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Uncle Sam's movie projector and movie tracer
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- Graphic material
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2018.09.02.024
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[ca.1930] (Manufacturing)
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- Durable Toy and Novelty Corporation
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1 piece of photographic viewing equipment ; electric slide projector ; 12 x 10 x 30 cm
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This item is a brown electric projector with a metal exterior and 1 reel containing paper duracolour filmstrips. On either side of the object are spindles designed to hold the film.Some versions of this item come with a sound mechanism that can be attached on the centre of the turning wheel by a screw. The handle turns both the film and audio simultaneously. This object was intended to be a children's toy.
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Fair condition, metal exterior is rusting, missing sound mechanism.
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Collected by the late Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass and donated to the Ryerson University Library and Archives by Gail Bass in 2018
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Victoria and Albert Museum. (2017). Uncle Sam's Movie Projector.V & A Collections. Retrieved from http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O35793/uncle-sams-movie-projector-and-home-movie-projector-durable-toy-and/
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Victoria and Albert Museum. (2017). Uncle Sam's Movie Projector.V & A Collections. Retrieved from http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O35793/uncle-sams-movie-projector-and-home-movie-projector-durable-toy-and/