Toy cinema projector

Device created in 1942 and patented in 1944 by Josep Escobar, popular comic book artist, caricaturist and pioneer of Catalan cartooning. It was a projector that used a 35 mm wide opaque paper film, printed on both sides in one or three colours, and with circular side perforations every two frames. The film was projected for reflection with the light of an electric bulb and had a shovel shutter on the outside. The film rolls, 30 metres long, contained approximately one thousand four hundred drawings. The animation of the images obtained, therefore, was complete, like that of the animated films of the cinema, and not a two-stroke animation, as in the Cine NIC. Numerous films were released for the Skob Cinema, with characters created by Escobar himself, or with characters taken from comics of the time, such as the TBO.