# 1952 BELL & HOWELL 16mm FILMOSOUND 202 PROJECTOR SALES & PROMOTIONAL FILM 61314

This black and white film is sponsored by the Bell & Howell Company and was used by sales people to show interested customers. It introduces the Bell & Howell Filmosound 202 projector, an innovative 16-millimeter optical magnetic motion picture sound projector produced from 1952-1955 (:25-:37.) The projector used a thin magnetic stripe on the 16mm film to record and play back sound. This stripe could be added using a special striping machine that a person could buy, or at a Bell & Howell laboratory. The magnetic striping was far cheaper than a conventional "optical track" which had to be created through a much more complex process. In the film, a man sets up the projector and speaks into a hand-held microphone to record voice, music, and sound effects (:43- 1:13 ). The complete steps are shown up close. First is to take the single perforated 16-millimeter film, insert it into the round metal case, and take it to the Bell & Howell dealer ( 1:14 - 1:23 ). It is then sent to the office in Chicago ( 1:24 ) to have a magnetic sound stripe placed on it and returned to the owner. To begin, remove the side panel and thread the film into the projector ( 1:32 - 1:53 ). Next, the microphone is plugged in ( 1:55 ), the selector lever is turned to magnetic and the sound switch to record ( 2:04 - 2:10 ). Turn up the microphone volume control and press the record button. ( 2:11 - 2:31 ). If a mistake is made, turn the Direction switch to reverse the film the desired amount and then back…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/61314TheNewFilmosound202ProjectorVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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