This reminds me of the library in the late 70's. I would spend hours watching those filmstrips with tapes and the huge heavy earphones. Thanks for sharing this!
This definitely brought some memories back here. We had these kind of projectors... I also remember the ones with the big reels of film. I'd love to find some of the history ones I used to watch in the late '70s
I remember filmstrips when I was in school. The teacher can play a tape while following along with the film, just like they did with the Disney Read-Along stories. If you want to use it as a set of slides, you need a Kodak Carousel slide projector to use it. All you have is a scissors and the slide cards to go with the film. I have a Kodak Carousel 650 slide projector that I got for $3 at a yard sale and it still works.
I'm a child of the mid-80's, so these were relics of the recent-past when I was attending school. However, I distinctly remember seeing two or three of these standing on a wooden desk in (of course) the small library we had and I distinctly remember asking the "Librarian" what those were. After explaining them to me, I asked if I could try one. She, sadly, said; "No," and followed up this denial with saying it was too difficult, time-consuming to setup, especially for just a single kid. So that is the extent of MY memory of these things. I never had the opportunity ever again to try these as, shortly thereafter; the school chucked them out and replaced them with Macintosh computers, which I admit was probably the better choice overall. Regardless, thanks for making/uploading this video Todd; it was greatly appreciated as now I feel like I can joyfully close that chapter of my early-childhood.
This did bring back some memories. I remember watching these in the 70s in school. I usually got the job of advancing the projector as we didn't have the automatic kind. VHS was still a bit off from being commonly available by the time I graduated High School, (1980). Thanks for sharing!
I'm 36 and you just pulled something deep from my memory banks! I remember we would jack with the side knob throwing it out of sync. We would then freak out and either hopefully fix it or let it run out in fear of getting in trouble with the teacher.
I remember the ones that would project into a screen. You would put a cassette in. Cassette player and it would also make a sound to let the teacher to change the screen.
LOVE this!! I was born in 70..boy does this bring back memories. When the teacher came into class and told u she has a movie..it was the best!! Nap time..Lol. thnx for posting!!
OMG! I remember these! We used to have library hour on Tuesday's in grade school. I really looked forward to them because I'd get a slide show and watch it on one of these. Ah, the 70s...
for some strange reason. I just been remembering those machine recently and boy, they were neat back in the day. the model I remember was the one where they had the cassette and film strip section would be on the right side of the machine instead of the bottom. they were pretty cool back then.
When I was in elementary school in the mid/late 70's we had these in our library. Man, technology sure has changed! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I love the pace and production value in this old media. The projection technology and incandescent bulb add a lot of warmth to the presentation as well. I graduated in 1998 and remember lots of film strips, reels and slides during my primary education. I feel like I should buy one of these viewers, just to give my daughter the experience.
Thanks for producing these videos. Aside from being extremely informational as I build my own MAME cabinets, it's all a trip down memory lane. Your videos conjure up the sounds and smells of the bowling alleys, pizza joints and mall arcades from my childhood. I live in Hong Kong now, but I've got a sales trip through the US in August, I was thinking of paying you a visit as I pass through PA. Maybe I can bum a little T-molding off you while I'm there (or just buy it). Oddly, that stuff is impossible to find in Hong Kong.
The automatic filmstrip projectors use an intermittent sprocket to advance the film from one frame to the next. The mechanism that turns the sprocket is the same mechanism used in for example the Simplex brand projectors used in theatres.
It's amazing to read that this 'educational delivery system' (filmstrips) were still used through the 1990s! I remember filmstrips having accompanying audio narrative from early grade school (mid 70s) through 1983. It was a 'fun' day when we had a movie set up in our room in grade school, but it wasn't fun in high school, because we were expected to pay attention and take notes during the film. Ugh. And THEN when VHS became the default, remember the large television screens (tm) were installed on the TOP SHELF of a heavy rolling wheel steel rack? I think I saw a few of these carts topple over when whomever was pushing the cart would push a little too hard, and CRASH the television would smash into the ground.
Yes...there were lots of those stories...when I was growing up, we started with movies projected ina darkened room on a large screen...and then the projector ended up in front of room sideways projecting on a mirror into a box...with a 30 inch screen...so much smaller and was done with lights on in room so teacher could keep an eye on the kids
I remember my kindergarten days in the 90s we called library day the school didn't have tv one but the one next to it. Thanks for the best nostalgia ever
I realize this is an older video and don't know if you read comments on videos close to 7 years old. I just wanted to say that you have to be my long lost brother. Besides my love for Pinball and Arcade machines, owning a few since the mid 80s, I was also big into 16MM film collecting, Up until a few years ago I sold my entire collection. I don't want to say for how much as I'm still kicking myself for selling everything. The collection consisted of over 100 features, many TV shows, (from the 50s, 60s, and 70s) Many Cartoons, Educational Films and more. I also included 6 16MM projectors ( 3 Elmos, 2 Eikis, 1 B&H ) 2 Rewinder sets, an Editor, and a Scope Lens. Several Features were on Eastman stock with most still holding their color and with minimal Color loss. Whenever possible I would try to buy Features on Fuji stock. I've been showing movies on a permanent large screen in my backyard since the late 90s. I sold the Films to purchase a higher end Digital projector so the picture and sound would be better and a larger selection of titles. Everyone that comes to my shows tell me they miss the old school way of showing movies. I would include drive-in count down clocks and trailers. I hope to go back to 16MM someday.My love for Film goes back to the early 70s when I was a kid. I bought a few super 8MM B&W silent Films because they were cheaper than color. I didn't even own a projector at that time as I was intrigued by the look of a film reel, and the thought that it took 24 frames to equal 1 second of movement. Younger people will never get the excitement of holding a film reel and the smell of film and I'm not talking about the dreaded Vinegar syndrome smell.Another thing that makes me feel like you are my long lost brother is the fact we are close to the same age, and I had Heart bypass surgery shortly before you did. I apologize for this long comment but I love talking film to fellow film lovers.
i remember seeing a film in kindergarten, the 95-96 school year, and he strip from what I remember, one line was "don't look directly at the sun the sun is brighter than you think''
I remember these in the 1980s in elementary school. I remember the teacher kept on mixing up the tape and film. I think 50% of the time it was about the episode where three things receive the wrong birthday gift and the episode ended with the things singing "Happy birthday to us."
Thank you for this information. This was very interesting and brought back many memories for me. I was born in 1961 and I remember how much fun I had looking at film strips when I was in elementary school in Durham NC.
When I was in elementary school in the early 90's, these were out in our library. The teacher did not operate these, we did during our designated library time. There were two or three out on a table with headphones, and a shelf full of film available film strips.
I graduated in 99 and filmstrips were still used occasionally even while I was in High School. Wow, Dukane is still in business I didn't expect that :)
You did!! Funny thing I rarely play games anymore and do not watch videos about games. Something about the nostalgia and presentation keeps me watching and enjoying.. I would love to get my hands on some of the classics and start a man cave..
had them at my library, first half of the 80s -- I would use them weekly. The only one I remember watching was War of the Worlds. Those used cassettes.
wow blast from the past, I remember those! (especially the 'focus' screen so you can calibrate the projector accordingly) Also I swear the 'stranger' in the winnie the pooh strip sounded just like Huckleberry Hound...
in 3rd grade, My school's library had a table full of them. As a reward for good grades or whatever we got to go use them for 30mins during school hours. They had four shelves of movie strips to watch. I remember when they got in the star wars and Indian jones, big day lol
I have seen a similar system, abandoned in our college's warehouse, that uses 35mm filmstrip projector, and have a reel-to-reel machine add-on that switch the slides by beeps on the second audio channel on the tape. And the add-on is not just connects to player outputs, add-on have their own head and has to be physically placed on the side of the player and the tape has to be fed from the reel through player's head, then through add-on's head, and after then on the other reel! It was the weirdest setup that I have ever seen, it looked like DIY, but it was not, because it still had own box and instructions manual.
I started kindergarten in 1998 and spent a fair amount of time in elementary school watching Disney filmstrips on a player just like the big white one you demonstrated after the slide carousel. If it ain't broke, I guess!
He talks like only the older generations will remember these, but I just turned 26 and I still got to experience the teacher setting up the projector and running the filmstrips when I was in first and second grade in the early 90s. I still remember that we used the second type of projector he shows here - I think it was the very same model.
We didn't have the auto-advance viewer/projectors, so we had to do manually the moment we heard the tone.(A simple "TOOT!") Listening to said tapes--which I found 2nd-hand--without the filmstrip made for some confusing first-times experiences with some things... like hearing "Taking It To The Streets" by The Doobie Brothers. The frame-advance signal was so ironically timed, I thought it part of the music! XD
I bought one of these film strips from a thrift store in Glasgow today and it was in a really old tin, also had a booklet which I assume was for the teacher to narrate to the class whilst she flicked through the slides. Each paragraph has the slide number next to it. I'm guessing this is predates 1970 then. it's called "342 The Magic Horse" and was distributed by the Hulton Press in Fleet Street, London. Really amazing.
That first filmstrip held it's color very well. All of mine have reddened like your Walt Disney Wonder Tales. I had issues with the auto advance on my Dukane viewer, but a cassette head and demag fixed this issue. Nice video!
This is similar to a projector my mom brought home in the late 70s. She was enlisting in the military and the recruiter gave her a projector like this to look at job options. But I don't remember her having to load film or cassettes. Maybe we got a different model? It was around 1978/79.
This was fun to watch. I still have a Bell & Howell Filmosound 35 unit, unfortunately it doesn't work any more. Plus, I have several filmstrips I illustrated back in the 1970s posted on my youtube page.
Hi Todd seeing this video brought back so many memories from when I was a kid In elementary school we used these machines called system 80 and they looked similar to the one you have there white box with a screen and buttons on the front of the machine and Inside would be kinda like a film reel of math questions hope you & your family Is doing well god bless merry christmas & happy new year
I also got this one at Goodwill today is an Argus 500 slide projector and it works perfectly for its age, but this projector that I've got was from the early to mid 1950's. It's in excellent shape, except the dust cover and leather was kinda beat up, and it's in better shape. I might order a slide tray, slide mounts and one of the films which came out of a filmstrip projector. All I can do is cut, but in a slide mount, put them in a tray, and it's good to go.
I remember these. When I was in Elementary School they used these and some in middle school to a tad. In later years, these were graduallly phased out in favor of Hypercard, Hyperstudio, and Powerpoint.
Okay, so I remember this from about 1966 to 1968 in elementary school but I don't remember it having a record that needed to be synched with the filmstrip. However, it sounds like that was the only way it could have been back in the mid-60s but I don't remember a record. Granted, my memory from then is extremely hazy.
I found a Disney cassette/filmstrip like you have at Goodwill today. Mine is about dinosaurs that I can't find on the internet. Also found a non-Disney Ten little Indians.
I remember the teacher showing us a slide projection illustrated version of the Odyssey with paired audio. I wish I could remember the publisher or any more details. Would love to find a copy.
I remember playing around with one of those filmstrip projectors in highschool in the late 90's, I just recently picked up a 16mm projector that I got to try an find some film for to test it out
I was just talking about this the other day. We had some books on tapes but they had slides also I remember Reading the The Time Machine in the library and had slides and tapes. Do you remember those at all? I wish i had those again god the days
I bought these machines on eBay for my daughters to play with and use...which they did. They gave shows to their friends! Then I sold them quite quickly back on eBay, so check there!
I dont remember what this learning machine was called back in the 80's. You loaded this long film card into the projector. And also loaded a record into the machine and well. And you wear the headphones. The projection screen had 4 big buttons at the bottom the student would press to solve the multiple choice question. When you press the button it would make a loud clunk sound, and switch to the next slide. It was a fun machine to play and learn. Do anybody remember this machine???
I remember using this in school I never know it was 35mm I remember thinking how good the picture looked on these it was like HD back the way better the VHS
I remember these from grade, all the way to high school, when VHS was everything. At that time, a lot of the filmstrips were faded. In grade school, we only had the front projection models, old ones with no tape player (separate tape player needed), and Ducane ones similar to the front projection one you have. We even had some older films with no audio, like you were showing. We even had spelling strips that came with a shutter, so the word flashes on the screen, and you had to repeat what the word was that flashed on the screen. I don't know if you remember "System 80", my grade school had one. You had a record, and a card with a 2-sided filmstrip glued in. It was an interactive machine with four buttons, which you select answers from. Got it right, advance a frame, got it wrong, it stays put, and the track on the record replays. You had to turn the card and record over to finish part 2 of each lesson. I had fun with that thing (late 70s, early 80s). Of course, we had the 16mm PJs as well. The school system even had "Escape to Witch Mountain" on reels. Not sure about other entertainment ones, almost all were educational. One teacher did have a smaller portable rear projection filmstrip projector than you had, not sure who made it, but it was neat, and was automatic. Worst part of the VHS craze, was junior high, a 4-story building with no elevator, and the equipment was stored on the top level. Glad I never had to bring one of those carts down or up any stairs, as they were the tall shelves, to make it that much harder.
TNT Amusements Inc Do you remember "System 80" as well? I can't find any images of one, it just shows a computer, or projectors casting 80-inch images. No images or videos. Must be ultra-rare, or there's none left.
Were there any other built-in screen models made like this? i distinctly remember a fan motor noise when ours played in the classroom but i could be mistaken. thank you for posting this by the way. I've been trying to find out what that projection-screen machine was. I have foggy memories of playing with one of these on the floor in kindergarten. (we were very careful with it). i don't remember ever seeing the filmstrips for it, but it's very possible that the teacher kept them behind her desk and re-wound it for us when we weren't looking.
There were other similar machines by different manufacturers for sure...but I havent run across any others. I got these years ago for my daughters to play with and run the strips themselves to get them hands on older equipment.
I got a package with between 70-90?? 35mm films with cassettes an some other stuff coming in maybe this week, now I just have to decide which style of those projectors I wanna go with to view them :)
They were pretty much all old educational film strips from some school in CA, the same person also had some more older stuff she said came with a bunch of LP's etc.. but I didnt get back up with her to get those
We had these watched them often in 1992 3rd grade often. But children would turn the handle to.advance the slide, thescreen projector we had, but not auto.adavnce.ours were green and looked.metal. A catholic school we were.
The auto turn was used in the 50s and maybe before then. They also made the same projector as the one you have with the tape unit on the back but it had a turntable 4 speed. And the record had the tone for auto turn built in. It had a tube amp and was not a bad unit in fact it was made like a tank. Also they had some projectors with patch cable to turntable for the auto turn. Some had remotes like a slide projector also. God I have used many and many of them.
Thank you for this. My daughter was watching the mouse and the motorcyle, and i remembered watching it first on a filmstrip at monte vista, west covina, ca, about 1975/6. This is great, there isnt many videos of this. I would really like to see the experience of playing through one. can you take a video aim the camera and frame it 99% on the media and leave some kidn of overhand that shows us its a projector, and click through a whole story, or is that copyright issue? I think it would be great if i can show my girls that. Thanks again!!
The Library, had a projector like this one.I actually had a manual filmstrip projector made by Apollo, and I would rent them from the library, and entertain my niece when she was little with the stories such as THe Little Red Hen, and The Man Who Didn't Wash his dishes. The only thing I did not like about the projector was the light bulbs were expensive and they burnt out quickly.
I love this, this is very interesting. When I was in school back in the 80s I remember the film strips too, especially the educational child safety film strips. The film strips that stood out where things like stranger danger, and fire safety, and so on. I have a need hobby, I preserve vintage audio media. I am totally blind, if I could I would preserve the visual stuff too. Where can I find those educational Disney film strips with cassettes? I would like to find the complete series of Winnie the Pooh on the way to school, I have equipment to put cassettes and vinyl records onto CD, if I ever find them I will convert the cassette part of it onto a CD, and keep the filmstrip and preserve the whole thing, is there a place online that has stuff like this that I can order from??se
hello sir, thank u to show the programming of filmstrip. i am a teacher and recently i will provide the lesson on filmstrip. can i share your video link to my students on my you-tube channel? if they watch the methods they all are very helpful from you.
I need to find some filmstrips for my A-V Matic. The Stanly County Public Library still has one of these that is still in use today! There is a red book that has at least fifty different titles in it. Whenever we go, I always ask for a filmstrip and cassette, and my brother and I will watch a filmstrip and go back to Kindergarten. I need to eventually restore mine, because the cassette player makes a clicking noise like there is a flat spot on the idler, and it needs a new belt.
kekort2, Thank Goodness someone else remembers this! It was pretty graphic for little kids to see. I remember the filmstrip story was about the family that was harassed by the Bell Witch. So whatever the Witch had done to that family member, that is what would be shown happening in the filmstrip.
I can only remember teachers using Betamax (I think, tapes were smaller in width than VHS, it's long ago, I'm 34 now, about 8 or 9 back then) and VHS-tapes. Sometimes dia-projectors. Later, in early 90's, cassettes for listening exercises and exams for foreign languages, English, French and German. And for Dutch of course.
This reminds me of the library in the late 70's. I would spend hours watching those filmstrips with tapes and the huge heavy earphones. Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for replying!!
Yes the ear phones, i was telling my girls about the headphones too.
@@tntamusements Do they still use these in school today?
yes i remember my fave being the encyclopedia browns
Those vinyl plastic headphones brings back memories
This definitely brought some memories back here. We had these kind of projectors... I also remember the ones with the big reels of film. I'd love to find some of the history ones I used to watch in the late '70s
I may have been one of the last to see these in a classroom. My third grade teacher brought one in around 2008 or so.
I remember filmstrips when I was in school. The teacher can play a tape while following along with the film, just like they did with the Disney Read-Along stories. If you want to use it as a set of slides, you need a Kodak Carousel slide projector to use it. All you have is a scissors and the slide cards to go with the film. I have a Kodak Carousel 650 slide projector that I got for $3 at a yard sale and it still works.
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I'm a child of the mid-80's, so these were relics of the recent-past when I was attending school. However, I distinctly remember seeing two or three of these standing on a wooden desk in (of course) the small library we had and I distinctly remember asking the "Librarian" what those were. After explaining them to me, I asked if I could try one. She, sadly, said; "No," and followed up this denial with saying it was too difficult, time-consuming to setup, especially for just a single kid. So that is the extent of MY memory of these things. I never had the opportunity ever again to try these as, shortly thereafter; the school chucked them out and replaced them with Macintosh computers, which I admit was probably the better choice overall. Regardless, thanks for making/uploading this video Todd; it was greatly appreciated as now I feel like I can joyfully close that chapter of my early-childhood.
Yes...sadly they have gone the way of the Do-DO bird!
This did bring back some memories. I remember watching these in the 70s in school. I usually got the job of advancing the projector as we didn't have the automatic kind. VHS was still a bit off from being commonly available by the time I graduated High School, (1980). Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have an old huge Opaque Projector I will make a video on...another mainstay from 60's school systems!
I'm 36 and you just pulled something deep from my memory banks! I remember we would jack with the side knob throwing it out of sync. We would then freak out and either hopefully fix it or let it run out in fear of getting in trouble with the teacher.
Oh man, watched so many stores at the library on these. What a nostalgic rush I just got.
Glad it brought back memories!
I remember the ones that would project into a screen. You would put a cassette in. Cassette player and it would also make a sound to let the teacher to change the screen.
Takes me back!!
LOVE this!! I was born in 70..boy does this bring back memories. When the teacher came into class and told u she has a movie..it was the best!! Nap time..Lol. thnx for posting!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
OMG! I remember these! We used to have library hour on Tuesday's in grade school. I really looked forward to them because I'd get a slide show and watch it on one of these.
Ah, the 70s...
Yes....good old days and grand memories of a simpler time!
I remember that, we had those in school, loved them.
yes...this video has had lots and lots of views with many saying similar things!
This was a trip back to the late 70's. Now a day, kids follow along on their iPads. 😌
for some strange reason. I just been remembering those machine recently and boy, they were neat back in the day. the model I remember was the one where they had the cassette and film strip section would be on the right side of the machine instead of the bottom. they were pretty cool back then.
When I was in elementary school in the mid/late 70's we had these in our library. Man, technology sure has changed! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
glad you enjoyed it!
great job show how it was like getting projects and film in school back then.
Yes...many loved the memories this video brought back!
I love the pace and production value in this old media. The projection technology and incandescent bulb add a lot of warmth to the presentation as well. I graduated in 1998 and remember lots of film strips, reels and slides during my primary education. I feel like I should buy one of these viewers, just to give my daughter the experience.
Many people do have fond memories of these machines! What you said is PRECISELY why I bought this machine for MY daughters to experience!
Thanks for producing these videos. Aside from being extremely informational as I build my own MAME cabinets, it's all a trip down memory lane. Your videos conjure up the sounds and smells of the bowling alleys, pizza joints and mall arcades from my childhood. I live in Hong Kong now, but I've got a sales trip through the US in August, I was thinking of paying you a visit as I pass through PA. Maybe I can bum a little T-molding off you while I'm there (or just buy it). Oddly, that stuff is impossible to find in Hong Kong.
stop by for sure...I am about 30 minutes north of Philly.....Todd
We do sell it...50 cents a foot for any color but silver and gold
The automatic filmstrip projectors use an intermittent sprocket to advance the film from one frame to the next. The mechanism that turns the sprocket is the same mechanism used in for example the Simplex brand projectors used in theatres.
I remember all this entirely. We are basically a century away from those times.
Yes...so long ago!
It's amazing to read that this 'educational delivery system' (filmstrips) were still used through the 1990s! I remember filmstrips having accompanying audio narrative from early grade school (mid 70s) through 1983. It was a 'fun' day when we had a movie set up in our room in grade school, but it wasn't fun in high school, because we were expected to pay attention and take notes during the film. Ugh. And THEN when VHS became the default, remember the large television screens (tm) were installed on the TOP SHELF of a heavy rolling wheel steel rack? I think I saw a few of these carts topple over when whomever was pushing the cart would push a little too hard, and CRASH the television would smash into the ground.
Yes...there were lots of those stories...when I was growing up, we started with movies projected ina darkened room on a large screen...and then the projector ended up in front of room sideways projecting on a mirror into a box...with a 30 inch screen...so much smaller and was done with lights on in room so teacher could keep an eye on the kids
Wow
Wonderful work. Thank you very much for your detailed explanation.
thank you!!
Thank you for the trip down memory lane
I remember my kindergarten days in the 90s we called library day the school didn't have tv one but the one next to it. Thanks for the best nostalgia ever
Glad it brought back good memories!
They lingered onto the 90's? WOW! At this point any school would have a big 25 inch color TV with at least a top loading VCR.
I realize this is an older video and don't know if you read comments on videos close to 7 years old. I just wanted to say that you have to be my long lost brother. Besides my love for Pinball and Arcade machines, owning a few since the mid 80s, I was also big into 16MM film collecting, Up until a few years ago I sold my entire collection. I don't want to say for how much as I'm still kicking myself for selling everything. The collection consisted of over 100 features, many TV shows, (from the 50s, 60s, and 70s) Many Cartoons, Educational Films and more. I also included 6 16MM projectors ( 3 Elmos, 2 Eikis, 1 B&H ) 2 Rewinder sets, an Editor, and a Scope Lens. Several Features were on Eastman stock with most still holding their color and with minimal Color loss. Whenever possible I would try to buy Features on Fuji stock. I've been showing movies on a permanent large screen in my backyard since the late 90s. I sold the Films to purchase a higher end Digital projector so the picture and sound would be better and a larger selection of titles. Everyone that comes to my shows tell me they miss the old school way of showing movies. I would include drive-in count down clocks and trailers. I hope to go back to 16MM someday.My love for Film goes back to the early 70s when I was a kid. I bought a few super 8MM B&W silent Films because they were cheaper than color. I didn't even own a projector at that time as I was intrigued by the look of a film reel, and the thought that it took 24 frames to equal 1 second of movement. Younger people will never get the excitement of holding a film reel and the smell of film and I'm not talking about the dreaded Vinegar syndrome smell.Another thing that makes me feel like you are my long lost brother is the fact we are close to the same age, and I had Heart bypass surgery shortly before you did. I apologize for this long comment but I love talking film to fellow film lovers.
i remember seeing a film in kindergarten, the 95-96 school year, and he strip from what I remember, one line was "don't look directly at the sun the sun is brighter than you think''
I repaired dozens of those in the 80's.
I remember the Teacher would let us turn the to the next picture,when the beep on the record cued us.
+Becki Green Yes...you had to be on the teacher's good side to have this privilege!
I remember these in the 1980s in elementary school. I remember the teacher kept on mixing up the tape and film. I think 50% of the time it was about the episode where three things receive the wrong birthday gift and the episode ended with the things singing "Happy birthday to us."
Thank you for this information. This was very interesting and brought back many memories for me. I was born in 1961 and I remember how much fun I had looking at film strips when I was in elementary school in Durham NC.
Glad it brought back memories!
When I was in elementary school in the early 90's, these were out in our library. The teacher did not operate these, we did during our designated library time. There were two or three out on a table with headphones, and a shelf full of film available film strips.
Great memories!!
TNT Amusements Inc Yeah, and the only filmstrip I distinctly remember today, was from Disney about the headless horseman.
9:17 I remember these, schools in Metro Detroit were STILL using them in the late 90's.
I graduated in 99 and filmstrips were still used occasionally even while I was in High School. Wow, Dukane is still in business I didn't expect that :)
+DarkRaptor99 Yes...the end of an era!
Remember this being the first TNT video I ever watched!!
Ahhhh...I got you hooked!
You did!! Funny thing I rarely play games anymore and do not watch videos about games. Something about the nostalgia and presentation keeps me watching and enjoying.. I would love to get my hands on some of the classics and start a man cave..
Glad you are watching enthusiastically!
I remember this. Use to watched these back in my school years.
Hopefully good memories!
had them at my library, first half of the 80s -- I would use them weekly. The only one I remember watching was War of the Worlds. Those used cassettes.
"...martians in Grovers Mills" *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*
wow blast from the past, I remember those! (especially the 'focus' screen so you can calibrate the projector accordingly)
Also I swear the 'stranger' in the winnie the pooh strip sounded just like Huckleberry Hound...
in 3rd grade, My school's library had a table full of them. As a reward for good grades or whatever we got to go use them for 30mins during school hours. They had four shelves of movie strips to watch. I remember when they got in the star wars and Indian jones, big day lol
I have seen a similar system, abandoned in our college's warehouse, that uses 35mm filmstrip projector, and have a reel-to-reel machine add-on that switch the slides by beeps on the second audio channel on the tape. And the add-on is not just connects to player outputs, add-on have their own head and has to be physically placed on the side of the player and the tape has to be fed from the reel through player's head, then through add-on's head, and after then on the other reel! It was the weirdest setup that I have ever seen, it looked like DIY, but it was not, because it still had own box and instructions manual.
It's really neat stuff...and great Retro decorations for your home that can still function!
I started kindergarten in 1998 and spent a fair amount of time in elementary school watching Disney filmstrips on a player just like the big white one you demonstrated after the slide carousel. If it ain't broke, I guess!
He talks like only the older generations will remember these, but I just turned 26 and I still got to experience the teacher setting up the projector and running the filmstrips when I was in first and second grade in the early 90s.
I still remember that we used the second type of projector he shows here - I think it was the very same model.
Really cool and different video on the old projectors from school. Can't wait to see what other treasures you find and post about.
There are LOTS of them on EBay...and pretty cheap....both cassette and filmstrip! :-)
Thank you for the memories! My....have things changed!
+Lizzie Beth Yes, they have!! I have some other old pieces of AV equipment I hope to make videos of later! Subscribe to our channel!
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We didn't have the auto-advance viewer/projectors, so we had to do manually the moment we heard the tone.(A simple "TOOT!") Listening to said tapes--which I found 2nd-hand--without the filmstrip made for some confusing first-times experiences with some things... like hearing "Taking It To The Streets" by The Doobie Brothers. The frame-advance signal was so ironically timed, I thought it part of the music! XD
I bought one of these film strips from a thrift store in Glasgow today and it was in a really old tin, also had a booklet which I assume was for the teacher to narrate to the class whilst she flicked through the slides. Each paragraph has the slide number next to it. I'm guessing this is predates 1970 then. it's called "342 The Magic Horse" and was distributed by the Hulton Press in Fleet Street, London. Really amazing.
That first filmstrip held it's color very well. All of mine have reddened like your Walt Disney Wonder Tales. I had issues with the auto advance on my Dukane viewer, but a cassette head and demag fixed this issue. Nice video!
Thank you!
This is similar to a projector my mom brought home in the late 70s. She was enlisting in the military and the recruiter gave her a projector like this to look at job options. But I don't remember her having to load film or cassettes. Maybe we got a different model? It was around 1978/79.
Hard to say...this was probably around the same era...but I am sure they made different machines and designs.
This was fun to watch. I still have a Bell & Howell Filmosound 35 unit, unfortunately it doesn't work any more. Plus, I have several filmstrips I illustrated back in the 1970s posted on my youtube page.
+DragonflyEnt Glad you enjoyed it!
I have one of these somewhere but it is much smaller... Good memories. (My mum was a teacher)
Thank you for the help.
Glad the video helped you!
Hi Todd seeing this video brought back so many memories from when I was a kid In elementary school we used these machines called system 80 and they looked similar to the one you have there white box with a screen and buttons on the front of the machine and Inside would be kinda like a film reel of math questions hope you & your family Is doing well god bless merry christmas & happy new year
glad this video brought back good memories!
I wonder if there is any conceivable mechanism around, or one could be devised, where you can convert old film strips to PowerPoint.
Wow! I had forgotten about these. Thanks for sharing.
I also got this one at Goodwill today is an Argus 500 slide projector and it works perfectly for its age, but this projector that I've got was from the early to mid 1950's. It's in excellent shape, except the dust cover and leather was kinda beat up, and it's in better shape. I might order a slide tray, slide mounts and one of the films which came out of a filmstrip projector. All I can do is cut, but in a slide mount, put them in a tray, and it's good to go.
Neat!!
I remember these. When I was in Elementary School they used these and some in middle school to a tad. In later years, these were graduallly phased out in favor of Hypercard, Hyperstudio, and Powerpoint.
+Stephen Hinkle Yes....a dead technology except for folks that collect them!
I had one at home. My sister and I would have our friends over, and have a sort of movie time! We were the big sht! :)
Yes...it was a neat thing to have in the 8-0's and 90's!
I saw that exact projector at a thrift store and had no idea what it was!
I remember that Dukane brand machine. But the one I used in the early 80's played 45 RPM records.
Okay, so I remember this from about 1966 to 1968 in elementary school but I don't remember it having a record that needed to be synched with the filmstrip. However, it sounds like that was the only way it could have been back in the mid-60s but I don't remember a record. Granted, my memory from then is extremely hazy.
I was still In elementary school back in the 80's when we still had filmstrips. and my favorite was Sesame Street and Disney
Glad it brought back those memories for you!
I found a Disney cassette/filmstrip like you have at Goodwill today. Mine is about dinosaurs that I can't find on the internet. Also found a non-Disney Ten little Indians.
Great find!]
Holds it up to the light, "does that look better?" Camera guy: "yea." Zooms into the dark frames...😔
Anyone remember watching The Lollipop Dragon on these? :)
I always wondered how the episode about the bad haircut ended. My teacher turned it off after the prince started throwing a tantrum.
Who remembers the filmstrips with cassettes for movies mainly from the 60’s and early 70’s like Willy Wonka and Charlottes Web?
I remember the teacher showing us a slide projection illustrated version of the Odyssey with paired audio. I wish I could remember the publisher or any more details. Would love to find a copy.
Look on eBay...alot of that material is turning up there!
@@tntamusements Thanks I will!
I remember playing around with one of those filmstrip projectors in highschool in the late 90's, I just recently picked up a 16mm projector that I got to try an find some film for to test it out
There are tons of 16mm films on ebay!! Take a look!!!
yeah I've looked at those an the prices are kina high on some of that stuff
***** Sure anything to test out on the projector
Okay, are they on reels or just rolled up on cores
Ah okay, I need to check into getting some 16mm reels since the projector didnt come with any to spool the film on
Many filmstrips film are on a 35mm filmstrips projector, there's also GE show n tell phonograph, and LA Belle Tutor 16/ Duo 16
Yes...many people have had great memories of these machines!
I was just talking about this the other day. We had some books on tapes but they had slides also I remember Reading the The Time Machine in the library and had slides and tapes. Do you remember those at all? I wish i had those again god the days
Glad the video brought back good memories!
Its time for avant-garde, cutting-edge, experimental film strips! Complete with the Xylophone note to signal when its time to flip the knob.
Some fillmstrips have a combination 16mm filmstrip with 8-track tape cartridge.
I still have old film strips around here so i am wondering if they still sell the film strip projectors nowadays
I bought these machines on eBay for my daughters to play with and use...which they did. They gave shows to their friends! Then I sold them quite quickly back on eBay, so check there!
I dont remember what this learning machine was called back in the 80's. You loaded this long film card into the projector. And also loaded a record into the machine and well. And you wear the headphones. The projection screen had 4 big buttons at the bottom the student would press to solve the multiple choice question. When you press the button it would make a loud clunk sound, and switch to the next slide. It was a fun machine to play and learn. Do anybody remember this machine???
I do not...anyone else?
I remember using this in school I never know it was 35mm I remember thinking how good the picture looked on these it was like HD back the way better the VHS
I started school in 1979, and we had film strips.
+Becki Green Yes...they went on through the mid 80's I think...
I remember these from grade, all the way to high school, when VHS was everything. At that time, a lot of the filmstrips were faded.
In grade school, we only had the front projection models, old ones with no tape player (separate tape player needed), and Ducane ones similar to the front projection one you have. We even had some older films with no audio, like you were showing. We even had spelling strips that came with a shutter, so the word flashes on the screen, and you had to repeat what the word was that flashed on the screen.
I don't know if you remember "System 80", my grade school had one. You had a record, and a card with a 2-sided filmstrip glued in. It was an interactive machine with four buttons, which you select answers from. Got it right, advance a frame, got it wrong, it stays put, and the track on the record replays. You had to turn the card and record over to finish part 2 of each lesson. I had fun with that thing (late 70s, early 80s).
Of course, we had the 16mm PJs as well. The school system even had "Escape to Witch Mountain" on reels. Not sure about other entertainment ones, almost all were educational.
One teacher did have a smaller portable rear projection filmstrip projector than you had, not sure who made it, but it was neat, and was automatic.
Worst part of the VHS craze, was junior high, a 4-story building with no elevator, and the equipment was stored on the top level. Glad I never had to bring one of those carts down or up any stairs, as they were the tall shelves, to make it that much harder.
georgef551 Yes!! I remember those spelling projectors...but only after you reminded me!!
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Do you remember "System 80" as well? I can't find any images of one, it just shows a computer, or projectors casting 80-inch images. No images or videos. Must be ultra-rare, or there's none left.
georgef551 I do not remember those machines at all...perhaps our school system didn;t buy them.
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They must be extinct, or there's one or two really well hidden. Those were fun.
georgef551 If I ever find one, will make a video of it!
Were there any other built-in screen models made like this? i distinctly remember a fan motor noise when ours played in the classroom but i could be mistaken. thank you for posting this by the way. I've been trying to find out what that projection-screen machine was. I have foggy memories of playing with one of these on the floor in kindergarten. (we were very careful with it). i don't remember ever seeing the filmstrips for it, but it's very possible that the teacher kept them behind her desk and re-wound it for us when we weren't looking.
There were other similar machines by different manufacturers for sure...but I havent run across any others. I got these years ago for my daughters to play with and run the strips themselves to get them hands on older equipment.
Very unexpected and very awesome video!
This is amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I got a package with between 70-90?? 35mm films with cassettes an some other stuff coming in maybe this week, now I just have to decide which style of those projectors I wanna go with to view them :)
KingHenryVR4 Neat!! I just saw your comment now---a year later so I am curious...how were the filmstrips?
They were pretty much all old educational film strips from some school in CA, the same person also had some more older stuff she said came with a bunch of LP's etc.. but I didnt get back up with her to get those
KingHenryVR4 Glad you picked them up! It is a really neat Retro trip back into time!
TNT Amusements Inc Yeah I know, stuff from back when my parents were still in school an probably you also :)
We had these watched them often in 1992 3rd grade often. But children would turn the handle to.advance the slide, thescreen projector we had, but not auto.adavnce.ours were green and looked.metal. A catholic school we were.
The auto turn was used in the 50s and maybe before then. They also made the same projector as the one you have with the tape unit on the back but it had a turntable 4 speed. And the record had the tone for auto turn built in. It had a tube amp and was not a bad unit in fact it was made like a tank. Also they had some projectors with patch cable to turntable for the auto turn.
Some had remotes like a slide projector also. God I have used many and many of them.
Thanks for these extra notes! People will remember when they read them!!!
Thank you for this. My daughter was watching the mouse and the motorcyle, and i remembered watching it first on a filmstrip at monte vista, west covina, ca, about 1975/6. This is great, there isnt many videos of this. I would really like to see the experience of playing through one. can you take a video aim the camera and frame it 99% on the media and leave some kidn of overhand that shows us its a projector, and click through a whole story, or is that copyright issue? I think it would be great if i can show my girls that.
Thanks again!!
The Library, had a projector like this one.I actually had a manual filmstrip projector made by Apollo, and I would rent them from the library, and entertain my niece when she was little with the stories such as THe Little Red Hen, and The Man Who Didn't Wash his dishes. The only thing I did not like about the projector was the light bulbs were expensive and they burnt out quickly.
I remember the dukane machine we had those in my elementary school
I love this, this is very interesting. When I was in school back in the 80s I remember the film strips too, especially the educational child safety film strips. The film strips that stood out where things like stranger danger, and fire safety, and so on. I have a need hobby, I preserve vintage audio media. I am totally blind, if I could I would preserve the visual stuff too. Where can I find those educational Disney film strips with cassettes? I would like to find the complete series of Winnie the Pooh on the way to school, I have equipment to put cassettes and vinyl records onto CD, if I ever find them I will convert the cassette part of it onto a CD, and keep the filmstrip and preserve the whole thing, is there a place online that has stuff like this that I can order from??se
There may be a facebook group or even a google group...I never really looked into it. Perhaps you could do some research!
Todd Rodgwrs!!!!! Huge fan from canada king of king
I was born in 95 and my local library had one of these - is this made by Dukane? What model is it?
didn’t see much a these back in school, maybe a microfiche reader in my college library, but never this kind of projector
hello sir,
thank u to show the programming of filmstrip. i am a teacher and recently i will provide the lesson on filmstrip. can i share your video link to my students on my you-tube channel? if they watch the methods they all are very helpful from you.
of course...I would be thrilled!!
I need to find some filmstrips for my A-V Matic. The Stanly County Public Library still has one of these that is still in use today! There is a red book that has at least fifty different titles in it. Whenever we go, I always ask for a filmstrip and cassette, and my brother and I will watch a filmstrip and go back to Kindergarten. I need to eventually restore mine, because the cassette player makes a clicking noise like there is a flat spot on the idler, and it needs a new belt.
I remember the worst,and scariest film strip I saw was about the Bell Witch. It's was so disturbing, that I'm 42 years old and still remember it.
+Becki Green WOW...I wonder what it was about!
+Becki Green YES!! Me, too. Every Halloween the teacher would drag that filmstrip out and scare the heck out of us!
kekort2, Thank Goodness someone else remembers this! It was pretty graphic for little kids to see. I remember the filmstrip story was about the family that was harassed by the Bell Witch. So whatever the Witch had done to that family member, that is what would be shown happening in the filmstrip.
Amazing machine!!!
bonus points if you remember the teacher picking one student to press the button when the cue beeped
The only time I saw a movie in school was in JHS 217, never in grammar school wish I went to your school.
I head someone else tell me this too...
What a awesome Machine!
Its a beauty!
Been trying to track down an old 70s version of a Wrinkle in Time film strip. Anyone know where I could run across this?
Thanks a lot ..I am Also projector Lover ..
+Santosh Kulkarni me too..
The last time I saw one of these was in 1995 back in elementary school. After that, it seemed like VHS had caught on. I preferred these.
I can only remember teachers using Betamax (I think, tapes were smaller in width than VHS, it's long ago, I'm 34 now, about 8 or 9 back then) and VHS-tapes. Sometimes dia-projectors. Later, in early 90's, cassettes for listening exercises and exams for foreign languages, English, French and German. And for Dutch of course.