Micah and I were wondering, the other night, when the last film strip will have been shown to the last bored classroom full of elementary-school kids? I recall none of the content of those tedious audio-visual exercises — but the thought always calls to mind the Firesign Theatre’s segment on the American Revolution (from Everything You Know Is Wrong), which always sounded to me like “Nerdy Clockwork Films”: “An alternate past. . . for an alternate future.”
Posted by AKMA at March 30, 2004 07:21 AM | TrackBackI hate to admit this, AKMA, but my first year at Luther one of my colleagues showed a filmstrip to his class. I didn't even recognize the machine when he first brought it out!
Posted by: Mary Hess at March 30, 2004 09:27 AMI've recently seen some PowerPoint presentations that were pretty much the (technologically-up-to-date) equivalent of a filmstrip.
Posted by: garver at March 31, 2004 09:43 AMIf that’s right — and “PowerPoint as the high-tech filmstrip” rings true to me — then we may never see the end of this accursed form. . . .
Posted by: AKMA at April 2, 2004 08:34 PMWhich reminds me--what did you think of the two recent Firesign Theatre CDs?
Posted by: adamsj at April 2, 2004 11:11 PM