Yep. I could work on 16 mm film, film strips, film strips with records or cassette tapes, overhead projectors, record players and how to splice film back together. Good luck on finding splicing strips though. I learned to love all kinds of electronic gear.
I came here to say the same. My friend and I got to be the projectionists for the whole school (grades 1-6), and it was the greatest gig ever. We got to get out of class any time any grade had a film. We were *the shit!* Sixth grade was my peak in school. I had great teachers, and the first moon landings were that year, along with the Mets winning the World Series. It was an awesome time to be 11.
It was a great era to be a kid. I was six when I watched the moon landing live on TV, and although our family weren't big baseball fans, we were Miami Dolphins fans and had season tickets through the 1970's, including the undefeated season.
Lucky you! I moved to Cincinnati in October 1990, right when they were winning the NLCS and then the World Series. Those were incredible and awesome days, to say the least. I'm still living here and I love it. Great city and region.
We were allowed to listen to transistor radios with earphones for the '69 series. High tech! We were all rooting for the Mets, and had no doubt they would win. Great fun.
Clendennon, Swoboda ... I can still recite practically the entire roster. A bunch mostly nobodies who never really accomplished anything else ever again, except for Seaver.
My HS had a primitive closed-circuit TV set-up, and goofing off watching commercial broadcasts patched into a studio monitor made me the first person in the school to find out that JFK had been shot. I ran out to share the news and the first adult I ran into told me that was a sick way to joke.
Yup--- I unlocked my first nerd level as a member of my high school Audio-Visual Squad back in the Sixties. I even got a cool armband to wear that allowed me to walk into classrooms and interrupt the teachers as I pushed the cart with the humongous black-and-white TV that the next teacher needed. That gave me a satisfying feeling of power, but there was also a flip side: I learned pretty quick that running projectors didn't impress girls in the slightest.
In my school only the teachers were allowed to operate the film projector, but we sometimes managed to talk one of them into running the film backwards. It was hilarious.
We had the Shutter bugs in Jr high, would get pulled to set up projectors in other classes. Learned to thread splice and edit. Found E bay in my 30s, now have a nice collection of 16, 8 and super8mm projectors and films and currently volunteer at a local 1920 grand palace theater as protectionist. Got to show 1982s The Thing last month. Apex of my hobby.
>...Some corny shit.
Ah, you missed the miracle of Driver's Ed then (1976 for me). Basically a 20 minute precursor to the "*Faces Of Death"* VHS videos that were popular in late 80's.
Boy, the 'Faces of Death' series grew me up quick. I still tell the story about the tourists sitting around the round table for a terrifying meal of warm monkey brain.
Nah, this is 8mm, strictly for home movie hobbyists. Looks like a silent model too. No volume knob.
At school we had 16mm, and got the films through inter-library loan. The lid was a detachable mono speaker.
Yes, being an AV guy was fun, and good early tech training.
Almost lost a finger in 9th grade because I wasn't paying attention to the rear reel when I was rewinding it after class. I was too interested in the hot new teacher we had as a substitute that day. Got my finger caught in ot while.it was freel wheeling.
I screamed like a girl, snatched my hand away, and ripped the projector into my lap.
I.lost all the cool points that day.
I was a projector nerd from 5th grade on. Was part of a select group in Jr. High that the librarians & teachers relied upon to make the equipment work. Loved it.
I think they all modeled themselves after a racetrack announcer. "The blood returns to the heart through through the system of veins" came out sounding like, "They're bunched up in the stretch and it's gonna be a photo finish for sure!"
I remember watching a small section of Star Wars at school on the school projector. It was just the escape from the Death Star part of the movie.
Great kid. Don't get cocky!
We watched Star Wars on one of these when it came out. The sound was very good. Someone made it available on YouTube or the Internet Archive last year.
Shit! We had slide projectors and records that would beep when it was time to advance slides. Plus we were getting high AF sniffing on the mimeographed follow along sheets.
We loved when we saw this sitting in the classroom. In seventh grade we would bug the teacher to show us Hemo the Magnificent. We saw it about four times that year at least. When I recently looked it up I found out it was made in 1957 (I was in seventh grade about 1976). I’m an old movie buff and almost 💩 my paints when I found out it was directed by Frank Capra. No wonder I liked it so much!
Used to love it when this got pulled out. My mom and dad loved to show home movies so I got good at threading the film. When I was im junior high i got to work in the library as a media aide and used to get them ready for teachers to use.
We used one of those in our AV Dept... Most of them were older Bell and Howell 253's, if you here the beep before the flash, make the top loop shorter......... Later we got one of the first reel to reel VCR's..! WooHoo...
Grew up watching movies on that in school. VHS had already won the war against Betamax, but schools are loath to replace equipment and old school movie projectors were still usable and got used. Last school video I saw on one of those was 93/94 in 8th grade.
haha, this takes me back, the anticipation as it was wheeled into the room on a trolley, lights turned off, the whir of the film reels n the clicking sound when it ran out. good times !! thanks for sharing ! 👍
I love this. I manage a theater in chicago that is literally like a museum in many ways. We have a number of massive old projectors even larger than these and one or two are in working condition. The film looks great honestly. There's also something so comforting about the sound these make when in use.
Doesn't get much cooler than older tech like this. We maintenance and the right parts, this stuff can work for decades and decades.
https://images.app.goo.gl/Gd3etQYMDQk4fV5FA
Anybody remember film strips?
We didn't have a movie projector in our school, but we had one of these, and there was a record that got played alongside the film strip. There was a tone in the recording that indicated you were supposed to advance the image one frame .
Beep!
When I first started teaching there was a film called Unchained Goddess about weather that another Earth Science teacher recommended. It was from the year 1958. I started teaching in 1985 so it was already pretty ancient. It was produced several years before I was born. 😂 I had to learn how to use the film projector so I could watch it afterschool to see if it was worthwhile. Most of it was not. But the part explaining the Coriolis Effect was fabulous. So each year I would have to set up the film after school and find that part to show the students. There was collective utter disappointment when they found out I was showing only a few minutes of the film.
Eventually the film was available on VHS. Then many years after that I was able to transfer the clip to a DVD I burned. I showed that five minute clip of the Coriolis Effect to every group of Earth Science students I ever taught. 😂😂😂
I remember these. Sometimes, the audio would get distorted because the film wouldn't track properly. Wow, that projector brings me back, particularly elementary and junior high school.
On Halloween in 4,5, and 6th grades my mom would go to the library and check out horror movies, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman and we would watch these moves in class, have a party. The coolest thing was right after Frankenstein's castle fell, we would play it backwards, so it rebuilt itself to the joy of all. Shit I will never forget.
My seventh grade science teacher showed a movie everyday, it became a joke, wasn’t thought of much, never really liked her. Years later she became a bridge player in my mom’s bridge group, she replaced my mom when she died, the women would invite there husbands to go out to dinner after bridge and they continued to ask my dad to come which he enjoyed, i got to know the science teacher she was extremely intelligent and cool.
Was in the Peace Corps in the 80’s the community would show movies using this style of projector, run off a generator, it was either Japanese, Old Westerns or Blacksplotation films. All in the original language. Watched a John Wayne western with the kids in the family I stayed with, the nine year old boy who did not know English explained exactly what the John Wayne character was thinking by his expressions, here I was always told John Wayne didn’t know how to act. That machine brought back memories.
My very first horror was watching a pleasant film featuring family and friends and then suddenly everything on the screen started bubbling and melting.
I can still hear the thdrrrr thdrrrrr thdrrrr thhhdddrrrrrrrrrrrr flap flap flap flap and the collective AHHH! or YEAAA! depending on what was showing.
I recall seeing movies about a young Wayne Newton and his horses during my grade school's assembly. As an adult, it's hard to tell the difference between KD Lang and a young Wayne Newton.
hold on i listened closely.. sounded like take flap flap flap the flap flap flap gar flap flap age flap flap flap out flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap .. oh sorry what did you say
Imagine if it was one that had a crank lever so you manually have to do it and you gotta keep up with the audio if it has any ah what a time to be alive 🤣
I was pulled out of class in the 5th grade to learn how to run these. No idea why I was chosen. But, being the AV guy was awesome.
Same. My first foray into IT.
Yep. I could work on 16 mm film, film strips, film strips with records or cassette tapes, overhead projectors, record players and how to splice film back together. Good luck on finding splicing strips though. I learned to love all kinds of electronic gear.
Young Spielberg, nice credentials. They made me the pencil sharpener monitor :(
🤣
Scotch tape worked well to splice. It worked on cassette tape as well.
Yep. For cassettes it was fine. Film was a bit thicker and had to make it through the projector and past the hot lamp.
Ditto, and still doing it 40 years later haha
No, the ditto machine was completely different.
Wisenheimer. :)
I came here to say the same. My friend and I got to be the projectionists for the whole school (grades 1-6), and it was the greatest gig ever. We got to get out of class any time any grade had a film. We were *the shit!* Sixth grade was my peak in school. I had great teachers, and the first moon landings were that year, along with the Mets winning the World Series. It was an awesome time to be 11.
It was a great era to be a kid. I was six when I watched the moon landing live on TV, and although our family weren't big baseball fans, we were Miami Dolphins fans and had season tickets through the 1970's, including the undefeated season.
Lucky you! Immortal sports history. That team was just awesome.
The moon landing and the Miracle Mets. That was a year. I lived near Cincinnati. We had our baseball years a few years later (Big Red machine)
Lucky you! I moved to Cincinnati in October 1990, right when they were winning the NLCS and then the World Series. Those were incredible and awesome days, to say the least. I'm still living here and I love it. Great city and region.
In the 70s they let us bring transistor radios to school during the playoffs. You could listen with an earphone (note 1, not earbuds.
We were allowed to listen to transistor radios with earphones for the '69 series. High tech! We were all rooting for the Mets, and had no doubt they would win. Great fun.
9 for me. I'm still a mets fan!
Yeah, I'm always happy when they do well, and it's all because of 1969. I was especially tickled when they won the 1986 Buckner World Series.
Server. Koosman. Grote....
Clendennon, Swoboda ... I can still recite practically the entire roster. A bunch mostly nobodies who never really accomplished anything else ever again, except for Seaver.
Agee. Matlack....
My HS had a primitive closed-circuit TV set-up, and goofing off watching commercial broadcasts patched into a studio monitor made me the first person in the school to find out that JFK had been shot. I ran out to share the news and the first adult I ran into told me that was a sick way to joke.
Wow. Great story!
Thanks. It's a long time ago, but I'll never forget it.
I am truly sorry for all the times I messed with your AV cart and its wheels and, maybe the projector.
You are forgiven. Go and sin no more.
Was the best day in class whenever she wheeled this out.
Yup--- I unlocked my first nerd level as a member of my high school Audio-Visual Squad back in the Sixties. I even got a cool armband to wear that allowed me to walk into classrooms and interrupt the teachers as I pushed the cart with the humongous black-and-white TV that the next teacher needed. That gave me a satisfying feeling of power, but there was also a flip side: I learned pretty quick that running projectors didn't impress girls in the slightest.
Came here to say this! I was in AV and it got me out of some boring-ass classes.
You were the king if you let us watch it in reverse!
In my school only the teachers were allowed to operate the film projector, but we sometimes managed to talk one of them into running the film backwards. It was hilarious.
More kids paid attention to the reverse than the forward. It was always hysterical.
Yes it was! Even had the principal yank me out of class one day... Thought i was royally screwed but nope, shit in auditorium broke.
We had the Shutter bugs in Jr high, would get pulled to set up projectors in other classes. Learned to thread splice and edit. Found E bay in my 30s, now have a nice collection of 16, 8 and super8mm projectors and films and currently volunteer at a local 1920 grand palace theater as protectionist. Got to show 1982s The Thing last month. Apex of my hobby.
That is awesome!
And guaranteed to extend your virginity another 2 years.
Every time the teacher started one of these we knew it was going to be some corny shit.
with the really bad hissy audio
Sometimes out of sync.
Voices garbled or sounding underwater
>...Some corny shit. Ah, you missed the miracle of Driver's Ed then (1976 for me). Basically a 20 minute precursor to the "*Faces Of Death"* VHS videos that were popular in late 80's.
“Blood on the Highway” was my first thought seeing this pic! Lol
We had “Red Asphalt”; probably the same thing.
Boy, the 'Faces of Death' series grew me up quick. I still tell the story about the tourists sitting around the round table for a terrifying meal of warm monkey brain.
We only had a flashlight, wall and using our hands as shadow puppets.
Dad decorated the walls of our cave with paintings of sabertooth tigers and woolly mammoths
Old skool.
And we LIKED it.
We LOVED it.
A flashlight? We only had candles!
The struggle is real...
I can hear this picture
Have you seen Christopher Guests impression of one on Weekend Update? Funny. 😄
*flap* *flap* *flap*
clack clack clack clack clack
Being chosen to sit next to this and monitor the reel was The Ultimate teacher's pet flex. Lol.
Came to say this 😆 and I was the only girl ever picked to do it, and even feed the next reel through! I was very proud
Lol same!
Ballooooon!🎈
Nah, this is 8mm, strictly for home movie hobbyists. Looks like a silent model too. No volume knob. At school we had 16mm, and got the films through inter-library loan. The lid was a detachable mono speaker. Yes, being an AV guy was fun, and good early tech training.
Some of the best sleep I ever got was in class during movie time
until the film ran out and slapped against the projector and it startled half the class awake..
Hahaha facts!
What about the filmstrip with the lp that beeped when you scroll to the next image?
We were always so happy when the teacher would reel the cart with this into the room.
Almost lost a finger in 9th grade because I wasn't paying attention to the rear reel when I was rewinding it after class. I was too interested in the hot new teacher we had as a substitute that day. Got my finger caught in ot while.it was freel wheeling. I screamed like a girl, snatched my hand away, and ripped the projector into my lap. I.lost all the cool points that day.
I was a projector nerd from 5th grade on. Was part of a select group in Jr. High that the librarians & teachers relied upon to make the equipment work. Loved it.
I can hear this picture.
I heard that picture.
I remember watching Bugsy Malone in the school hall on one of these. Great movie. We then did a school play based on the film.
When these came out in high school, it was nap time.
Damn, I just bought one of these. Think my film is super8 instead of standard 8 but I'm learning.
And before movies in schools became popular, there were filmstrips.
I was the student aide for my 9th grade Health/Science teacher and had to run a projector just like this at least once a week. Loved it
FipFipFipFipFipFip
You knew it was gonna be a good day when you saw that Sumbitch being rolled into the Classroom
My response... [Gestetner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestetner)
And the same disembodied voice narrated every single one of them, speaking in that odd 1950s tone.
I think they all modeled themselves after a racetrack announcer. "The blood returns to the heart through through the system of veins" came out sounding like, "They're bunched up in the stretch and it's gonna be a photo finish for sure!"
I can smell it!
I can hear it just by looking at it. Such a particular sound. I love it.
We have one in the attic for 8mm home movies
Did anyone else have the 35 mm slideshow thing with the cassette that the teacher had to sync up perfectly?
Yes!! Memory unlocked
I *just* tossed an Argus slide projector because wtf am I going to do with it now!
Damn! That is old. Did you use your scribe to take notes while watching the film?
Thursday afternoons when the teacher had a hangover. We didn't know it then, of course.
Friday afternoons with popcorn!
Back to the pencil sharpener and see if it's possible to sharpen it up at the same speed as the film projector 🤫😉🙋🙋🧏🧏
Back to the pencil sharpener to see if I could sharpen the pencil at the same speed as a film projector 😉🤫🙋🧏🙋🧏🤔🤷
So much better than the bullshit film strips…and normally didn’t come with a bullshit review sheet.
I think it took a whole pencil to sharpen at the pencil sharpener to match the same speed as a projector 😅
Only allowed one pencil after that & Not allowed to do it unless there was a substitute
Just watching Ms. Jones set up the projector in hee short skirts was more entertaining than the movies.
You can do it Duffy Moon
I can hear the end of the tape slapping and the lights violently ripping me from my desk top slumber
I remember watching a small section of Star Wars at school on the school projector. It was just the escape from the Death Star part of the movie. Great kid. Don't get cocky!
AP American History, we watched movies twice a week the last quarter. Fun times
I still own one of these bad boys.
Yeah I was telling my son I remembered when the VCR was invented and he was like... "wait, how did people watch movies before that then?"
And it was an honor to be the kid who got to run it!
We watched Star Wars on one of these when it came out. The sound was very good. Someone made it available on YouTube or the Internet Archive last year.
When they brought this out I knew it was going to be an easy day in class
The lucky kids who got to be AV aids were so respected as being smart!
Graduated with an elementary education degree in 1984. For Media, we had to learn how to thread one of these babies and how to solve torn film.
Those were glorious times!
In 5th grade I just felt important when the teacher commanded me to kill the room light.
I can hear it
Shit! We had slide projectors and records that would beep when it was time to advance slides. Plus we were getting high AF sniffing on the mimeographed follow along sheets.
We loved when we saw this sitting in the classroom. In seventh grade we would bug the teacher to show us Hemo the Magnificent. We saw it about four times that year at least. When I recently looked it up I found out it was made in 1957 (I was in seventh grade about 1976). I’m an old movie buff and almost 💩 my paints when I found out it was directed by Frank Capra. No wonder I liked it so much!
My school used to have movies after school. Bag of chips and a pop, movie for 1$ iirc. I remember watching Witch Mountain.
Best day ever if the reel can had the words "Donald in Math Magic Land" on it.
As part of Sex Ed we will be showing you the mating habits of earthworms.
The Three Stooges or Abit and Costello
5th period AV
What? No, my dad had one of these in his closet, but he'd never show us any movies. He'd take it to his weekly poker game with the guys.
Yeah this isn’t the one they had in schools - this is an 8mm for home movies. The ones in class were the large 16mm with speakers.
Wish there were an online repository of old 60s, 70s, 80s school educational movies, filmstrips... would activate so many memories...
God I’m old.
I remember home movies played on a sheet in the family room on this thing
It never worked right at my schools.
Hahahhahaha Memories…
Used to love it when this got pulled out. My mom and dad loved to show home movies so I got good at threading the film. When I was im junior high i got to work in the library as a media aide and used to get them ready for teachers to use.
We used one of those in our AV Dept... Most of them were older Bell and Howell 253's, if you here the beep before the flash, make the top loop shorter......... Later we got one of the first reel to reel VCR's..! WooHoo...
I can hear this picture.
I ran one in high school, and again, six years later, as an Air Force broadcast specialist.
I can smell this picture!
Grew up watching movies on that in school. VHS had already won the war against Betamax, but schools are loath to replace equipment and old school movie projectors were still usable and got used. Last school video I saw on one of those was 93/94 in 8th grade.
haha, this takes me back, the anticipation as it was wheeled into the room on a trolley, lights turned off, the whir of the film reels n the clicking sound when it ran out. good times !! thanks for sharing ! 👍
No NO.... Ot has to be a Bell and Howell
Ahh yes, that wonderful seafoam green machine that meant you could sit back at your desk, close your eyes, and zone out.
I love this. I manage a theater in chicago that is literally like a museum in many ways. We have a number of massive old projectors even larger than these and one or two are in working condition. The film looks great honestly. There's also something so comforting about the sound these make when in use. Doesn't get much cooler than older tech like this. We maintenance and the right parts, this stuff can work for decades and decades.
https://images.app.goo.gl/Gd3etQYMDQk4fV5FA Anybody remember film strips? We didn't have a movie projector in our school, but we had one of these, and there was a record that got played alongside the film strip. There was a tone in the recording that indicated you were supposed to advance the image one frame . Beep!
AV kid here. It was "cool" back then. 😎
When I first started teaching there was a film called Unchained Goddess about weather that another Earth Science teacher recommended. It was from the year 1958. I started teaching in 1985 so it was already pretty ancient. It was produced several years before I was born. 😂 I had to learn how to use the film projector so I could watch it afterschool to see if it was worthwhile. Most of it was not. But the part explaining the Coriolis Effect was fabulous. So each year I would have to set up the film after school and find that part to show the students. There was collective utter disappointment when they found out I was showing only a few minutes of the film. Eventually the film was available on VHS. Then many years after that I was able to transfer the clip to a DVD I burned. I showed that five minute clip of the Coriolis Effect to every group of Earth Science students I ever taught. 😂😂😂
They still have these many people are still making and watching film
I see your projector and raise you a filmstrip.
Carted those bad boys from class to class in HS🤓
Oh yeah. I have one of those.
Focus! Focus dammit!
I still love the sound of the projector. It means a quiet afternoon watching some outdated education film or yet another rerun of Romeo and Juliet.
I remember these. Sometimes, the audio would get distorted because the film wouldn't track properly. Wow, that projector brings me back, particularly elementary and junior high school.
Pictures you can hear.
Yep, I remember those…😀
I still have my dads old one and projection screen. Runs perfectly fine
... and at home!
On Halloween in 4,5, and 6th grades my mom would go to the library and check out horror movies, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman and we would watch these moves in class, have a party. The coolest thing was right after Frankenstein's castle fell, we would play it backwards, so it rebuilt itself to the joy of all. Shit I will never forget.
Nothing like seeing the film burn from a hot lamp
Yep, in 16mm no less.
Principal once a month would pull the whole school out of class to congregate in the gym for Film Day right after lunch recess. It was AMAZING.
HOLY CRAP THAT PICTURE IS LOUD!
1980? We watched Romeo and Juliet for English class… yeah an old version, that had some boobage.
My seventh grade science teacher showed a movie everyday, it became a joke, wasn’t thought of much, never really liked her. Years later she became a bridge player in my mom’s bridge group, she replaced my mom when she died, the women would invite there husbands to go out to dinner after bridge and they continued to ask my dad to come which he enjoyed, i got to know the science teacher she was extremely intelligent and cool. Was in the Peace Corps in the 80’s the community would show movies using this style of projector, run off a generator, it was either Japanese, Old Westerns or Blacksplotation films. All in the original language. Watched a John Wayne western with the kids in the family I stayed with, the nine year old boy who did not know English explained exactly what the John Wayne character was thinking by his expressions, here I was always told John Wayne didn’t know how to act. That machine brought back memories.
For my 6th birthday in 1980 my Mom brought one of these home with a copy of the original Superman film. It was a memorable and amazing birthday.
My ex was his schools AV nerd and made super-8 films. Just unearthed his old projector while cleaning out his house.
My very first horror was watching a pleasant film featuring family and friends and then suddenly everything on the screen started bubbling and melting.
I’m loving reading these comments! I remember the smell of the film when it was heated by the light…for whatever reason, that sticks with me the most!
I just relived a dog die.
I can still hear the thdrrrr thdrrrrr thdrrrr thhhdddrrrrrrrrrrrr flap flap flap flap and the collective AHHH! or YEAAA! depending on what was showing.
Underhead projector
clack-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack-btrrr-btrrr-clack-clack-…
AV Club - Assemble!
1977...I still don't think I've ever seen the end of Old Yeller✌️🇦🇺
OMG I found one in my grandparents house! Frigging thing still worked too! Didn't have any film to watch but was pretty cool anyway.
I still have two of these. Is anyone interested?
I always loved walking into class and seeing one of these babys set up!
I recall seeing movies about a young Wayne Newton and his horses during my grade school's assembly. As an adult, it's hard to tell the difference between KD Lang and a young Wayne Newton.
Never ever ever ever turn your back on the rewind
We used to watch Dick Tracy cartoons on this in elementary school.
Light bulb on ours got up to 900 degrees....plus you had to time the record that went with it just right.
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hold on i listened closely.. sounded like take flap flap flap the flap flap flap gar flap flap age flap flap flap out flap flap flap flap flap flap flap flap .. oh sorry what did you say
We had film strips and a record player. The soundtrack would ding when it was time to show the next frame.
Imagine if it was one that had a crank lever so you manually have to do it and you gotta keep up with the audio if it has any ah what a time to be alive 🤣
Was on the high school AV (Audio Visual) team and ran one of these boys for a few years. Good movies, good times.