I should have added in my posting above that my home-35mm years came after many years of collecting and projecting films since the late 1950s. This included 8mm, 16mm and even 9.5mm sound.
I was so keen that in the 1970s I moonlighted as a 35/70mm cinema projectionist. Real film projection (no...
Up until around 15 years ago I projected 35mm movies at home using a 1928 model Kalee projector with a QI light source. Although ancient, the projector gave images as good as any cinema with good quality sound. I built a walled-off projection booth in a back room of the house yet was able to sit...