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Author Topic: Info on old projector on ebay Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-25-2003 10:47 PM                     Found this on ebay. Whats the scoop on this model? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3531145383&category=197  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-25-2003 11:04 PM                     Kind of looks like an old Century, but the framing knob has the location of a Simplex. The shutter schroud looks like a Super Simplex, and the intermittant looks like a Century mounted Backwards.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-25-2003 11:12 PM                     Actually the Superior Blue Seal projectors are quite sought after by collectors and they are quite rare. This one may get quite a few bids!! Some collectors think it may have been the forerunner of the Century C. The movement and some of the gearing have similarities. I once had a manual for these and I think that Dick Prather has one. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-26-2003 12:00 AM                     I'll bet this one is worth a couple of bucks.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-26-2003 12:41 AM                        Is that one of Sears' models?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-26-2003 01:09 AM                     No. I think it is an actual company. it is a 1910 model, I think. Here is a link to about 2,500 vintage cameras and projectors. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/cinelist.html  |  IP: Logged Dick Prather Master Film Handler Posts: 259 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-26-2003 03:44 AM                     Mark is correct, it is a Superior Model A or Blue Seal. It was made in NY and this model was made in the 1940's and possibly 50's. It was compitition to the to the Century C, Simplex E-7, Wenzel Ace, Etc. You can find adds in theatre magazines of the period. I do have a working model and the factory manual for it. The only ones I ever saw were in Canada which is where mine came from. Sort of a cross between a Century and a Standard / Super. Used standard soundhead mounting and drive gears with a Simplex pinion. Superior did make earlier models going back to the silent days.  |  IP: Logged

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