A slide-tape work (often slide-tape presentation) is an
audiovisual
Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions.
Audiovisual service ...
work consisting of a
slide show using a
filmstrip machine with synchronised accompanying audio, traditionally
audio tape
An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present ...
. These have frequently been used for education and for tourism, but also include artistic uses.
History
The slide-tape presentation originated in and is particularly associated with the mid-to-late 20th century, when magnetic tape and slide projectors were common, but digital audio (such as
compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in O ...
s) and digital video projectors were not. Even with the advent of video tapes in the 1970s and 1980s, producing videos was significantly more difficult than producing a slide show, and the image quality of videos was significantly lower than that of slides, resulting in slide-tape works continuing to be used into the 1980s and 1990s.
Analog slide-tape works have declined in use in the developed world, though digital ones continue to be produced, and can now be created with
photo slideshow software
Photo slideshow software is computer software used to display a range of digital photos, images and video clips in a predefined order. In most cases the output file is a standard video file or an executable file which contains all the sound and ...
.
Analog use continues in countries in the less developed world.
Examples
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James Coleman – artist
References
* {{cite journal, last=Barman, first=Charles R., title=Slide-Tape Presentations on a Classroom Budget, journal=The American Biology Teacher , year=1984 , volume=46 , issue=6 , pages=344–346 , jstor=4447864, publisher=University of California Press, doi=10.2307/4447864
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