A movie projector!! Wow. That was so much fun, though. I remember my dad would make such an event of showing them when he got them back from being developed. We would close the lights and all gather around, tell my brother how much to adjust the height of the screen. And there were the inevitable shadow animals, too. It was nice.

Klyd, re: the tape recorders. A few years ago, my daughter's French teacher insisted that they do pronunciation assignments on cassette tapes and hand them in. We looked high and low for a tape recorder, and could only find the mini ones in the stores, which the teacher wouldn't accept. We finally ended up recording them onto the computer as .wav files and emailing them to the teacher.