bell & howell super8 projector model 266ex

[leadlike]

bgadow-if your super 8 films have sound, it is very easy to tell-if there is a magnetic strip along the edge of the film, it was intended to have sound recorded to it. There should be a thin strip of the stuff on both edges. If you had an advanced enough projector, you could record to both and have stereo 8 sound!

Believe it or not, you could buy a home unit to also glue your own recording stripe to silent film-a lot of weird super 8 gadgets like that. It seemed like regular 8 was all about having a camera with good build quality and excellent optics, while super 8 was all about the gadgets-intervalometers, fm mike transmitters, super zoom lengths, etc, etc.

Nasadowsk-I have used many of those green Filmosounds over the years and never had an issue with them-until recently. Now every one I find has a rotted worm gear on the drive shaft, rendering the entire projector a useless film jammer. Such a shame to have that plastic gear fail now after so many years of abuse in the classroom. I have an early Filmosound with the manual threading that is a very nice no fuss projector, but my favorite 16 has to be the slot-load Eikis.

[nasadowsk]

Originally Posted by leadlike

I have used many of those green Filmosounds over the years and never had an issue with them-until recently. Now every one I find has a rotted worm gear on the drive shaft, rendering the entire projector a useless film jammer. Such a shame to have that plastic gear fail now after so many years of abuse in the classroom. I have an early Filmosound with the manual threading that is a very nice no fuss projector, but my favorite 16 has to be the slot-load Eikis.

My intro to the Autoloads was in middle school, where the AV club (yes, I'll admit it...) was shown how to load one. After watching the teacher turn it on, put the flim in...

"See how easy this is? The film comes out back here. Hey, where's the film? it should have popped out by now... What the...."

I think out of 10 tries, it worked once or twice.

Eiki? That was the premium stuff out by me. We weren't allowed near them

The old school Filmosounds aren't hrd to work, they look intimidating though. You want a real head scratcher, try loading a Kalart-Victor...