General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

5

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Wood base. Plastic body and parts. Metal splicer, crank handle, parts. Glass (?) viewer screen. Glass bottle with plastic cap, paper label.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

36.0 cm

Width

29.1 cm

Height

13.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Photography

Category

Cine images

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

KALART

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Connecticut

City

Plainville

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Unknown

Function

Device used to view cine film without projection and to select and remove frames not desired in finished film.

Technical

Example of complete 8mm film editing outfit, which enlarges image 12 times on screen, has built-in focusing adjustment and flat-field projection lens, and handles reels up to 400 feet capacity (ref. 2).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

RAISED WHITE LETTERING ON EDITOR READS "KALART" & "EDITOR VIEWER/ EIGHT"/ INCISED LETTERING ON SPLICER READS "KALART CUSTOM/ 8 mm SPLICER"/ BROWN LETTERING ON BOX READS "KALART/ EDITOR VIEWER EIGHT/ FOR ALL 8mm MOVIES - Color and Black & White", "DESIGN PATENT 176,751/ "KALART/ EDITOR VIEWER/ MODEL EV-8 DS/ MADE IN U.S.A. BY KALART PLAINVILLE, CONNECTICUT", "See Your Movies [SCRIPT]

Missing

Appears complete.

Finish

Coated wood. Dark brown editor with plated and metallic parts, white synthetic parts, brown power cord. Colourless, transparent glass with black cap, remnants of red paper label. Colourless transparent reels. Yellow and brown box.

Decoration

Series of parallel grooves across top of editor.