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QRS Motion Picture Camera
By Lee Munsick

I enjoyed Jane Furlow's information about her gorgeous, like-new QRS
record player!

Years ago I think I had a QRS portable, but it was a different model,
similar to a portable which was in our family for years which did not
have an internal horn.  Instead, there was a large, round heavy green
cardboard circle, which folded into three and stowed into the lid.
When opened, one placed its small center hole over a little inverted
metal cone (I think aluminum) on the tone-arm, and then screwed down
a matching inverted cone over it.  The rather wide "horn" thus formed
provided the amplification.

I own a QRS 16 mm motion picture camera.  Though rather bulky compared
to most home-movie items, it's still in running order, although I've
never used it.  I really should, just to check it out!  I should have
used it to make a film record of the Yesteryear Museum holdings in the
1970s!

Unlike Jane's beautiful red suitcase, this camera has a working black
metal case.  I believe QRS also made 16 mm projectors; seems to me at
one time I had one of those, too!

One wonders what else QRS did in the lean years.  Perhaps we should ask
my friend Bob Berkman if QRS is now marketing home video cameras, or
perhaps digital cameras and scanners!  Anything to survive, much as the
Regina Company began to make vacuum cleaners when its music box
business dried up.  The Regina Electric Broom, by the way, is still
sold, but is now a brand name only, put out by one of the other big
vacuum companies, I think Electrolux, which makes products sold under
numerous names.

Hold onto that beauty, Jane; it's an historical artifact!

All for us artifacts, Lee Munsick


(Message sent Fri 11 Jan 2002, 15:28:32 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Camera, Motion, Picture, QRS

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