Personal Media Device (Back in the Day)

Since yesterday’s post about the Peanuts Gym, I thought I would carry on today with the same Peanuts gang theme. Before I do, I want to mention that Ben uses an iPod Touch that I acquired when I bought my new Mac last year. I gave it to him & filled it with TV shows, cartoons, some of my iPhone games, etc. Last night he was sitting there watching the Clone Wars movie for the umpteenth time on the Touch. It made me remember what we had for a personal media player back when I was a kid.
Back in 1975 I received the Snoopy Drive-In. This toy took cartridges with 8mm film encased in them, and played them back on magnified viewscreen. It’s basically industrial audiovisual put into an attractive kid-friendly shell. You had to manually crank the film cartridge to make the film go. There was no sound to these films either. I think I had 2 Peanuts gang movies to go with the Snoopy Drive-In.
This is what personal media was to me as a child as my 10 year old proceeds to switch from watching the Clone Wars to a Discovery Channel show I downloaded for him about Apollo 13. Boy have times changed.
Don’t forget. You can go portable, too. When I didn’t want to be bogged down with the Snoopy Drive-In, I could switch my bulky cartridge to the Snoopy Movie Time. See the images below.