The way movies work is simple on the surface; ... Bill Hammack—aka the engineerguy—dove deep into the mechanics of old-school film projectors by dissecting a 1979 Bell and Howell 1580 16mm ...

A while ago, when a guy in Iowa offered the Film Society a bunch of old 16mm projectors that he had acquired from a school district there, they bought them, not entirely knowing what they would do ...