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The KID remained on the market for only about two years, until Pathescope brought
out their IMP - the “IMP” standing for “IMPROVED”.

Above: Close-up of the KID, showing the enclosed film path and lamphouse.
The IMP was marketed from 1934
until about 1938. It offered quite
an improvement on the KID.

The lamp house hinged backwards
to facilitate cleaning of the film
path and removal of a partially
screened film, it retained the same
lamp and inefficient lens of the
KID.

Super attachments and a drive
motor were available as optional
extras - with the extras, it sold for
£7.0.0 in 1934.

Because of the lack of entry and
exit sprockets, many of the film
libraries would not hire fims to the
owners of these projecors
It was not until 1933 that
Pathescope finally introduced
their model 200B; a 9.5mm
projector which could put up a
reasonable performance against
the 8mm and 16mm machines
Above: Close up of the IMP’s mechanism.
of the day.
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