Word: filmstrip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn, Peterson pressed Bell & Howell to become "more innovative, more proprietary, more systems-oriented." Among Bell & Howell's successes under Peterson are a classroom projector that uses convenient filmstrip cassettes; a "Language Master" teaching device that allows children to see and hear a word, then record their own pronunciation for comparison; and an inexpensive ($12,600) color TV camera...
...been "horrified" at the way teachers have been "messing about with their creation." She prefers to show fragments of many films, repeatedly stopping the action to quiz the kids on what they just saw, what they expect next. She had her pupils draw up their own narration to a filmstrip on the "Causes of the Revolution" to replace the high-school level commentary that came with it. Her fifth-grade colleague, Eleanor Cohen, normally turns off movie sound tracks, delivers her own explanations, repeats film segments so that she "can control the speed of the learning progress." She finds this...