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"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box
Object/Artifact
A small tabletop filmstrip (diafilm) projector with a green/mint-painted sheet-metal body, a chromed front lens mount with a glass objective, a brass/metal film gate and feed assembly on top, a black focus knob and a film-advance knob, ventilation louvers on the rear/side, and small splayed feet. It projects rolled diafilms with an 18×24 mm frame. The accompanying paperboard box is printed with a large stylized "Ф," the word "ФИЛЬМОСКОП," "МП РСФСР ГЛАВУЧТЕХПРОМ," a stylized filmstrip-perforation motif, a yellow projection-beam graphic, and a circular factory stamp; the box is heavily worn, soiled, and edge-damaged.
"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box
"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box - Image 2
"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box - Image 3
"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box - Image 4
"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box - Image 5
"Filmoscope" / "Фильмоскоп" filmstrip projector with original box - Image 6
2025.1.179
Purchased by María A. Arús Caraballo for her daughters. In a diary entry the donor’s mother wrote in December 1973, when the donor was only 2-month old, she mentions that she had bought a filmstrip for the projector.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Zagorsk School Instrument-Making Factory
1973
1970s
Zagorsk
Moscow Oblast
Eastern Europe
U.S.S.R.
Europe
Maker: Zagorsk School Instrument-Making Factory (Завод школьного приборостроения, Zagorsk / now Sergiev Posad, Moscow oblast), under МП РСФСР / Главучтехпром (Main Directorate of Educational-Technical Industry of the RSFSR), USSR — per the markings on the lens bezel and box and the "Made in USSR" plate. A standard Soviet filmoskop of the Ф-series type.
Makers Mark
bottom of item
OTK (illegible) 70 22 FEB 1973
Russian
Label
Box
МП РСФСР ГЛАВУЧТЕХПРОМ
Russian
MP RSFSR GLAVUCHTEKHPROM
Box: stylized "Ф"; "ФИЛЬМОСКОП"; "МП РСФСР ГЛАВУЧТЕХПРОМ"; circular factory stamp (Zagorsk School Instrument-Making Factory, Moscow oblast); filmstrip-perforation and projection-beam graphics. Lens bezel: engraved "МП РСФСР ГЛАВУЧТЕХПРОМ … ЗАГОРСК … №…" with focal-length marking (e.g., "F=…cm"; periscope-type objective ~77 mm on this series — exact figure on this unit not read). Side plate: "MADE IN USSR."
dimensions without film holder
9 cm
14 cm
19.5 cm
box:10.5 x 25 x 16.5
projector body, film holder, box, and lid
Box
Metal
Plastic
Fair
María A. Cabrera Arús
owner
María R. Cabrera Arús
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition, ownership
Zagorsk
Moscow Oblast
Eastern Europe
U.S.S.R.
Europe
production
"Filmoskop" = the Soviet name for a simplified diaprojector for rolled diafilms (18×24 mm frame); cheaper and simpler than a full diaprojector, hence ubiquitous in the USSR for home and school filmstrip viewing.
Zagorsk School Instrument-Making Factory, under МП РСФСР/Главучтехпром (RSFSR educational-technical industry directorate). Documented as the maker of the Ф-series filmoskops (Ф-64/Ф-68/Ф-75); earlier "ФГК-49/завод №6" carbolite models are 1940s–50s. This metal-bodied unit fits the later Ф-series.