{"id":4111,"date":"2007-11-05T13:35:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/05\/ancient-technology\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T15:58:52","slug":"ancient-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/05\/ancient-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007\/11\/graphics\/16mm_projector-p.jpg\" height=\"237\" width=\"217\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"16mm Film Projector\" title=\"16mm Film Projector\" \/>My anthropology teacher had shown the class directly before ours a movie using an actual 16mm film projector, and was rewinding it when we all came in and sat down. I got a kick out of seeing one in use &#8212; heck, I was the A\/V geek in elementary school who always volunteered to run the projector when I could &#8212; but the look of confusion, wonder, and near-horror on the face of one girl in the class was absolutely hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What <em>is<\/em> that thing? How old is it&#8230;when was it made, the forties? Thirties?&#8221; She watched, absolutely fascinated, as the teacher ran out the last few minutes of film and we listened to the clickety-clack of the gears and rachets and the warbling, jittery audio; as he raised the rear reel and threaded the trailer back in to the hub; and as he patiently waited for the &#8216;whap-whap-whap&#8217; of the leader slapping against the projector that signaled that the film was done rewinding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My anthropology teacher had shown the class directly before ours a movie using an actual 16mm film projector, and the look of confusion, wonder, and near-horror on the face of one girl in our class was absolutely hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,65],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}