Show 'N Tell - 1960s Children's Multimedia System

Ғылым және технология

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.
--------------SUBSCRIBE-----------------
kzread.info?...
------------Merchandise----------------
teespring.com/stores/techmoan...
------------SUPPORT--------------
This channel can be supported through Patreon
/ techmoan
Patrons usually have early access to videos
---------Outro Music----------
Over Time - Vibe Tracks • Over Time - Vibe Track...
-----Outro Sound Effect-----
ThatSFXGuy - • Six Million Dollar man...
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’

Пікірлер: 2 000

  • @strimbimmin328
    @strimbimmin3284 жыл бұрын

    4:32 Can we just take a minute to appreciate the absurdity of putting that much musicianship into pop goes the weasel?

  • @SonicBoone56

    @SonicBoone56

    3 жыл бұрын

    It sounds rad tho

  • @coffeemakerbottomcracked

    @coffeemakerbottomcracked

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds better than most popular pop songs of this day

  • @shrimpshufflr7745

    @shrimpshufflr7745

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@coffeemakerbottomcracked No it doesn't lol

  • @LukesJukes

    @LukesJukes

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shrimpshufflr7745 yes it does

  • @retrokilroy2506

    @retrokilroy2506

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shrimpshufflr7745 Yes it does

  • @LikaLaruku
    @LikaLaruku5 жыл бұрын

    "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."

  • @Pommezul

    @Pommezul

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because why not? Children love learing every new fact about how the RAF fought the Luftwaffe.

  • @ivodesu

    @ivodesu

    4 жыл бұрын

    If this was Stalin in childrens Soviet books, people would say that is propaganda

  • @puckcat22679

    @puckcat22679

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ivodesu

    @ivodesu

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Lizardwarrior1

    @Lizardwarrior1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @SuperDav1995
    @SuperDav19955 жыл бұрын

    It could be gold if someone managed to make the beggining slides of fallout to play on this thing.

  • @JeffDeWitt

    @JeffDeWitt

    4 жыл бұрын

    It wouldn't be that hard to make the slides, the record would be the hard part.

  • @hanniballecter4283

    @hanniballecter4283

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @iscander_s

    @iscander_s

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hanniballecter4283 it seems like ordinary 16mm film, you still can get it.

  • @startedtech

    @startedtech

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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!

  • @jelteklaswijnja4055

    @jelteklaswijnja4055

    3 жыл бұрын

    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..

  • @mikethekhotmailcom
    @mikethekhotmailcom4 жыл бұрын

    "...representing a savings of zero cents" lmao

  • @snazzy
    @snazzy6 жыл бұрын

    4:34. That’s a banger. I want the full version.

  • @randywatson8347

    @randywatson8347

    6 жыл бұрын

    Strech my arms forwards, waving them up and down.

  • @jonoghue

    @jonoghue

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm imagining the peanuts characters dancing to that

  • @doalwa

    @doalwa

    6 жыл бұрын

    Snazzy Labs definitely a jam!

  • @morejoacomapo7080

    @morejoacomapo7080

    6 жыл бұрын

    Does somebody know where can I find this?

  • @misterjib

    @misterjib

    6 жыл бұрын

    none for sale on discogs... discogs.com/label/1072741-Gabriel-Child-Guidance-Toys Plenty on ebay

  • @EVGSTORE
    @EVGSTORE4 жыл бұрын

    12:48 "Come in handy if you were having a baby." Loved that 👍

  • @datsun210
    @datsun2104 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @marcellassmith1090

    @marcellassmith1090

    10 ай бұрын

    everything u said is me

  • @darkknight8244
    @darkknight82444 жыл бұрын

    For a 1960s toy it's pretty much genius

  • @MattHayesVinyl
    @MattHayesVinyl6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @AeroModule

    @AeroModule

    6 жыл бұрын

    I was a kid in the 80s. We borrowed one of these things from my church. Believe me, it wasn't that exciting.

  • @SSJfraz

    @SSJfraz

    5 жыл бұрын

    60's yes, 70's meh..... 80's, I hate you mum and dad

  • @godmagnus

    @godmagnus

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think it's still pretty neat.

  • @chouseification

    @chouseification

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @darknes4150

    @darknes4150

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chouseification not to mention vhs existed at that time

  • @jamesesw
    @jamesesw6 жыл бұрын

    "My superhearing is picking up a cry for help in the next room" Superman, dude, I don't think you need superhearing for that.

  • @frankstrawnation

    @frankstrawnation

    6 жыл бұрын

    A fire makes a lot of noise and hearing a child among the turmoil demands a quite good hearing.

  • @greenaum

    @greenaum

    6 жыл бұрын

    He has superhearing anyway. He can't turn it off. So he super-hears everything.

  • @robertpryor7225

    @robertpryor7225

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dad's been drinking

  • @FranklyPeetoons
    @FranklyPeetoons6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sandakureva

    @sandakureva

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was about to say. I knew I'd seen one before. It was in Kindergarten in my super-rural school in 1996.

  • @TotemoGaijin

    @TotemoGaijin

    4 жыл бұрын

    The first time I saw laser discs was in high school...circa 1999/2000, lmao. They spared no expense!

  • @Menace2DaComments

    @Menace2DaComments

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @QuantumScratcher

    @QuantumScratcher

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Menace2DaComments in my school some of the keyboards in the computer rooms literally have the windows 95 logo

  • @geraldinewalker1963
    @geraldinewalker1963 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @christianmccauley7340

    @christianmccauley7340

    Жыл бұрын

    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.”

  • @johntheexplainer
    @johntheexplainer6 жыл бұрын

    There is probably comedy gold in deliberately mismatching the record and film strip.

  • @mikeangelo6667

    @mikeangelo6667

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure somebody would play the slides to "Dark Side Of The Moon" and swear that they match up.

  • @kensims4086

    @kensims4086

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Mike Angelo yep...

  • @antiphlex

    @antiphlex

    5 жыл бұрын

    Basically anything against the Winston Churchill audio XD

  • @coydog7902

    @coydog7902

    5 жыл бұрын

    Omg imagine rickrolling someone????

  • @channingcheese2

    @channingcheese2

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mikeangelo6667 the aristoblarts

  • @steamcastle
    @steamcastle6 жыл бұрын

    so this was a 0.0625 fps film. that sounds like an interesting format.

  • @Sarato

    @Sarato

    6 жыл бұрын

    steamcastle Ah, a PUBG simulation then.

  • @mikakorhonen5715

    @mikakorhonen5715

    6 жыл бұрын

    steamcastle More than enough for serious gaming. -Ubisoft

  • @SianaGearz

    @SianaGearz

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ultra cinematic!

  • @umageddon

    @umageddon

    6 жыл бұрын

    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’

  • @38911bytefree

    @38911bytefree

    6 жыл бұрын

    It still better than some YT material !!!!

  • @fangzahn
    @fangzahn6 жыл бұрын

    6:39 "How Do We Know the Earth Is Round?" is what some should really watch these days! ;-)

  • @erwinderdoofe

    @erwinderdoofe

    5 жыл бұрын

    while i agree, let them send out an expidition so find the edge of the world. I wannat to see that :D

  • @muggles8123

    @muggles8123

    5 жыл бұрын

    Believe it or not there are still flat Earthers in the world. They are in a discord server (politics) and on Paltalk chat program.

  • @BenHughes81

    @BenHughes81

    5 жыл бұрын

    The earth is neither round nor flat. It is in fact a dodecahedron. You all just have poor eyesight.

  • @CubicApocalypse128

    @CubicApocalypse128

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@erwinderdoofe They think Antarctica is the edge, and the Freemasons will shoot them if they get too close.

  • @andriealinsangao613

    @andriealinsangao613

    5 жыл бұрын

    FUCKIN' FLAT-EARTHERS!!!!

  • @hawks1ish
    @hawks1ish6 жыл бұрын

    12:35 wtf is this asmr for astronauts? 😂

  • @adrianziecik6280

    @adrianziecik6280

    5 жыл бұрын

    I feel this is some gang bang shit

  • @zyh6566

    @zyh6566

    5 жыл бұрын

    That killed me

  • @mad7monkey423

    @mad7monkey423

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think it's like the meditation they do before lift-off lol

  • @Rainbow__cookie

    @Rainbow__cookie

    4 жыл бұрын

    Push puch

  • @Exhaustedhighlighter

    @Exhaustedhighlighter

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @zach123101
    @zach1231016 жыл бұрын

    please we need a full version of the b side to that superman record

  • @claudiobizama5603

    @claudiobizama5603

    6 жыл бұрын

    Please upload it!

  • @Dramoboy

    @Dramoboy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes please

  • @mikeangelo6667

    @mikeangelo6667

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Push, Push, Push" was a song recorded by The Joe Cuba Sextet circa 1970.

  • @pancudowny

    @pancudowny

    6 жыл бұрын

    They call that an aerobics workout? It's too slow-paced! Aerobics are supposed to stimulate your cardiovascular system... like this does!: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJl8lLemXdy1oqQ.html

  • @mspenrice

    @mspenrice

    6 жыл бұрын

    There's a rich seam of samples waiting to be mined there, aye.

  • @lammy1234567890
    @lammy12345678906 жыл бұрын

    Representing a saving of zero cents

  • @nate_river_

    @nate_river_

    6 жыл бұрын

    By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings.

  • @deadfreightwest5956

    @deadfreightwest5956

    6 жыл бұрын

    But... it's under $5!

  • @michelvanbriemen3459

    @michelvanbriemen3459

    6 жыл бұрын

    Pay & Sell

  • @lammy1234567890

    @lammy1234567890

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mrjakobt

    @mrjakobt

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @dixonnegron1083
    @dixonnegron10834 жыл бұрын

    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!!

  • @PBRStreetgang
    @PBRStreetgang6 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @XCVGVCX

    @XCVGVCX

    6 жыл бұрын

    "What did we learn today? " Finish the job?

  • @danielloh4483

    @danielloh4483

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a lot better than what they're putting out now!

  • @doomyboi

    @doomyboi

    4 жыл бұрын

    For real, as a kid I always wondered why didn't he just poison them instead of drugging them?

  • @tiamarie6719

    @tiamarie6719

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @christopheralthouse6378

    @christopheralthouse6378

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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...

  • @jamesten
    @jamesten6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @retiredk9copper726

    @retiredk9copper726

    6 жыл бұрын

    James Steeber I think we all took it apart!!

  • @sega32xxx14

    @sega32xxx14

    6 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @drivingmemad7640

    @drivingmemad7640

    6 жыл бұрын

    SeGa32xXx Great name. I have several 32X and Mega CD setups myself, amongst many other things.

  • @krashd

    @krashd

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @blueelkmarketing3436

    @blueelkmarketing3436

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are still selling the viewers on eBay if you are interested.

  • @ExplosiveAction
    @ExplosiveAction6 жыл бұрын

    The flatly delivered "could come in useful when delivering a baby" sent my coffee towards the screen.

  • @jennybailey2998
    @jennybailey29986 жыл бұрын

    Wow, it's like multimedia, before multimedia existed!

  • @willierants5880
    @willierants58806 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @meanndalisay7833

    @meanndalisay7833

    4 жыл бұрын

    Until Windows 1.0 came out in 1985

  • @bluespiritrecords1709

    @bluespiritrecords1709

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Roy G Biv teChn0loGy bAd

  • @christopheralthouse6378

    @christopheralthouse6378

    4 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @shibolinemress8913

    @shibolinemress8913

    4 жыл бұрын

    We went exploring in the woods, had parties in the back yard, staged watergun battles, played games, went swimming... yeah, pretty drab. 😉😀

  • @shibolinemress8913

    @shibolinemress8913

    4 жыл бұрын

    @randy s And the original Star Trek! 🖖😀

  • @bobwoolcock
    @bobwoolcock6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Flymochairman1
    @Flymochairman16 жыл бұрын

    ...'In Case Of Fire, Run Towards The Nearest Weird-lookin' Guy'....ah, how times change.

  • @WiihawkPL

    @WiihawkPL

    6 жыл бұрын

    Flymochairman1 all you needed to catch a loli back then was to make a campfire and wear a firemask

  • @deus_ex_machina_

    @deus_ex_machina_

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@WiihawkPL Fun times.

  • @johns7734

    @johns7734

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @frohenleid

    @frohenleid

    4 жыл бұрын

    all those children runing towards thier burning Parents. ..

  • @samsemantic6764
    @samsemantic67645 жыл бұрын

    I’m an 80’s baby, and I had this system until 1985. I wish I still had my Show and Tell. The memories

  • @jhonlewis5758
    @jhonlewis57585 жыл бұрын

    One of them was “how we know the earth is round”, that’s sounds like a good one to watch for flat earthers.

  • @radcheckinski6300

    @radcheckinski6300

    3 жыл бұрын

    they clearly didn't own show-n-tells lol

  • @OaksCU1
    @OaksCU16 жыл бұрын

    I'm just waiting for the copyright claim from DC for showing that whole Superman story.

  • @michaelmartin9022

    @michaelmartin9022

    5 жыл бұрын

    DC Copyright-claimed a father who wanted to put the Superman S on his dead son's grave, so I could see that happening.

  • @demonicsweaters
    @demonicsweaters6 жыл бұрын

    I heard The White Stripes' new release is coming out only in Show N' Tell format

  • @md_vandenberg

    @md_vandenberg

    6 жыл бұрын

    Let's not tempt the crazy little man.

  • @ciaphascyne8866

    @ciaphascyne8866

    5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chaosinfyrno

    @chaosinfyrno

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't put it past Jack.

  • @Cracktaculus

    @Cracktaculus

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nuh unhhhhh!

  • @kensims4086

    @kensims4086

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ciaphascyne8866 k-tel acid trip machine...

  • @jeffreyslotnikoff4003
    @jeffreyslotnikoff40034 жыл бұрын

    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...)

  • @Alphadragon1979
    @Alphadragon19792 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @WorldsWorstBoy
    @WorldsWorstBoy6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @williamroeben
    @williamroeben6 жыл бұрын

    I was born in 1962 and I never saw these before. Way coolio, thank you!

  • @Dev-tw1og

    @Dev-tw1og

    5 жыл бұрын

    @NearlySeniorCitizen I was born in 1986 and had this strange device from a yard sell because my parents were hippies.

  • @sethhorst6158

    @sethhorst6158

    5 жыл бұрын

    One of my Parent's was born in 1962.

  • @This-country-sucks-4

    @This-country-sucks-4

    5 жыл бұрын

    Whoa there

  • @duanethamm4688

    @duanethamm4688

    5 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @robertpryor7225

    @robertpryor7225

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don't think i saw ANY $29.95 toy

  • @MeatVision
    @MeatVision5 жыл бұрын

    Like always, I didn't know this even existed. Thanks british dude

  • @johnruschmeyer5769
    @johnruschmeyer57694 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @abmaximus
    @abmaximus6 жыл бұрын

    10:15 This disc totally sounds like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2

  • @kijungsong844

    @kijungsong844

    6 жыл бұрын

    There's always time for a song.

  • @3rdalbum
    @3rdalbum6 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @buddyclem7328

    @buddyclem7328

    6 жыл бұрын

    3rdalbum "Let's take a journey in the Spaceship of the Imagination!" -Carl Sagan

  • @ddttranslator
    @ddttranslator2 жыл бұрын

    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. :-)

  • @J-50s60smusic
    @J-50s60smusic4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kennybrace
    @kennybrace6 жыл бұрын

    "Spoiler", hilarious

  • @bennylofgren3208

    @bennylofgren3208

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kenny Brace The butler did it!

  • @IMRROcom
    @IMRROcom6 жыл бұрын

    We had one as a kids (1970s). It was the coolest thing ever!

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    6 жыл бұрын

    I did too (they kept selling these into the early 80's).

  • @MarkShannonroad_videos
    @MarkShannonroad_videos6 жыл бұрын

    I wanted one of those in the early 80's. After seeing this video I'm glad my parents didn't get us one.

  • @endicottsummers203
    @endicottsummers203 Жыл бұрын

    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."

  • @CallanChristensen
    @CallanChristensen6 жыл бұрын

    3:13 I like how abruptly you cut this.

  • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated
    @DissociatedWomenIncorporated6 жыл бұрын

    Cue Disney sending their army of copyright ninja assassins after Techmoan 😄

  • @technopoptart

    @technopoptart

    6 жыл бұрын

    someone should send flowers to his soon-to-be widow

  • @mikekz4489

    @mikekz4489

    6 жыл бұрын

    pixel girl Forget Song of the South, it’s The Aristocats that needs to be in the vault forever.

  • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated

    @DissociatedWomenIncorporated

    6 жыл бұрын

    Michael, my mum used to sing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" _all_ the time.

  • @RCAvhstape

    @RCAvhstape

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's a bunch of thugs dressed in mouse suits.

  • @lezzman

    @lezzman

    6 жыл бұрын

    He'll be sent to Duck-au!

  • @lizkrinsky5209
    @lizkrinsky52092 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @justinsiosal7855
    @justinsiosal78553 жыл бұрын

    I had totally forgotten about this! Oh what a gem of a time machine you have👍

  • @ct1660
    @ct16606 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @acdi33
    @acdi336 жыл бұрын

    Push. Push. Push. Push.

  • @marsoz_

    @marsoz_

    6 жыл бұрын

    Techmoan's quip on that made my day

  • @volvo09

    @volvo09

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kersplash

  • @buddyclem7328

    @buddyclem7328

    6 жыл бұрын

    I prefer to push like this. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqxmp6R_ZL24hsY.html

  • @WiihawkPL

    @WiihawkPL

    6 жыл бұрын

    push. push. push. push. it's a baby boy.

  • @plushifoxed

    @plushifoxed

    6 жыл бұрын

    Touch. Touch. Touch. Touch.

  • @davidbarnes1113
    @davidbarnes11133 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Licenciadopedro
    @Licenciadopedro4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Brillemeister
    @Brillemeister6 жыл бұрын

    I'd be forever grateful if you were to upload Aerobic Adventures Through Outer Space

  • @AtheistOrphan

    @AtheistOrphan

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brillemeister - PUSH!

  • @bborkzilla
    @bborkzilla6 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see the puppets working on Aerobic Adventures...

  • @ge0arc244
    @ge0arc2444 жыл бұрын

    By God! I almost forgot this thing! Aaaahhh found memories of this back in the 70's!

  • @MarindiaProductions
    @MarindiaProductions6 жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @fordtechchris
    @fordtechchris6 жыл бұрын

    I think you should put up the one about a Round Earth on youtube.... Might help flat earthers understand globes better?

  • @niegezien8866

    @niegezien8866

    4 жыл бұрын

    Propaganda 🦄

  • @Sam-lr9oi
    @Sam-lr9oi6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @hallerd

    @hallerd

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Sam-lr9oi

    @Sam-lr9oi

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @hallerd

    @hallerd

    6 жыл бұрын

    The bigger culprit is smoke, and not visible scary flames.

  • @Sam-lr9oi

    @Sam-lr9oi

    6 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @yueying7838

    @yueying7838

    6 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @aljr357
    @aljr3576 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Modeltnick
    @Modeltnick4 жыл бұрын

    I had one as a kid. It worked pretty good! Mine was a 1965 model.

  • @FranLab
    @FranLab6 жыл бұрын

    Color By Fade®.... so many memories! Love the Captain Kangaroo.

  • @pamparitas

    @pamparitas

    6 жыл бұрын

    Good to see you here

  • @deadfreightwest5956

    @deadfreightwest5956

    6 жыл бұрын

    I also recognized the Captain, even before his "creepy hand-drawn illustrations" reference, lol.

  • @busog97641

    @busog97641

    6 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @bratwurst2923

    @bratwurst2923

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ayyyyyy Fran!!!

  • @Lurker1979
    @Lurker19796 жыл бұрын

    Something today's kids will never experience, the analog slide show.

  • @michaelmartin9022

    @michaelmartin9022

    5 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @FRAME5RS

    @FRAME5RS

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only thing more boring than a slide show was a felt board presentation.

  • @bostonseeker

    @bostonseeker

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @troyc4841
    @troyc48415 жыл бұрын

    You sir are a genius. I love all your in depth looks and explanations on all this old tech. Great channel.

  • @sterlinglombard
    @sterlinglombard5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @RonnieBarzel
    @RonnieBarzel6 жыл бұрын

    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."

  • @hannahreinius7419

    @hannahreinius7419

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah but Alice's adventures in wonderland does

  • @Zawmbbeh

    @Zawmbbeh

    4 жыл бұрын

    The single, of course.

  • @RobCamp-rmc_0

    @RobCamp-rmc_0

    3 жыл бұрын

    At only four minutes, it only syncs with Brain Damage/Eclipse. Or maybe the whole record if you play it on 10x speed, idk

  • @esa062
    @esa0626 жыл бұрын

    Multimedia is an older invention than I thought. Space aerobic made my day :-)

  • @echodelta9

    @echodelta9

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @louisb5563
    @louisb55632 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @zandelscomicsandcards7543
    @zandelscomicsandcards75434 жыл бұрын

    That was kind of a treat. Superman is my favorite superhero.

  • @MauriceBlok
    @MauriceBlok6 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful machine! "perhaps that also come in handy when you're having a baby" Haha!

  • @oslaf3323

    @oslaf3323

    6 жыл бұрын

    Maurice Blok probably also "trying for a baby"

  • @omegafilmcorporation
    @omegafilmcorporation6 жыл бұрын

    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. :\

  • @deadfreightwest5956

    @deadfreightwest5956

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's something I recall about the Viewmasters, those were all either Technicolor or Kodachrome.

  • @omegafilmcorporation

    @omegafilmcorporation

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ahh I noticed that! ;)

  • @mikeangelo6667

    @mikeangelo6667

    6 жыл бұрын

    I've noticed that pink effect on some of my 8mm films.

  • @ethanpoole3443

    @ethanpoole3443

    6 жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @Antique1dude

    @Antique1dude

    6 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @planner812
    @planner8124 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @iamejify

    @iamejify

    4 жыл бұрын

    planner812 six channels luxury we had two :)

  • @judevecoli865

    @judevecoli865

    4 жыл бұрын

    @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.

  • @dee1380
    @dee13805 жыл бұрын

    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..

  • @cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869
    @cowboyfrankspersonalvideos88696 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @gdavisloopfta380

    @gdavisloopfta380

    3 күн бұрын

    Actually, it's Eastmancolor print film, the same as used to make the positive prints of movies. A lot of it exhibits this color fade. Ektachrome from the 1960s is fine. The problem with using Kodachrome isn't the cost, but it simply isn't designed for duplication - the beauty of Kodachrome is in the original!

  • @cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869

    @cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869

    3 күн бұрын

    @@gdavisloopfta380 My terminology is corrected. Thanks. It's been a long time since I've had to deal with film and I have trouble remembering proper nouns.

  • @tomcole020
    @tomcole0206 жыл бұрын

    The superman one worked really well

  • @MarkAMMarrk
    @MarkAMMarrk2 ай бұрын

    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".

  • @scottcol23
    @scottcol233 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @TheDesertMexican
    @TheDesertMexican6 жыл бұрын

    The superman episode had me on pins needles. I'm glad it all ended well!

  • @jarryjayo
    @jarryjayo6 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @greenaum

    @greenaum

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @thewatcherofawesomecontent

    @thewatcherofawesomecontent

    6 жыл бұрын

    cos the world was tough back then, we have gotten soft, and soon they will return

  • @WiihawkPL

    @WiihawkPL

    6 жыл бұрын

    no, no, they're just sleeping.

  • @DanteToska

    @DanteToska

    6 жыл бұрын

    I loved that movie as a kid, couldn't stop watching and talking about ut it

  • @jarryjayo

    @jarryjayo

    6 жыл бұрын

    Do you mean to say it's like that Monty Python parrot sketch, they are just resting.

  • @MGuyGadbois
    @MGuyGadbois4 жыл бұрын

    5:11 This is the level of knowledge beyond that of a Flat-Earther

  • @MaxStax1
    @MaxStax13 жыл бұрын

    Not sure how i missed this video before, but it turned out to be one of Techmoan's best, in my opinion. Perfect type product for him to showcase, and Techmoan being both informative and funny.

  • @EpictheEpicest
    @EpictheEpicest6 жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of those old Super-8 projectors with the built-in screen that companies like Sankyo made.

  • @jnbr7520
    @jnbr75206 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure I've heard MOD-POP WEASEL in a vintage porno

  • @clarky23

    @clarky23

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the exact same think....LOL

  • @dratheart
    @dratheart5 жыл бұрын

    That was an awesome visit to memory lane from my 80's childhood! Thank you so much for doing this and doing it so well :-)

  • @davidnieve6444
    @davidnieve64442 жыл бұрын

    What a flash back! Wish I still had mine. 62 yrs and still like toys!

  • @DrumWild
    @DrumWild6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jaxnean2663
    @jaxnean26636 жыл бұрын

    Really neat devices. I especially like the sixties titles

  • @51gary51
    @51gary513 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @juergenbernhard5442
    @juergenbernhard54424 жыл бұрын

    a real treasure you've got here. Thanks for sharing.

  • @NickMurray
    @NickMurray6 жыл бұрын

    This was one of your funnier videos! Always so well done!!

  • @ThirdSpectrum
    @ThirdSpectrum6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @buddyclem7328

    @buddyclem7328

    6 жыл бұрын

    Back in the day, I had a gun that projected the Bat Signal and made annoying siren noises.

  • @dixonnegron1083
    @dixonnegron10834 жыл бұрын

    As a child I got the Show n Tell for Christmas and I thought it was the best gift. I loved it so much. In fact I still have it. I think it’s so great how they would produce so many stories on records. I have lots still and find it so pleasant to listen. It really was a simpler time. Now it just seems not too many people appreciate anything and are just spoiled and rude. This was a great review of The Show n tell. Thank you.

  • @davidkennerly
    @davidkennerlyАй бұрын

    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.

  • @derekjtaylor
    @derekjtaylor6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    6 жыл бұрын

    The B-side music tend to vary greatly I noticed.

  • @derekjtaylor

    @derekjtaylor

    6 жыл бұрын

    Christopher Sobieniak Yes, you never knew what you were going to get!

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    6 жыл бұрын

    I just remember one record having a pretty old sounding recording of "Farmer in the Dell" with a group of singers doing separate roles.

  • @tomquinn7136
    @tomquinn71366 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see the light replaced with an LED panel - just to see how great this can get!

  • @null1023
    @null10236 жыл бұрын

    This is a surprisingly neat format. Cool video.

  • @robertbright-jc3sd
    @robertbright-jc3sd4 жыл бұрын

    My Brother and I used to get SHOW and TELLS for Christmas and Birthday gifts as kid's along with the Give a Show Projector "GREAT MEMORIES" Love your channel TECHNOMAN.

  • @hackeritalics
    @hackeritalics5 жыл бұрын

    God Matt, I laughed so damn hard at some of your humor in this. 🤣🤣

  • @tommygarson8592
    @tommygarson85925 жыл бұрын

    I remember my aunt's friend showing my sister and I this thing, and I thought it was fascinating. Like, who came up with this idea?

  • @timdavis1261
    @timdavis12616 жыл бұрын

    Love your vintage tech videos but this show and tell one brought back memories. In the early 70's when I was 10 my best friend had one and we spent hours playing with it and trying to work out how it knew when to change the slide in time with the record. I so remember that tear drop shape logo that looks like a face book check in symbol. It must be 45 years since I've seen or heard of show and tell so what a great blast from the past! Keep up the good work.

  • @gregmark1688
    @gregmark16883 жыл бұрын

    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!

Келесі