Living Archives™ MovieLamps

Giving new life to beautiful pieces of movie Americana, MacLamps Inc. introduces Living Archives™ MovieLamps. Authentic pieces of movie hardware from the early decades of the 20th century, these projectors are wonderful examples of American design and workmanship that have been transformed into distinctive lamps for the table or desk.

Using a patented conversion and adaptor, the projectors are converted into lamps without affecting the integrity of the projector's original finish, structure, or mechanism. They are, and will be for years to come, fully functioning motion picture projectors.

For anyone with precious family history recorded on movie film, these are important machines. For movie buffs, or those interested in the history of our country's fascination with motion pictures, these machines represent the advent of bringing recorded moving images into the home. They were the precursors to today's multi-media marvel known as the "home theater system". These early, pedestal-style projectors were the cornerstone in the foundation of the original home theater.

Finished Living Archives™ MovieLamps become dual-function artifacts, operating as either uniquely beautiful table lamps or motion picture projectors, and easily converting back and forth between functions.

It is the expressed intention of MacLamps Inc., through its Living Archives ™ line of MovieLamps and conversion kits, to create Living Archives™ to preserve these projectors whose practicality may have been eclipsed by the economy and convenience of video, but whose utility -- in terms of image quality and simplicity of image retrieval - has the potential to outlast the evolving technologies of present and future video formats.

Our prices are introductory prices that MacLamps Inc. will strive to maintain for as long as possible. But, due to the finite supply of pedestal-style projectors, the last of which were produced in the 1960s, it is anticipated that these prices will rise as demand exceeds a limited supply.