Category: training film
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December 3, 2025

Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way
Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete 30-minute training film, which, what it lacks in glitz, it makes up for in mathematical rigor. We appreciated that it started out talking about numbers […]
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June 21, 2025

Retrotechtacular: 1970s Radio
Before YouTube, you had to watch your educational videos on film. In the 1970s, if you studied radio, you might have seen the video from Universal Education and Visual Arts, titled Understanding Electronics Basic Radio Circuitry. The video’s been restored, and it appears on the [CHAP] YouTube channel. The video starts with a good history […]
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