DeVry Travel Show Machine

DeVry, a 35mm travel movie projector in a black case with a magazine and spool. The projector played optical sound and showed 24 frames per second on a film up to 20 minutes long, so two machines were often run together. The travel projector was owned by the couple Sigríður Björnsdóttir and Eiríkur Bjarnason of Ból. For decades, Sigríður and Eiríkur ran a movie theater at Hotel Ljósbrá in Hveragerði. Previously (from 1945 until around 1975), they made countless trips throughout the Southlands with their traveling projectors, showing people movies from the movie theaters in Reykjavik, often under difficult conditions and in bad winter weather. For a long time, Sigríður was the only woman in the country with a license to show public movies.