Moviola

The Moviola is a film viewer. The emigrated from the Netherlands to the United States electrical engineer Ivan Serrurier thought about 1917 a device that would be as pretty wood furniture in your home and would like to serve the Victrola records for the movie experience in projection. Because of the high price, $ 600 at the time, it hardly sold.

In 1924 the apparatus without housing, set on an ordinary table in film editing specialists in Hollywood interest. The price was now $ 125.

After the Second World War put Mark Serrurier, Ivan's son, the apparatus scratch with fresh molds and economic production as a whole. During the pre-war models were painted black, they received 1949 a green color. The Moviola was an indispensable working tool in film editing rooms around the world. It is compact, easy to move on roller base in space, constructed from the basic device removal and solid. The moving picture is created with a switching role in conjunction with Geneva mechanism, the sound is reproduced with zuschwenkbaren tape heads from magnetic film. Between image and sound unit provides one rigid mechanical connection by engaging a shaft. On the Indents can be moved by hand freely forwards and backwards, sound unit.

In 1966, the company was sold to Magnasync, Los Angeles.

Even today, the Moviola on the basis of the vertical film travel from coil to coil is far handier than the cutting table, on which the film runs horizontally. In a scene from Day for Night by François Truffaut is well expressed, can be used as fast with the Moviola.