Zeiss Lecon

Zeiss Lecon 35 mm manual projection film projector, manufactured in 1930. The projector is not designed for sound. It was later modified and a motor was added. The projector was used at the Gamla bíó in Vestmannaeyjar shortly after it was manufactured. Bogi Ó. Sigurðsson, projectionist at Háskólabíó, preserved the projector when it was decommissioned and handed it over to the store Filmur og vélar around 1980, where it was restored by Sigurjón Jóhannsson. Bogi got a promise from Jóhann V. Sigurjónsson and Gunnar Eyland, the founders of Filmur og vélar, that the machine would go to the National Film Archive of Iceland when the archive was established and had the capacity to receive it. Until then, it was on display at Filmur og vélar on Skólavörðustíg, and after the store closed, Sigurjón Jóhannsson took care of preserving it.