Jazz: :( I mentioned Old Yeller…
We also watched one about bus safety. These kids go are just horrible on their bus, and then one holds up a pet mouse to the bus driver and she faints and the bus crashes into a lake and most of the children die.
We also watched one that took place in Africa and a woman doing her laundry in the water was attacked and eaten by a lion.
Those three are the only ones I can remember watching on a reel. Oh, wait, we watched Benji on one as well.
@Bijoux Jazz: :( I mentioned Old Yeller…
Oh, shoot! My bad. (In my defense the post were flying fast in that thread. :)
We also watched one about bus safety. These kids go are just horrible on their bus, and then one holds up a pet mouse to the bus driver and she faints and the bus crashes into a lake and most of the children die.
You sure you’re not mixing the film up with The Sweet Hereafter? Kids dying in a bus, a woman getting eating by a lion,…man, what kind of school did you go to? ;)
You guys had Benji on a reel? (Most of the films we watched were about 30 minutes or less.)
Yeah, Benji and Old Yeller I think were in the same class (second grade). We watched lots more movies, but most were on VHS. I don’t think I watched a DVD until high school, and even then most were still VHS.
hahah, I definitely thought of that bus safety film when I saw The Sweet Hereafter, but TSH was nowhere near as traumatic as what we watched. What’s worse is that they showed us the same film (as part of gym class) almost every year I was in grade school.
You guys are old!
In addition to 16mm projectors in elementary school there were HUGE TV sets installed in a few rooms, on account of the goverment public station being run by the education Dept. Every few weeks we would be dragged and forced to watch programs about English grammar (whicht we never understood) or the last couple moonwalks…..
In the mid 70s, already in junior high, I saw two guys stealing one of those sets (that must have weight hundreds of pounds) .from the elementary school that was next door to our house. I waved and yelled hello to them and laughed but they freaked out and tried to run, which was hilarious, and I laughed harder and harder and they ran faster and faster…. It was straight out of a silent comedy.
In 8th grade I remember seeing Mutiny on The Bounty [the Gable one] and The Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge and Fahrenheit 451 by Truffaut all in 16MM. It was in an English class in a small town in Colorado. Cool teacher.
I saw The Blob at an evening outdoor screening in my school back in ‘81. Also, those old instructional shorts like ’Health and Good Hygiene’ or ‘Saving for the Rainy Day’ are hilarious.
I remember watching this version of The Tempest in school. It was a VHS.
I saw To Sir With Love — in Catholic school!
And The Song of Bernadette, naturally.
Oh and, Heaven Can Wait.
Some weird combinations of movies…
@ Rohit., poor Maurice Evans. Over 70 credits on imdb and his pic is from Planet of the Apes.
I’ll ask my grandpa. :D
OK, I found a bunch on youtube.
Here’s “Doughnuts”—the boy’s name is Homer Price:
Harold and the Purple Crayon:
Here’s one called, The Winter of the Witch—but I always remember it as “Happy Pancakes.”
Here’s one I forgot about—“The Wooden Horse”:
C’mon! No one else remembers these?
@Bijoux
Haha…that’s pretty sad. I am not sure why they showed us that version. I guess anything from BBC was considered to be good quality by our teachers.
I remember in elementary school seeing a frog/toad on a white motorcylce wearing a white helmet—I would get so excited to watch those old reel movies and going in the auditorium,what simple happy days!
Does anyone know or seen the movie Im talking about? would love to know the name and watch it again!PS-loved the Jiminy Cricket Movies Im gonna live till 103…..
In high school we saw a film about the rise of Napoleon to power, it was made in a TV news style with period people on the street interviews and such. At one point two guys (Bonaparte supporters) were shown hugging and all the guys in class started yelling homophobe insults at the screen. Ah, the 70s….
In 8th grase some genius thought a good idea to rent a 16mm print of Summer of ’44 and charge a quarter to raise funds for the school. Since it would mean being excused from classes the whole school attended. At the second screening (I saw it at the first) a guy grabbed our history teacher in an inappropiate way (There is no appropiate way to grope someone without their permission) and she almost fainted and the guy got suspended or expelled.
Missed the whole thing. Couple of weeks later the circus pitched tent next to the school….
I’m 20. When I was in elementary school, they used to gather everybody into the music room when it rained and make everybody watch Remember the Titans or some Disney cartoon. But mostly Remember the Titans. That movie is burned into my brain. One time in fifth grade, I remember seeing some weird educational video on laserdisc. My county was so poor that some teachers still had laserdisc players in the early/mid 2000s. They didn’t start getting DVD players in classrooms until I was in high school.
Laserdisc was cooler than DVD. The image quality was better. And LD players were more expensive than DVD players.
@Francisco
I enjoyed those anecdotes. (Is Summer of ’44 the one with Jennifer O’Neil? What’s the deal with the groping student? Did he seriously lose control or was he trying to be funny?)
Jazzaloha
Ben. mentioned watching Old Yeller from a projector in school, and this reminded me of the 16mm films that teachers would show us occassionally. We didn’t have vhs tapes or dvds back when I went to school (we also had to forage for our own lunches ;), so anytime we watched a movie, it would be on a reel. (I’m pretty sure it was 16mm.) For example, I’m pretty sure I saw The Red Balloon in this way.
I also remember seeing one about this rich lady who comes to a diner. She starts helping the owner make doughnuts and in the process loses her ring in the batter. I enjoyed that one (and got real ono for doughnuts, too).
I also remember this really depressing one about kids sniffing glue and getting high. (I assume it was an anti-drug movie). It was in black-and-white, and I can’t remember much more. There was also one that involved littering, too, if I recall (although maybe I’m mixing that up with a book).
Anyway, does anyone remember these films? What were some of your favorites?