Change Your Underwear Twice a Week : Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips
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Book Description
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 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.
From the Publisher
Funnier than your favorite episode of "Huckleberry Hound," and more satisfying than a Velveeta cheese sandwich, this clever new book by Danny Gregory will zap you back to your elementary school years faster than your mom could bark "stand up straight!" Change Your Underwear Twice a Week transports us back to tender years, when life was simpler and America was innocent.
This is the first book to collect the popular film strips, once widely shown to U.S. school children in the decades following World War II. Designed to make us feel safe, tow the line with authorities, or get excited about the moon and outer space, the lessons are brought back here in vintage Technicolor or black and white.
Change Your Underwear Twice a Week : Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips
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Change Your Underwear Twice a Week : Lessons from the Golden Age of Classroom Filmstrips
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