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When it compiled a portrait of the most widespread users of its type G projectors, Paillard brought out the diversity of places where the device should be able to function: schools, hospitals, churches, businesses, etc. Peripheral regions in the French and British colonies were also targeted, with the cinema reaching all the way to “colonizers in the bush” and touching “large isolated farm households.” After the war, Bolex projectors could be found from Madagascar, where a vendor set up a modest booth in 1952, to Nigeria, at a stand overflowing with prospectuses and equipment, over which an imposing sign announced the availability of stereoscopic cinema in this part of the world in 1954.