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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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.")
Anthony Biondo
2024-08-19 19:51:32 +0000 UTCI 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.
Retro.Engineer
2024-08-18 23:25:43 +0000 UTCKodak 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.
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-08-18 23:07:24 +0000 UTCWas 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.
Retro.Engineer
2024-08-18 23:05:09 +0000 UTCoh why on earth did I say tension, I know better than that. uuughhhh. glad you enjoyed though!
Cathode Ray Dude
2024-08-17 16:55:54 +0000 UTCIncredibly 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.
Cthel
2024-08-17 09:46:55 +0000 UTCIt'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
kalleboo
2024-08-17 08:59:18 +0000 UTCI 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.
Bill Florio
2024-08-17 03:49:46 +0000 UTCI 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.
Kerne
2024-08-17 03:40:07 +0000 UTC(i was wondering, me too lol. I almost didnt make the joke, its a really low hanging fruit)
Loonie Lummox
2024-08-17 03:26:05 +0000 UTC(I am myself transgender. I’m just spitballing.)
Elsie Hupp
2024-08-17 03:16:49 +0000 UTCThe transhumanists want us all to be *digital* video, though.
Elsie Hupp
2024-08-17 03:16:02 +0000 UTCI sexually identify as film, though.
Elsie Hupp
2024-08-17 03:15:05 +0000 UTCAssigned video at recording?
Elsie Hupp
2024-08-17 03:14:44 +0000 UTCFinally, after so much cisvideo
Loonie Lummox
2024-08-17 03:03:33 +0000 UTCless interesting in the "HOW does this work" sense and more in this "someone actually MADE this?" sense. still good!
Xaviette Katzenfrau
2024-08-17 02:51:08 +0000 UTC
