B&H Autoload Filmosounds
Jeff,
The Bell and Howell machines were always my favorites as an A/V type. Most of the machines in our school system were Graflex (Yuck!), some few were RCA 500-series machines, and the rest were Bell and Howell. I never worked with Kodak Pageants until relatively recently.
The Bell and Howells were always my favorites. Even the one oddball manual load machine was fun to run, but I always loved the Autoloads.
I currently have four of them, and it's always fun to drag them out and watch one of my (fairly small) collection of 16mm films.
Oh yeah, in addition to the machines and a couple of different focal-length lenses, I also have a Bell and Howell Filmovara lens (a zoom attachment that screws into the front of standard B&H lenses) and an aftermarket Cinemascope Adapter (2:1 anamorphic attachment for widescreen presentation).
-kevin