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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 04-13-2014, 04:45 PM:

Anybody have any Dealings with one of these!

Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 04-13-2014, 05:12 PM:

Couldn't tell you what it is, but I sure like the look of it!

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 04-13-2014, 05:34 PM:

Love the phone

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-13-2014, 06:06 PM:

It's a vintage Meopta from the Czek Republic. Not sure the exact year or model. Meopta is alive and well and they last displayed a projector for sale in the late 1980's at Show West.

http://www.meopta.com/
You can view their plant here: 49°27'13.953"N, 17°28'22.637"E

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 04-13-2014, 06:37 PM:

UM 35/70
Here

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 04-14-2014, 06:26 AM:

Looks like Buck rodgers!

Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 04-14-2014, 06:59 AM:

I got quite excited looking at this one, would seriously like a go on it, but what is it with the phone?

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 04-14-2014, 10:04 PM:

Tech support; rotary dial.

Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 04-15-2014, 01:31 AM:

Knew someone would know.

Posted by Geoff Newitt (Member # 6663) on 04-15-2014, 10:29 AM:

I never saw it, but I'm sure I heard that The Palace in Alton, Hampshire, UK had a Meopta of some description. Doubt it was one of these.

Posted by Edgar Prass (Member # 7558) on 04-15-2014, 11:02 AM:

The one in this thread is the very same machine as pictured in Czech wiki article, located in Jilemnice, Czech Republic. http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/UM_70/35
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Meopton UM 70/35 is stable professional film projector purely Czechoslovak construction. It was developed at the turn of the 50th and 60th years of XX . century national company Meopta Přerov that it had in its production program in 1961 - 1971.

The projector is interesting how many film formats is able to project :

Classical ( 1:1,37 ) to widescreen ( 1:2.35 ) of 35 mm film with optical sound recording in monaural ;
Classical ( 1:1,33 ) to widescreen ( 1:2,55 ) 35 mm films with magnetic sound recording four-channel stereo ;
wide ( 1:2,20 ) 70 mm films with magnetic sound recording six-channel stereo.

The uniqueness of the machine lies in other things:

rate of conversion between technologies 35 mm and 70 mm, that experienced staff can handle in less than a minute ;
Use Automation screening - Automatic switching between two or three machines in tandem ;
interesting industrial design.
Before putting the projector format 70 mm screened in Czechoslovakia, especially on expensive special purpose machines ( mainly from the USA , West Germany and the USSR ) . Meopta has chosen the path of multi-purpose projectors and gave her time for the truth - leading Czechoslovak product is exported to all over the world , and these high-quality and relatively inexpensive machines, domestic production is due to a number of cities for good cinema . While abroad was worth the purchase Cinemas 70 to big cities , in the former Czechoslovakia it sourced and much smaller city , even a čtyřtisícová (eg Jilemnice, Jaromø , Krnov etc. ) .
Interestingly Canadian engagement of these projectors. In preparing the world exhibition EXPO 1967 in Montreal sought Czechoslovakia as a manufacturer of a wide variety of world-class advanced machines suitable form of self-promotion . The Preparatory Committee then took advantage of our participation in the global hit, which was a film reel width 70 mm. Three projectors are the organizer of Montreal installed a panoramic projection - the polyekran . The timeless design and unique technology aroused worldwide interest and machines were awarded gold medals.

At the time of the Czechoslovak normalization 70s Meopta but was forced to focus primarily on the military program. One of the canceled products became even this projector , even though interest in him was still a significant producer and said upgraded version of UMS 70/35 . New projectors for us then started supplying mainly manufacturers of NDR ( Ernemann and Dresden / Pentacon ) , Germany ( Kinoton - those , for example, was equipped with a large hall Palace of Culture ) and the USSR , but in the wake of the oil crisis 70 years there has been a worldwide downturn technology 70 mm and projectors rather just lingered , especially in the 90 years he has been many cinemas canceled or rebuilt and projectors at best, upgraded or kept as an exhibit in the worst case scrapped.

Today in the Czech Republic survived probably the only cinema that is capable of any 70 mm film to reproduce all - the theater Peace 70 Krnov. At least one other operational projector can be found exhibited in the lobby of the Grand Cinema in Zlín. In Jilemnice the projector serial number 69126 in the exhibit hall of the theater .
Links

Youtube.com : Cinema Center Havířov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic24B_akdBg&feature=fvsr - example of setting up 70 mm film projector in UM 70/35 (note: the projector is in a very unoriginal status - other alarm

Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 04-15-2014, 11:52 AM:

IIRC the TIR prisms & integrator rod in Barco's light engine is a Mepota product.

They did decent photographic enlargers once upon a time too.