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Change Your Underwear Twice a Week : Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips
Change Your Underwear Twice a Week Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips Author:Danny Gregory With simple illustrations and quaint photographs that evoke a more innocent era -- presented in Technicolor or rich black-and-white in a broad range of illustration styles -- Change Your Underwear Twice a Week is a chronicle of the classroom filmstrip experience. It will instantly transport baby boomers back to fifth-period... more » social studies, the smell of art paste, the sound of the recess bell. It's the first book to collect dozens of these treasures together, creating a panorama of four decades of inadvertent humor embedded in earnest lessons on how to grow up healthy and strong, the mysteries of outer space, faraway lands, and the "modern" world.
Readers from the Internet generation will get a good chuckle over what appears to be electronic cave art. But they'll also discover the great subtexts of the Cold War world in filmstrips that explained why America was great and our way of life the envy of the world.« less