Yes,I had a Give A show projector as well.It is too bad an AC adaptor was not available for them.I have a few 16MM "classroom" type portable projectors-one being a surplus DeVry model used by the Army.I have a couple of films to run-old Army First aid shows.I have a portable 35MM Holmes projector-it weighs about 100lbs,and MANY boxes of 35MM film trailers that came from movie theaters.but alas no sound preamp for my holmes and no rewinder.The Holmes was sold as a set-the projector,sound preamp-amp-and a speaker.Would love to have the other parts.some have even put digital soundheads in the Holmes to run modern 35MM movies.The Holmes has a 750Watt incandescent lamp in it.
8mm Movie Film "Magi-Cartridge"
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passatdoc
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slide conversions
Speaking of dating ourselves, my father's closets are filled with 100+ carousels of 35 mm slides, from the 1950s to the 1980s. He didn't convert to print film until the 1980s. Since his projector long ago died, no one has been able to view these treasures.
For Father's Day, I bought him an Image Box slide scanner from Costco. It's USB powered but fairly bulky. You load four slides at a time in a cassette, then advance the cassette into the scanner to the first slide. Scan, advance, scan, advance, etc.
Loading and unloading the cassettes actually consumes the most time, not the scanning itself. I had my father order two more cassettes from the manufacturer, so he can load/unload while I am scanning. I can scan about 100 slides (one carousel) in about 40 minutes with an assistant (dad).
What I REALLY like about the supplied software is that you assign a name for a group of photos (say, "1973-10 London" where Oct 1973 is the date of the photos) and it:
1. Automatically creates a folder for this group, using the name you chose
2. Automatically names and SEQUENTIALLY numbers each image, e.g. 1973-10 London 001, 1973-10 London 002, 1973-10 London 003, etc.). What I dreaded most was having to name 100s of files, but the software does the work for me.
Image quality is excellent. Attached is a photo of the 1974 Spokane World's Fair. Original scan is 2.5 MB and resolution looks almost digital. I have reduced the file size to 50 KB for use on this board, but the full size version looks stunning. I noticed a major improvement between a set of photos he took in Japan (1973) and the Spokane photos; this may have resulted from his having bought a new camera with better lenses.
Speaking of dating ourselves, my father's closets are filled with 100+ carousels of 35 mm slides, from the 1950s to the 1980s. He didn't convert to print film until the 1980s. Since his projector long ago died, no one has been able to view these treasures.
For Father's Day, I bought him an Image Box slide scanner from Costco. It's USB powered but fairly bulky. You load four slides at a time in a cassette, then advance the cassette into the scanner to the first slide. Scan, advance, scan, advance, etc.
Loading and unloading the cassettes actually consumes the most time, not the scanning itself. I had my father order two more cassettes from the manufacturer, so he can load/unload while I am scanning. I can scan about 100 slides (one carousel) in about 40 minutes with an assistant (dad).
What I REALLY like about the supplied software is that you assign a name for a group of photos (say, "1973-10 London" where Oct 1973 is the date of the photos) and it:
1. Automatically creates a folder for this group, using the name you chose
2. Automatically names and SEQUENTIALLY numbers each image, e.g. 1973-10 London 001, 1973-10 London 002, 1973-10 London 003, etc.). What I dreaded most was having to name 100s of files, but the software does the work for me.
Image quality is excellent. Attached is a photo of the 1974 Spokane World's Fair. Original scan is 2.5 MB and resolution looks almost digital. I have reduced the file size to 50 KB for use on this board, but the full size version looks stunning. I noticed a major improvement between a set of photos he took in Japan (1973) and the Spokane photos; this may have resulted from his having bought a new camera with better lenses.
passatdoc
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just for Foraloysius.....
Here it is: Canisius College/Mater Dei Gymnasium in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands! I was in school under the supervision of the Jesuits.
"Goedemorgen, Vader...."
(we had a priest for physics, a former nun for English, and a brother for religion...I knew better than to discuss the recent "Roe v Wade" court decision in the USA, the one that legalized abortion).
Having attended public schools in California my entire life, it took a little time to become used to seeing a crucifix in every classroom.
Unlike USA Catholic schools, there were no required uniforms at Canisius/Mater Dei. When I described the typical attire for Catholic schools in USA (pleated skirts and white blouses for girls, shirts and ties for boys) they thought I was inventing the story. Little did they know.....
Note: the original slide was taken with my c.1969 Kodak Instamatic. I believe the film size was 35 mm, but it was a fixed focus point and shoot lens and the film was contained in a cartridge. This one is at full resolution vs. the Spokane photo which I downsized from 2.5 MB to 50 KB. Instamatics had a slightly narrower aspect ratio than true 35 mm, hence the dark bars on either side of the photo. The scanner fills in the gaps with dark bars when the image is smaller than a standard 35 mm slide. If you remember prints from the old days, they were almost square rather than rectangular, probably to fit instamatic film images.
PS I know that Canisius was the "Atheneum" part of the school, and Mater Dei was the "gymnasium" part of the school. They may have been separate at one time and eventually had to merge to survive as government curricula changed. At that time, Atheneum offered a classical education with Greek and Latin. Gymnasium students studied modern languages without the Greek and Latin. Otherwise, the other academic subjects appeared the same, and I am pretty sure that students from both halves in the school were mixed in math and science and social studies classes, even though they studied languages separately.
By the way, the chemistry teacher smoked right in class, as he was teaching. And the students didn't even seem to notice "what's wrong with this picture".
Here it is: Canisius College/Mater Dei Gymnasium in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands! I was in school under the supervision of the Jesuits.
"Goedemorgen, Vader...."
(we had a priest for physics, a former nun for English, and a brother for religion...I knew better than to discuss the recent "Roe v Wade" court decision in the USA, the one that legalized abortion).
Having attended public schools in California my entire life, it took a little time to become used to seeing a crucifix in every classroom.
Unlike USA Catholic schools, there were no required uniforms at Canisius/Mater Dei. When I described the typical attire for Catholic schools in USA (pleated skirts and white blouses for girls, shirts and ties for boys) they thought I was inventing the story. Little did they know.....
Note: the original slide was taken with my c.1969 Kodak Instamatic. I believe the film size was 35 mm, but it was a fixed focus point and shoot lens and the film was contained in a cartridge. This one is at full resolution vs. the Spokane photo which I downsized from 2.5 MB to 50 KB. Instamatics had a slightly narrower aspect ratio than true 35 mm, hence the dark bars on either side of the photo. The scanner fills in the gaps with dark bars when the image is smaller than a standard 35 mm slide. If you remember prints from the old days, they were almost square rather than rectangular, probably to fit instamatic film images.
PS I know that Canisius was the "Atheneum" part of the school, and Mater Dei was the "gymnasium" part of the school. They may have been separate at one time and eventually had to merge to survive as government curricula changed. At that time, Atheneum offered a classical education with Greek and Latin. Gymnasium students studied modern languages without the Greek and Latin. Otherwise, the other academic subjects appeared the same, and I am pretty sure that students from both halves in the school were mixed in math and science and social studies classes, even though they studied languages separately.
By the way, the chemistry teacher smoked right in class, as he was teaching. And the students didn't even seem to notice "what's wrong with this picture".
Thanks for the picture.
BTW, Atheneum was the part without Greek and Latin, Gymnasium included those languages.
Smoking in the classroom was pretty normal in those days. I once was sent to get an asstray for a teacher. I got sent back by the rector who told me to tell her that she shouldn't smoke before the third hour. LOL
BTW, Atheneum was the part without Greek and Latin, Gymnasium included those languages.
Smoking in the classroom was pretty normal in those days. I once was sent to get an asstray for a teacher. I got sent back by the rector who told me to tell her that she shouldn't smoke before the third hour. LOL
Louis, dear
I think you dropped an "h" somewhere.
Love and laughter,
Lawrence/Maytagbear
I think you dropped an "h" somewhere.
Love and laughter,
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Thank you Lawrence
My mind was in the gutter I bet. LOL
My mind was in the gutter I bet. LOL
passatdoc
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even worse, Louis.....
Check out these links. GVD!
http://www.katholieknederland.nl/actualiteit/2010/detail_objectID708071_FJaar2010.html
http://www.katholieknederland.nl/actualiteit/2010/detail_objectID707982_FJaar2010.html
NO ONE in Nijmegen sent me these links....most likely they are in denial that anything happened (my host parents would have gone on the warpath, but they are deceased. I'm referring to my friends' parents, the families with eight kids, all of whom went to Canisius-Mater Dei).
Canisius was the first Jesuit VWO in Holland and the second Catholic VWO in the country. When I attended, it was called Canisius-Mater Dei due to the merger of all-boys Canisius and all-girls Mater Dei (before the merger, the schools had different closing times so the boys and girls would not mingle on the street...) in 1965. By my era, the school had been "integrated" for eight years.
Thanks for correcting me on which program was for classical studies and which one was for modern language studies. Question: unless someone wanted to be a priest or archaeologist, why would someone study the Gymnasium program? WOuldn't the Athenaeum program be more practical for most people? The other thing I always found confusing was that to me, "Athenaeum" suggested ancient Athenian studies (Greek, etc.) and so I always thought that Athenaeum was the classics program. The other confusing thing is that in most other northern European countries, "gymnasium" means university-preparatory secondary school, including the modern language and science programs that in Holland mean "Athenaeum". People in say Germany or Sweden don't realize that "gymnasium" students in Holland study Dutch, English, Latin, and Greek. Sounds like a fast track to become a priest or something!
In some länder of Germany, gymnasium students do study Latin, in lieu of a modern language, so they emerge with maybe German, English, and Latin, but it's not as heavily oriented toward ancient studies as the Dutch version.
By the way, Canisius still had a huge "internaat" building on the campus when I was there, but I was never certain if any students actually lived there anymore. "Internaat" in this case, for people reading this other than Louis, didn't mean an early form of "internet" but rather a boarding school, the students were "interned" in dormitories. The school we are discussing transitioned from an old fashioned boarding school (in this case, Jesuit Catholic on top of everything else) to a day school.
Maybe I should also explain for those other than Louis that in Holland, schools are funded by the government and all follow a standardized course of studies. Religion is taught in those school with a historic religious affiliation, so for maybe 2-3 hours a week, the students follow a religion course that teaches (in the case of this school) Catholic theology, but otherwise the courses are similar to what one would encounter in a non-Catholic school. Of course, my host parents always said the Catholic schools were better because they were STRICTER, and in those days they probably were right.
The links above relate to a recent (April 2010) sexual abuse scandal at the school I attended.
As a Californian at Canisius, I was a minor celebrity because one of California's two Senators, John Tunney, was married to a graduate of the school (well, of the Mater Dei portion), Mieke Tunney:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=isch:1
They couldn't tell you anything about Tunney's political views or biography, but EVERYONE knew that Mieke Tunney had attended Canisius-Mater Dei. The LIFE photo above was from when Tunney was elected as a Representative to Congress, about 1964. In 1970, he was elected to the Senate. However, in 1972, she filed for divorce from him. This was not news in California and I wasn't even aware of it (the news media back then regarded this as the private business of politicians, and I agree) and you can bet that NO ONE in Nijmegen knew about it. They were still going around saying that California's Senator's wife was from Nijmegen and Mater Dei. What they didn't know is that their divorce proceedings were pending in the California court system.....
Check out these links. GVD!
http://www.katholieknederland.nl/actualiteit/2010/detail_objectID708071_FJaar2010.html
http://www.katholieknederland.nl/actualiteit/2010/detail_objectID707982_FJaar2010.html
NO ONE in Nijmegen sent me these links....most likely they are in denial that anything happened (my host parents would have gone on the warpath, but they are deceased. I'm referring to my friends' parents, the families with eight kids, all of whom went to Canisius-Mater Dei).
Canisius was the first Jesuit VWO in Holland and the second Catholic VWO in the country. When I attended, it was called Canisius-Mater Dei due to the merger of all-boys Canisius and all-girls Mater Dei (before the merger, the schools had different closing times so the boys and girls would not mingle on the street...) in 1965. By my era, the school had been "integrated" for eight years.
Thanks for correcting me on which program was for classical studies and which one was for modern language studies. Question: unless someone wanted to be a priest or archaeologist, why would someone study the Gymnasium program? WOuldn't the Athenaeum program be more practical for most people? The other thing I always found confusing was that to me, "Athenaeum" suggested ancient Athenian studies (Greek, etc.) and so I always thought that Athenaeum was the classics program. The other confusing thing is that in most other northern European countries, "gymnasium" means university-preparatory secondary school, including the modern language and science programs that in Holland mean "Athenaeum". People in say Germany or Sweden don't realize that "gymnasium" students in Holland study Dutch, English, Latin, and Greek. Sounds like a fast track to become a priest or something!
In some länder of Germany, gymnasium students do study Latin, in lieu of a modern language, so they emerge with maybe German, English, and Latin, but it's not as heavily oriented toward ancient studies as the Dutch version.
By the way, Canisius still had a huge "internaat" building on the campus when I was there, but I was never certain if any students actually lived there anymore. "Internaat" in this case, for people reading this other than Louis, didn't mean an early form of "internet" but rather a boarding school, the students were "interned" in dormitories. The school we are discussing transitioned from an old fashioned boarding school (in this case, Jesuit Catholic on top of everything else) to a day school.
Maybe I should also explain for those other than Louis that in Holland, schools are funded by the government and all follow a standardized course of studies. Religion is taught in those school with a historic religious affiliation, so for maybe 2-3 hours a week, the students follow a religion course that teaches (in the case of this school) Catholic theology, but otherwise the courses are similar to what one would encounter in a non-Catholic school. Of course, my host parents always said the Catholic schools were better because they were STRICTER, and in those days they probably were right.
The links above relate to a recent (April 2010) sexual abuse scandal at the school I attended.
As a Californian at Canisius, I was a minor celebrity because one of California's two Senators, John Tunney, was married to a graduate of the school (well, of the Mater Dei portion), Mieke Tunney:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=isch:1
They couldn't tell you anything about Tunney's political views or biography, but EVERYONE knew that Mieke Tunney had attended Canisius-Mater Dei. The LIFE photo above was from when Tunney was elected as a Representative to Congress, about 1964. In 1970, he was elected to the Senate. However, in 1972, she filed for divorce from him. This was not news in California and I wasn't even aware of it (the news media back then regarded this as the private business of politicians, and I agree) and you can bet that NO ONE in Nijmegen knew about it. They were still going around saying that California's Senator's wife was from Nijmegen and Mater Dei. What they didn't know is that their divorce proceedings were pending in the California court system.....
Jim,
Since this is not the appropriate forum to talk about this and we certainly don't want to highjack this thread about the Magi Cartridge I will send you a mail. Continueing a discussion in the DL Forum is ok with me too.
Louis
Since this is not the appropriate forum to talk about this and we certainly don't want to highjack this thread about the Magi Cartridge I will send you a mail. Continueing a discussion in the DL Forum is ok with me too.
Louis
I vaguely remember being shown a cartridge educational film. Think it was in the mid-80's, probably a computer electronics class at a local community college. As I recall, the graphics were laughable. I think they used those plastic stick-on art shapes that were popular in the 50's. I think they were called Colorforms...
I can sort of remember "colorforms" type things used in school-letters,numbers,shapes-that sort of thing the teacher or students would stick to a special board.Also during the 50's-60's and into the 70's TV weathermen would use similar things to show weather forecasts on TV.Now I miss those.The computer generated forms and maps are too boring!
Veering Off Topic Myself . . .
We had a weather girl here in the late 60's and early 70's who would stand behind a clear plexiglas map with a white marker of some kind. She'd hand-write all of the temperatures backwards. Of course, the 1's and 8's she could do the same but she almost never made a mistake. They had a back-up weather girl who had to learn how to do it too. I think all the other channels had weather men, and they all stood in front of the map and wrote temps and made boxes and weather fronts with a black marker.
We had a weather girl here in the late 60's and early 70's who would stand behind a clear plexiglas map with a white marker of some kind. She'd hand-write all of the temperatures backwards. Of course, the 1's and 8's she could do the same but she almost never made a mistake. They had a back-up weather girl who had to learn how to do it too. I think all the other channels had weather men, and they all stood in front of the map and wrote temps and made boxes and weather fronts with a black marker.
