Show'N Tell: History and Key Facts

The Show 'N Tell is a toy combination record player and filmstrip viewer manufactured by General Electric from October 1964 to the 1970s at GE's Utica, NY facility.

It resembles a television set, but has a record player on the top. Records and slides were sold for it in combination (known as Picturesound programs). The slide strips, a flat plastic key 11 inches long

containing a strip of 16mm color film, are inserted into the top of the device. As the record played (typically telling a story), the slide strip, through which the images were projected on the screen, automatically advanced to illustrate it. The mechanism by which the slide advanced is purely mechanical, and is based on the rotation of the turntable, so proper operation requires manually spinning it a few revolutions before beginning the presentation. The original selling price of the unit was $29.95

and Picturesound programs sold for 99 cents with "a library of five programs" selling for $4.95.

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