Where’s the remote?

Teachers timeout 😅

The saviour of every hungover biology teacher for 30 years.

There's an antique

Can we watch jurassic park?!

Ah, memories.

🎶 Reading Rainbow 🎶 #levarburton

Time to watch The Magic Schoolbus!

I remember those days 🤣🤣🤣

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I remember those days! Retired teacher here, big step up from filmstrips🤣

My friend does an impersonation of a filmstrip, complete with beeps…never fails to crack us all up

The ones that used to get burned by the bulb?! Those were fun. Narrator had a voice that could put you down for a nap.

Ha!

I’ll raise you with my 1997 Sony Trinitron….

When I was in elementary and Junior High school, it was always reals of film in cans and a projector and a kid that knew how to operate the projector. Then eventually in high school it went to videotape and a BIG machine.

memories

Where's the AV geek?

I used to love seeing this being wheeled into the classroom.

I remember how awesome it was to see that being wheeled in the classroom by AV club kids.

Oh, please be Magic School Bus 🤞

Omg, I remember having to lug that contraption around to show a film in a building with a single elevator. The contraption lived on the top floor and my classes were usually on the lowest level. 😂

Bahahahaha

😂 This was always the best day in school! 😂

Anyone remember filmstrips?

Grade school into Jr. High

VCR is too small 😉. When I was in School we had betamax. Yeah, I'm old.

That suitcase!

We had projectors, so I'm older than you! LOL!

I had those in grade school!

How about the mimeograph machine? We loved getting those fresh mineographs and sniffing them. 🤣

Fast Times at Ridgemont High 😂

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The squeaky thump of the AV guy rolling it down the tiled hallway to the classroom…

Count the events I've seen on those: 1. Moon Landings 2. Special Hockey games (CDN) 3. Dudes w slicked hair talking about worms, etc. I watched Cassius at my Grandpa's, same size TV, but in a console, not on a stand with wheels. I miss mimeographs, what started my lifelong Sharpie addiction : )!

Deep cut

OMG I remember this. Am I really that old?

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Ha!

OMG! I used to deliver these to classrooms when I went to JR college!

The AV club is at your service!

You realize the AV person will screw around for half the day trying to plug it in, don't you?

Please don't show the space shuttle exploding movie again.

Alt text: it’s a good ol public school AV cart with a CRT television set on top and a VCR on the middle shelf

AV club?

What are we watching?

This was the best! When we saw that roll in the classroom, we all suddenly got happy.

In HS, I was one of those AV kids, so always loved when the teacher asked for one for the class. I had to know how to try to fix tech issues if the VCR didn't work the first time, & as an AV kid I had to clean the gear in between uses.

Can we watch school house rock? I think we need reminders about how our government was supposed to work.

Gott damn that’s hilarious!

Be kind. Rewind.

Serial Mom! Such a fun movie.

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LOL

Nuns wheeling that into my classroom in 1960’s. Including the World Series!

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I always enjoyed seeing the TV cart. I volunteered to go and get it from the AV room a time or two 😊

Or…

I’ve seen those! They’re so cool. Love new tech. Are they on Amazon? What are they called?

How long does the battery charge last on that?

Holy smokes that brings back memories. RIP PBS and Reading Rainbow.

I used to set this up when I worked at the library.

Omg perfect!!

I was thinking exactly this. Thank you.

been there done that.

How my heart lifted when the teacher pushed one of those into the classroom 🙂

Yikes I remember those days. 😉

Brings back memories...can someone get the lights?

Cause of where I went to school it was strapped down and locked tho lol

AV Club.

I hear ya!

Looking back now, whenever you saw this back in the day, your teacher was probably hung over.

So, you're a teacher? I recognize that ploy. 🤣🤣

I was born in June '85 and I easily remember that big ass TV and the old VCR that the teacher rolled in for the class to watch a documentary or a movie for the class to enjoy or something for the class to watch and take notes on. Those were the days for sure.

CRT & VCR not flat screen & streaming

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

set my alarm for 45 minutes from now

Aww, not Wargames again! One of my teachers' only sub plans were "play Wargames, hand out quiz." I think I took at least a dozen of those in Jr/Sr year - all observational questions about the film, no questions repeated from one test to the next.

Our classrooms rolled a stand like this among us to watch educational videos. Good times.

Ah, yes....😅

that brings back memories!

Now post the one with no VCR, rabbit-ear antenna and hand-dial channel changer. 🤣

Hehe he

Trump's "Golden Age"

It was a good day teaching when you could find one of these available the same day your educational films came in from the county ISD.

Made me laugh. I was there.

It was always a good day when some a/v kid rolled that into the classroom.

When I started teaching, I would have to go to the local store and rent the VHS player so I could show tapes to the students. Looked like that.

You had tapes?! So modern. We had filmstrips (the worst) and grainy 16 mm movies.

I used them when I first started! We had to order from downtown a few weeks ahead of time! That's why I LOVED renting a VHS player and tape!!!

Is it on channel three?

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Substitute Teacher Time! Been there Done that.🤣

Remeber the failed invention of the laser disk and how cool we felt when our schools got one

Cute

I'm older. It would be a film projector. The film would break and require repair at least twice. Three times, minimum, if it featured "Home Ec Blue."

If you were the class favorite, you could RUN the projector. I was not the class favorite ...

That was grade school for me

I didn't get to this awesome technology until college.

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Why is the VCR smaller than the TV?!? That doesn’t seem right.

I remember those days 😃

As a retired educator I can relate to this post

I feel personally attacked by this. Also, I kinda want to watch Jaws to "learn about suspense methods."

Triggered. Saw the second plane hit on one of these.

Wow! Can we say Flashbacks?!

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That takes me back. "Can we watch a video?" "Can we have class outside?"

About ten years ago, I taught a course in an old university building with a crumbling classroom where I found one of those in the back of the room, so large that it had inflatable tires. It had been sitting there so long that the tires were flat!

I'm not sure I remember how to operate a VHS machine anymore. Does that setup come with a kid from the Grade 7 AV club?

Memories!

Ok that took a second for me to find the mental file on this. Good one! 😂

I still remember the one day the teacher announced her class would be a movie day and we could bring a dvd in. I brought Saw 2, and we ended up watching that in class.

What Film are you showing?

At my school it was always something to do with whatever we were studying in that class. The only in class one I remember doing s when a teacher had us watch “The Day After”

Were you in my class? We watched this one too!

BMHS!

That's dark.

In the Early 80s,Some Teachers at the end of Term would let us watch Movies like Death Race 2000 and The Warriors.

Stand and deliver. It’s always Stand and Deliver

Memories 🤓

Class movie time

I see your VHS cart, and I raise with this filmstrip/cassette player combo.

My English teacher in 7th grade broke that out and we watched the original black and white '12 Angry Men'. It is literally my favorite move of all-time and it's thanks to that teacher.

Love this!!!!!

Looks familiar to my Boomer eyes

Oh when I rolled that tv into the classroom back in the day!!!!

Back in the day when the only activities at HS available for the nerdish were being an AV assitant and the Electronics Club.

I can’t believe I was rolling these things in when I first started teaching as a grad student. I think I blocked that out of my memory 😂

lol, the last time was It's a Wonderful Life, by my A.P. Biology class teacher in High School, lol.

Watch "Strangers with Candy" That is some 1970's equipment.

I can hear it clanking into the classroom!

Sex ed AGAIN!??

Omg, grade school 1980s memories and 1990s high school memories!

high school 1970's 👍👍👍

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I watched Armstrong step onto the moon on a mobile TV something like that. Smaller and B&W though.