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Authored by: sonmicloud on Wednesday, June 18 2014 @ 02:58 pm EDT

This was great fun, and probably a film I very much needed to watch hehe. It showers nostalgia on you, if you're old enough, and if younger then I'd hope there'd still be some charm to it.

- sonmicloud

Hello, I am your substitute teacher...
Authored by: masodo on Wednesday, June 18 2014 @ 03:22 pm EDT

Hiya sonmicloud!

I am glad you enjoyed this little diversion. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

This really is a timeless instructional film that has the power to teach today much as - if not more than - it did when it was created. Simple tools in the proper hands can do great things. Of course it is crucial that you always use the right tool for the job.

I basically come from a family of craftsmen so hand tools have never been a great mystery to me, but I get the impression, in today's "disposable society" those busted knuckles are getting fewer and farther between

I am sort of amazed that this was created for the benefit of the employees of General Motors. Can't you just imagine the water cooler talk following a workplace screening of this cartoon?

cheers!

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Hello, I am your substitute teacher...
Authored by: sonmicloud on Wednesday, June 18 2014 @ 04:00 pm EDT

Ha I can indeed, a Disney cartoon to help them out, fantastic ;)

- sonmicloud.

Hello, I am your substitute teacher...
Authored by: Dale.Harkness on Thursday, June 19 2014 @ 11:49 am EDT

As one who still owns a 16mm projector, sadly with no film to go along with it, I recall watching a film in school that remains nicely imprinted in my now less functional brain cells. It was about offroad racing with small, lightweight cars.

The film made use of footage from on-car cameras, some mounted near the front to give a grill-view of the dirt as it flew by. I recall watching the drivers do a stunt where they'd work the accelerator and the brake in combo to get some air in the right scenarios.

It was one of those films that stoked the boys up completely unlike the sex ed film where they separated boys and girls then presented the boys with sketched images. The girls laughed at us because their film had live models. I guess the presenters decided the girls needed warning about the wolves while us boys needed something to make sure we remained bored.

Thanks for the reminder of even more cool retro gadget fun.

-Dale

Hello, I am your substitute teacher...
Authored by: masodo on Thursday, June 19 2014 @ 12:14 pm EDT

Thanks Dale,

As I was recalling those "movie days" from a former life I was thinking about how you never knew what was in store when you saw that projector set-up in the back of the classroom. Not that it mattered, because it was a movie and at school no less! - (Kids reading this will want to understand that this was back in the days before VHS* and a television in every classroom.)

Health class was notorious for "burning the tungsten" in an effort to educate and they would often segregate the boys from the girls like that. I think if they forced the boys to watch the girl's films and the girls to watch the boy's then our society might well have been better served. [smiley:;D]

*VHS is what they had in the days before DVD (shortly after cave paintings and 16mm w/optical sound)

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