Lot 249: Ensign Mickey Mouse Safe-Toy Cinema No. 0 Projector with Box

An Ensign Mickey Mouse Safe-Toy Cinema No. 0, a mid-20th century home cinema toy. This set features a hand-cranked projector constructed with a metal body, finished with a black crinkle-effect paint on the base and polished metal lamp and lens housings. The projector utilizes a reel-to-reel transport mechanism with a rotating shutter and was originally designed for use with a battery-operated lamp. The unit is presented in its original colour-printed cardboard box. Included with the projector is one metal film reel, a secondary film box for No. 53 Mickey’s Tuneful Tigers, and a printed instruction sheet in German. The main box bears the inscriptions Mickey Mouse Safe-Toy Cinema No. 0, Complete with lamp and battery and 3 Mickey Mouse safe-toy films from Walt Disney’s famous pictures, and specifies Foreign Manufacture with Films Printed in England. The smaller film box is explicitly branded Ensign.