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Very true.. I remember once seeing the A.V setup in a geography class, it was unusual to see a couple of other teachers turning up as well.. they put the TV on and it turned out to be a live rugby match.
we had this when it rained… i remember someone slapped a bitch because she chose to watch the rugby instead of rugrats!
So what you’re saying is that there’s NO FAIL here?
Yeah, that’s what I thought as well. Seriously, what’s the failure? This was on ‘School of FAIL’ but there’s no freaking FAILURE.
If I didn’t love Trolls, I wouldn’t even bother coming here.
That moment when you walk in all happy when seeing that tv in class but then depressed when the teacher asks two people to take it away before class begins…
sometimes I wonder if the teachers did it just to add some sort of excitement in their day >.> lol
LOL so true.
Ah yes the petty exploits of the wannabe-nazi teacher, giving with one hand whilst taking with the other three.
I had the misfortune of having Goro for my form tutor. Let me tell you he was very heavy handed with the cane. Having 4 strokes rain down simultaneously was quite the deterrent
When I was a kid, we had the reel to reel projector, not a TV and VCR…that was HIGH TECHNOLOGY! I…FEEL…OLD!
I had the same image in my mind…..the old ribbon feed projector.
But, it was still a break from a lecture.
Best feeling–when teacher asks you to man the projector. Or better yet—the film strip projector! (“boop!”)
Running that old 16mm projector was my first taste of tech!!! Yeah, baby!!!
Now, settle down and watch this ERPI classroom film. Remember, there will be discussion and a quiz afterwards.
If there’s an emergency, you can find me in the teacher’s lounge.
When I was a kid we still only had cave paintings and fire.
Yeah, for the FIRST TIME I feel old.
….FOCUS!!!
In some weird sort of “TV can be educational”, there was this black-and-white TV on a really tall cart (twice as high as the one in the photo) that had metal doors over the screen. It could be rolled into a classroom, and a cable hooked up to a jack in the wall. If we were really lucky, the teacher and janitor (no AV department, too small a school) wouldn’t get it to work and we’d be able to goof off during the time the program was supposed to be on.
Then they got a… hmm, it wasn’t VHS or Beta or uMatic, it was this weird stacked cartridge machine… some searching suggests it was just called VCR (but it might have been VCC (Video 2000)) that was connected to a huge 14″ colour TV screen. We’d get to sit on the floor of the library and watch the Schoolhouse Rock episodes that weren’t about America.
16mm film was brilliant and reliable by comparison. Except almost no teacher knew what the film loops above and below the gate were for, and so we’d have juddery sound, noisy pawl operation, and frequent film-breaks. Sometimes, the film would break 5 or 6 times before the teacher would let me fix it. (I got bored easily and had read the instruction manual.)
True, except when I was a little kid, it was a FILM projector and a screen – not a VCR & TV!
Same here, my favorite words were “Dukane” and “Bell & Howell”
When I started it was a Film projector and we had to go to the movie hall to see it. Slides we could see in the class room and the machine was named Unicorn-1.
The as I got older we got TV and the model before the modern video tape and when I ended school we were up to Tv and then the soon dead modern video tape.
I actually preferred learning :p
Nerd!
i´m in the right age for this.. and it´s SOOO true!!
You know this has been posted about 1 trillion times, but what’s one more going to hurt?
If it’s posted again, it will create significant problems with the internet — especially by clogging the tubes. Remember, the internet is not a big truck…it’s a series of tubes!
I ended up being the elementary shcool av girl because I was the only one who could load the flim projector and not have the film be all over the floor.
70′s skills , baby…
How many times did I watch Reading Rainbow sitting in front of one of these? http://tinyurl.com/7nc4btu
it was ether Reading Rainbow, Bill nye, The magic school bus. Or Beakmans world.
You got to watch Beakman’s World in school? Luckyy! Sure, I still had Bill Nye, but still, it’s Beakman!
They didn’t seat-belt TV’s to carts like that until I was almost graduated.
I walked into a classroom as a kid..but they saw through my disguise and kicked me right out again.
Didn’t know there were so many old people trolling this site.
smarko. Silly person.
I was the president of my middle school’s AV Club. I guess I’ve always liked technology. And I also wanted to know if I would get a movie day too haha
Oh God, I actually believe boredom kills brains…
Then the teacher puts on a video about the specific subject. Trololololo
Nothing says “potential sexual harassment case” than walking into work and seeing one of these in the meeting room
What about the old 16mm film projector? If you had a cool teacher, you’d get to watch it backwards too instead of rewinding the film.
Then there were film strips, remember those? Wonk wonk wonk wonkwonk wonk… BEEEEEP…… wonkwonk …..
So true. We watched the first half of Meet The Fockers everytime though.
So true. We watched Meet The Fockers everytime though.
How many time the teacher couldn’t get it to work….
true that bro T^T
We used to watch old 70s films with reel to reel and were sad when they ripped (our AV room was the library). We kept being shown the one where someone made a boat and watched it float down a mountain.
Later on, they got a TV on a cart and would show us “Fun House” live on TV during rainy lunch periods. SO COOL! Although, the bell always ran before it was over so we never saw who won.
I get teary eyed when I see this in high school.
one time i found a penny under one of those carts. happiest moment of my days in school.
Smoke coming out of something electrical was always better than this. It meant school might burn down and we could go home.
and tomorrow it will show the other image of this with the crappy teacher meme saying “gives a pop quiz after movie” crap from reddit…. god why do i keep coming to this crappy repost site.
Oh I loved seeing that tv. Our Marine Biology teacher in High School had us watch Sponge Bob Square Pants and than quized us on it
So true. Or the excitement when the teacher had a kid go to the AV room and get a TV.
Now all the classrooms have TV’s so the excitement is lost.
This still works on my preschoolers.
That’s a classic, I remember a lot of the teachers couldn’t even operate it, and there was always a problem getting it to play
Old Yeller anyone? Usually that’s what we got to watch because it was popular. Hick town in a hick school.
Actually, this annoyed me. Invariably we would watch The Blues Brothers, and invariably it wouldn’t finish before the end of class. The next time the same thing happened. I saw the first half of The Blues Brothers 32 times before I saw the whole movie.
Right, the notorious first-half problem. We watched the first half of “From Dusk Till Dawn” once and stopped just before the vampire business began – so it seemed like a somewhat brutal, but otherwise rather common road movie. When I finally saw the complete film (a lot later) I was quite intrigued.
Unless it was sex education week… then seeing the tv/vcr combo was NOT a happy moment….
I used to have a palm pilot that could control the tv and vcr. so that and a Substitute teacher meant so serious fun!
I guess I just didn’t go to a poor school because all the classrooms had SMART Boards we used to watch movies.
When I was little, we had 35MM filmstrips, 16MM projector film, VHS *AND* LaserDisc.
Incorrect! I was happier on snow days.