Did you happen to record Monty Python’s Flying Circus when it was shown on PBS back in the 1970s?
Do you still have the tapes?
Is there a TIME LIFE logo at the end?
If so, please write to me. Thank you!

Creating the last two pages made me a bit nostalgic

...but only a bit.

Here are some images I just found thanks to Google:

Really nice machine, which is now mysteriously on display at an exhibit rather than at a cinema running movies. This is the honorable Bauer U2, which could rather easily be switched from 35mm to 70mm and back again in a matter of minutes. Again, I never ran one of these beauties, but I have seen them. At the Town Cinema in Lackawanna, to be exact. Wonderful. I tried to rescue them, but when the building went down, the machines went down with it.

And here’s a closer look, with the door open. Nice, huh?

The above includes a Super Simplex picture head, which was put on the market in November 1929. For those who have wished to argue with me, please note that there is no sound mechanism, and there is a hand crank as well as a base-mounted single-phase AC motor and a variable-speed pulley. You have always wondered why the shutter shaft was so long that it came right through the front of the machine. Well, now you know: It held a belt that drove the speed indicator. So please, I never again want to hear that the Super Simplex was introduced to the market in 1934. Please.

Yes, it’s a lot of fun to play with these machines, but the pay is lousy and the work is thankless.