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Picturolls
By Bob Conant

Ron Bopp wrote:

> The Picturolls came in many designations with enough to fulfill any
> mood that came up.  I owned and played a Style 20 Fotoplayer made by
> the American Photoplayer Company for years until recently and it was
> fun using a number of rolls to highlight the silent movie.  Mary Jo
> (my wife) and I are Charlie Chaplin aficionados and we enjoyed
> projecting a silent move such as "The Tramp" and using the
> Picturolls to set the scene.

Ron,

I always wondered. Do you have to queue up the different rolls ahead of time
in order to be ready for the various sections of the film ? If you needed a
love scene, a chase, a storm and some walking music and only have two spool
boxes, do you have to keep swapping rolls ?  Can that be done quickly ?
Thanks for any description you can give us.

Bob Conant


(Message sent Tue 13 May 1997, 20:56:27 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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