My 10-year-old grandson helped me with my laptop the other day, and I drifted off to another time, and another piece of equipment.In the mid-1940s, my father acquired a 16-millimetre Bell & Howell film projector. When not in use, the projector and its speaker sat near the piano – two large, sturdy, ugly, black boxes with leather handles on their tops.
Source: Sprocket science made me a girl hero in my Maritime village – The Globe and Mail