When it was time to watch a movie in school….

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[u/CelticSith]

Class, teacher has a hangover so it's movie day

[u/Dagobian_Fudge → u/CelticSith]

Or they’re so hungover they call out and the substitute teacher steps in. Regardless the cart rolling in means that your teacher had a great time last night.

[u/Impossible_Past5358 → u/CelticSith]

And "i need 2 volunteers to go get the tv"

[u/Cerebralbore → u/CelticSith]

😂

[u/PercentageRoutine310 → u/CelticSith]

This is the right answer.

When we had movie days, it was because the teacher has to correct some tests or read some essays. An easy couple of hours to kill. But it could be a hangover day for them. A lazy day.

[u/littlestevebrule → u/CelticSith]

Sub PE teacher = Remember the Titans

[u/Existing-Mud-6998]

Love it! This is how it was. The one time a year we had to watch the most boring film and tore holes from it. Screens everywhere these days. Telling the truth apparently.

[u/[deleted] → u/Existing-Mud-6998]

Ah, I see! It’s funny how those school TV moments, like watching a boring film once a year, have such a nostalgic feel to them. Back then, it felt like a big deal because it was one of the rare times we got to watch something in class. Now, with screens everywhere, it almost feels like we’re overloaded with content—sometimes, it’s nice to look back at simpler times when things felt a bit more real or genuine.

[u/chasingit1]

Not shown

Flashing 12:00 incessantly on the VCR

[u/tchrbrian → u/chasingit1]

or strap to hold that TV down during transit

[u/Nope-Nope13702]

Best class ever anytime the cart was pushed in the classroom.

[u/All-Sorts]

The teacher timing the moment for her to stand in front of the tv during the nude scene in Romeo and Juliet.

[u/ContributionSea4704]

The Music Man, Pollyanna, Ol Yeller, The Yearling, Sound of Music, My Side of The Mountain, Where the Red Fern Grows....right?

[u/iwbiek → u/ContributionSea4704]

The best was when our chemistry teach showed us "Fire Down Below" with Steven Seagal, because it was vaguely environmentalist.

[u/dontquestionmek]

Time to watch either Bill Nye The Science Guy or Magic School Bus!!

[u/TheRealCrustycabs]

lol they're both pushing.

[u/wallybinbaz]

And you heard it before you saw it - the white noise was a beautiful thing.

[u/bombatomba69]

And since it was close to Christmas vacation you knew it would be A Christmas Story - in every class!

[u/tribaltroll]

And you and your buddy felt like such a boss wheeling that thing down the hall

[u/Servile-PastaLover]

in grade school, i learned to run the 16mm film projector.

These kids pictured wouldn't know anything about those.

[u/nasty904 → u/Servile-PastaLover]

I remember learning how to use 16mm projector as well in AV club.

[u/Tarantula_Saurus_Rex]

Oh. My. Gawwd! I remember the last movie watched with this setup. Lord of the Flies in English class, 1990. Piggy's got the conch! Sucks to your assmar!

[u/helth-memes → u/Tarantula_Saurus_Rex]

Funnily enough we watched that movie (and the 1971 Macbeth movie as well) in English class at my high school. By then we had LCD projectors on carts that would be wired to the teacher's computer with a VGA cable. The projector on the cart would always play the movie at a slight angle befacuse it never directly faced the screen. Some classrooms started mounting the projector to the roof instead, our computer science class had that setup.

[u/jalabar]

I watched our friend Martin idk how many times

[u/Top-Cost-9326]

Is one pushing or pulling or both? Anywho, I had a teacher who would always wheel one of those in and made us watch The Little Mermaid.

[u/mrEnigma86]

When is was raining during play time, end of the year bring your own toys and film day

[u/Unicorn_Puppy]

Then remember we’d get disappointed it was a documentary? We’ve come full circle since we’re now all adults whose entire streaming services are queued with them.

[u/Bonk-Rogers]

What is that thing under the VHS player?

[u/ilikeme1 → u/Bonk-Rogers]

LaserDisc player. Was common in schools back in the 90's for interactive video stuff.

[u/Bonk-Rogers → u/ilikeme1]

I thought laserdiscs had a single large horizontal tray. Where is that on that machine? It looked to me like those were all a bunch of buttons on the front?

[u/ilikeme1 → u/Bonk-Rogers]

The tray is the upper half on the front. 

[u/PaleontologistOk2516 → u/Bonk-Rogers]

Laser Disc? Although that would be pretty expensive and rare for a school to have

[u/ilikeme1 → u/PaleontologistOk2516]

Was not rare in my school district. Most of the TV carts had them along with a VCR.

[u/425565]

Even the most boring film or docu was 100x better than a quizz, test, or listening to the teacher drone on.

[u/casino_night]

Happiness was walking into class on a Friday afternoon and seeing this!

[u/Bocote]

I don't recall ever watching the full movie.

[u/mlvisby → u/Bocote]

I had a class my senior year of high school, cinema study. We would watch 2-3 movies of a certain genre and then write a one page synopsis of each film. I just wrote random BS because the teacher was retiring after that year, as long as it was a page long, it was 100%.

Our final was filming our own short film, which was a lot of fun!

[u/kaest]

Those carts were like tanks. I wouldn't mind having one at home.

[u/TeaMe06]

I miss this our teacher would always pop popcorn each table of 6 had to share a bag lol

[u/Briggs281707]

I started school in 2006. I just got to experience that era. Always a great time when the TV came

[u/Astro_Akiyo]

Yaaaay *immediately puts head on desk over arms to prepare to conceal the inevitable drool puddle that will increase the longer my head is down 🤣

[u/AcadiaRemarkable6992]

I watched the space shuttle Challenger accident replayed a bunch on one of these setups

[u/Puzzled_Ad7955]

I certainly hope one of these young men is a certified AV Monitor as myself…….Bahahaha

[u/headbanger1991]

I remember watching Micheal Jackson's Thriller on one in 98' in first grade.

[u/Erick_B81]

I remember having to setup the filmstrip machine, that was fun, making sure the is in the guides/ nubs. And of course, then getting the right cassette tape to go with the filmstrip, you had. What a chore.

[u/RunZombieBabe]

Watched Aliens for the first time that way in class😍

[u/greyjedimaster77]

This is how I knew time was gonna fly until dismissal time lol

[u/Acceptable_Leg_7998]

Had this setup in middle school. In my high school, there were wall-mounted TVs in every classroom...and this was before flatscreens.