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Author Topic: Can You Identify This Lamphouse? John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-04-2015 07:26 PM                        Brenkert Model A 'Super High Intensity' condenser lens type lamphouses made in late 1930s, (Similar design to the Peerless Hy-Candescent condenser lamp of the same period) according to my information they had rotating positive and used 11mm or 13.6mm copper clad sticks or 16mm uncoated positive sticks! And 3/8 to 1/2" negative sticks, No reflector, just condenser lenses! available were condenser sets and mountings for Simplex, Motio DeLuxe, and Powers #6 machines!! Imagine the heat on the trap of a Powers or Motio front shutter machine!! They operated in the 110-140 ampere range DC. As for the lamp behind the super..it's the classic Brenkert model N 'Enarc' Lamp.  |  IP: Logged Stephan Shelley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 854 From: castro valley, CA, usa Registered: Nov 2014 posted 03-04-2015 07:32 PM                     Note that the pic of the guy with the E7s and Magnarcs are pointing up. Drive-in? Also note the optional front shutter on the E7s.  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-04-2015 07:46 PM                        Actually the front shutter was standard equipment on all E-7s from the day they were introduced, to compete with the double shutter Brenkert BX-80 and the Century CC, Simplex thought the dual shutters would help make a much smoother picture and they were smaller cut off than a single rear shutter, they were closed for 70-82 degrees in lieu of the normal 89-95 degrees of a single rear shutter. (actually resulting in a slightly brighter picture) They resulted in a double dissolving effect as the front shutter although rotating the same direction as the rear would actually cut the light of opposing the rear shutter because of the image inversion by the projection lens. Plus except for special effects, there was only one projection lens and aspect ratio used prior to Cinemascope and other wide screen ratios 12-14 years after the E7 was first introduced. in fact, in 1940 when the E-7 was new, IPC made a front shutter kit to be installed on the Super and thousands were sold and installed. I would bet the fresh wrinkle paint didn't last long on the Magnarcs cause in a drive in they were burning their maximum current using 8mm Negative and 9mm positives at 75-80 amps! I ran a pair at the Lassen Drive in many years ago w/ supers on Western Electric Universal Bases!( I bought and removed that booth in the late 1970s) There wasn't much paint left on them and you could cook your dinner inside the lamps in one reel!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-04-2015 08:06 PM                     quote: Old Simplex Standard with "You tell me" Lamphouse ! Nope. SuperSimplex sitting on top of the dual round belt, 14 inch flywheel driven W.E. 206 Sound Head, with the Enarc behind it. Those where a cumbersome lamphouse to operate compared to the Peerless. Sound head contain just a pulldown sprocket that pulled the film through a lens gate. The flywheel stabilized the pulldown along with driving the picture head. Bet, when that drive-in went CinemaScope, out went the E7's for XL's and dropped in Strong 135's to replace the Peerless units to get that screen filled with more light.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-04-2015 09:15 PM                     What Lamps behind these Old Powers Projectors -1930's BTW: Name the Company that Built this Antique Rectifier from the 30's  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-04-2015 09:45 PM                        Geeze Steve, Interesting pix, the powers booth was in San Francisco, I have an original 8x10 (that photo) that was given to me by the lead shop foreman Ben Drosty(sp?)at Pacific Theatre Equipment Co. (Formerly Walter G. Preddy) in SF Cal. I have that photo on my website and it has been copied and resold by several individules through the years! The lamps are More-Lite model A-N and were low intensity reflector arcs. The soundheads are RCA PS-2 made for the Powers head. Ironically the other picture is of the very GE Shaker Tube mercury rectifier I have in my museum that powers my Brenograph!, I purchased it and removed it from the Fortuna Theatre in Fortuna, Cal. in the early 1980s. It was located in a room next to the booth with the motor generator and originally it powered a single Brenkert follow spot (I have it too) Boy, you guys are bringing back the memories! And the GE (General Electric) Rectifier was produced from the early 1900s through about 1925.  |  IP: Logged Stephan Shelley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 854 From: castro valley, CA, usa Registered: Nov 2014 posted 03-04-2015 09:47 PM                     Don't know the make but that is a mercury rectifier. The big glass bulb has liquid mercury in the bottom. There is a mechanism to tilt/shake it to get it working.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 03-04-2015 11:28 PM                     I gotta say, if that fellow wasn't wearing his pants to his tits, I'd have some darn fine compliments for him.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-05-2015 01:10 AM                     That same Projection Booth also had a F7 Master Brenograph How many of those do you think Brenkert Built back in the Day!  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 03-05-2015 10:59 AM                     quote: Buck Wilson I gotta say, if that fellow wasn't wearing his pants to his tits, I'd have some darn fine compliments for him. That guy shows up in a lot of old projection-booth pictures. I've often wondered who he is/was. There's a guy on e-bay who sells a lot of old 35mm stuff, and he has at least a half-dozen photos with this same guy (both shirt & shirtless) in them. Whothehellizze? The very first theater I worked at (in 1971) had one of those big old mercury tube rectifiers still in use. The theater dated back to at least 1917, and I'm pretty sure that rectifier was 'original equipment'. The automatic tilt-start mechanism had long ago ceased working, so I had to manually tilt the tube by hand when I came in every night to get it to start working. . . until the night it pretty much blew up in my face. I was very lucky that I didn't get glass shards in my eyes or mercury poisoning. (I was finding little balls of mercury on the floor for weeks afterwards) After the explosion it was replaced with an old 'sil-tube' rectifier that came out of the basement of another old theater. Here's a photo of another "mercury tube" rectifier I've encountered: An acquaintence of mine, who is also quite an avid collector of 'old cinema stuff', actually has one of those mercury tubes, still in the original shipping crate: A page from an old (1918) projection manual in my collection of esoteric electronic incunabula -jc-  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-05-2015 06:54 PM                        The Brenograph F7 Master was produced in the thousands, it was advertised as the special effects machine that projects everything but the motion picture! The one I have came out of a theatre in Oakland Cal. (I can't remember the one) I bought it from Jerry Tohler who owned the Chabot Theatre in Castro Valley Ca. I knew his father Jim Tohler quite well and Jim had a large collection of old gear, a lot of I now have, Jim loved big bright pictures! I had purchased the pair of XLs operating in the Chabot and Jerry had me install a pair of Supers there in front of Strong 135s! The picture was great but those heads got quite hot after a reel!!  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-05-2015 07:30 PM                        Judging by the logo, some kind of Brenkert.  |  IP: Logged Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-05-2015 08:00 PM                     Anybody know of any other 35mm Projector Mfger besides POWERS that made Square reel Magazines Hall and Connolly High Intensity Arc Lamp  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-05-2015 09:34 PM                        quote: Steve Matz Anybody know of any other 35mm Projector Mfger besides POWERS that made Square reel Magazines Kalee (brand name of Abraham Kershaw & Sons) and British Thomson-Houston both did.  |  IP: Logged Charles A. Petty Film Handler Posts: 10 From: Eureka, CA/Humboldt, USA Registered: Nov 2005 posted 03-06-2015 09:11 AM                     I am still looking for spare reflectors and any other parts for our Brenkert Enarc Model N lamphouses still in use at the Eureka Theater. John? >  |  IP: Logged

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