ABSTRACT
The Geyer “Rekord” printing machine is a continuous contact printer for 35mm film designed in the 1930s in the Geyer laboratories in Berlin. It made combined distribution prints—prints that carried image and sound on the same film strip—from two separate negative film strips for sound and picture. The “Rekord” was able to run prints at 3,937 feet (1,200 m) per hour, which was a high output rate in the 1930s, hence the proud naming of the device. The “Rekord” was the first printing machine with plates at the front facing the operator, making it easier to load film. Its cast iron body with the word GEYER, cast in a “Neue Sachlichkeit” typeface, had little built-in shelves and flaps that stored accessories and film cans, thus facilitating the operation of the machine in the dark.
