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Originally Posted by leadlike
B&H of course, have their claim to fame in producing the Filmosound line of 16mm projectors that every high school and institutional space seemed to have from the 50s to the 90s.
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The later (green) Filmosounds aren't that wonderful, especially the autojam ones. The older brown ones are actually nicer, but they're noisy and you have to *gasp!* thread them manually. I've never seen an autojam that actually worked right more than 1/2 the time....
My elementary used Singer projectors, which were teacher-easy the thread. I think there was one non autojam B&H and an Elmo kicking around. A 16mm Elmo? Yep.
By the time I got to high school, it was all film transferred to videotape, which meant you listened to warbly audio while watching orange and blue blobs move around on a 25 inch screen. VHS sucked royally, especially after a zillion views in less than perfect equipment. But it was 'high tech' and we need our schools to be 'high tech'...
08-13-2009, 08:20 PM
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