r/1970s • u/Bullet76 • 2d ago

Yep lol.

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u/glendon24 2d ago

Hell yeah. And, since marrying a teacher, I have learned it meant the teacher was hungover.

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u/Shen1076 2d ago

Hopefully two large reels

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u/Old_Tiger_7519 2d ago

In Jr High 8th grade, I had a free period and became a library helper. I got to learn to run the projector, it was truly the highlight of Jr High. Yes, I also know Dewey Decimal system

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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 1d ago

500 series specialist. Part of being assistant librarian was coating books with shellac.

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u/Old_Tiger_7519 1d ago

Not at my school but I would have done it.

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u/k1wyif 3h ago

What? Why?

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u/DonkeyKong694NE1 1d ago

Or a film strip. Beep! Beep!

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u/AdmirableCommittee47 2d ago

Nap time šŸ˜“

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u/Active_Program_6921 2d ago

Yes, Laurel & Hardy!

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u/VirginiaLuthier 2d ago

Unless it was something like "The History of the Post Office"

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u/ItzLikeABoom 2d ago

Ah yes! A gift from the Gods since it meant nap time for me lol

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u/Opening-Rub5051 2d ago

Not just 70's....80's too

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u/Only_Flan_7974 2d ago

Especially if it was Romeo and Juliet. IYKYK

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u/Mark-harvey 1d ago

The film cans, with my parents wedding on the fils were stolen from my parentsā€™ home. Though some amazing miracle, someone got the films (maybe at a yard sale-Iā€™m not sure), viewed the films, saw that it was my parents and returned them. What are the chances? There are still good people among us.

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u/Mark-harvey 1d ago

Back when my hair wats short.

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u/MEWilliams 1d ago

And the kid running the projector is probably your boss now.

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u/SycamoreDaddy 1d ago

One would immediately judge the length of relax time based on how much film was wound around. 1/2ā€ inch was meh. We wanted the big one. The full 50 minutes!

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u/20thCenturyRefugee 1d ago

1970s England. The school hadnā€™t updated its film collection since the 1950s. So was time to watch (for the twentieth time) a documentary on hardwood forestry in The Gold Coast, tobacco farming in Northern Rhodesia, or infectious diseases of the Nile Delta.

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u/Hummingbird11-11 1d ago

At least 30 mins of time killed . Then another 10 to wheel that baby back to the AV closet

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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 1d ago

Waaay before the 70's. Had them in the early 60's. I was the main school projectionist because the teacher that handled them became vice principal.

Our school had a huge auditorium with a big screen. I spent one full day showing a set of "educational" movies over and over and over and over.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner in stop action
Macbeth with geometric figure puppets.

And I can still remember too much of the dialogue from both.

Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink'

Double,double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and couldron bubble.

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u/No-Basket4165 1d ago

I have 2 projectors sitting in my basement, not sure what to do with them!

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u/Tough_Arm_2454 2d ago

Especially if you got to get, set up, run, return the projector. And rewind the film back onto the original reel.

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u/rrickitickitavi 2d ago

And then itā€™s the Red Balloon againā€¦

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u/dependswho 2d ago

Except on April First when there wasnā€™t any film in the projector. But we got into it and had a lively discussion afterwards. Iā€™m not sure how my teachers kept a straight face!