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The current plan is to cease manufacturing in June 2004.

The KODAK products included in this event are CAROUSEL, EKTAGRAPHIC, EKTALITE and EKTAPRO slide projectors and all KODAK Slide Projector accessories. This early disclosure is being made to key user groups in order to allow time for adoption of a replacement technology or purchase of backup slide projector products. Kodak Pre-discloses Plans To Discontinue Slide Projectors and Accessories in 2004 Eastman Kodak Company has confirmed plans to discontinue the manufacture and sales of slide projection products and accessories in June of 2004. Kodak announces that it will no longer be manufacturing 35mm slide projectors and accessories. Taking the slides back out of the sleeves is also very tedious and our workers have to remove every slide from the sleeves in order to scan these slides. The metal sleeves tended to keep the slides from any damage but it was very tedious to prepare the slides for viewing. The slides had to be loaded into metal sleeves that were then placed into the actual cartridge. This 35mm slide projector had a big defect in that it frequently damaged the slides and jammed up.Īirequipt made a cartridge type 35mm slide projector. After viewing, the slide was ejected from the projector into a stack. The slides were loaded forty to a cube and the cube was placed onto the top of the projector and then the projector was loaded by a circular disk that rotated underneath the cube and took one slide at a time and loaded it into the projector.

Manufacturing of all the Kodak Carousel projectors was discontinued in October 2004īell & Howell had a special, uniquely designed 'cube' projector. You really couldn't carry it in your pocket but it was built specially to handle these small slides. It looked like a big cube.ĭuring the 1970s, Kodak had a small film size, 30mm x 30mm, which is the 110 size film, and manufactured a special projector for that small slide called the Kodak 'Pocket' Carousel projector. Kodak also had a self-contained 35mm slide projector with built-in screen.

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Kodak made many different variations of its projectors from its consumer carousel models to its professional Ektagraphic model projectors. Simpler tray slide projectors often do not have the carousel form, but use the same mechanism with a tray or cartridge.īraun makes a projector that has its own screen built into the body. These slide projectors are very different from the carousels because the carousel tray is in an upright position, more like a 'ferris wheel' rather than a 'carousel.' These 'wheels' held 100 slides each and were held tightly by friction rather than being loose in the tray as the Kodak style carousels. There are variations of the Sawyer/GAF slide projectors that have been sold under many brand names, Sears and Montgomery Wards, among others. As the projector is advanced, a reciprocating mechanism pushes the currently loaded slide back out into the tray, then the tray is rotated, dropping the next slide into position between the light source and the lens. The projector has a motor which rotates the tray in steps.

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'down' into the projector and then back 'up' into the carousel for storage, it resembled a circus or carnival carousel.Ī separate, circular tray holds 80, or 140 35mm slides, and is filled, with each slide placed in upside down and backwards, so that the image is projected with the correct orientation through a series of mirrors and lenses. Because of it's circular form and because the slides would go The 'carousel' name was derived from the 'merry-go-round' or 'carnival carousel' which was round and turned around in circles and had horses or other animal figures that would go up and down. The Kodak carousel slide projector is probably the most common form of slide projector.

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