I never saw My Side of the Mountain but I had the book (which I also never read, but I'd skim through it and look at all the diagrams and the tools list and wish that I was somewhere other than Cheshire, CT, living on my own).
I kind of miss how different organizations and public institutions used to show free 16mm movies. I saw a lot of old Laurel and Hardy films that way. I remember once, when my father was with the JayCees, my parents checked out a projector and a bunch of films from the library for an Easter party the organization was putting on. Mostly it was a bunch of Mighty Mouse and Heckyl and Jeckyl cartoons along with a few silent shorts and after the party, we took them home with us and set the projector up in our living room to watch them again. There was something really neat about threading the film through the projector and making sure the loop was big enough and then listening to the projector running and seeing that light flickering that was really captivating to me. It felt like there was this personal connection to the film you were watching because you had to go through so much effort just to watch it. Anyway, I think it's part of why I became a big film fan. I don't know why, but there's definitely something about film equipment -- whether it's projectors or cameras or lights -- that really attracts fellow geeks.
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I kind of miss how different organizations and public institutions used to show free 16mm movies. I saw a lot of old Laurel and Hardy films that way. I remember once, when my father was with the JayCees, my parents checked out a projector and a bunch of films from the library for an Easter party the organization was putting on. Mostly it was a bunch of Mighty Mouse and Heckyl and Jeckyl cartoons along with a few silent shorts and after the party, we took them home with us and set the projector up in our living room to watch them again. There was something really neat about threading the film through the projector and making sure the loop was big enough and then listening to the projector running and seeing that light flickering that was really captivating to me. It felt like there was this personal connection to the film you were watching because you had to go through so much effort just to watch it. Anyway, I think it's part of why I became a big film fan. I don't know why, but there's definitely something about film equipment -- whether it's projectors or cameras or lights -- that really attracts fellow geeks.