We saw a filmstrip in class today. How was it? Ok, I guess. I slept through most of it and woke up in a pool of my own drool. What was the filmstrip about? Water safety, I think.
Wow – filmstrips. Do they still have the slide viewer machines to show them? Figure they just burn that junk to DVD and show it on the TV these days. Next he will talking about mimmo-graph copies.
A filmstrip? I didn’t know they still made those! @x_tech, yeah, I remember those awful things. Then you would play a record on the record player, and hope that it synched up with the picture. I hated them. :-(
Film strips were wonderful freeze frame movies weren’t they. Those mimeograph copies packed a good pund indeed. Bet they would be considered toxic by todays standards.We had film strips and Mimeograph both in early 1970s
Ah, yes, those machines with like vertical Give-a-Show Projector slides… each time the record went “boop”, the lucky projectionist kid hit the button for the next slide. Kinda like Powerpoint 1968 version…
comicgos over 12 years ago
LOL – once when I was a kid I woke up in a pool of drool and I was dreaming it was flooding!
Catfeet Premium Member over 12 years ago
Good thing it wasn’t a “Titanic” filmstrip, Red…that would bring on oceans of drool!
Agent54 over 12 years ago
Wow – filmstrips. Do they still have the slide viewer machines to show them? Figure they just burn that junk to DVD and show it on the TV these days. Next he will talking about mimmo-graph copies.
x_Tech over 12 years ago
Who remembers these?
GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago
For me to wake up in a pool of drool, I’d have to be dreaming of pork ribs or something like it.
Noel Schatz Premium Member over 12 years ago
Filmstrip? What year is this?
gmforde over 12 years ago
A filmstrip? I didn’t know they still made those! @x_tech, yeah, I remember those awful things. Then you would play a record on the record player, and hope that it synched up with the picture. I hated them. :-(
hippogriff over 12 years ago
Not to mention the ERPI movies which brought snickers and giggles every opening credit.
TexMichael over 12 years ago
Film strips were wonderful freeze frame movies weren’t they. Those mimeograph copies packed a good pund indeed. Bet they would be considered toxic by todays standards.We had film strips and Mimeograph both in early 1970s
Pygar over 12 years ago
Ah, yes, those machines with like vertical Give-a-Show Projector slides… each time the record went “boop”, the lucky projectionist kid hit the button for the next slide. Kinda like Powerpoint 1968 version…
barron44 Premium Member over 12 years ago
Later filmstrip projectors had a built-in cassette player that syncronized the picture and sound, as well as turning the filmstrip automatically.