Jayark Super/8

marketed in 1968

super 8 mm film cartridge

continuous loop film cartridge

lens: ?

lamp: 80 W, 19 V, EKG

reel capacity: 30 minutes

screen: 9" x 12"

projection: forward

projection speed: normal (18 fps)

film loading: fully automatic threading

sound: magnetic playback on main sound track

sound mode: mono

amplifier: transistorized

amplifier output: ?

frequency response: 100-8,000 cycles

sound controls: volume, tone

recording: no

built-in speaker: yes

external speaker output: yes, jack

remote control socket: yes

motor: magnetic motor

power source: ?

weight: circa: 10700 g

dimensions: circa 310 x 380 x 380 mm

made in Usa by Jayark

• "Film Cartridge System Debut, by hank Fox. New York. Jayark Instruments Corp., a film electronics equipment manufacturer, has developed and is marketing an 8mm continuous loop film cartridge and cartridge player. Slated for conusmer use, the system makes its initial appearence in the recording industry as a disk promotional device in local record retail outlets. The 9 by 11-inch cartridge, with all of the threading mechanism and the gate completely self-contained, functions similarly to existing 8-track audio tape cartridges. The film romains enclosed within the cartridge. In place of a pinch roller, which is in the 8-track cartridge, a gear, protruding from the bottom surface of the cartridge, meshes with a gear located in the player. Time capacity is a 30 minutes. Cost of the cartridge is now pegged at $8.95, but according to Howard Epstein, president of Jayark, the cost not represented a mass-produced item. "With mass-production", Epstein said, "the cost could drop to less than $5". Billing its unit as a total family entertainment and an educational device, Jayark is readying "how to do it" films for home use. The unit's debut int the record industry will be as a promotional tool to sell album product at retail. Using promotional films produced by Michael Joyce's Record-on-film Corp., Jayark will field-test the film cartridge concept in retail stores in the Greater New York and Philadelphia markets. Joyce has been making three-minuts mini-films for several record labels including Epic Records. Record retailers will be offered film cartridges projectors with the guarantee of a steady flow of new film cartridges releases. The deck top unit can be used either on a counter or in a dealer's window. Cost of the unit is $399. Dealers, however, can lease the projectors through most leasing companies for about $10 per month. Cost of leased equipment is completely tax deductible. The films be supplied free of charge. The portable film cartridge projector, Jayark Super/8, incorporates a 9 by 12-inch non-reflecting screen which folds into the cover when not in use. Its light source is a low power, extended life, quarz halogen bulb with dichroic relfector. The self-contained, transistorized sound system, which can be connected to external speakers, features a frequency response of 100-8,000 cycles. Cost of the projector, which is not presently mass-produced, is $399 (ower at volume)". Text from Billboard, The International Music-Record Newsweekly, April 13, 1968, page 1 and 8.

• United States Patent 3544205: PROJECTOR FOR CONTINUOUS LOOP MOTION PICTURE FILM; filed: 11/28/1967; patented: 12/01/1970; inventor: Mitchell J.Bogdanowicz; assignor to Jayark Instruments Corporation, New York, NY.