Hello all,

I teach film studies at Bryn Mawr College. Our "sister school," Haverford
College, is getting rid of some projectors, which it hasn't used in several
years. One is a 16mm Zeiss Ikon pedestal; the others are two 35mm Simplex
projectors. According to the local technicians (I haven't seen any of this
equipment), the Zeiss machine is about 30 years old, and the Simplex machines
about 35-40 years old; none of the machines have been maintained and may be
in varying degrees of disrepair. Bryn Mawr doesn't currently have a room
large enough, or with the right electrical system, to house either set-up.
But there has been some talk at the college of constructing a better facility
or even of taking over a local theater. Would if be worth trying to store
and/or repair these machines? If I can't convince our a/v department to do
so, would any list members be interested in getting hold of them?

Jonathan Kahana
Department of English

(posted by Jennifer Horne on Jonathan Kahana's behalf. Replies welcome to
Jennifer (horn0002@tc.umn.edu) or Jonathan (jkahana@brynmawr.edu), or to the
list.)