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Author Topic: Historic E7's for sale Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-17-2014 02:11 AM                     Look where these Projectors were back in the 40's...Buyer beware,take a Geiger Counter with you. There is still trace radiation even today at the TRINITY TEST Site.Looks like some pretty Famous Names saw Movies from these Projectors back then.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-17-2014 07:02 AM                     Care to post a link?  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 10-17-2014 10:32 AM                     I'll give Steve a hand here, since I happened to see the same listing the other day. Linkthingy Heres'a a screenshot, for archiving purposes: Older electronics often contained small amounts of radioactive materials. Vacuum tube filaments & xenon electrodes were often doped with thorium. I may have posted this picture before, but here's a reading taken off an old Western Electric soundhead phototube, which has a cesium coated cathode. To put the reading in perspective, the normal background radiation reading here in my apartment is appx 8-12CPM.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-17-2014 10:49 AM                     Temporary Brain Fade I was sure I posted the Link;thanks Jim for finding it. Some pretty famous people probably watched movies from these projectors back in the 40's; however $7000 isn't realistic IMHO. Maybe Will Kutler can [talk] them down to a reasonable Price, and make sure they throw in a Radiation Suit with the deal also [ 10-17-2014, 04:26 PM: Message edited by: Brad Miller ]  |  IP: Logged Matthew McBride Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Tupelo, MS USA Registered: Oct 2011 posted 10-17-2014 11:14 AM                     If you look closer at the listing, the price is actually only for one projector not the pair. This makes the pricing even more ridiculous.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-17-2014 03:37 PM                     These have been on an off Epay for many months now... And Trinity and Los Alamos are in two completely different areas of New Mexico.  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-18-2014 12:40 AM                        the only part that may be a collectors item are the Strong Victory model arc lamps! Produced of mainly non essential metals during late WW2, they weigh over 100 lbs each! Pretty heavy 1KW lamps!!  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-18-2014 10:28 AM                     These have been on E-Bay for close to a year. The original list was approx. $90,000.00 each. The seller's representative was convinced of this value because the Los Alammos scientists may have frequented this theater for their off-duty entertainment. I previously contacted the seller representative explaining the true value of these machines and that a possible link to Los Alamos without definitive proof that these were used for nuclear testing did not justify the asking price. Seller rep. response was that they would remain in storage for another 30 years....well, they have come down from $90K each to $7K/each...which is still ridiculous.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2014 03:13 PM                        Ya know. George W Bush MAY have frequented my theatre when when he was avoiding his National Guard Duty by working in the campaign of Red Blount. People who worked on the campaign report that he spent his time drinking and dating Huntingdon Girls. Inasmuch as Huntingdon University is right up the block from us, he must have taken a few of them on dates here. So maybe the Motiograph corpses we have upstairs are worth more! If only we hadn't recovered the seats! </snark>  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-19-2014 04:48 PM                     The E7 link also shows a real bargain for some slide trays. I really wonder what some people are thinking.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-19-2014 05:48 PM                     I think those insane prices - and Ebay is full of them - are to get potential buyers to contact the seller and arrange a sale, cheating Ebay out of their cut.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-19-2014 07:18 PM                     EBAY wasn't satisfied with the commission they made off your item;so they instituted this 10% transaction/shipping fee. You do the Packaging with your Box/materials/time,then take it to UPS/FED-EX/USPS,etc. but they get paid for it. Nice Racket Huh!  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-19-2014 09:26 PM                     "and may have been used for movies presented to the likes of: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Richard Groves, Jr., Albert Einstein, Robert Serber, Emil Konopinski, Felix Bloch, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, etc" Yeah I want some proof any of these folks watched a movie shown off of either of these projectors. This is what happens when someone smokes too much crack before a E Bay posting.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 10-19-2014 10:44 PM                     quote: the only part that may be a collectors item are the Strong Victory model arc lamps! Produced of mainly non essential metals during late WW2, they weigh over 100 lbs each! Pretty heavy 1KW lamps! So in other words John; Your telling us The VICTORY Model Lamphouses were made out of Pot Metal... During WW2 when most metals were being used for the War Effort. The LIONEL TRAINS in those years were made from Cardboard. I wonder how many of those survived today! RICK: I thought that was a very reasonable price for those Slide Trays This Simplex has been up there for a long while. Pretty Steep,even for the Rarer Telecine Model...ICE-MTE has a lot of Projection Equipment up there that is never going to sell for the Prices they have...Those Eastman 275 & 285 telecines have been up over a year and they haven't come down a Dime on them. DUH! Hows about trying a little lower Price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Simplex-GPL-TC-200-35mm-Telecine-Transfer-Broadcast-Optical-Sound-Projector/310361655325?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D25410%26meid%3D428c979845a34f0b91d313d58f583  |  IP: Logged

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