Zeiss Ikon Favorid 16

Zeiss Ikon Favorid 16mm film projector, made in Germany. The film could be spliced together to show entire movies. The projector comes from the Andrews Theater at Keflavik Airport and was in use there from 1982–1995. The projector was donated to the Háskólabíó in 1999 and was used there to show films at film festivals and to screen trailers and other 16 mm films shown by the theater. The sister projector that ran with the projector is also at the Film Archive, but it went directly from the Andrews Theater to the Film Archive in 1999. The projectors were purchased by the Air Force through Filmur og vélar sf., which was owned by Jóhann Sigurjónsson and Gunnar J. Eyland. Sigurjón Jóhannsson, who later became the owner of Filmur og vélar sf., installed the machines and handled repairs and maintenance for their entire lifetime. When the projector arrived at the University Cinema, a cart with wheels was built for it, on which it was moved between the cinema's auditoriums (auditoriums 2, 3, and 4). The Andrews Theater is a very large house, but the screen was 160 square meters and the light source was a 2500 W projector. The 16 mm format was not powerful enough for this large screen, so the image was very grainy and difficult to focus. When adjusting the xenon lamp's light, special care had to be taken to ensure the focal point did not burn the film. Sigurjón used a special filter in between while he adjusted the light. The Andrews Theater showed all the latest films, but they were specially produced for the U.S. military in 16mm. Three movies were usually shown daily. After about 1990, only Icelandic projectionists worked at the Andrews Theater, including Guðrún Júlíusdóttir from Keflavík. She and Sigríður Björnsdóttir from Hveragerði are the only women to have held that position and the only ones to have held a projectionist's license in Iceland.