@duodec That’s the first thing I thought of. We somehow acquired two of them at a store I worked at called Computers & Music in the mid 80s. Neither worked but I was able to create one working model from the two of them. I remember they had weird A/V connectors on the back but I didn’t know what any of them were. I suppose we sold it to someone.
My favorite was the Bell+Howell 16mm movie projector. When the teacher would bring one out in the classroom, we knew we were in for a treat or a break from mundane classwork.
@heartny@detailer Hello fellow AV geek! On the one hand, it was nice to get out of class to go run a film. On the other hand, you can only sit through so many showings of “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom” before it starts rotting your brain.
The classic Bell&Howell stuff was almost all pretty good, much of it approaching the level of “bulletproof”. But the Hell+Bowell inzomcation of that brand has been pretty much fucktastic. The screw-apart un-iversal de-vice thing didn’t just do nothing well, it did a few things very poorly and missed the mark entirely on several that it claimed to have as capabilities. About all it accomplished credibly was “bottle opener”, a credential that even most bicycles can claim. And then we have those absolutely ludicrous aluminum credit-card multi-“tools” whose stellar qualities others have adequately described. From there, it’s mostly downhill into the swamp.
We still have the B&H 8mm Projector and Camera from my childhood (early 1960’s) along with a few old family films. (that are probably too brittle to play) I am fairly certain the movie screen got rain damaged in the garage.
New age…my Husband does like the TacGlasses!
@jimeezlady There are services available to transfer the 8mm films to digital now, and they’re pretty gentle with their handling of the media. It’s not cheap, but for heirlooms that matter, it can be worth the expense.
I don’t think I have any.
What else has been offered? I’m old enough to know the brand from film projectors, not ASOTV items.
Back in the day an 8mm projector
Have no idea what ever happened to it
I believe we had Bell and Howell projection equipment at one point.
@aetris Projection…
@duodec - Bell and Howell seems to’ve had an image to project :
@aetris Maybe a couple of projecting points.
@aetris @duodec Sheesh, who do they think they are, Abercrombie & Fitch?
@aetris @duodec I want one!
@PooltoyWolf @macromeh - to project the right image, you really need two for balance.
@aetris
@mossygreen - Apparently she was big in the '50s!
@aetris WORD PLAY!
@mossygreen - Yes, you’ve taken my measure.
@PooltoyWolf They come in pairs.
/showme wonderfully soft toilet paper after a really rough bout of diarrhea
@mediocrebot I’m almost positive I saw that very same brand with the very same text in Japan last summer…
A really rough bout of diarrhea sounds more Bowl and Howl than Hell and Bowell.
@aetris Sounds like both versions can be true…
Bell and Howell Apple ][
@duodec That’s the first thing I thought of. We somehow acquired two of them at a store I worked at called Computers & Music in the mid 80s. Neither worked but I was able to create one working model from the two of them. I remember they had weird A/V connectors on the back but I didn’t know what any of them were. I suppose we sold it to someone.
My favorite was the Bell+Howell 16mm movie projector. When the teacher would bring one out in the classroom, we knew we were in for a treat or a break from mundane classwork.
@heartny I am just barely old enough to remember those in my kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms.
@heartny I was the geek that pushed that down the hall from AV and got it running for the teachers.
@heartny @detailer Hello fellow AV geek! On the one hand, it was nice to get out of class to go run a film. On the other hand, you can only sit through so many showings of “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom” before it starts rotting your brain.
My 8mm camcorder, probably. Built well and truly orders of magnitude better than anything their name has been slapped on in the last 20 years…
EDIT: To avoid confusion I should mention this is an actual 1960s 8mm movie film camera, not a more modern 8mm or Hi8 video camcorder.
The classic Bell&Howell stuff was almost all pretty good, much of it approaching the level of “bulletproof”. But the Hell+Bowell inzomcation of that brand has been pretty much fucktastic. The screw-apart un-iversal de-vice thing didn’t just do nothing well, it did a few things very poorly and missed the mark entirely on several that it claimed to have as capabilities. About all it accomplished credibly was “bottle opener”, a credential that even most bicycles can claim. And then we have those absolutely ludicrous aluminum credit-card multi-“tools” whose stellar qualities others have adequately described. From there, it’s mostly downhill into the swamp.
We still have the B&H 8mm Projector and Camera from my childhood (early 1960’s) along with a few old family films. (that are probably too brittle to play) I am fairly certain the movie screen got rain damaged in the garage.
New age…my Husband does like the TacGlasses!
@jimeezlady There are services available to transfer the 8mm films to digital now, and they’re pretty gentle with their handling of the media. It’s not cheap, but for heirlooms that matter, it can be worth the expense.