This 1967 educational film strip was deemed “impossible” and “fantastical” by may observers at the time. With the input from scientists at Bell Labs it painted a future of 2020. It predicted elements of the technologies precisely. From e-commerce to social networks—in 1967:pic.twitter.com/ToOsJhZYYB
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
You should get a historian or old person to tell you what a "film strip" is, though.
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Replying to @lippard
Jim, Thank you. Both old and a bit of a historian. Also as the head of my AV club at high school I had to play 1000s of these. The teaching staff would call anything I played that was not VCR a film strip it stuck with me. They also called sneakers tennis shoes!?
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
At my elementary school (70s), the only "film strip" was a roll of 35 mm still frames shown through a projector, with the frame advanced every time there was a beep on the accompanying cassette tape player narration.
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Jim, indeed. This is it precisely. That did not change the idea in the mind of teachers that asked for “film strip” machines to be in their rooms, even though they were movie projectors. As a student running the AV department I adopted to the terminology and saved the “strips”.
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