Here is a link provided by Mikael Barnard to a reproduction of a long piece from the SMPE Journal about

Alexander Victor and his involvement with both 28mm and 16mm. Seems to have been a guy of infinite

inventiveness. www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/msc/tomsc200/msc153/smpte.htm

This is Chris Bird's manual Victor 28 Safety Cinema, from Canada.

Now here's a sight you don't see every day of the week......

This is, as you see, partly dismantled for cleaning and for figuring out how to make and fit the missing parts.

You can see in Pic 5 a Mazac crack which looks like it plans to crack off the entire corner - probably be easier to repair

if it does. This pic also clearly shows the intermittent set-up and one of the Victor's unusual features - pair of

contra-rotating shutters, which should give a faster cut-off and therefore reduced blank time and more light thru the film.

Note that you get little idea of scale from these pix; what you see stands nearly 18" high and the top spool arm, with a 300'

spool, adds another 6", making it surprisingly big when you first see it.