16mm Motion Picture Projector RCA 400 (FP 10)

RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)

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  • Year
  • 1948
  • Category
  • Sound/Video Recorder and/or Player
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 114469
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 7
  • Main principle
  • Audio-Amplification
  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 117 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 8 inch = 20.3 cm
  • Power out
  • 10 W (undistorted)
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 16mm Motion Picture Projector RCA 400 - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Notes
  • The RCA 400 (FP 10) is a solid 16mm Motion Picture Projector with sound. There is a 48 page illustrated manual, printed on double sided 8-1/2"x11" heavy weight paper and plastic comb bound to lay flat on the workbench. It contains information on the specifications, cleaning and maintenance and repair of the projector RCA 400 (FP 10).

    In the 1930s and early 1940s toy projectors were made for use with silent shorts and cartoons for children. Kodak, Excel and Keystone were the dominant makers. Household or automobile lamps were used which did not give bright light.

    Then followed silent projectors for amateurs like Bell & Howell 273 Silent and soon came the classic 16 mm sound projectors, first with tubular lamps and vacuum tube amplifiers for manual threading - like the example here, the RCA 400. Typically were also Bell and Howell 100-399 series, some from Eastman Kodak etc. Carbon arc projectors were made in the 1950s by Bell & Howell, RCA, Ampro and others. Later the amplifiers with solid state technique arrived. Projectors using MARC/Gemini lamps were made mostly in the 1970s by B&H, Eastman Kodak and others. Projectors using xenon lamps were made by Eiki, Elmo, Hokushin and others, mostly from the 1970s onward.
  • Author
  • Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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