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FEEDBACK FROM THE LAST EDITION
The ROAMA 35 mm film strip projector.
Dear Mike,
I was delighted to read the piece about the Roama film strip projector in the latest Reel Deals.
There is at least one example of the Roama in the NFSA collection of projectors and cameras.
Back in my primary school days in the 1950s, my friend John and I would put on film shows for
neighbouring kids. He had a Roama and I had a Dux Kino ( a German toy projector which utilised
lateral 35 mm strips of film containing two alternating movements in a comic strip type story
which took about 5 minutes for the clockwork motor to grind through). John built up a library of
Maxcraft film strips, which included "Clive - Ace Pilot", and a collection of "Filmettes" which
included Disney titles, some of them in colour - in retrospect, I think these would have been
bipack colour, no doubt processed by the same lab that did the occasional Solarchome colour
stories for Cinesound Review.
As we got older, John acquired a Record 8 mm projector and I gained a Noris 16 mm projector
- both of them more sophisticated toys which took 50 feet and 100 feet reels respectively - so our
presentations were upgraded accordingly!
Kind regards
Ray Edmondson
Below (left) : The DUX Kino - with its two phase animation film strip, referred to by Ray.
Below (right) : The Roama strip film projector featured in the article in the last edition
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