The Multi-Image History Project
The story of a very brief history of a very large industry
“Multi image shows are never finished, they are abandoned.” - norman sauppe'
My name is Richard Allison. This website is for my Multi-Image history project. I am operating on the definition of Mulit-Image as the use of two or more 35mm slide projectors projecting images synchronized to an audio tape recording. My target era is 1960-1999. On this website i will display the progress of this project, results of research perhaps the finished product itself. I apologize for the ads but this is a non profit project and we will not be asking for donations at this time.
The Marron Carrel Project
Part of our project is the collection of a Marron Carrel model MC 1400 rostrum camera. Our goal is to produce an extensive video and many photographs of this instrument, after which it will be stored until a museum of other institution will accept it. Please see the marron carrel page for more.
To see more about the past era of the Multi-Image business, please see these websites;
Douglas Mesney was one of the pioneers and superstars of the business. He has
written his autobioagraphy, "An Incredible Epic" and has it available here;
Doug Mesney also has a website featuring his work and some videos
of his best shows found here:
Steve Michelsen worked in the later years of the Multi-Image business. He spends
much of his time collecting equipment made by Audio Visual Labboratories (AVL). His
collection can be seen here;
https://www.stevenmichelsen.com/AVL/index.html
Steve Michelsen also spends much more time collecting, restoring and posting past
multi-image slide shows on his youtube channel," AV Archeology". Be sure to see
some of the programmers view of his shows.
A link to his page is here;
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdGRNxsrsI-efMFSjFDmzvg