Projectors

Date: 1938

By: Dyes & Chemicals Ltd; L T Watkins Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PHOTO-1938-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue and price list for box cameras, Speedex cameras, Karat and Isolette models, movie cameras and projectors, roll films, photographic plates, portrait films, photo papers including Borvira, Portriga, developing tanks, developers, fixers, toner. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklet of 32 pages, 177 x 117 mm.

Date: 2003

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-283

Description: An Interpol officer is giving a presentation on smugglers to a group of New Zealanders which includes a sheep. He has a picture of a wildlife smuggler projected onto a screen. The smuggler is dressed in a striped suit, wears a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses and is smoking a cigar - typical gangster attire. He is carrying a suitcase in the shape of a kiwi. Extended Title - Watch out for this man. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0028732

Description: Cartoon shows a surgeon and a nurse looking at a slide projection of items recently removed from inside patients, including an eel, a criminal's cell phone, and a convention centre deal report. Cartoon references the realease of details regarding the Sky City convention centre deal in Auckland. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 5 Dec 1994 to 6 Feb 1995 - 05 Dec 1994 - 06 Feb 1995

By: Cameron, Ian Raymond, 1915-2004

Reference: OHColl-0449/1

Description: Talks about growing up, working briefly for the Farmers Co-op and beginning work as an assistant projectionist at the Plaza Theatre in New Plymouth. Describes silent movies but notes that they were decreasing in number. Talks about training to be a projectionist and the advertising and distribution of movies. Describes working for Kings Theatre and then as projectionist for the New Plymouth Opera House. Talks in detail about the Opera House with an emphasis on the backstage work involved in setting up live shows. Describes the fly floors, lighting, screens, special effects and alterations to the Opera House. Recalls the Kiwi Concert Party touring after World War II, Webster Booth, Ann Zeigler and the Rambert Ballet. Describes properties owned by New Plymouth Pictures and recalls theatre managers. Talks about making equipment parts, maintaining projectors, building theatre equipment and a visit to the Foxton Motion Picture Museum. Interviewer(s) - Ian Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007127 - OHC-007129 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1744.