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Abbey Cinerama Projection box
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Above image. The Abbey’s two Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 35/70mm projectors located within the downstairs centre stalls projection box. Photo taken early 1970`s shortly after the original three strip set up became obsolete in favour of a more conventional two projector change over method, using just one large single 70mm Panavision lens instead of three strip 35mm projection.Note the redundant extractor duct on the ceiling,below it is where the third cinerama projector once stood.
At the rear of each projector stands a cylindrical Rectifier supplying the Carbon rods with high voltage DC current at 65 regulated at 65-70amps.
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A 70mm projector at the Abbey
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 The Abbey’s Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 Projector number 1 . The oblong box above the lens houses the six channel magnetic sound head for reading either 70mm or 35mm magnetic print sound tracks. The 35mm optical sound head is located beneath the shutter box and nearby solenoid change over button. The lens configuration on the photo left shows the Giant 70mm Panavision lens used as a backing lens for a 35mm cinema scope presentation
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The Abbey’s, Cinemeccanica Super Zenith 450 Carbon arc-house
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 The Carbon Arc light house holds two carbon rods to produce the intense light required for the Abbey`s giant screen picture.The longer carbon rod is connected to the DC Positive supply and the negative to the DC minus power supply. The lifetime of each Carbon rod is approx. 60 minutes . Note in the background behind the Arc house stands the redundant original three strip cinerama 35mm sound only spool carrier
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The Cinemeccanica Sound rack cabinet at the Abbey Cinerama
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The sound cabinet pictured right, houses six independent valve amplifiers, a pre amp module and a Bass treble unit.The interchangeable amplifiers are used for Centre speech channel,bottom left channel, bottom right channel,Top left Channel, Top right channel and surround sound channel. The closed cabinet seen next to it has an additional two amplifiers to provide a Eight channel cinema sound experience. The second cabinet also housed the selsyn motor control unit to synchronise the three film projectors and the separate film sound unit of the three strip cinerama format. Fitted to the top of each cabinet are fo
ur sound monitors.
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