DUKANE Micromatic II filmstrip projector

Remember these from school?

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[retrochad]

Also to make the film advance you will need to rig up an audio oscillator with a momentary switch and mix it in with your audio input. It needs to be on the same track as your audio (as you say it is indeed a single side head)

You will need to do your narration and then pause for a second and place about a 1-second 50hz tone on the tape with nothing else, and then resume your audio program. The frequency response of the speaker/amp is such that it tends to attenuate the 50hz tone.

[CassetteMaster]

Cool! I wish they'd do it on the other side too like slide projectors.

[vwestlife]

It probably uses a subaudible tone to trigger the slide mechanism. 25 Hz subaudible tones (which actually *are* audible if you have really big speakers which can respond to that frequency) are common in radio station automation; your Dukane may use a 50 Hz tone, as you mention.

[CassetteMaster]

Mine uses 50Hz and 1KHz. But it doesn't seem to trigger (maybe the Bell & Howell's tone isn't the right frequency?)

[aldiakaroofus]

I also recall wanting to pull a prank and borrow a cassette at random, bring it home, record nonsense over it and put it back on the shelf! I can't remember if I went through it or not!

[CassetteMaster]

That would have been funny! And you probably would have got in BIG trouble!

[Scott88Cyndi]

@lssuitguy I have one of these I am trying to sell if you are interested?

dtbd88@yahoo.com

[myrealghostbusters]

how much would you say those things cost back then? i remember either a teacher or a student had to be the one to turn the film when you heard the beep.

[sr71ablackbird]

@retrochad or, you could do it the old-fashioned way like I used to do when I ran it, just wait for the beep and turn the knob to switch to the next picture...lol....

[HappyDiscoDeath]

cool! I saw one of these once in my sophmore history class, and was much more interested in the projector (an antique automatically cycling the filmstrip with each audible boooop) than the educational content! :D I'm looking around for a Micromatic to go with my 500.

[lssuitguy]

would you like to sell me the projector.....i still have the filmstrips for it

[roger62383]

OH WOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! My 3rd Grade teacher used to load cartoon slides in one of these and pick a student in the class to change the slide every time the cassette would made the beep sound. How times have changed.

Thanks for posting this.

[manyvideoinerests]

Hey there, long time no talk here, but nice projector. Does anyone have any of those old reel movie projectors? I remember in one high school class a lot of the teacher's materials were on these strips, and was used almost every day.

[coondogtheman1234]

Replying about your comment about looking at negatives using one of these projectors:

I'd do that too, I have negatives from pics I still have I should tape them together and look at them on one of these projectors.

im replying like this b/c the original comment was posted via your Damusician account.

[coondogtheman1234]

@CassetteMaster

try a cassette adaptor if you can get it to fit in the player and then hook it to your computer and play a few tones on your computer thru it see if it triggers it. im not sure how you can run the wire of the adaptor b/c of the way the cassette door is.

[coondogtheman1234]

@agfamatic91

I remember those from elementary school before these built in tape units. occasionally the teacher let one of the kids run the projector. I did get a chance to do it.