in homes, churches or other places
for safety, and to bypass Edison's strictly enforced patent monopoly
on the manufacture, sale and use of perforated 35mm stock.
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