Anyone here collect vintage movie projectors/films?

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Cool to see some gear from Norway! The 8mm gear out of Europe was some of the most beautiful camera equipment ever made.

To check the functionality of your Noris sound unit, just move the tensioning arm back and forth while the projector is under power. The projector speed should change.

You would loop the reel to reel tape as you normally would for playback, but somewhere along the thread pattern, you would need to pull a length of tape out and spool it through the speed control path on the projector. The result was a very complicated mess that gave the tape recorder priority on speed control (as the tape slowed, so would the projector, etc). Bolex had a similar add-on unit for their projectors, which was an even more complicated hook-up.

Could you play a sync sound dialogue movie on this system? No-just a music program and narration that you dubbed together later on your reel to reel. You could still use this today if you own a reel to reel.

I've seen quite a few of these units, and I have only come across one that had obviously been used. I think most folks bought them expecting to be able to record live sound and sync it up later, only to find out that this wasn't a Steenbeck, and subsequently shelved them.

About the only way to get sound on film at the time this was manufactured was to use this, or own a 16mm Cinvevoice setup. With the rise of sound-striped film on 16mm and super 8, these systems were gladly tossed aside.