That opaque projector brought back memories of "classroom tech" from my school years from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s. Including those audio filmstrip projectors that used beeps on a record to advance the projector to the next frame. And, of course, overhead projectors and 16mm projectors. Back when schools had "AV Clubs", the original geek/nerd dens, where students did basic maintenance on the equipment and shuffled it between classrooms.
Ha! Brings back my memories too! I may be only 35, but I've been around :) I went to school in '90s/2000s in Poland, so the culture was waaaaaay different than in the US (I got the idea of an AV club from "Stranger Things", lol :)), but I can recall some people (including me) doing that kind of stuff. I was especially passionate about anything electrical in elementary and middle school, like repairing Christmas tree lights, or even solving problems in different classes. I was into DIY, physics, chemistry and even biology. Later on, in high school, I became interested in building, repairing and operating audio gear, soundsystems and public address equipment. That's also when my interest in vacuum tube gear started, mostly because I had a special interest in the Fallout series and their aesthetics ('50s retro-futuristic with lots of tube equipment, since in the game's timeline semiconductors never took off), even made a handful of amps under the "Vault-Tec Electronics" name... :) I even remember that there was a small gig in the gym and the "FOH" speakers weren't enough to support it as stage monitors were needed... so I went to the IT teacher, got a length of cat5 and used it for connecting a pair of speakers borrowed from a classroom to an amplifier I had on the table. It worked. I wonder if anyone doing audio stuff in that school after I left was that creative. It was also pretty common for me to bring a reel-to-reel machine (mono, 4 track) and record whatever was going out of the speakers. I also had an active interest in forming the students' broadcasting operation over the school PA system which was used by the headmaster for announcements. I wanted to play music, record programs, etc.
I was chosen to be an a.v. boy in the early 70's. After learning how to set up the devices, the hardest part was remembering that some other classroom needed one at a certain time🤓 ⬅ this is my actual picture from then.
We must be about the same age, I was a true AV club geek in high school. That 16mm film projector in the scene is an RCA 400 and my favorite type in our school’s inventory. We ran films, those beeping filmstrips, we recorded speeches and lessons on reel to reel, did lighting and sound on stage, I particularly loved running one of the two huge flexible spotlights up in the projection booth for our school musical. We ran movies in that auditorium too, on an RCA 400 Port-o- arc hand thread arc lamp projector. We also had a closed circuit TV system that dated back to the early 50s which was upgraded in the late 60s with a B&W TV camera and a reel to reel VTR (video tape recorder). We taped every home basketball game and wrestling match of every season along with speeches in speech club and drama. The camera was so big it had to be rolled around on a dolly. The VTR was so big it had to roll on a projection cart. On game nights the equipment always attracted attention from adults, most of which had never seen a TV camera before. We had to explain that the reels held tape not film, and yes, it did have sound. It was a great experience and I was blessed to have it!
Hi Fran. Another cool video! My father had a small flannel\felt board that he used to make headings for his 8mm movies. I don't recall ever seeing one in school or business though.
Wow, I hadn't thought about these in so long! That was probably pre-school or kindergarten in the mid-70s. What I remember most about them is that the darn things didn't work very well, in my opinion. Maybe they just weren't meant for the year-round high humidity of South Florida, which tends to keep static relatively low. 😂 Looking at some of these other comments, I'm surprised they kept even trying to use them here for as long as they did! Colorforms(TM) were the successor to this idea, at least commercially, and they were one of my favorite types of play sets as a kid. Ah, the memories... losing that one shape I needed, only to feel it later when I stood up and walked away, stuck to the back of my leg. Felt certainly never did that!
I've never seen one of these before. In school we had magnetic whiteboards and overhead projectors.Last year of high school things were switched over to LCD projectors attached to beige Macintosh G3s.
Nice way to make things interactive with the learner. Might be time to re-use this concept in today's class rooms. Get them out of their PC screens and phones; get them up and engaging with one another.
I was thinking the same. Much of the digital aides we use in education these days are designed attempting to emulate many of the old physical aids, like blackboards, magnet boards and flannel boards. I often find myself wondering why we aren't using the old teaching aides, few other things I've found are quite as engaging, immediate and intuitive; and efficient, at least in smaller class sizes.
@@aksela6912 there are several reasons. Chalk dust is harmful on the long term, and many teachers are so passionate that it's essentially a life long job. Digital emulation can be helpful, because the fact that it's virtual means that you can modify, share and save it more easily. I grew up with 'word boards' that had words written on Lego like blocks, which you could stick onto a base plate. To 'save' your work, you had to go to the one copier in the school, and the number of words available was limited. Maps in geography were those big scrolls, and you couldn't write on them. Today, you can write all over the maps on the digital screen. Physical materials aren't gone, though. To teach high school kids the basics of digital circuits (the individual logic gates a computer is made from) we still have hardware based plug boards. The students love those. But now we also have the same plug board in a digital version. This means the kids can now study at home for their tests in that area. Almost all physics and chemistry demonstrations are still fully physical.
@@mfbfreak I'm pretty sure the year 1, 2 and 3 I teach language acquisition would respond rather well to a flannel board. I think I might have to try it or something similar. They've all got their own iPads, which are great, but also clinical and intangible.
My mother told Bible stories to kids in Sunday School using a flannel board. The pictures came in kits and you had to cut out the characters and attach flannel to the back. This was in the 50's. I think they were called flannel graphs.
Back when whiteboards or flip charts weren't a thing yet... I think I remember something like that from my time in elementary school back in the '90s, but it was more about attaching paper objects with thumbnails :)
Fran, have you got any movies about sewing? Like how to start and end a stitch or join two pieces of cloth and with what kind of stitch? I learned this in 6th grade Home-Ec; 36 years ago. I've never had to use any of that info until recently. These are the sort of things we should all know and I doubt they're taught in modern schools.
The clock remind my English lesson (as a foreign language) in 1990 ! It seem to be an efficient learning method as I'm able to identify the thing as a clock !
That was a rather well done presentation. You could, of course, do most of the same things with overhead projectors as most have seen. But you couldn't use milk cartons. There is an advantage, however, to the overhead projector approach. With a flannel board, chalk board, or white board, whatever graphics you have showing stay there and can be a distraction. Of course, you can remove them, but you are likely to be providing information as steps and adding to it. What is currently showing can be distraction at times when you want all focus on you, the presenter. Quite a few skilled presenters would turn off the overhead projector when they wanted you to concentrate on them more closely and what they were saying. And then turn it back on when they were ready to continue with visuals. Or often, just leave the overhead projector on and temporarily cover what is on it with a blank sheet. I've seen some presenters do the same thing with flip charts - temporarily flip the front sheets over what is showing with the top sheet blank. PowerPoint, of course, lets you do everything you want, step by step if you want, blank it out when you want, but there is something to be said about the PowerPoint on audiences with the term "Death by PowerPoint". Some presenters even today still swear by overhead projectors as their weapon of choice.
I have a 16mm movie very similar to this one about how to create interesting and informative bulletin boards. It is an educational film for college students training to be teachers. Very similar in tone and format to this one.
An opaque projector? (12:46) - I have yet to see a transparent projector, haha! My school possessed such a contraption, an epidiascope, in 1975, although I never saw it used. However we did use flannel boards (called after the trade name Fuzzy Felt) and a projection system consisting of a standard projector bounced off a mirror onto the rear of a ground-glass screen in a large box.
Last epiprojectors were manufactured in 90s. I don't remember the manufacturer's name. It used four 250W halogen lamps. Teachers used it to demonstrate pages from books or computer prints. At that time it was of better quality and light than from combination of camera, computer and data projector. And of course, the price was much lower.
This was obviously filmed before the Plaid laws were passed, requiring all flannel to have a pattern, preferably Plaid. It was done to honor Kurt Cobain, who was conceived on Plaid flannel sheets....😁
That 16mm projector is a classic RCA model 400. They were made from like 1948 to 1965. Most every Boomer watched 100's of 16mm films in school, mostly on this projector. Bell and Howell and a few others made projectors too, but RCA seemed to have 85% of the market. During college I worked at a RCA dealer repairing these projectors. They almost never broke, they just needed a shot of 60 weight oil and sometimes a new coiled belt. Out of hundreds I never had one come in with an electronic problem, not even a weak tube! Their newer Model 1600 successor was lighter and a bit brighter, but noisier and 100% of them failed mechanically in at least three expensive and different ways. Also all the electrolytic capacitors and Germanium power transistors failed. Sometimes newer isn't better! In around 1972 Japan started making knockoffs of theold Model 400, even better and sturdier than even the classic.
We had one of those in elementary school. It stood behind the last row of desks and all it was ever used for was to make students who annoyed the teacher in any way stand behind it for the rest of the lesson.
Call me crazy, but I'm kind of liking the visual artifacts from damage to the film. At times, it almost seems whimsical, as if some entity was making fun of how seriously this film takes, well flannel boards! I'm loving this series. 🙂
way back I had something in a board game sized box. It had popeye vinyl or plastic pieces that stuck on a shiny plastic board, same Idea. I had one black piece i could never figure out. now I think it was an untied bowtie. Tried fitting it on Bluto and such.
It must just be that 1957 sound but I really expected at the end of that film the narrator to say "As always, should you or any of your Flannel Board Team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions." then the film self destructs.
This was all there was when I was a kid at church or camp or whatever. Its more of a performance art and also a construction craft. You can't always get results from careerist hacks or whatever. Its basically a puppet show and you have to be into it. It is however, like projected film, BIG ENOUGH TO SEE, which was a huge problem when VCRs attached to puny TVs took over everything in the 80s.
UK too, and a similar age. I don’t remember them from school either, but there was the “Fuzzy Felt” picture making toy. Basically the same idea. We had the farm set!
Holy mackeral, Fran-- the most disturbing look back only two generations back yet... I was born in late 54, so I should have seen one of these things but did not. The family moved from Back Bay Boston to midtown Manhattan in 59, but still no recollection. This short is showing off an entirely different world... I believe just before Velcro, just before Elmer's Glue All that we all recognize in the little white plastic bottle, "home building company" seems to suggest before so-called home improvement centers, "HAVANA Seconds" cigar box!!! wow-- okay, a few short years before the Bay of Pigs... we could all just nip off to the corner drug store and get Havana cigars (and that was a really nice proportioned cigar box)... using a grease pencil or crayons before a "Magic Marker" so-called "industrial" felt pen... map reading taught to grade schoolers--! In order to help find and fight off the commies, I guess... where did cuts of meat come from... ?? That poor coach having to use Scotch Tape instead of magnets. (I think they only came in giant U shapes back then... ) Right down to Masonite having competition... Chapman Board? Wow. This is a lot.
So it's analog powerpoint? I remember making felt animals in kindergarten, and sticking them to our shirts. I think I made a jack-o-lantern as well that year.
Movie: Fasten it, with masking tape. Me: Oh, yeah, that beacon of strong adhesion, "masking tape." Good thing there's not going to be any lint that will immediately reduce the effectiveness of the tape. What's that? We're using it on felt? I immediately went to hot glue (too many crafting vids), but surely they had better options. Elmers was around then, and that would give a better bond.
To some degree, yes, but also a weak static electricity. Which, now that I think about it, also describes "the power of lint". 🤣 Basically, anything lightweight that would have clung to itself or other items when you got it out of the laundry dryer would probably have been game for the felt board.
-------------------- somewhat sceptical , a pop quiz won't be administered w/out notice .... grades will count toward report cards.... will be watching for copy cats....
Ah never saw the mentioned surface even back in the early 60's. I guess the Catholic schools were cheep. Maybe they had one set up on display, not interactive. Chalk being struck on slate is as annoying as scraping your fingernails on the same dusty board. Having to do it in front of class is even worse. I seem to remember them in the public library just down the street. For display it seems like they were pick-able if accessible too, with children's fingers. Sad what has happened to those Eastman Color prints when nothing is left but red and brown. I assume you have tried to boost the blue and green as some of these prints have been restored or enhanced quite well. In 2 scenes we get to see an actual color wheel and what is left of it! When it's gone it's gone.
Exactly what came to mind for me as well. Really, people who use PP should watch the first 3 minutes of this film and take it seriously. Slapping paragraphs up on the screen and reading them out makes any presentation an uninformative yawn-fest.
Now THERE's a blast from the past! Crikey. I haven't seen or thought of flannel boards in more than 40 years!
Now I'm inspired to make a flannel board for my kids. My mom used to be an elementry school teacher, we had them al over the house growing up.
I haven't seen one of these since grade school in the 1960s.
(You need to edit the "color recognition" exercise to make all the signs say "brown")
That opaque projector brought back memories of "classroom tech" from my school years from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s. Including those audio filmstrip projectors that used beeps on a record to advance the projector to the next frame. And, of course, overhead projectors and 16mm projectors. Back when schools had "AV Clubs", the original geek/nerd dens, where students did basic maintenance on the equipment and shuffled it between classrooms.
Ha! Brings back my memories too! I may be only 35, but I've been around :)
I went to school in '90s/2000s in Poland, so the culture was waaaaaay different than in the US (I got the idea of an AV club from "Stranger Things", lol :)), but I can recall some people (including me) doing that kind of stuff. I was especially passionate about anything electrical in elementary and middle school, like repairing Christmas tree lights, or even solving problems in different classes. I was into DIY, physics, chemistry and even biology.
Later on, in high school, I became interested in building, repairing and operating audio gear, soundsystems and public address equipment. That's also when my interest in vacuum tube gear started, mostly because I had a special interest in the Fallout series and their aesthetics ('50s retro-futuristic with lots of tube equipment, since in the game's timeline semiconductors never took off), even made a handful of amps under the "Vault-Tec Electronics" name... :)
I even remember that there was a small gig in the gym and the "FOH" speakers weren't enough to support it as stage monitors were needed... so I went to the IT teacher, got a length of cat5 and used it for connecting a pair of speakers borrowed from a classroom to an amplifier I had on the table. It worked. I wonder if anyone doing audio stuff in that school after I left was that creative.
It was also pretty common for me to bring a reel-to-reel machine (mono, 4 track) and record whatever was going out of the speakers.
I also had an active interest in forming the students' broadcasting operation over the school PA system which was used by the headmaster for announcements. I wanted to play music, record programs, etc.
I was chosen to be an a.v. boy in the early 70's. After learning how to set up the devices, the hardest part was remembering that some other classroom needed one at a certain time🤓 ⬅ this is my actual picture from then.
We must be about the same age, I was a true AV club geek in high school. That 16mm film projector in the scene is an RCA 400 and my favorite type in our school’s inventory. We ran films, those beeping filmstrips, we recorded speeches and lessons on reel to reel, did lighting and sound on stage, I particularly loved running one of the two huge flexible spotlights up in the projection booth for our school musical. We ran movies in that auditorium too, on an RCA 400 Port-o- arc hand thread arc lamp projector. We also had a closed circuit TV system that dated back to the early 50s which was upgraded in the late 60s with a B&W TV camera and a reel to reel VTR (video tape recorder). We taped every home basketball game and wrestling match of every season along with speeches in speech club and drama. The camera was so big it had to be rolled around on a dolly. The VTR was so big it had to roll on a projection cart. On game nights the equipment always attracted attention from adults, most of which had never seen a TV camera before. We had to explain that the reels held tape not film, and yes, it did have sound. It was a great experience and I was blessed to have it!
@@markhonea2461 same here from 1st grade on. Dad had a Super 8mm projector so I already knew my way around film equipment.
@@KeritechElectronics glad to know a new generation took up the old profession and art of AV.
I had forgotten about the ol’ feltboard. I can remember laying out streets and such with yarn and cursing the classroom fan!
I had one as a kid. Me and my brother would make a 'pool table' with it and our blocks to make the 'rails'! We used large marbles for the 'balls'!
I have never seen these before. Nifty idea. 😀
Dang, now I want a Flannel Board
We used these in 1st grade (way back in '71). Haven't seen one since then.
when i became a teacher in 2000s i was actually really bummed flannel boards were no longer the sate of the art. they are so fun.
Hi Fran. Another cool video! My father had a small flannel\felt board that he used to make headings for his 8mm movies. I don't recall ever seeing one in school or business though.
Wow, I hadn't thought about these in so long! That was probably pre-school or kindergarten in the mid-70s. What I remember most about them is that the darn things didn't work very well, in my opinion. Maybe they just weren't meant for the year-round high humidity of South Florida, which tends to keep static relatively low. 😂 Looking at some of these other comments, I'm surprised they kept even trying to use them here for as long as they did!
Colorforms(TM) were the successor to this idea, at least commercially, and they were one of my favorite types of play sets as a kid. Ah, the memories... losing that one shape I needed, only to feel it later when I stood up and walked away, stuck to the back of my leg. Felt certainly never did that!
I've never seen one of these before. In school we had magnetic whiteboards and overhead projectors.Last year of high school things were switched over to LCD projectors attached to beige Macintosh G3s.
Watching an old 16mm movie that included a section on how to teach about 16mm movie projectors was neat.
Nice way to make things interactive with the learner. Might be time to re-use this concept in today's class rooms. Get them out of their PC screens and phones; get them up and engaging with one another.
I was thinking the same. Much of the digital aides we use in education these days are designed attempting to emulate many of the old physical aids, like blackboards, magnet boards and flannel boards. I often find myself wondering why we aren't using the old teaching aides, few other things I've found are quite as engaging, immediate and intuitive; and efficient, at least in smaller class sizes.
@@aksela6912 there are several reasons. Chalk dust is harmful on the long term, and many teachers are so passionate that it's essentially a life long job.
Digital emulation can be helpful, because the fact that it's virtual means that you can modify, share and save it more easily. I grew up with 'word boards' that had words written on Lego like blocks, which you could stick onto a base plate. To 'save' your work, you had to go to the one copier in the school, and the number of words available was limited. Maps in geography were those big scrolls, and you couldn't write on them. Today, you can write all over the maps on the digital screen.
Physical materials aren't gone, though. To teach high school kids the basics of digital circuits (the individual logic gates a computer is made from) we still have hardware based plug boards. The students love those. But now we also have the same plug board in a digital version. This means the kids can now study at home for their tests in that area.
Almost all physics and chemistry demonstrations are still fully physical.
@@mfbfreak I'm pretty sure the year 1, 2 and 3 I teach language acquisition would respond rather well to a flannel board. I think I might have to try it or something similar. They've all got their own iPads, which are great, but also clinical and intangible.
ahh....the good 'ol Flannel Panel :)
I'd forgotten about those, my grandparents had a boxed set of felt animals and plants with a board that we used to play with when we were kids.
Fuzzy felt farmyard! I thought every little kid had one of these when I was small.
My mother told Bible stories to kids in Sunday School using a flannel board. The pictures came in kits and you had to cut out the characters and attach flannel to the back. This was in the 50's. I think they were called flannel graphs.
That's where I remember them being used... Sunday school back in the 50s..
Thanks for putting a term to the concept. Why not? We're all learning. :)
I grew up in the late 50s. We called them "Felt Boards"! I first encountered them in nursery school in 1960.
Back when whiteboards or flip charts weren't a thing yet...
I think I remember something like that from my time in elementary school back in the '90s, but it was more about attaching paper objects with thumbnails :)
Later it became popular in the home with "fuzzy felt" :)
Fran, have you got any movies about sewing? Like how to start and end a stitch or join two pieces of cloth and with what kind of stitch? I learned this in 6th grade Home-Ec; 36 years ago. I've never had to use any of that info until recently. These are the sort of things we should all know and I doubt they're taught in modern schools.
They need to bring back driver education in public schools.
A Flannel Board on every desk ! Just think ... you too can have the latest tech at your fingertips !
The clock remind my English lesson (as a foreign language) in 1990 ! It seem to be an efficient learning method as I'm able to identify the thing as a clock !
That was a rather well done presentation. You could, of course, do most of the same things with overhead projectors as most have seen. But you couldn't use milk cartons. There is an advantage, however, to the overhead projector approach. With a flannel board, chalk board, or white board, whatever graphics you have showing stay there and can be a distraction. Of course, you can remove them, but you are likely to be providing information as steps and adding to it. What is currently showing can be distraction at times when you want all focus on you, the presenter. Quite a few skilled presenters would turn off the overhead projector when they wanted you to concentrate on them more closely and what they were saying. And then turn it back on when they were ready to continue with visuals. Or often, just leave the overhead projector on and temporarily cover what is on it with a blank sheet. I've seen some presenters do the same thing with flip charts - temporarily flip the front sheets over what is showing with the top sheet blank. PowerPoint, of course, lets you do everything you want, step by step if you want, blank it out when you want, but there is something to be said about the PowerPoint on audiences with the term "Death by PowerPoint". Some presenters even today still swear by overhead projectors as their weapon of choice.
I have a 16mm movie very similar to this one about how to create interesting and informative bulletin boards. It is an educational film for college students training to be teachers.
Very similar in tone and format to this one.
I remember learning addition and subtraction in on one of these with felt ducks and apples in kindergarten.
An opaque projector? (12:46) - I have yet to see a transparent projector, haha! My school possessed such a contraption, an epidiascope, in 1975, although I never saw it used. However we did use flannel boards (called after the trade name Fuzzy Felt) and a projection system consisting of a standard projector bounced off a mirror onto the rear of a ground-glass screen in a large box.
Last epiprojectors were manufactured in 90s. I don't remember the manufacturer's name. It used four 250W halogen lamps. Teachers used it to demonstrate pages from books or computer prints. At that time it was of better quality and light than from combination of camera, computer and data projector. And of course, the price was much lower.
This was obviously filmed before the Plaid laws were passed, requiring all flannel to have a pattern, preferably Plaid. It was done to honor Kurt Cobain, who was conceived on Plaid flannel sheets....😁
This is begging to be riffed. ❤️
Hey those music staves would still be great fun for kids 👍
Brought to you by the American Flannel Association. Flannel - it's not just for lumberjacks anymore!
I am from and in Oregon. This seems appropriate.
That 16mm projector is a classic RCA model 400. They were made from like 1948 to 1965. Most every Boomer watched 100's of 16mm films in school, mostly on this projector. Bell and Howell and a few others made projectors too, but RCA seemed to have 85% of the market. During college I worked at a RCA dealer repairing these projectors. They almost never broke, they just needed a shot of 60 weight oil and sometimes a new coiled belt. Out of hundreds I never had one come in with an electronic problem, not even a weak tube!
Their newer Model 1600 successor was lighter and a bit brighter, but noisier and 100% of them failed mechanically in at least three expensive and different ways. Also all the electrolytic capacitors and Germanium power transistors failed. Sometimes newer isn't better!
In around 1972 Japan started making knockoffs of theold Model 400, even better and sturdier than even the classic.
Somehow I got picked in 6th grade to order movies for the classroom from a catalogue. . I tried to find the most bizarre ones. Now I make films.
Set the way back machine to 1974, junior high art class...last time I saw one of these...
I remember these from Kindergarten back in '85!
We had one of those in elementary school. It stood behind the last row of desks and all it was ever used for was to make students who annoyed the teacher in any way stand behind it for the rest of the lesson.
👍never knew how they're called! I learned something!
A film as old as I am, and it's in better shape.
What color did you fade into?
They make good baffles in recording studios too LOL!!
Call me crazy, but I'm kind of liking the visual artifacts from damage to the film. At times, it almost seems whimsical, as if some entity was making fun of how seriously this film takes, well flannel boards! I'm loving this series. 🙂
I noticed that the motion is very smooth. Are you using interpolation? (Note the girl's ponytail at 9:04)
way back I had something in a board game sized box. It had popeye vinyl or plastic pieces that stuck on a shiny plastic board, same Idea. I had one black piece i could never figure out. now I think it was an untied bowtie. Tried fitting it on Bluto and such.
It must just be that 1957 sound but I really expected at the end of that film the narrator to say "As always, should you or any of your Flannel Board Team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions." then the film self destructs.
Seeing your teacher do this would probably be better for retention than a SmartBoard.
YES, i know them from my early schooldays
I thought that was morse code under the milk bottles, spelling TEA I might add!
My gosh. I don't know whether I've seen one of these or not! It feels oddly familiar, but that may be the effect of the repetition in the movie.
Known as "flanellograf" in Sweden, even in the early seventies the visual aid of choice for Sunday schools.
Well this explains in some depth what my grandparents did before Microsoft Powerpoint was invented.
It’s like a physical version of Trello
Yeah, they were used mostly in school and teaching purposes for adults as well.
This was all there was when I was a kid at church or camp or whatever. Its more of a performance art and also a construction craft. You can't always get results from careerist hacks or whatever. Its basically a puppet show and you have to be into it. It is however, like projected film, BIG ENOUGH TO SEE, which was a huge problem when VCRs attached to puny TVs took over everything in the 80s.
"I can't see it" "Oh, Johnny in the back row.."
7:52 then till the early 90s.
I;m 49 from the UK and I've never heard of them!
UK too, and a similar age. I don’t remember them from school either, but there was the “Fuzzy Felt” picture making toy. Basically the same idea. We had the farm set!
Holy mackeral, Fran-- the most disturbing look back only two generations back yet... I was born in late 54, so I should have seen one of these things but did not. The family moved from Back Bay Boston to midtown Manhattan in 59, but still no recollection. This short is showing off an entirely different world... I believe just before Velcro, just before Elmer's Glue All that we all recognize in the little white plastic bottle, "home building company" seems to suggest before so-called home improvement centers, "HAVANA Seconds" cigar box!!! wow-- okay, a few short years before the Bay of Pigs... we could all just nip off to the corner drug store and get Havana cigars (and that was a really nice proportioned cigar box)... using a grease pencil or crayons before a "Magic Marker" so-called "industrial" felt pen... map reading taught to grade schoolers--! In order to help find and fight off the commies, I guess... where did cuts of meat come from... ?? That poor coach having to use Scotch Tape instead of magnets. (I think they only came in giant U shapes back then... ) Right down to Masonite having competition... Chapman Board? Wow.
This is a lot.
Back then, we used this technology, and we flew to the moon!
Today, we don´t use this technology, and we don´t fly to the moon.
Any news on your flight training, Fran?
This is Power Point avant la letre and before Velcro! 🤓😸
Imagine what they would've thought of, interactive whiteboards, projection, 3D interactive animations etc. that are used today.
Who'd of thought they could make a 15 minute film on how to use a flannel board! Hi tech stuff!
But then think of Johnny from the back row!!!!!
So flannel boards are basically an early type of Velcro :)
Giant Fuzzy-felts!
Help me. I have/had flannel shirts. I don't remember the shirt sleeves sticking to the shirt.
brought to you by the flannel fabric industry.
Flannel Board......The first generation Velcro!
Just think. In the 11 years from the publication of this, we went from the Stone Age to landing a man on the moon.
It's just like PowerPoint 👍
So it's analog powerpoint?
I remember making felt animals in kindergarten, and sticking them to our shirts. I think I made a jack-o-lantern as well that year.
Movie: Fasten it, with masking tape.
Me: Oh, yeah, that beacon of strong adhesion, "masking tape." Good thing there's not going to be any lint that will immediately reduce the effectiveness of the tape. What's that? We're using it on felt?
I immediately went to hot glue (too many crafting vids), but surely they had better options. Elmers was around then, and that would give a better bond.
5:55 What are 'shut-in' children ?
Sick kids.
Please 🙏 provide captions.
Pre-Velcro days...
I'm color-blind! :) (8:14)
Proof as to the detriments of all the lead paint on 1920s and 1930s toys.
They were called felt boards when I was in school..
Are those scratches and spots fake?
Next, I expect a documentary on the origins of connecting the photos on a police detectives' murder-conspiracy board with red yarn....🤔
Like a QRS complex.
I could still here the music in the Voices, Made me a Little sleepy in the end of the Clip..
From this, to augmented reality with AI assisted rigging and 3d projection in 60 years.
Turned out flying to the moon gets old pretty quickly.
The narrator sounds like Peter Graves.
I was conceived on a flannel board...
Flannel boards. What you get when you put too much starch in your flannel shirts.
Velcro killed the flannel board!
Hmm making outlines from a globe is not a true representation of size tut tut.
Nice collection of videos you're producing, Fran.
They dont make em like that anymore. !!
I guess they stick through the power of lint?
To some degree, yes, but also a weak static electricity. Which, now that I think about it, also describes "the power of lint". 🤣 Basically, anything lightweight that would have clung to itself or other items when you got it out of the laundry dryer would probably have been game for the felt board.
@@VeganAtheistWeirdo Never underestimate the power of lint. But a single sheet of Bounce could have derailed the entire 1950s education system.
-------------------- somewhat sceptical , a pop quiz won't be administered w/out notice .... grades will count toward report cards.... will be watching for copy cats....
1950's PowerPoint
Mid 20th century PowerPoint
But can you put people to sleep with them like you can with power point?
Computers really ate everything, didn't they?
I wish they'd eat the fuzz under my bed...
Am I really watching a 1958 movie about flannel boards?
Ah never saw the mentioned surface even back in the early 60's. I guess the Catholic schools were cheep. Maybe they had one set up on display, not interactive. Chalk being struck on slate is as annoying as scraping your fingernails on the same dusty board. Having to do it in front of class is even worse. I seem to remember them in the public library just down the street. For display it seems like they were pick-able if accessible too, with children's fingers.
Sad what has happened to those Eastman Color prints when nothing is left but red and brown. I assume you have tried to boost the blue and green as some of these prints have been restored or enhanced quite well. In 2 scenes we get to see an actual color wheel and what is left of it! When it's gone it's gone.
What a load off, well, Flannel.
Dis-appoint-ment for the meme
Oh. Now we have iPads.
This is cheaper.
Awesome stuff! Then PowerPoint came along and ruined it
Exactly what came to mind for me as well. Really, people who use PP should watch the first 3 minutes of this film and take it seriously. Slapping paragraphs up on the screen and reading them out makes any presentation an uninformative yawn-fest.