Professor Hall's Cinema Museum

Introduction

Since 1965, the author and webmaster of this site, George C "Professor" Hall - the World's First Cinequiptologist, has been researching and collecting artifacts that tell the history of the Projected Image from Magic Lanterns to CinemaScope in Tucson, Arizona. Over time the collection has grown into a private museum which includes technical books and research gathered from Canada, England and the US, in addition to projectors, films and Magic Lantern slides. The goal has been to assemble representative examples of major types of motion picture projectors and Magic Lanterns and restore them to operating condition in order to understand the evolution of technology right up to modern times. The focus has always been on the exhibition of the projected image and the Showmen and Projectionists who in the words of D.W. Griffith, "are compelled to redirect the Photoplay".

Enter the Museum as it was set up in Tucson

A Chronology of Edison Motion Picture Machines

19th Century Showmen in Arizona

.Original 1903 Scene Descriptions of "The Great Train Robbery"

Tom Horn and two Genuine Western Film Companies

Major 1999 Exhibit at the AHS Marley Museum in Tempe "Magic in the Dark - Movies in Arizona"

Projection Equipment and How it is Worked

E-mail ~ profh@silentmovies.com

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