Classroom Movie~ Signal 30 (1959)

Hey Kids, teacher has a hangover, so we get a movie today!! YAYYYY!! SIGNAL 30 is one of those films they used to show us into driving more responsibly.. didn't work.

click white triangle to watch movie

Classroom Movie~Derailed!!!

In March of 1944 the United States National Defense Resources Committee & Office of Strategic Services performed a number of experiments on the Claiborne-Polk military railroad to help determine the best way to derail trains. The results were presented in the film "Derailment".

Educational Film~Apollo 10

Educational film~Apollo 4

Apollo 4, (also known as Apollo-Saturn 501 and AS-501), was the first test flight for the Saturn V, the launch vehicle which was ultimately used by the U.S. Apollo program to send the first astronauts to the Moon. Apollo 4 flew without a crew, and was an "all-up test", meaning all rocket stages and spacecraft would be fully functional on the initial flight, a first for NASA. It was the first time the S-IC first stage and S-II second stage flew. It also demonstrated the S-IVB third stage's first in-flight restart. The mission used a Block I Command Service Module (CSM) modified to test several key Block II revisions, including its heat shield at simulated lunar-return velocity and angle.

Classroom Movie~Cindy Goes To A Party (1955)

Cindy, a 12-year-old tomboy, is devastated when she learns that she hasn't been invited to a neighborhood birthday party. That night in bed, her fairy godmother visits her, tells her enough with this tomboy baloney, gives her a frilly new party dress and some rules on how proper young girls are to behave at parties.

 

Miss Clark Introduces Panorama

a promo film about film strips..if you remember them in class, you are at the right blog.



The filmstrip was a common form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K-12), now overtaken by newer and increasingly lower-cost full-motion videocassettes and DVDs. From the 1940s to 1980s, filmstrips provided an easy and inexpensive alternative to 16mm projector educational films, requiring very little storage space and being very quick to rewind for the next use. Filmstrips were large and durable, and rarely needed splicing. They are still used in some areas.

Technology

A filmstrip is a spooled roll of 35 mm positive film with approximately thirty to fifty images arranged in sequential order. Like 16 mm film, a filmstrip was inserted vertically down in front of the projector aperture, rather than horizontally as in a slide projector. Therefore, the frame size is smaller than normal 35 mm film. Two image frames of a filmstrip take up the same amount of space as a single 35mm frame, including its guard band, so that a 25 exposure 35mm film can contain fifty filmstrip images. Early celluloid filmstrips had a habit of melting or combusting from the intense and sustained heat of the projection lamp. These were called Pictural Filmstrips the First Filmstrips that were produced in a Complete set.

Typically, a filmstrip's running time was between ten and twenty minutes. Depending on how they were narrated or produced, filmstrips (which often came with an Instructor's Guide) were flexible enough to be used in both self-paced learning formats or a full classroom. In addition to a standard classroom wall or screen projector, personal film display units were available with a screen size of approximately eight inches diagonal for up-close viewing by one or two people.

The instructor would turn on a filmstrip projector that would show the first frame (image) of the filmstrip. The instructor then turned on a 33 RPM record or cassette tape containing the audio material for the filmstrip which included narration. At the appropriate point, a tone would sound, signaling the instructor (or a student volunteer/assistant) to turn a knob, advancing to the next frame. Later, technical improvements allowed the projector to advance the film automatically.
Film production

By the latter part of the 1960s, such firms as Warren Schloat Productions, CBS, The New York Times, Scott Education, Coronet, Sunburst Media, and Guidance Associates were producing titles featuring photographs by famous artists and of notable events with a synchronized audio track. The music and narration for the filmstrip originally came on a vinyl album.

Classroom Movie~ Century 21 Calling (1962)

get the 16mm projector warmed up.

Bell Telephone promo film from 1962 World's Fair

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Classroom Movie~The Development of the X-15 Rocket Plane (1962)

Classroom Movie~ Freedom 7 (1961)

NASA produced half-hour about the sub-orbital flight of Alan Shepherd .

Classroom Movie~ One Got Fat (1963)

Remember when the teacher had been up all night boozing or something and came in muttering words  similar to what your dad said while working on the furnace? Remember how she would turn down the lights and start a movie or film strip? YAYY!!
  One Got Fat is a 1963 bicycle safety film. It is narrated by F-Troop and Fractured Fairy Tales star, Edward Everett Horton. The weird thing about it is that all the kids in it are wearing monkey masks.