Daily Giz Wiz 60: Eumig Phonomat Projector
Episode 60 of the podcast
| Subject: | Review of Eumig Phonomat Projector |
| Released: | Friday 12 May 2006 |
| Length: | about 15 minutes |
| Download file: | dgw0060.mp3 (7 MB) |
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Short info
We delve into Dick's Classic Gadget Warehouse and dig up the Eumig Phonomat - an 8mm film projector with a unique audio track and Dick tells the story of one of the most elaborate pranks of all time.
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Detailed information
Link: marriottworld.com/pieces
All the way back from 1957, this Eumig P8 Phonomat Projector allowed you to add and synchronise sound to your 8mm film. The website at http://www.marriottworld.com/pieces/pieces25.htm has a history of these projectors. The pictures below are of a slightly later model, the P8M.Dick's Home Movies
Dick made home movies which were take-offs of "How the West was Won" and "42nd Street", starring Match Game guests, Kitty Carlisle, Bennett Cerf, Henry Morgan, Gene Rayburn, Peggy Cass. They went the whole hog with a black tie world premiere, a newspaper review by Dorothy Kilgallen, a helicopter, 1930s limosines. Listen to Dick's wild stories.
What's My Line
Dick also worked for What's My Line, and still has the mask of Arlene Francis on the show.
(source: insidedgw.vox.com)
