Frank's mom told him that and he's going to go right on believing it.

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Seems like most of the guys here don't like B&H, but those seemed to run fine for me as long as they were kept clean. Lots of fond memories as I ran my first anamorphic prints on those machines for our English literature classes. Later, I co-owned pairs of B&H JAN, 567, and 1568 machines, again with few problems.

Don't remember my junior hi or high school AV clubs having anywhere near the status that the jocks had, but we did get called out of a lot of classes, especially on days when substitute teachers had to face down the Kalart Victor!

Regards,

I must have felt the same sense of pride and power Paul did when I became the master of the 70-15 in junior high...the machine with Victor's trademark convoluted threading pattern and bass-ackward reel arrangement which, in retrospect, wouldn't have been a big deal if your read the instructions. The school had a few Hell and Bowell 399s and Graflexes as well, but the Victors were the workhorses of the school, even though most of the kids (and teachers) had a hard time with them. They were fine machines, as long as the spring belts were properly tightened (on one showing, I had to manually spin the takeup reel after the machine had spit out a belt that had separated in the middle of a show, just to keep the show going.)

I lamented not being in stage crew at the time, or I would have lorded over the carbon-arc Victor 1600 in the auditorium (a singular treat I experienced in high school, which also had one of these fascinating beasts).

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