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Beryl,
We have a "45 rpm insert" on display in the "Amazing Feats of Aging Exhibit" in an exhibit about how much you learn and know over a lifetime. I think it does tend to make people feel old when they can recognize a slide rule, carbon paper, etc. BUT, you can also view it positively: I know all this stuff!
Consider: We have three times the vocabulary at age 45 as at age 20.
Vicki
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Jonah,
It's not the 45s that are tough, it's the thingy that goes in the
holes in the middle (which, by the way, I saw on a student's Tshirt,
and when I asked him if he knew what it was, he didn't - I felt
really old...). Re: film canisters, do you think Kodak or other
manufactureres would be willing to dump them cheap? (Personally, I
think there will always be film...)
Beryl
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>As we begin a new year, the future, to me, at least, looks bleak.
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>I could cite several reasons, but here is a very grave one: maybe not
>tomorrow, but soon, I face a dire shortage in the third greatest invention
>of the 20th century. (#1 = duct tape, #2 = PVC pipe, but you all knew that.)
>I speak of the 35mm film canister.
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>Consider the science center-ly wonders that the empty film can helps us
>accomplish:
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>* Perfect for storing chemicals that children are too young to measure
>out personally (ie the ubiquitous slime chemicals)
>* Vital to an absolutely marvelous experiment on sound, when combined
>with PVC, balloons, rubber bands and simple tools
>* The vehicles for alka-seltzer-powered mini-rockets
>* Useful for cheap + easy senses experiments, like housing a
>scent-saturated cotton ball (doused in, say, mint extract) or a mystery item
>that must be shaken to identify by sound
>* Excellent storage utensil for storing a plethora of necessary
>supplies, from mini-light bulbs for circuit experiments to ferret treats.
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>I could go on. The point is that the film can is a highly useful, often
>irreplaceable tool. And it may be vanishing. With the spread of digital
>cameras (curse you, technology!), it is only a matter of time before
>locating a 35 mm film can becomes akin to locating a 78 rpm record.
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>What can be done? Can these uber-devices be procured in ways other than
>hitting up your local film developer? (A process whose days seem well
>numbered.) Could any substitute possible prove as versatile and inexpensive?
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>Save the film cans!
>
>Jonah Cohen
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>Outreach & Public Programs Manager
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>Science Center of Connecticut
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>"A free and independent press is essntial to the health of a functioning
>democracy. It serves to inform the voting public on matters relevant to its
>well-being. Why they've stopped doing that is a mystery. I mean, 300 camera
>crews outside a courthouse to see what Kobe Bryant is wearing when the judge
>sets his hearing date, while false information used to send our country to
>war goes unchecked?!?"
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> -America: The Book
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