Click for more glimpses of my vintage and antique phone collection.
Vintage education technology. In the VocabularySpellingCity office, we appreciate the history of educational technology & enjoy viewing previous "revolutions" in edtech. Visitors get to visit the museum. Have retired film strips, educ'l records, or whatever? We might give them a home. Did you use these technologies, were they revolutionary? Comment on the site or tweet to me: @VSpellCityMayor PS. I'm looking for a classic old teacher gradebook, have one?
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Mid Century Modern Green Dial Telephone
Thanks to Etsy, I just added a Mid Century Modern dial phone to my collection. It’s got that green color so popular in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.


Click for more glimpses of my vintage and antique phone collection.vintage and antique phone collection which includes some candlesticks and some kitschy cute 60s phones.
Click for more glimpses of my vintage and antique phone collection.
Friday, February 7, 2020
Editing Film, Old Style
It's hard to believe but until around 25 years ago, every single film was edited together by hand on machines like these.
The book with all the tricks for doing title for films is a real shocker. There's all the plans for building a system to hold the camera and do a "zoom" into the title. Or to have the title appear to scroll past.
The process was careful to maintain film quality since each generation of copy, back in the analog days, was worse than the original.
So the original film footage was copied and then the original was left in a vault. The copy was cut and spliced together over and over again until the editor and director were pleased with the result. Then, the time stamps were carefully noted and the original film was spliced together. And from that original, the copies for distribution were made.
To be honest, I went through this process myself with video tape but never with actual film. And I can't imagine how the audio track was handled since there has always been sound effects and audio work added to the original shoot.
The book with all the tricks for doing title for films is a real shocker. There's all the plans for building a system to hold the camera and do a "zoom" into the title. Or to have the title appear to scroll past.
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