projection

Projectors. The projector is the piece of motion-picture equipment that has changed the least. Manufacturers produce models virtually identical to those of the 1950s, and even the 1930 model Super Simplex is still in wide use. The essential mechanism is…

The LCDs used in projection systems are typically small reflective or transmissive panels illuminated by a powerful arc lamp source. A series of lenses magnifies the reflected or transmitted image and casts it onto a screen. In front-projection systems the LCD is situated on the same side of the…

…Edison’s motion pictures were not projected. One viewer at a time could watch a film by looking through the eyepiece of a peep-show cabinet known as the Kinetoscope. This device was mechanically derived from the zoetrope in that the film was advanced by continuous movement, and action was “stopped” by…