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ELMO Transvideo video
🕑 Added 2024-08-17 02:42:31 +0000 UTCNo idea how I'm going to come up with a clever name for this one. I decided I really needed to do something approaching a short subject, so here's something only barely remarkable. I like the thing, but it's just one of those things that's exactly the thing that it appears to be.
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Anthony Biondo
It wouldn't shock me if this was also used in courtrooms. Document cameras are still pretty ubiquitous there in my experience (often referred to just as "elmos.")
Retro.Engineer
I just really love these kind of videos, this is stuff I remember from my childhood, after that I never really looked at slide projectors again, but they're interesting technology and I learn stuff about them I never knew.
Cathode Ray Dude
Kodak sold millions here, I have been finding these things at thrift stores every single time I go for over 20 years, and the carousels are even more common.
Retro.Engineer
Was the carousel type of slide holder really that popular in the US? Here in the Netherlands I only ever saw those at museums and similar, that had continuous presentations. For schools and households the more common format were rectangular trays that would go into stack able plastic boxes. (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373706827387) Also, I seem to remember the tape controls to be reversed, where the the tape player would control the slide advance. So a teacher would put on a presentation and the slides would just automatically advance with the story on the tape. I presume that the main presentation was mono and that the 2nd channel was used for control tones, but I really have no idea.
Cathode Ray Dude
oh why on earth did I say tension, I know better than that. uuughhhh. glad you enjoyed though!
Cthel
Incredibly tiny nit-pick - the clutch springs are under compression, not tension A great video, as always - I love how enthusiastic you are about your subjects.
kalleboo
It's cool seeing how the genlock projector scanner stuff worked. The first time I was ever "wowed" by slide projectors was reading about the creation of the "Apple II Forever" "music video", which apparently was made on a bunch of slide projectors controlled in sync (although I believe in this case they were actually projected live in the moscone center hall rather than being produced to video). About halfway through it gets really fast-paced, basically faking animation using slides. The room full of projectors must have been a real cacaphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcjlhFVTY50
Bill Florio
I used to have one of these in the studio I worked in and before PowerPoint I "converted" video tapes of sales people doing presentation via slide projector to edited video presentations with the recorded slides inserted. Ironically the first series I made was for Prodigy, the online service. Yes sales for the digital product was all analog, go figure.
Kerne
I still own both an Ektagraphic, a vintage 120 film projector and a macro slide bellows for my Pentax Spotmatic. Projected 120 slides are still much better looking than my 65" 4k TV.
Loonie Lummox
(i was wondering, me too lol. I almost didnt make the joke, its a really low hanging fruit)
Elsie Hupp
(I am myself transgender. I’m just spitballing.)
Elsie Hupp
The transhumanists want us all to be *digital* video, though.
Elsie Hupp
I sexually identify as film, though.
Elsie Hupp
Assigned video at recording?
Loonie Lummox
Finally, after so much cisvideo
Xaviette Katzenfrau
less interesting in the "HOW does this work" sense and more in this "someone actually MADE this?" sense. still good!
