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They wonder sometimes.
When your whole mission is rooted in the act of threading physical celluloid through the guts of clunky antiquated projectors, when your group was founded to promote the âunsimulated experienceâ of showing film stock to a room full of strangers, you are at the mercy of knowledge. A while ago, when a guy in Iowa offered them a bunch of old 16mm projectors that he had acquired from a school district there, they bought them, not entirely knowing what they would do with them â it seemed like the right thing to do.
You know, preservation-wise.
See, many decades ago, as legend has it, large reels of film moved clickety-clack through metal projectors. Chicago itself was a major supplier. The names of local companies that created projectors for homes and schools alone â Ampro, EXCEL, Bell & Howell, et al â would be familiar to anyone of a certain age who zoned out during social studies. But then home video arrived, and at multiplexes, digita
Project Yourself! is a free loaner program with a months-long waiting list. You don't get to choose the film reels that come with the 16mm projectors but that's part of the fun.
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Cicely Tyson was steely yet stylish, humble and grateful
The actress, who died last month at age 96, infused her roles with dignity, strength and unabashed pride in her Blackness.
The legendary actress Cicely Tyson died last month at age 96.(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag)
By Lorrie Irby Jackson
“I am alive because of the blood of proud people who never scraped or begged or apologized for what they were. They lived asking only one thing of this world to be allowed to be.”
These words were spoken by Mrs. Browne, the mother of a naive and stubbornly independent daughter, in the 1989 miniseries