A 7-minute fever dream where mimes gaslight you into learning. Education was WILD in '69.
The 1969 educational film *Guessing Game*, produced by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, uses a split-screen technique to engage viewers. One side of the screen features pantomimists or children miming activities involving various objects, while the other side reveals the object being described. The film serves as an interactive and entertaining way to encourage observation and guessing skills.
Production
Split-screen tech that slaps harder than it should.
Practical Effects
Real children, real mimes, real unhinged energy.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Educational films of the 1960s-70s often employed avant-garde techniques to compete with television's growing influence on young minds.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation produced hundreds of these shorts, many now lost to time or existing only in film archives.
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