Another film from my archive that is typical of the kinds of films that were shown in schools. Lots of great nostalgic shots of life in the late 50's. As always I transferred this film with my own Telecine. Enjoy!
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14 thoughts on “What’s so important about the wheel? 1958”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars chris pomphrett says:

    Careful Fran, someone will have copyrighted the wheel…!😉

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Pete Stanton says:

    Gears ain't wheels

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bulk VanderHuge says:

    Hey Fran, remember the Slide Shows, where the narrations was on a 33 1/3 record, and there was a tone to let the teacher know to advance the slide forward, except the Teacher would ALWAYS screw up and get one or two slides behind the narration record?

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bulk VanderHuge says:

    lol, these movies they used to show us in school. The first movie I was shown in school was "Lunchroom Manners" with Mr. Bungle

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Butch Lauer says:

    I was so happy when I found a gyroscope for my son last year for Christmas, he really got a kick out of the centrifugal force. Timeless gift that intrigued him in a non smart phone manner.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Sedik says:

    The series of physics demonstrations by Julius Sumner Miller are on YouTube

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars good 'un says:

    " I'm gonna be a wheel someday, I'm gonna be somebody/ I'm gonna be a wheel someday, and then I won't want you…." In truth I would call the wheel a discovery, an extension of math, geometric and gravitational/frictional principles, and properties of physics and the univese; and not necessarily an invention. As the technology of wheels was improved, then you could call them inventions.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Buddy Corner says:

    I'm much smarter for having seen this video.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars apcolleen says:

    SNATCH BLOCK! – Destin from smarter every day

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Shotgun Approach says:

    Fran, you got to check out "Eyes On Cinema: EOC."

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Manuel Hung says:

    I love wheels, having managed to hire a naked chinese rickshaw driver for my evening star and planet spotting routine. He always gets a bit too eager and raises from the saddle to pedal very fast, I have figured out why he is doing this despite communication problems, it is simply because, whenever he speeds up, I always shout 'Faster, Faster Pussycat, I can see Uranus'.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tvtoms says:

    Sliding apart a clamp-on skate and hammering it flat to the underside of a board is how I made my first skateboard in the early 70's.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alan Canon says:

    That's all fine and good for the Eisenhower era, but what have wheels done for us lately?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jvan says:

    Time to roll film (pun intended)

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