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Past Technologies At Rittners Floral School

Back in the last century in the mid forties when our school was first established, our school pioneered the use of photography as an adjunct to our lectures.

Motion pictures were leased and a movie projector was purchased.

The projector was legendary in the annals of our school in that it practically required an engineering degree to thread.

In those days our school also pioneered recording students' voices (another cutting edge technology in those days!) to help them in sales situations.

In the later part of the 20th Century our school pioneered the extensive use of slides and video in teaching floral art... We used a collection of over 20,000 slides back in the 80's.

Quaint by today's standards, but it was still quite ahead of its time to do this kind of thing in a floral art school. Oh and by the way, our images were created using this stuff called film! To add lettering to a slide presentation was quite challenging and arduous. (compare to today's powerpoints!)

We even had our own in house darkroom so that we could process our own film and even print stuff right in our own facility. Methodical storage of slides and prints was always a challenge as was being able to find the right image at the right time....

We also used state-of-the-art video equipment that in the early generations was huge, bulky and heavy, and required amazingly hot lights! You did a video and as an added bonus got a sauna... But wow, it was really neat to be able to preserve videos of lectures, demonstrations and guests.

We don't use film any more. Nor do they even make slide projectors. Thankfully the movie projector and sound recorder were retired decades ago!

Video recording today is quick and easy and can be done under existing lighting. So most of those early technologies are a thing of the past.

However there is still one technology we still use.....

We still have and we still use the same traditional school bell!

(And the photograph of a little kid holding a bell is a lot more fun than a picture of some old technology!!!)






Click here to learn of more Contemporary 21st Century Technologies used at Rittners Floral School!

 



 

 

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