PROJECTOR, MOTION-PICTURE

Description: .1) CASE. RECTANGULAR VERTICAL CASE IS WOOD WITH BROWN LEATHERETTE COVERING AND FOUR BRASS CLASPS AROUND BASE. TWO CORNERS HAVE BEEN REINFORCED BY STEEL ANGLE PIECES SCREWED INTO CASE. TOP OF CASE HAS BLACK BAKELITE HANDLE. EDGES OF LEATHERTTE COVERING ARE WORN. .2) COVER. 56.0CM X 58.0CM BLACK DENIM HANDMADE COVER SHAPED LIKE A DRAWSTRING BAG. DENIM IS FADED. .3) PROJECTOR. 37.0CM X 22.0CM X 19.0CM CAST LEAD PROJECTOR IS MOUNTED ONTO SQUARE BASE AND HAS BROWN COLOURED FINISH. BRASS PLATE RIVETED TO FRONT OF BASE HAS "MODEL K-160" AND "KEYSTONE 16MM PROJECTOR" ON IT, ALONG WITH PATENT NUMBERS. .4) LENS. 7.3CM X 3.8CM CHROME PLATED CYLINDER WITH GLASS LENS. STAMPED INTO SIDE OF CYLINDER IS "A-801 KEYSTONE 2" FOCUS F16". C/W RECTANGULAR GREY CARDBOARD BOX. .5) LUBRICATING OIL. 8.3CM X 2.6CM X 3.7CM YELLOW CARDBOARD BOX WITH BROWN GLASS BOTTLE THAT HAS BLACK BAKELITE TOP AND YELLOW PAPER LABEL. BOTH BOX AND LABEL ON BOTTLE READ "KODAK" AND "SPECIAL LUBRICATING OIL". LID OF BOX IS MISSING AND BOX IS WORN IN GENERAL.

History: 16MM FILM PROJECTOR BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO WAS AN AMATEUR FILM MAKER IN HIS SPARE TIME. DONOR RELATES THAT HER FATHER WOULD TRAVEL TO VARIOUS JAPANESE COMMUNITIES SHOWING HIS FILMS AND THAT WAS ONE WAY WHICH THE JAPANESE CANADIAN COMMUNITY MANAGED TO STAY IN TOUCH DURING AND AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE DENIIM COVER WAS MADE BY DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.