Automated instruction apparatus

Claim 1

A TEACHING MACHINE COMPRISING: (A) A PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM HAVING A PLURALITY OF FRAMES FOR STORING ASSOCIATED DATA, EACH FRAME HAVING A DATA PORTION AND A CODE PORTION, SAID CODE PORTION INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHIC BITS SELECTIVELY OPAQUE AND TRANSPARENT IN A PREDETERMINED FORMAT CARRYING BINARY INFORMATION FOR DIRECTING THE MACHINE TO DISPLAY DATA OF DIFFERENT FRAMES IN ACCORDANCE WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC BITS WHICH ARE SELECTED FROM THOSE FORMING THE CODE PORTION OF EACH FRAME, SAID CODE PORTION FURTHER INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHIC FRAME COUNTING AND BLOCK COUNTING BITS SELECTIVELY OPAQUE AND TRANSPARENT, (B) PHOTOELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A MATRIX SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO THE FORMAT OF SAID PHOTOGRAPHIC BITS, FRAME COUNTING BITS, AND BLOCK COUNTING BITS OF SAID CODE PORTION SO THAT EACH PHOTOELEMENT SENSES ONLY THE OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A CORRESPONDING BIT, SAID PHOTOELEMENTS RESPONSIVE TO THE OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BITS CARRYING BINARY INFORMATION OF A DISPLAYED FRAME BY GENERATING A SIGNAL REPRESENTIVE OF THE LOCATION OF THE FRAME INCLUDING DATA TO BE SUBSEQUENTLY DISPLAYED; (C) A FILM TRANSPORT FOR TRANSPORTING SAID FILM IN RESPONSE TO SAID SIGNAL;