Ravindra Bhalerao writes “I have just been on the museum site of the AMMPT and was delighted to find a society devoted to the history and technology of the motion

The significance of these  images are  very important to show recognition for the ongoing work of our passionate AMMPT volunteers like Barry Goldman. .            

              Australian Biograph Designed ,Patented & Manufactured by CUMMINGS & WILSON WORKS & SHOWROOMS, 29 ALBERTA ST. SYDNEY PROJECTORS OWNERS WORKSHOP MANUAL An insight

  Assembling Cumming & Wilson Model E No. 502 and Model D No. 328 Richard Ashton                       The next pictures show

The Cummings & Wilson Model E. This article covers photographs of models and assembly of the Model E. Taken from The C & W Manual written up by Richard Ashton. Other

  C & W Seniors started in 1922 as model A, then came the B. there is no C, the next in 1927-28 as the D. Then came the E

They were made so that any of the new sound reproducers like Western Electric systems for the “Talkies” could use theaters insisting on C&W projectors such as the Jazz Singer and

The portable was a brand new projector in 1932. It satisfied all the smaller theaters all over the country. They were less in price and affordable for a touring showman.

C&W “Junior” fitted Raycophone portable projectors with the new C&W P5 projector head

 The P6 was introduced 1937                         Stand alone projector heads and mechanism only for the Raycophone J3 models  

Written by Richard Ashton Part one The first Cummings and Wilson projectors were first made just after the First World War. A company partnership was formed to manufacture cinema projectors

The film ‘The Distant Lens’ is a Western Australian film treasure that includes early motion pictures of the State from about 1905 to 1950. ‘The Distant Lens’ is narrated by Alan