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...need is a projector and a little extra cash and you can spend the night watching the war in China, the battle for Europe, Roosevelt's third inauguration, or savage beasts in Darkest Africa--all from a comfortable armchair...
...idea was not brand-new. It had been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...
...story which last week rode the press wires out of Pittsburgh. The story: a 34-year-old University of Pittsburgh professor named Jotham Johnson had fixed the date when the ancient Egyptian calendar began. Sensationally simple was the Johnson voyage of discovery: he had had a Zeiss planetarium projector turned "back through time" to show the position of the stars and the phase of the moon on his chosen date...
...likeliest date. Ancient Egyptian records indicate that on the first New Year's Day the Dog Star rose at dawn; Johnson felt there should also be a new moon in the west. Dr. Johnson asked the Buhl Planetarium to turn their big projector back through nearly 52 centuries. The planetarium did it, although the job required 20 hours. On the first try, the sky was not as it should have been. Then Johnson realized that the planetarium was using the Gregorian calendar, whereas he was going by the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar. When a correction for this difference...
...feature of the Buhl star chamber with which Director Stokley is particularly Punch-pleased is an engineering stunt unique among the world's planetaria. When the audience assembles for the show, the big, dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projector is nowhere to be seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst...