365 Days #349 - How Do I Learn? (mp3s)

MP3:
1 All Kinds of Feelings (2:13)
2 What Next? (5:45)
3 Making Mistakes (5:31)
4 Who's Afraid? (5:37)
5 Figuring Things Out (5:54)
6 Do You Forget? (5:35)

The packaging of Film Strips come in many shapes and sizes, and can often be mistaken for board games, books, records, or anything else.

I almost passed this box by when picking up piles of film strips from a Thrift Store in Ogden, Utah. It has since turned out to be one of my most favorite finds ever! The sounds of the records themselves could almost be placed along side the works of Ken Nordine, plus one of them even includes an alternate version of a Jean Jacques Perrey & Gershon Kingsley track which I believe to be part of "Barnyard in Orbit" (correct me if I'm wrong).

The filmstrips are great! A couple have been featured in the traveling exhibits of the Lost Media Archive and Incredibly Strange Movie Night. I'll never forget the gasps from the audience during a screening of "Who's Afraid?", which is genuinely creepy even to adults!

- Contributed by: B.C. Sterrett (The Lost Media Archive)

Images: How Do I Learn? Box

Comments

[David Noades]

Hey you're right, Who's Afraid is scarly, even just to listen to. These are great and would be even better with the accompanying film strips (something for YouTube perhaps?). I live in Britain and learniing was never this much fun! It's amazing the stuff that's out there and we thank you guys for bringing them to us.

[Andy]

Awesome stuff! I love the philosophical questions posed by the narrator in "Mistakes". It's a stark contrast to the piling down with homework and taking NCLB tests. Thanks for posting this.

[wordjazz]

It is highly possible that this was written by Ken Nordine,even though he is not narrating it himself.At a thrift store,about 2000,I found a pile of records,that went with filmstrips for elementary schools,all from the early 70s.No films,just the records.I bought two cool ones about introductory science,written and narrated by Ken Nordine.They are as esoteric as you would expect.I feel pretty dumb now,that I didn't buy the whole pile.

I have been listening to WFMU online since 2002,but have only been listening to what's on the blog in the past month.It would be great if you could do another 365 Days project,in 2010 perhaps.I have enough myself to do one,all with records you never uploaded.