Did you ever get to watch "real" movies in school?

As far as I know, no U.S print had it.

 

Supposedly, "a few" or "some" prints shown in US in 1968 had it, but I have never seen any proof of that anywhere.

 

When recess was canceled due to inclement weather, they would herd us into the auditorium and show 16mm prints of Roger Ramjet. Also remember Pippi Longstocking.

 

I took

16mm Dupage County library print circa 1980...no Hey Bulldog.

 

I also remember being really happy when the reel of film was especially big--there goes that class period!

Re: Filmstrips--is it just me, or did they always seem to assign the job of "turning" the frames to the most ADD kid in class? All it takes is to miss one frame, and everyone was yelling at them to turn it. I remember once in the 4th grade, the teacher sent someone down to the library to find a filmstrip on "anything" for the class (must have been towards the end of the year). He/she came back with a filmstrip about how to care for puppies. Aww...
We put it in and it's actually about how to help deliver puppies. It was a really old filmstrip and referred to the mother dog as "the bitch." So we were all cracking up listening to the narrator saying things like, "Keep the bitch calm" and "Do not touch the bitch!"

 

That sounds like something that would have happened in my class.. It would have made my day!

 

Lots of times, Swedens schools are too chill sometimes.

 

If West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof count.

 

They do.

 

In high school, the "cool" teacher showed us Wall Street (where we all got the "wrong" idea--we were rooting for Charlie Sheen and Gekko to succeed), and U2's Rattle And Hum.

In college, a Poli Sci professor showed us Ken Russell's The Devils. Now that made a lasting impression on me!

 

Our English teacher showed us Lindsay Anderson's If when we were in year 9 (14/15 years old)

 

My secondary school showed a film at Christmas, usually James Bond or Smokey & the Bandit.

 

Because nothing says "wholesome kids movie" like Smokey And The Bandit!

 

High school teacher showed us Scarface (80's version).

The Outsiders was another one I remember. We were
reading the book at the time.

 

I was in a math class that was quite.....disruptive and the teacher was at wits end so she showed us "Stand and Deliver". I think it was to try and inspire us. These days, I feel bad for that poor woman; we put her through hell.

 

We saw that one too. My main takeaway was, "Is that really the Lieutenant from Miami Vice?" and "how does that one guy do calculus on his fingers?"

 

Thanks for the likes! We also got a real Technicolor print of THE QUIET MAN(I discovered to my horror that the Eastmancolor pints of it on TV were completely pink), THE AFRICAN QUEEN, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN(in B/W!), many more. These all went over better than BRINGING UP BABY did!

 

In middle school we got hauled into the gym for North By Northwest, The Birds & Ten Little Indians. In high school a journalism teacher felt he needed two periods off so we sat through a projection of Citizen Kane that was in such appalling shape it was impossible to make out was anyone saying or doing but there wasn't much we could do.

 

We watched Brian’s Song in six grade and I cried like a baby in front of classmates

 

Thus proving that you are a human.

 

Back in high school, (72- 77), we a had a movie club and I got to see American Graffiti, Woodstock, The Last Detail, If, Polanski’s McBeth, Fearless Vampire Killers, and many, many others during lunchtime breaks over two consecutive days, (usually Thursday and Friday).

 

Field trip 8th grade '68/'69 went to see Oliver.

10th grade...school showed Cool Hand Luke in auditorium. I think in 2 parts...2 days.

Every school around or on Halloween should show a classic horror film. Frankenstein or Bride Of would be nice. Expose kids to the really good stuff.

 

In 1968 I was a senior at a Catholic high school. The entire senior class (about 200) went to see Macbeth since we were reading it in English class. I forget what version the film was, but the movie was old in 1968.

I remember two things: first, when Lady Macbeth says
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.
Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th' effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers

As you might imagine, words like 'unsex' and 'breasts' caused a bit of Beavis & Butthead-style tittering.

Secondly, the nuns had rented a movie theater in a somewhat dodgy part of town to show it. The theater was in the process of transforming itself into a skin- flick emporium, and some posters in the lobby advertised some upcoming attractions. Got our attention, for sure.

 

Ferris Bueller's day off on rain days in the high school library

 

It was probably the 1948 Orson Welles version

Macbeth (1948 film) - Wikipedia