The first home cinema projectors that where brought on the market were small hand crancked 35 mm projectors, often lighted by a kerosine lamp. They were manufactured througout the first half of the 20th century, mostly by a couple of German toy manufacturers that were all located in Nuremberg .
The films that came with these projectors were short animation films, printed on about a meter of 35mm film. The beginning and end of these film where mounted together, thus forming an endless loop.
Most of the films were black and with line drawings printed photographically on safety film. In the color films(like the ones in this post) the images were ink printed onto the film.
The film of the bird catching a fly is colorised in a very labour intensive way:
the colors are hand painted on the film, frame by frame.
Video transferred by Unknown Cinema.

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