See Yourself As Others See You
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Short, silent advertisement for the QRS Company's combination camera and projector. The Chicago-based company sold the 16mm equipment for $98.50, using "see yourself as others see you" as a tagline to drum up interest in using their camera-projectors for shooting and exhibiting home movies in domestic spaces.
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: William O'Farrell Collection
Notes: A woman carries a QRS projector into a small family gathering. An intertitle indicates that she says "Let's 'see yourself as others see you'." The group gathers in front of a screen, then there is a close up of the woman's hands threading 16mm film in the projector. The lights dim and the group watches a home movie featuring a snowball fight and a child's birthday party.; After the film ends an older man demands, "Show us the camera, too." The woman from before shows that by detaching the lamphouse and electric motor, the projector becomes a camera. She indicates that her family chose the QRS model because "you get a better price because it's Two Machines in One."; The family sits down to watch one more home movie, this time of a building being constructed. A young girl flips through a photo album, and a woman tells her "These are out-of-date – it's so much more fun to make your pictures come to life."; An intertitle declares "We can always count on QRS Quality" because "it's been in their Music Rolls for over 25 years." The film ends with a list of the machine's features.
Sponsor: QRS Company, The
Subjects: Amateur films; Domestic life; Family recreation; Motion picture production & direction; Motion picture projectors
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 97 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/35604
Notes: A woman carries a QRS projector into a small family gathering. An intertitle indicates that she says "Let's 'see yourself as others see you'." The group gathers in front of a screen, then there is a close up of the woman's hands threading 16mm film in the projector. The lights dim and the group watches a home movie featuring a snowball fight and a child's birthday party.; After the film ends an older man demands, "Show us the camera, too." The woman from before shows that by detaching the lamphouse and electric motor, the projector becomes a camera. She indicates that her family chose the QRS model because "you get a better price because it's Two Machines in One."; The family sits down to watch one more home movie, this time of a building being constructed. A young girl flips through a photo album, and a woman tells her "These are out-of-date – it's so much more fun to make your pictures come to life."; An intertitle declares "We can always count on QRS Quality" because "it's been in their Music Rolls for over 25 years." The film ends with a list of the machine's features.
Sponsor: QRS Company, The
Subjects: Amateur films; Domestic life; Family recreation; Motion picture production & direction; Motion picture projectors
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 97 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/35604
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:05