Super 8 Movie Projector – Plug in

The Sankyo Sound 502 movie projector was bought in January 1979 in Brussels (10.900 Belgian francs). It was used to project Super 8 family movies shot with a Chinon 60 AF XL bought at the same time.

Sankyo, established in 1946 in Japan as a music box manufacturer, began in 1957 the production of 8mm movie cameras and projectors. Super 8mm film cameras were first manufactured in 1965 by Kodak, and Sankyo launched the same years cameras and projectors for this new amateur film format.

This projector weights 8kg and measures 19 x 22,4 x 32,4 cm.

This particular sound is produced continually by the projector when it is plugged in. It lasts untill the machine is turned off by removing the power cord from the input socket.


Sound recordist : Gaëlle Courtois / La Fonderie, Brussels