Daily Archives: February 5, 2004

I’ve got a bit of a video project in the office right now… I’m digitizing a video from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety called “Otto the Auto – Rachel in Space.” It’s a tape from one of those movies that you used to watch in school. It was always kind of cool to walk into the classroom and see that things were set up to watch a film. All the blinds would be closed and the teacher would thread the film into the strange mirror-box projection system set up in front of the desks, smelling of greasy dust and hot projector bulbs. There’d be a rumbling “BLAAAAT!!” sound from the speaker, the film would start, and the enthusiasm would drain right out of the room as we watched “Living with Leeches” or “Your Friend the Mollusk”.
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