Show 'N Tell - 1960s Children's Multimedia System
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- The Show N' Tell was an educational and entertainment audio slideshow system for children that was sold in the US for approximately twenty years. I imported one to the UK to try it for myself.
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Corrections & Updates
Motor Speed
The motor is an AC motor, a DC motor would have been fine. I misspoke. I previously covered this issue in a video about a wire recorder and one called ‘How to get 120v 60Hz in the U.K.’
Slides
There are various ways to improve the appearance of the images on the faded slides by scanning them in and then manipulating them in editing packages. However getting them back into a format that could be read by the machine again would be much trickier, and more trouble than it’s worth.
Mechanism
It’s a ‘Geneva Drive’ - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
"It's a far cry from the glory days of the mid 1960s when children would eagerly gather around their Show N Tell to watch a biography of Winston Churchill."
Because why not? Children love learing every new fact about how the RAF fought the Luftwaffe.
If this was Stalin in childrens Soviet books, people would say that is propaganda
ivan schale the difference is that authors were free to write negative stories about Churchill in England if they so wished. Not so much with regards to Stalin in the Soviet Union.
@@puckcat22679 If any author would write anything negative about Churchill mismanagement of the British Raj (which caused a preventable fammine killing 20 million people) in 1946, in any article or newspaper, that person would simply loose their freedom. Stalin was an aurhoritarian monster, and his mesures also killed millions of people, im only saying that Churchill was not better, lets not kidd ourselves. Yes Stalin had a cult of personality and killed those who did not like him, Churchill didn´t had such an image, but if you disagree with the British goverment in surtain aspects, then an ideological aparatus as strong as the soviet one would send you away to a penal colony far fron London.
@@ivodesu what a load of bullshit
churchill never killed millions in camps, he's nowhere near "as bad as stalin"
and no one was ever sent to a penal colony for making fun of him either
It could be gold if someone managed to make the beggining slides of fallout to play on this thing.
It wouldn't be that hard to make the slides, the record would be the hard part.
This whole thing would be quite the challenge. Printing onto clear plastic is a largely lost art, especially for something custom like this. Lathing the record would be the easiest part.
@@hanniballecter4283 it seems like ordinary 16mm film, you still can get it.
@@thesandwichslayer9948 you can get custom lathe-cut records for about $50 or so. I have a lot of experience with 16mm, using a movie camera would be VERY difficult to get a one-frame image. However, there were a number of "subminiature" cameras from the 1960s that took stills on 16mm film, so you could do that!
So theoretically if anyone wanted to spend the time and effort to do it, you could have a matching slide strip and record for about $100 or so!
There are some specialty shops that make Viewfinder disks; I'm sure they could make the appropriate slides! Then add a 3d-printed holder, and the rest is having a record pressed..
4:32
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the absurdity of putting that much musicianship into pop goes the weasel?
It sounds rad tho
Sounds better than most popular pop songs of this day
@@coffeemakerbottomcracked No it doesn't lol
@@shrimpshufflr7745 yes it does
@@shrimpshufflr7745 Yes it does
12:48 "Come in handy if you were having a baby." Loved that 👍
It seems laughably outdated now but imagine how exciting this would have been for kids in the 60's and 70's. Even the 80's really.
I was a kid in the 80s. We borrowed one of these things from my church. Believe me, it wasn't that exciting.
60's yes, 70's meh..... 80's, I hate you mum and dad
I think it's still pretty neat.
I grew up in the 80s in the USA (born in mid 70s), and I definitely remember these. Got to play with them a few times, which is the only reason I didn't really want one; the idea was neat but they were actually pretty boring.
Sort of like ViewMaster, but with bad audio and blurry images. At least with ViewMaster, those old vintage reels had some really crisp images on them - they also got terrible by the end of that era... so many companies cut corners on quality and lost market share.
Screw Show 'n Tell, gimme a computer or an Atari! :D
@@chouseification not to mention vhs existed at that time
"...representing a savings of zero cents" lmao
This brings back a lot of memories. I had a red model from the early 70s, along with dozens of records. When I got too old for it, I took it apart to see how it worked, and in the process destroyed it. It was a low tech fun toy that I watched for many hours over and over again. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.
everything u said is me
For a 1960s toy it's pretty much genius
There is probably comedy gold in deliberately mismatching the record and film strip.
I'm sure somebody would play the slides to "Dark Side Of The Moon" and swear that they match up.
+Mike Angelo yep...
Basically anything against the Winston Churchill audio XD
Omg imagine rickrolling someone????
@@mikeangelo6667 the aristoblarts
so this was a 0.0625 fps film.
that sounds like an interesting format.
steamcastle Ah, a PUBG simulation then.
steamcastle More than enough for serious gaming. -Ubisoft
Ultra cinematic!
steamcastle hey kids! lets play the game ‘spot the commenter under 25’! or also known as ‘spot the person most likely to use the world literally wrong in the same sentence as the word potato’
It still better than some YT material !!!!
Good heavens. I had forgotten these existed. They were used as teaching aids in my grade 1-6 school. It was difficult to see the small screen across the room.
I was about to say. I knew I'd seen one before.
It was in Kindergarten in my super-rural school in 1996.
The first time I saw laser discs was in high school...circa 1999/2000, lmao. They spared no expense!
@@TotemoGaijin my school don’t even have decent PC’s and they still use janky desks and chairs from the 80s. Even the teachers still use thinkpads from like 2006
@@Menace2DaComments in my school some of the keyboards in the computer rooms literally have the windows 95 logo
12:35 wtf is this asmr for astronauts? 😂
I feel this is some gang bang shit
That killed me
I think it's like the meditation they do before lift-off lol
Push puch
😂😂😂😂
please we need a full version of the b side to that superman record
Please upload it!
Yes please
"Push, Push, Push" was a song recorded by The Joe Cuba Sextet circa 1970.
They call that an aerobics workout? It's too slow-paced! Aerobics are supposed to stimulate your cardiovascular system... like this does!:
th-cam.com/video/zeH2Um-yOrA/w-d-xo.html
There's a rich seam of samples waiting to be mined there, aye.
"My superhearing is picking up a cry for help in the next room" Superman, dude, I don't think you need superhearing for that.
A fire makes a lot of noise and hearing a child among the turmoil demands a quite good hearing.
He has superhearing anyway. He can't turn it off. So he super-hears everything.
Dad's been drinking
That "Aristocats" plot was a bit macabre...drugging cats and leaving them for dead? "Children, gather 'round and let's listen to a fun record! Oh...the cats were drugged and left for dead? What did we learn today? Okay children, apply what you've learned and write a paragraph about how YOU would cheat someone out of their inheritance." Brilliant - a truly stereotypical Disney theme. Dead parents, scheming family members, etc...
"What did we learn today? "
Finish the job?
It's a lot better than what they're putting out now!
For real, as a kid I always wondered why didn't he just poison them instead of drugging them?
Yeah, but the movie ended happily and the butler got what he deserved at least. There was also a lot of fun parts about the movie. But, it's still a pretty weird and dark topic for a children's record though. Especially the way they recorded Edgar's cruel intentions, in a creepy matter-of-fact monotone and then immediately afterwards Madame says she trusts him. I wouldn't trust him. I also feel that way about the Winston Churchill record, that was about WW2 (although it was more strange that it was created for a kid's entertainment system than creepy ). I don't know of any children who would even be interested in that type of stuff anyway.
@@tiamarie6719 Back then, children did care about history and schools made it a point to teach it...one did not just ignore the subject because they thought it was "boring". This wasn't made for you, or anyone else brainwashed into thinking that the past no longer matters and thus we have nothing to learn from it...although that nihilism is part of what is destroying our society today...
6:39 "How Do We Know the Earth Is Round?" is what some should really watch these days! ;-)
while i agree, let them send out an expidition so find the edge of the world. I wannat to see that :D
Believe it or not there are still flat Earthers in the world. They are in a discord server (politics) and on Paltalk chat program.
The earth is neither round nor flat. It is in fact a dodecahedron. You all just have poor eyesight.
@@erwinderdoofe They think Antarctica is the edge, and the Freemasons will shoot them if they get too close.
FUCKIN' FLAT-EARTHERS!!!!
Representing a saving of zero cents
By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings.
But... it's under $5!
Pay & Sell
Probably just reflects the prices they pay for the products from their wholesaler(s). They calculate a margin based on the cost price for each size of unit.
Pook365 My local supermarket does that too. The tech department is also pretty funny. Either the things are completely overpriced or so cheap they must loose money on them. I recently saw 16 GB of DDR4-3000 by Corsair for 80€. I really don’t know what their business model is.
4:34. That’s a banger. I want the full version.
Strech my arms forwards, waving them up and down.
I'm imagining the peanuts characters dancing to that
Snazzy Labs definitely a jam!
Does somebody know where can I find this?
none for sale on discogs...
discogs.com/label/1072741-Gabriel-Child-Guidance-Toys
Plenty on ebay
This was so exciting back then. As a kid this to me was amazing. I loved my Show n Tell n still have one!! I also have The Aristocats n love the pop goes the weasel version ! Great review!!
I was blessed to have this classic toy back in 1971 when l was seven years old I use to watch my Robinson Crusoe film on my Show n Tell toy . l kept until my Senior year in high school 🏫 it was so cute l wish they would bring it back l would buy it for my grandchild my Show n Tell was 🍒 Red.
Maybe some day my kids will say the same thing about iPads. “Man, those things are so old. With the tech we have now, something like that could never make a comeback.”
The flatly delivered "could come in useful when delivering a baby" sent my coffee towards the screen.
A savings of zero cents shouldn't be mocked since it adds up - once you've purchased all 140 programs you have a total savings of 28 x .00 = .00 which would be a handy start for a college fund.
The IPad of the 60's to 80's. I can see how these were popular. We didn't have much entertainment options growing up. Someone should do a video of just how drab our entertainment options of the 60's to 80's were.
Until Windows 1.0 came out in 1985
@Roy G Biv teChn0loGy bAd
Yeah right...drab...okay...
Says the generation that had the record player AT ITS BEST, transistor radios, console stereos, actual HiFi equipment all around, jukeboxes EVERYWHERE, early days of cable TV, Star Trek TOS and later TAS, ALL of the 1960's Doctor Who (97 episodes of which are still missing and may never be seen again so us younger folks are really missing out there...), eight-tracks, Betamax vs. VHS format wars...shall I go on?
We went exploring in the woods, had parties in the back yard, staged watergun battles, played games, went swimming... yeah, pretty drab. 😉😀
@randy s And the original Star Trek! 🖖😀
I’m an 80’s baby, and I had this system until 1985. I wish I still had my Show and Tell. The memories
Most nostalgic. I took mine apart too, once it had spun out its life. I had the late-60's blue variety (small volume knob). The series was actually good for introducing classical music on the flip side of the records. I still have my full set of slides and records, representing happy memories. Thanks for doing this one.
James Steeber I think we all took it apart!!
James Steeber That's a warm story James, it's really awesome that you kept all of your records and slides for it to this day... It seems every time I move homes I mysteriously lose something I had been trying to keep such as this...
SeGa32xXx Great name. I have several 32X and Mega CD setups myself, amongst many other things.
Dismantling broken electrical or mechanical devices at a young age has given the world some tremendous engineers and designers and places like M.I.T and Cambridge snap people like that up yet if you dismantle your broken little brother they don't send you to medical school just straight to a hospital. One of the other people who was brought here against his will traded me this phone, he didn't say how he got it in.
They are still selling the viewers on eBay if you are interested.
...'In Case Of Fire, Run Towards The Nearest Weird-lookin' Guy'....ah, how times change.
Flymochairman1 all you needed to catch a loli back then was to make a campfire and wear a firemask
@@WiihawkPL Fun times.
When we do fire prevention day at the local grade school, we always make a point of showing the younger kids what we look like when we put on and take off our full turnouts and SCBA and let them hear us breathing with the mask and see us carrying an axe and a Halligan tool. We want them to know who's inside all that scary looking stuff.
all those children runing towards thier burning Parents. ..
Wow, it's like multimedia, before multimedia existed!
In the late 60s/early 70s, we owned a genuine GE "Deluxe" Show 'N Tell. I'm not really sure what the difference was from the regular model though I suspect that the Deluxe was built more to be a piece of AV equipment.
The bit about rolling back the turntable awakened a vague memory that the old ones had an index mark on the turntable which you were supposed to line up as part of loading the record and film strip.
Watching the changes in the amount and type of programming over the years as well as the apparently quality decline reminded me a bit of the rise and fall of the ViewMaster.
I heard The White Stripes' new release is coming out only in Show N' Tell format
Let's not tempt the crazy little man.
youre joking sure, but how cool would it have been to buy records like this? pick up something like saucerful of secrets and you get 15 acid projections included.
I wouldn't put it past Jack.
Nuh unhhhhh!
@@ciaphascyne8866 k-tel acid trip machine...
YOU'RE THE MAN TECHNMOAN! Doubt you'll see this but my mom asked me to look up a video for *THIS EXACT PRODUCT* the other week. Couldn't find a good video and BAM I see this.
Back in the sixties, this was one of my favorite toys... though it wasn't owned by me! It belonged to friends of mine; but whenever I visited them, we would spend a lot of fun watching it together.
(I don't think I could have convinced my own parents into buying me one; $29.95 in 1964 would equal almost $250.00 today; quite a hunk of change...)
I had this when i was a kid in the 1960's
It was the most amazing toy for a 5 or 6 year old
Back in those days we only had 6 channels on tv
This was like having a dvd or vcr
You could watch it any time and pick what you wanted to see
planner812 six channels luxury we had two :)
@randy s I had an L.P. with Tom Sawyer on one side, and a child friendly version of Huck Finn on the flip side. I listened to that over and over.
10:15 This disc totally sounds like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2
There's always time for a song.
I'm just waiting for the copyright claim from DC for showing that whole Superman story.
DC Copyright-claimed a father who wanted to put the Superman S on his dead son's grave, so I could see that happening.
One of them was “how we know the earth is round”, that’s sounds like a good one to watch for flat earthers.
they clearly didn't own show-n-tells lol
I got one of these at a yard sale when I was a kid in the 80s. It was one from the early 70s and I only used it to play records.
Cue Disney sending their army of copyright ninja assassins after Techmoan 😄
someone should send flowers to his soon-to-be widow
pixel girl Forget Song of the South, it’s The Aristocats that needs to be in the vault forever.
Michael, my mum used to sing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" _all_ the time.
It's a bunch of thugs dressed in mouse suits.
He'll be sent to Duck-au!
Looks like they were using the cheaper Ektachrome or another equivalent brand of film. Ektachrome used chemical dyes of which the blue dye faded rather fast. The more expensive Kodak Kodachrome used natural dyes and the earliest films still have their original vibrant colors, providing they have been kept in a good environment.
Unless it's my memory that's faded, the slides were never anywhere near as colorful as the images on the covers. I seem to remember thinking that way back then. I also remember that Treasure Island -- even at 5 years old, I could see that the story had been totally trashed. It was funny even back then. Great vid, this -- really brought back some childhood memories!
So that's how these things worked!!! I remember seeing ads for these when I was a little kid (late seventies and early eighties), and I used to be really curious about them, but never really got to see one working back then. It's actually pretty neat! Thanks for showing it here. :-)
We had one as a kids (1970s). It was the coolest thing ever!
I did too (they kept selling these into the early 80's).
Push. Push. Push. Push.
Techmoan's quip on that made my day
Kersplash
I prefer to push like this.
th-cam.com/video/Lx2EBF4ZRVc/w-d-xo.html
push. push. push. push. it's a baby boy.
Touch. Touch. Touch. Touch.
OMG, the superman one, side b. When I was in elementary school (in the '80s) they would do a little workout thing every morning in kindergarten the teacher would play a record and we'd do what it said. That side B was one of the actual things we did! OMG, I've not heard that in nearly 40 years now! Holy hell, you want to talk about a blast from the past! It wasn't on a small record, it was on a larger record, I can't exactly remember but it most likely had multiple little activities like that on one record. Absolutely AMAZING to hear this again!
I was born in 1962 and got one for Christmas 1965 when I was almost 3yrs. old. Absolutely loved it. My brother was born in 1967 and he loved it too. Still have some of the records and slides.
You need a PURE sinewave inverter. The inverter you're using is a modified square wave, which can cause problems with induction motors. That is why you were getting that obnoxious buzz as the motor expects a pure sine wave
I was born in 1962 and I never saw these before. Way coolio, thank you!
@NearlySeniorCitizen I was born in 1986 and had this strange device from a yard sell because my parents were hippies.
One of my Parent's was born in 1962.
Whoa there
I was born in 1962 also. My dad was a musician on many of the Show N Tell programs so he received some promo records and film strips. Thus I was lucky to get a General Electric Show N Tell machine at Christmas...even had a built in AM radio...thanks mom and dad for the deluxe model. Really enjoyed it. Down side was the speaker is on the side of the machine and the sound does not have a lot of treble thus making it a little difficult to understand the dialogue of some of the stories. Even though the machine has 78 RPM speed there is only an LP needle...no flip over cartridge. I still have the machine in my parent's attic. Big part of my childhood. Fun toy!
Don't think i saw ANY $29.95 toy
Woo! My first record player! I kind of wanted you to test out the tonearm weight, because as I recall, this one would TEAR UP the old Hall & Oates 45s. Mine was one of the 70s vintage GE models. Also, the bulb burned out and my parents never replaced it, so it was just a record player on top of a fake, plastic TV. There was always the school's old DuKane filmstrip projector, same basic idea (only it used cassettes).
I had one as a kid. It worked pretty good! Mine was a 1965 model.
Actually that space one, while the "push" is funny for adults to hear, it sounds like a cool meditation for children. They get to chill out in an imaginary spaceship, how great is that?
3rdalbum
"Let's take a journey in the Spaceship of the Imagination!" -Carl Sagan
3:13 I like how abruptly you cut this.
I wanted one of those in the early 80's. After seeing this video I'm glad my parents didn't get us one.
I'm snatchin one..
I like "The Story Of Clocks"(10:20)...it's layed back.. that cacklin makes it better too.
Music was simple & to the point back then, & mostly original..
"Spoiler", hilarious
Kenny Brace The butler did it!
I think you should put up the one about a Round Earth on youtube.... Might help flat earthers understand globes better?
Propaganda 🦄
I seem to recall, in my very distant, hazy memory of the early-to-mid 1960s, a system that was much more scholastically oriented that we had for a few years that was very similar but different from Show 'N Tell. It was less entertainment and more lesson-based and found in, well, classrooms. I kind of think that it didn't have a record but, somehow, the film and audio were integrated into a single cartridge and were synchronized and required no other fiddling. I remember finding it fairly impressive. I should note that I was blown completely away a few years later when my junior high school acquired the very first Sony B/W video camera and tape recorder, about 1971. That was the most exciting and stunning experience of my school years, which doesn't speak well for my school or my academic experience.
This nearly brought a tear to my eye. I’m 57 and I had one of these as a kid in the early 70’s
I'd be forever grateful if you were to upload Aerobic Adventures Through Outer Space
Brillemeister - PUSH!
What a wonderful machine!
"perhaps that also come in handy when you're having a baby" Haha!
Maurice Blok probably also "trying for a baby"
Oh my gosh, I remember that! Someone I knew had one in the late 60's and it was the coolest toy I'd ever seen. I actually went to his house just to play with it. That's the way kids played in the "olden days".
In 1967 in Maracay, Venezuela my family used to go to the military supermarket (we civilians were also aloud to buy there) I always wanted this record player with a tv. My father always said no because it was too expensive. The memory image of this gadget never left me, it is the same as the one you showed for the 60's version. I never saw it again. We went to live in England again in 1968 and I never saw this apparatus not even in Selfridges not even in Harrods. When we returned to Venezuela in the early 70's, the military supermarket didn't exist, it was turned into a post office from where I sent numerous letters to my friends in England. I always said that it would be a marvelous idea to put pop music groups with a film just like the Show N' Tell, that was years before the video craze and MTV. Thank you very much, from all your videos this is the one I like best.
Very disappointing that the film used in Show N" Tell has turned to pink. The reason is... most films back in the 1960s were using the Eastmancolour format, which turns to pink over time, due to the poor colour dyes during the process. Compared to Technicolour, the colour dyes are permanent. But since Technicolour has gone expensive in the 1950s, most companies use the cheaper process, which is known as Eastmancolour. :\
That's something I recall about the Viewmasters, those were all either Technicolor or Kodachrome.
Ahh I noticed that! ;)
I've noticed that pink effect on some of my 8mm films.
The good news, though, is that if you have a film scanner and software that supports ICE^3 (ICE cube) you can fully recover the original color despite the photos having turned pink. I have tons of old Brownie style color photos shot by my grandfather, and other family, that had all turned pink due to the red and blue dyes degrading, but fortunately a Nikon LS-8000 film scanner and software will restore the original color in your digitized scans of the photos, it just adds a little added processing time (which is almost nothing with modern CPUs, but was much greater with the original mid-90s Pentium II 400 and 128MB that was state of the art at the time I bought that scanner).
I have a home movie that I bought on eBay it’s format is 8mm It’s from 1947 and it’s in color and it’s in excellent shape still has a lot of its color. Can anyone please explain why the film hasn’t really faded or turned red?
what a delightful children's story about a guy killing cats! That will get the kids to bed early. I just hear the kids crying right now, why did he have to kill the cats?
He didn't kill them. At least I assume not. Certainly not until they'd done a lot of jazz singing anyway. It's a Disney film, he's not just gonna murder a dozen cats and live the high life, is he?
Thing is, silly bastard had it made anyway. If he was put in charge of the cats' welfare, why bother killing them? How much of his millions is a load of cat food going to cut into? They're fucking cats! They're cheap to keep.
cos the world was tough back then, we have gotten soft, and soon they will return
no, no, they're just sleeping.
I loved that movie as a kid, couldn't stop watching and talking about ut it
Do you mean to say it's like that Monty Python parrot sketch, they are just resting.
NOW i know what the little slide thing was for. when I was a kid in the mid 80's I had a pile of 45's ranging from the beachboys to sound of music sound track. But i was puzzled by a group of records i had that came with that little strip of slides. now i know what they went to.. we used to just listen to the stories and try to look through the slide with a pen flashlight
That was kind of a treat. Superman is my favorite superhero.
Something today's kids will never experience, the analog slide show.
In ye olde Japan you'd get storytellers who would tell a story while flipping through a series of pictures, or who tell the story while two other people roll along a giant scroll. You still see them in historical-themed theme parks. Never mind analogue, these things are live!
And ye olde Britain had it's magic lanterns too, of course. I can also remember going to Wookey Hole caves in the 90's, and they had a retro amusement arcade where most of the machines were mechanical, and ran on old pennies. I thought the "d" meant the coins were called "dimes".
The only thing more boring than a slide show was a felt board presentation.
My favorite from that era was the Viewmaster. I think we still had some around as late as the early 80s, with those pinwheel circular slides cartridges.
I'd love to see the puppets working on Aerobic Adventures...
One of my favorite Techmoan videos! I never owned one of these, but somehow I felt nostalgic about it. I sensed the same excitement a kid from decades ago would feel watching a stirring Superman episode on their own personal "TV."
What a flash back! Wish I still had mine. 62 yrs and still like toys!
When I was a wee kid, nothing would settle me down until I had gotten my Winston Churchill fix. Or maybe it was those cough drops made with real Heroin. Not sure.
Sad to see the "Tales from Shakespeare" collection at 6:31 didn't offer "Titus Andronicus."
I wonder if the "The Wizard of Oz" filmstrip syncs up with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
Nah but Alice's adventures in wonderland does
The single, of course.
At only four minutes, it only syncs with Brain Damage/Eclipse. Or maybe the whole record if you play it on 10x speed, idk
Like always, I didn't know this even existed. Thanks british dude
As a kid of the 1950s and '60s, I would have loved a Show 'N' Tell for Christmas. Funny, but I don't remember being aware of such a product. Surely they were included in the Sears and Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalogs which were a staple in our home every year, but I somehow managed to miss it. If it was advertised as an educational toy, that would have been a deal breaker for me! No problem. All I cared about was my various record players and my records of which my parents provided me with plenty. Still, looking back as an adult, the Show 'N' Tell is retro cool! I would have bought it for my kids, had I had any.
Multimedia is an older invention than I thought. Space aerobic made my day :-)
Early '60's Sears catalog still had slide strips and the magic (battery) lantern to project them. There were TV ads for these projectors. This was the Victorian Era multimedia show that had live storytelling to a slide show with music and sound effects thrown in.
Very cool contraption. I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in my youth, pointing out the scariness of a firefighter's mask was integral to teaching young children about fire safety. Beats me as to why.
It's the same in the US. It's so the kids aren't scared and hide from the firefighters if they need to be rescued.
Oh whoops, forgot to mention that's where I'm from besides "Not UK." I really try to not slip into the assumption of Americanism that happens online.
And yeah for sure, maybe it's reason gained with age, but given the choice between monster and fire; I'm going for that monster every time, fuck fire.
The bigger culprit is smoke, and not visible scary flames.
Yeah, I meant the fire as in the greater situation beyond the flames, it also means a general lack of oxygen and heat that can be damaging. Bit of a silly thing to be pedantic about though, isn't it?
Sam Harkins I'm in uk all I remember is when your chip pan catches afire. don't chuck a bit of water on it
By God! I almost forgot this thing! Aaaahhh found memories of this back in the 70's!
I had one of these when I was a kid in the 60's. I wore out the dinosaur record and film strip from watching it so much.
Color By Fade®.... so many memories! Love the Captain Kangaroo.
Good to see you here
I also recognized the Captain, even before his "creepy hand-drawn illustrations" reference, lol.
Whenever I hear the words Captain Kangaroo, which is not often at all, I remember him asking one of the kids if he walks to school or carries his lunch. I don't remember what the kid said but the question was too funny. :D
Ayyyyyy Fran!!!
The superman episode had me on pins needles. I'm glad it all ended well!
I had one of these as a kid in the 70s. I only had a few of the show and tell sets but it was my only record player until I was 11 or 12 years old and I was given a real stereo.
Thanks for sharing this! I would've loved having something like this as a child! The closest to this that I had were those records that came with a book where you turned the page when you heard the record chime.
This reminds me of those old Super-8 projectors with the built-in screen that companies like Sankyo made.
This is really cool, there was a similar toy advertised in the Phantom Comics where it was basically a slide projector that was similar to this. But I think it had a unique design, like it was in the shape of a gun or something weird.
Back in the day, I had a gun that projected the Bat Signal and made annoying siren noises.
You're a brave man to show anything that is Disney copyrighted without paying them a fortune for a licence.
My brothers and I had this in the mid to late 1960's. Seeing this here brings back happy childhood memories. Thank you so much for posting it.
Really neat devices. I especially like the sixties titles
The superman one worked really well
Why is this so much cooler than kids toys these days?!??!
Since I was a 70's child, my household had one of these, plus my elementary school had several too. Naturally, the ones at the elementary had headphones, and were used in study carrels as not to disturb others.
They also had a massive library of film strips, and the film projectors of choice here were the legendary Dukane models. Both the cassette and record player models were well-stocked and maintained lovingly.
I'm pretty sure I've heard MOD-POP WEASEL in a vintage porno
I was thinking the exact same think....LOL
I had one of these as a child. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
By the way, my favorite b-side was on The Gingerbread Man- a goofy Civil War song called Goober Peas.
The B-side music tend to vary greatly I noticed.
Christopher Sobieniak Yes, you never knew what you were going to get!
I just remember one record having a pretty old sounding recording of "Farmer in the Dell" with a group of singers doing separate roles.
0:17 This was the Show N Tell I had back in the 80s! Lots of fun memories! 😃😃😃😃
OH...MY...I had "The Story of Clocks" you showed!!! I used to have the 70's General Electric model which was exactly the same as the one on the cover of the programmes you had from the 70's!
5:11 This is the level of knowledge beyond that of a Flat-Earther
0:07 Already starting with hitler. Great for kids!
In my hood we scratced the break on that track
It's historical, so yeah. Good for kids.
Haha. Wie makaber! :D
Sugar-frosted Hitler-O’s! Stay crunchy, even in milk! Great for kids!
That was probably one of the programs aimed at older kids, it's historic so it is important.
That pop goes the weasel cover was just about to most 60s sounding thing I’ve ever heard.
I had totally forgotten about this! Oh what a gem of a time machine you have👍
I would love to see the light replaced with an LED panel - just to see how great this can get!
Ah yes, I'm loving LGR edutainment month
lmfao nice one
Dun Dun crash
booo
Yep, you should tell LGR about this 1960 Show N' Tell toy.
12:42 LOL! Aerobics-related materials always seems to feature unintended humor . That almost sounds like Phoebe Snow singing. I remember seeing these in other people's houses, but never got to see one run all the way through. I guess at that age and in that era, it was a good enough way of conveying information; I still remember some of the film strips we used to see in school, as well as the records with the beeps to trigger the frame advance.
I remember this toy! We had the one from the early 70s. If one wanted to restore the colour, there's a software program, which was developed by NASA, called Retinex. It was originally developed for spy satellite, and probe image enhancement, but it was eventually released to the public, back in the 90s, and 00s. One could scan the images in, and one by one, enhance each frame, then recompose the images, for printing onto a transparency, which could then by inserted into the playing strip. I had the Treasure Island strip, and disc. Thanks for sharing this.