GE Show N' Tell PictureSound Program--Robin Hood

This is a video of my GE Show N' Tell PhonoViewer playing the Robin Hood PictureSound program. This device looks like a small television except it has a phonograph on top. It was a children's toy that was made from the fifties to the seventies. The device would synchronize audio from a 7 inch record (which played a 33 1/3 RPM instead of 45) with a film strip. The film was on 16 mm and was held in a small plastic card. The film wasn't automatically advanced, it was simply moved mechanically through the revolving of the turntable. Thus, getting the audio and "video" to match up was tedious and time consuming. You would use a little indicator, but I have found you need to have the needle in the first actual groove of the record for it to make any sense. Otherwise the picture will change either too early or too late. But anyway, I got Robin Hood to align perfectly and I hope you enjoy the program. The film has turned red with age, and this made my camera change color hue a few times, but it is only a little annoying and doesn't affect the viewing very much. My apologies, but at the end the film went out of focus, but you can still get the general idea.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Vintage
• Children's
• Toy
• GE
• Show
• N'
• Tell
• Phonoviewer
• record
• player
• slide
• projector
• film
• strip
• robin
• hood
• electronics

[edisonphono1]

I won't remove this comment, but I would like to ask why you are a homophobe and incredibly sexist. So, Why are you a homophobe and incredibly sexist? Please don't add stupid comments to my videos; they are to show the world old technologies and recordings, not to sway an opinion. Like the Mayan Calendar means anything anyway.

[ladystorm61]

Brings back wonderful memories of my childhood....watching these and eating Freezie Pops with my friends...wonderful days I miss! Thank you for sharing. = )

[ThadMemphis]

"Stand aside and let the better man pass." I have often thought that I would have spent my childhood more productively had I read Shakespeare instead of spending hours in front of this thing. Ha.

[boynblue27]

OMG! I remember that when I was like 3. We had it for many years after I grew up in my grandmothers garage. Wish I still had it. Man that brings back some of my earliest memories.

[vynilistic]

Does anyone remember the gray & white one that had an AM radio?

[tjfreak]

I wanted the blue and white one in the early 70's so bad..I did get one in the mid 70's red & white & out of someones garbage.I remember the whirr sound, (I hear, here) & a hot plastic smell from the lamp.I used it a few times with 1 strip & 45 then took it apart, every single screw and spring ,there was like 100 parts .

[dvgale]

I had one as a kid! Late 60s/70s. Thanks for reminding me how it operates - it was a mystery to me back then - and I DO remember the strip advancing "out of phase" with the audio if you mis-cued it up! It was great 'cause you could also just use it as a phonograph, even play 12' records (which the famous CloseNPlay couldn't) - ours also had a 45RPM speed and pull-up big-hole adaptor ... Thanks for the Memories!

[fancyyyclaps]

I bought one of these for $12 at a vintage store in like 2002, along with about 20 stories . At first, just the screen worked, then it stopped working and the turntable worked. Then it stopped working all together. I've been trying to get my parents to ship it to me so I can fix it and enjoy it.

[toddadean]

I saw this posting along with another one and decided to post my collrction

[majesticmeteor]

First the Show 'N Tell, then Pong, then Pac-Man, then Atari, then Play Station, then the evil of the Internet.

And all the while the women launched their plan to rid the Earth of men.

December 21, 2012; can it be stopped?

Or will Lesbian Nation come to fruition?