Does anyone know what this thing is?

sunny6teen

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The lens is at right-angles to the ground glass. Dead Link Removed
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MattKing

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This was used for transferring movies to videotape (in the day).
 

MattKing

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You projected a movie on to the larger, ground glass screen.
You attached a video camera to the other side via a lens adapter/attachment.
The video camera could be focused on the ground glass image, so you could record the movie on to video tape - VHS or Beta usually.

Then you could play your movies on your TV using your VCR.

Boy do I feel old now .
 

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There is a mirror inside for changing the oriention of the image so yield a right-sided copy.
 
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