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Film Series

Entitled Hospital for Sick Children - Retardation Film Series.
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Neat find. Out of curiosity, was the film dated?
Ŗivẹt
Thu 03-10-2011
No, there was no date on the canister.
Motts
Thu 03-10-2011
Well we know it was not up to date by any means, by the look of the old container.
ferdy
Thu 03-10-2011
I hope this was a double feature on one reel, by the size of this canister
mikeyintheoc
Thu 03-10-2011
Was the film still inside, Motts?
CatAndTie
Thu 03-10-2011
I was going to ask if the film was still inside too, but it looks like CatAndTie beat me to it.
Lady Ethereal Butterfly
Fri 03-11-2011
That 16mm canister holds approximately 25-30 minutes of film. I'll bet the film has degraded to dust or a solid mass of acetate.
Gulliver Foyle
Fri 03-11-2011
I remember those sort of projectors in school.
The AV kids manning them.
A D Nilsen
Fri 03-11-2011
Wow. Now THAT is old.

The kids in my school always used to pick on and beat up t hose AV kids because they were "nerds"...I felt bad for them because I was an outcast too.
MamaToFiveInPA
Fri 03-11-2011
hey Mama I was an AV nerd and just so you know, we use to throw those at the cool kids who picked on us. Throw it hard enough and it cut the skin :evil grin....ahhh memories:
Joe
Sat 03-12-2011
LOL Joe..I bet you did! I never picked on the AV kids because I was too busy getting Swirlies and getting stuffed in my locker. I am only 5' tall as an adult, so I was easy to pick on because I was small and skinny as a rail. I bet if you chucked that at someone that it would HURT like a mofo. :D
I thought it was a dinner plate at first...wow.
MamaToFiveInPA
Sat 03-12-2011
If the film was still in there and in good condition I would be curious to watch it
JackieB
Sat 03-12-2011
Yeah--I wonder what that film was about...

"Entitled Hospital for Sick Children - Retardation Film Series."

That doesn't sound like a pleasant kind of film, that is for sure...
MamaToFiveInPA
Sun 03-13-2011
Looks like a film from the late 60s.
Michael
Mon 03-14-2011
think of it this way Mama, I have meet up with some of those kids that picked on me and now being 6'3....they dont bother me anymore as I have to look down at them lol
Joe
Tue 03-15-2011
Vintage smut maybe?
J.E. Sullivan
Thu 03-17-2011
Reminds me of grade school... we'd watch those boring science and National Geographic films with the monotonous narrators... oddly enough, that was circa 1999. My grade school was always the last in the district to get new things.
Kolfritz
Sat 03-19-2011
Retardation?
Dano.
Mon 03-28-2011
16mm film is still made today.
I own new 16mm projectors. I will bet that film if not warped is in ok shap to show. I would clean the film first with film cleaner.If it is on unstable stock it might still be able to run once cleaned and checked. I saved many films from the 1940 to today. If it is a color print in on kodak film it is most or almost going to be red by now. Kodak film is junk still is today.

Wish I could get that can of film I would try to save it an up load it to youtube. Also the can looks 70's to me but I just got a bunch of new cans that look just like that one. lol
tom
Mon 05-16-2011
Should ask mots can you get that film I will pay for you to ship it to me. I am total up to save films and have done many in my time.
tom
Mon 05-16-2011
wounder if they picked on there a.v. geeks
bobo miller
Tue 05-31-2011

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