Chuck Guzis wrote:
  I liked the mechanical project-type display,
where a stepping
 arrangement moved a strip of film. 
 I've never seen that kind, but it sounds very cool!  The projection
 displays I've seen use an array of twelve incandescent bulbs, film
 with a corresponsing array of twelve glyphs to act as masks, and a
 plastic molded piece that provides twelve lenses.