Paillard Bolex G3

Paillard Bolex G3 movie projector. The machine could project all the common amateur film sizes: 16 mm, 9.5 mm, and Standard 8 mm film. To change film sizes, the film frame and take-up reel in the machine had to be changed. All film gauges were included with the camera. The camera's original owner is unknown, but it was left at the workshop of Filma and Machinery Ltd. The camera is one of many devices that Sigurjón Jóhannsson's father, Jóhann Sigurjónsson, founder of Film and Machinery Ltd., preserved and displayed in his store. Jóhann was very passionate about preserving old equipment. When customers brought in badly damaged machines for repair, he would often offer to trade the old equipment for a new one. The machines would then go to Sigurjón's workshop, who later became the owner of Filma and Vélar sf. Sigurjón stored all these items and handed them over to the Film Archive in 2011.