mathewhebailey0
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Film cartridges were mostly 8 or super 8mm. Fisher Price,Technicolor & Fairchild are the ones I know most.
Ditto / Mimeograph Machines
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jasonl
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But that's the mystery, it wasn't a motion picture, it was a filmstrip in a little white holder and it would automatically advance along with the tape. I remember the brand being Audix or something like that.
I also remember a weird av thingy made by Hoffman. It had its own screen and it used a 45rpm record and a strip of film (kinda like a GE Show and Tell record/film viewer. You stuck the record into the slot, flipped a lever and watch the show.
I also remember a weird av thingy made by Hoffman. It had its own screen and it used a 45rpm record and a strip of film (kinda like a GE Show and Tell record/film viewer. You stuck the record into the slot, flipped a lever and watch the show.
jasonl
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Charly
Speaking on vintage AV educational stuff, there's the movie "Charly" which was about a mentally challenged person. The real star of the movie was the Seeburg jukebox but there is also a little AV filmstrip thingy that seemed to use some kind of filmstrip and a cassette (or probably an 8 track) tape. A weird kinda movie.
Speaking on vintage AV educational stuff, there's the movie "Charly" which was about a mentally challenged person. The real star of the movie was the Seeburg jukebox but there is also a little AV filmstrip thingy that seemed to use some kind of filmstrip and a cassette (or probably an 8 track) tape. A weird kinda movie.
rinso
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Ah yes, those were the good old days. Nuns and students all high on mimeograph fluid fumes. It was second only to the smell of incense at Novena every Friday. I'm guessing everyone got high on that too.
deeptub
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jasonl: WE had a Hoffman in our grade school! I thought we were the only ones. Nobody I've met since has ever heard of such a thing. We also had two strange machines that I think were called System 8 or System 80 or something. I think thats what they were called, although that name sounds more like a mainframe computer. You put some sort of long ruler-type thingy that had images on it that were projected sequentially. I think it might have been some sort of interactive contraption. Very strange.
jasonl
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Deeptub
YES! That's the one. It looks like a ruler and you stick a 45 in it to make it work.
In middle school I discovered a few similar machines made by Craig and Gould(I think). Yes, the same Craig that made cheap car stereos. They were retired but I plugged them in and played with them hehe.
Again, the 80s killed those funky contraptions with computers. We got an Apple II at school and it was all the rage.
YES! That's the one. It looks like a ruler and you stick a 45 in it to make it work.
In middle school I discovered a few similar machines made by Craig and Gould(I think). Yes, the same Craig that made cheap car stereos. They were retired but I plugged them in and played with them hehe.
Again, the 80s killed those funky contraptions with computers. We got an Apple II at school and it was all the rage.
mathewhebailey0
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I'm thinking the 8 track cartriges that were combined with a 16mm(?) filmstrip cartridge?
8-track cartridge + 16mm film = La Belle Commpak!
The thought of a combination as strange as that got me Googling, and I hit pay dirt (link below).
Also, the RCA and Viewlex "1600" 16mm projectors were the only projectors with a removable automatic threading guide. (RCA introduced the "1600" in the mid-to-late 1960s and later sold the 16mm projector line to Viewlex Audio-Visual sometime in the early 1970s.) I thought it was a great idea as the guide could be removed completely so the projector could be threaded manually. In the numerous times I operated RCA/Viewlex 1600s through high school and college (1977 through around 1983), I don't recall ever using the automatic threading guide once, preferring to thread manually instead.
The thought of a combination as strange as that got me Googling, and I hit pay dirt (link below).
Also, the RCA and Viewlex "1600" 16mm projectors were the only projectors with a removable automatic threading guide. (RCA introduced the "1600" in the mid-to-late 1960s and later sold the 16mm projector line to Viewlex Audio-Visual sometime in the early 1970s.) I thought it was a great idea as the guide could be removed completely so the projector could be threaded manually. In the numerous times I operated RCA/Viewlex 1600s through high school and college (1977 through around 1983), I don't recall ever using the automatic threading guide once, preferring to thread manually instead.
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jasonl
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Anybody remember a machine called "Language Master?" It was a machine that used a paper card with a magnetic strip on it. The card had a word on it and on the strip there were two audio tracks. A "read only" track that contained someone pronouncing the word correctly and a "record" track where you pronounced it and played it back. The card would slide through the machine and it would either playback or record depending on how it's set. Of course, being the 4th graders we were, we pronounced several curse words into the thing and played them back, much to the teacher's chagrin.
