"Target For Corvair" Vintage 1960 film
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:58 pm
This is a Jam Handy sales-person training filmstrip from 1960.
It tells about the advantages of a Corvair over the import cars of the day. It came from a small presentation rather than the usual full monthly dealer kit.
These filmstrips would be shown and discussed at weekly or monthly meetings.
When I get one of these kits I have to carefully cut the filmstrip into strips of 12 photos so they will fit in my scanner. Then I crop and save each pic until I get to the end. Then using a USB turntable I convert the audio to digital. Some of these 50 year old records are in poor condition and I try to correct the audio as best as I can with Wave Editor . Then I import everything into Cyberlink Power Director 11 and begin the tedious task of timing the slides to the beeps on the audio track (Ugh) . Then I re-crop the photos in a more detailed manner . The film is often green or pink so I convert them to B&W and I add a border (letterbox) around the edges. By the time I finish I usually have the audio track memorized
Recently I have been adding opening animations with a text to talk program called XtraNormal . It's kinda fun.
Here's a few pieces of literature that came in the box with the record and filmstrip .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-btlJOfnA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It tells about the advantages of a Corvair over the import cars of the day. It came from a small presentation rather than the usual full monthly dealer kit.
These filmstrips would be shown and discussed at weekly or monthly meetings.
When I get one of these kits I have to carefully cut the filmstrip into strips of 12 photos so they will fit in my scanner. Then I crop and save each pic until I get to the end. Then using a USB turntable I convert the audio to digital. Some of these 50 year old records are in poor condition and I try to correct the audio as best as I can with Wave Editor . Then I import everything into Cyberlink Power Director 11 and begin the tedious task of timing the slides to the beeps on the audio track (Ugh) . Then I re-crop the photos in a more detailed manner . The film is often green or pink so I convert them to B&W and I add a border (letterbox) around the edges. By the time I finish I usually have the audio track memorized
Recently I have been adding opening animations with a text to talk program called XtraNormal . It's kinda fun.
Here's a few pieces of literature that came in the box with the record and filmstrip .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-btlJOfnA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Although my father is not around today to ask, I wonder if the Chevrolet Corvair "Distinctive and Different" marketing approach displayed in this slide presentation impacted his previous foreign car buying pattern...
Thank you for applying your technical skills toward becoming something of a Corvair Forum historian and archivist. I know it takes a lot of time, effort and creativity to resolve the technical problems of digitizing and refreshing this old material. GOOD JOB! 