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VICTOR

The Victor Animatograph seems to be a fairly uncommon machine. US-designed, but manufactured in the UK as well. They seem to have taken it all very seriously, with a car log book type of document for each projector, tho' how seriously any of it was taken is uncertain. I have left out pages that were duplicates in the later sections. This projector seems to have been "Clocked" and given a false registration. This booklet was also one of the least satisfactory I have scanned - very hard to clean up, too much grey/silver which, for text, do not work well.

The machine certainly has an eccentric layout. Film feeds from back reel to front (the two spool arms are identical), with film using the upper and lower parts of a common sprocket, which is set back out of the line of the gate so that the film follows a very odd path. There is however, a second, smaller sprocket directly after the sound drum, for pulling the film thru the sound section. It also has a complex set of trips that turn off the machine if there is a fault.

These pix are of a machine I have, but not quite the same, I think, as the one in these instructions.

This is a more detailed parts list cum service manual.

Victor himself started out in 28mm. Here are a couple of shots of his main machine, the Victor, then some Ian Green found on eBay of a late attempt to produce a really cheap machine. This was known as the Victor Home Cinema; it still had an intermittent sprocket, tho'.

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