Another 16mm film from my collection - this one is from Xerox - You might not think of them when you think of cartoons, but it was Xerox Films that made the Grammar Rock series of catchy cartoons that everyone of a certain age knows very well. This one was produced for the UK and has a sort of Pink Floyd The Wall meets Sesame Street kind of vibe if you ask me. As usual I transferred this reel with my own Telecine and made color corrections to taste. Enjoy!
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16 thoughts on “The weird number 1971”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! Brothington says:

    Any more like that, Fran? Can’t wait to show my students.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Pen Fold says:

    I wonder if the initial part of that Xerox intro was done on an old Xerox computer? (competitor to the IBM)

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jean Roddenberry says:

    I remember this! 😊

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Zero x Zero says:

    Ooo!! I remember watching those School House Rock segments during Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s, up here in Ontario Canada.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alex Eisenhut says:

    I guess the negative numbers put things into the shops…

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Greg Ewing says:

    Hey, you've found a long-lost Numberphile video!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TheGreatAtario says:

    One day e^iπ will show up and then there will be some 'splainin' to do

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars klumpy103 says:

    Superb 😆

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars zulumax1 says:

    Kind of a Harry Nilsson The Point, or Yellow Submarine nowhere man vibe.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars zulumax1 says:

    I thought the villain was going to be a decimal point, but ended up a fraction!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars CARL iCON says:

    nice x-fer & color correction Frannie-these type of cartoons made learning fun, interesting, & entertaining back in the day, kind of like Fractured Fairy Tales

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ralph J says:

    Brilliant, but then there was a raid on a pi shop. That's just irrational, said the sheriff.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars David Walters says:

    Theatre pipe organ back ground music. I am impressed!

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Carey says:

    I really struggled getting my head around fractions, especially adding and multiplying them. I would always turn them into decimals and work with that. I found it easy to add 0.25 and 0.33! 😄

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars janno288 says:

    Great Film but these should be uploaded in 4:3 not 16:9

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Goh CK says:

    1971 = 1+9+7+1 =18 =1+8 = 9 ( I Ching or Yi Jing )

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