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The illustrations and captions will provide details
of this rather rare beast (in Australia). Rare,
because in our halcyon days of film production, the
film laboratories discovered that the Kodak Model
“A” could easily be converted into an excellent step
printer.
After mega footages had been printed on the
machine it eventually wore out, so most Labs had a
couple of spare Model As on the shelf and over the
years these were gradually consumed until, in the
words of the famous nursery rhyme – "and
then there were none", well almost none. My
camera was a gift from my dear friend, the late
Harry Poulsen of Cameracraft Films
in Brisbane. By 1925 the rather cumbersome
Model “A” was superseded by the new spring
wound Model “B” Cine-Kodak. This camera
did for movie making what Mr. Eastman's “box
camera” had done for popular photography, but
that's another story ...

Being hand cranked, the tripod was a necessary
part of the complete kit.

Left: The Kodascope Model “A”
projector was quite a large unit at
40 cm tall, 36 cm long and 20 cm
wide.

It incorporated a 300 watt, 110
volt projection lamp, variable
speed control and maximum film
capacity of 400 ft.

Being 110 volt operation, it
required an external 240 to 110
volt step-down transformer for
operation in Australia.

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