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Author Topic: Syncrofilm 35MM Projector Edward Jurich Master Film Handler Posts: 305 From: Las Vegas USA Registered: Jul 2003 posted 03-14-2004 10:37 PM                     Anyone ever hear of this projector? Anyone have one? This would be a 1949 vintage machine with sound and picture head in a single case.  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-15-2004 12:09 AM                     I've never heard of it Edward but DeVry made that same kind of unit well into the 50s.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-15-2004 08:06 AM                     The company was called Weber-Synchrofilm and was in buisness till the 60's sometime, and then taken over by the now defunct Star Cinema in NYC. They printed a monthly booklet similar to what Motiograph put out of which I have a couple. I believe they held several patents including one for using magnetic rotary stabilization. They also had a very unique Art Deco look to them. Kerry Williams at The Chicago Cinema Museum has quite a few Synchrofilm products in the museum collection. You might want to contact him. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 03-15-2004 08:39 AM                     The last model of the Syncrofilm soundhead for standard USA type projectors had a flywheel with ball bearings which would allow for rapid acceration and "self balance" when it was up to speed. I restored one in Latin America in which they had substitued another flywheel because they thought it was falling apart and rattling  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-15-2004 08:54 AM                     The Weber Machine Co. was based in Rochester,NY. I ran a pair of the soudheads Richar's talking about back in the sixties.  |  IP: Logged

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