A/V Geeks 16mm Lunch 1-28-2026

What happened? Um, so that was uh we were scanning a bunch of uh outtakes or raw footage for some police training film or promotional film. I don't really know where that footage came from. I'm trying to track that down, but it just showed up in a real of stuff. So, it could be from the the Texas Department of Public Safety that where we got a bunch of films from Allah, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. So, maybe that's what that is. But the problem is that they were all tapes spliced. So, when they ran through, and by tape splice, I mean like white tape spliced. Um, so when it ran through the scanner, if it wasn't completely lined off, it would sometimes jump the gate. And so when you saw it kind of go and you started seeing like PFS uh that's what happened. We rescan that. So um but I figured I would show you kind of what we did what happened. Uh all right. I got a film on the scanner. Did I say that I'm Skip Alzheimer and we watch 16 millimeter films and this is the AV Giggles lunch? If I did I just said it again. All right. Here's a film. An oldie but a goodie. We haven't watched it in like four years, five years, I don't know. Anyways, actor age. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Yes, dear. What is it? >> Well, Mr. Evans, um, Miss Black wanted me to bring this to you. Oh, >> won't you sit down? Jim, >> I understand you have an unusual pencil, Jim. >> Yes, sir. That is, it's nothing special, >> but you're rather proud of it. >> It has my name on it. I won it in an essay contest. May I see it? Personally, I think that something like this is better for carving. I'll fix the desk, Mr. Edmonds. I'll sand it down and refinish it. You won't be able to tell where I scratched it at all. >> That's a good idea, Jim. >> I'll begin today after school. That would be fine. >> Well, what else do you want me to do, Mr. Edmunds? >> Perhaps you can help me with the problem. I'd like your advice, Jim. >> My advice? >> Yes. I've got quite a serious problem. There are great many young people in the school, Jim. Each is an individual, but in one important way, they're all alike. They're all growing up. Is that the problem, Mr. Edmunds? >> Yes, growing up is a problem because Well, I remember one time I watched some of the boys play ball. You've probably seen it, too. The boys were all about your age. In years, they're young men, but sometimes in their behavior, >> they act like children. >> That's it. The boy batting struck out, and what a fuss he made. He was a young man in years, but the way he behaved was more in keeping with a 5-year-old. When you see a child do the same thing, you think, "Oh, well, he'll grow up sometime." But at 15 or 16, this boy was still reacting the same way. He was still showing violent temper when little things went wrong for him. So, the question is, why doesn't he grow up? Why does he still behave as a child? How can we help him get rid of these leftovers from childish behavior? That sort of behavior we call an infantile reaction. >> Infant? Well, whatever it is, it spoils the game for others. Why can't he act his age? >> I guess scratching a desk spoils it for others, too. Why can't I act my age, eh? >> That's what I'd like to know, Jim. Well, you know what to do about the desk. But now this pencil. If you were a first grader, I'd just keep it, wouldn't I? >> Oh, but Mr. Edmunds, I'm not not a first grader. >> Oh, you're not. So, suppose you start fixing that desk. Come back for your pencil when you feel you're ready for it. >> Yes, sir. You're right, Jim. Why can't I act my age? Huh? That's a good one. Oh well, fix up the desk and forget about the whole thing. Pencil gone. Oh, yes. Maybe one of these pencils will do it. Hey, act your age. No use getting sore. That won't open the can. Hello. Oh, Mr. Olsen. >> Need some help, son? >> Why, yes. Do you have a knife or something to open this? Yes, I guess so. And using yours to carve up a desk, I see. >> No, a pencil. >> A pencil. Bride crop of young fellas in this school. Every day think up a new way to act like babies. Never grow up. Still little boys playing with morals. Pencils, knives, pulling girls hair. Well, there's no sense in cleaning up here until you're through. I'll come back later. >> Still little boys playing with marbles, eh? Huh? But maybe it's true. Remember what Bill did yesterday? He was sitting right there. I guess he thought no one was looking when he took Jean's notebook. Was he cheating? probably and that's a childish thing to do. That's a child's way out. Then there was Phyllis the other day. She seemed to be worrying about something. And when Miss Black called on her and she wasn't ready with an answer, why you'd have thought it was something terrible that had happened. She almost cried just like a little girl. Yeah, that's it. An infantile reaction. Why don't we act our age? I'm going to talk to Mr. Edmunds again after school tomorrow. I've given it a lot of thought. And well, I'm not the only one, Mr. Edmunds. Everyone seems to act childless sometimes, but I don't understand just why. >> Well, it's partly because of the way we grow up. Your body's growing up now, Jim. You're growing much taller these years, but it may be some years more before your shoulders really broaden out and you become fully grown. Growing up emotionally is much the same. Different parts of our personalities grow at different rates. Some of us never grow up entirely. So, one side of a fellow's personality could be grown up and another still infantile. Is that right? >> Yes. For example, you've seen the girl who always has to win an argument. Most of the time, she behaves like a young lady, but let someone disagree with her. Well, she might just as well be 5 years old. We see reactions like this with young children. Then there's the fellow who can't take a joke. He laughs as hard as anyone at most jokes, but when the joke's on him, watch out. His 5-year-old brother would react the same way. There's the boy who constantly shows off to gain attention. There's the girl who cries over trifles. Then remember there's the ball player who becomes violently angry when he loses out. Those are some of the many infantile reactions we see around us every day. They indicate that a part of one's personality isn't growing up with the rest. >> Now what we need is some method of measuring our growth, comparing various parts of our personalities. >> Say I have an idea, Mr. Edmonds, I think I can figure out my age. Anyway, I'd like to try. >> Just a minute. Don't you want your pencil? >> No, sir. I'll wait until I know how old I am. Let's see. How old am I when someone disagrees with me? When someone pokes fun at me? When I want attention? When I am confused, when I don't get what I want there, I guess those are pretty important times to watch out for infantile reactions. Now, to rate my age today and then see how well I can grow. >> Oh, hello, Mr. Olsen. >> You again? Carved up another desk already? No, I'm just trying to figure out how old I am. >> Ask your mother. >> No, I mean how old I am and the way I behave. >> Oh, don't rate yourself too high. >> I won't bother you, will I? >> No, this is too important. I thought of it two days ago, so I made several copies of this and had my parents rate my age in each of these points and my best friend. My rating wasn't exactly high in some places. But it looks like a good rating system. What do you do now? >> Well, I'll have to work hard to bring my rating up. Here, for instance, where it says, "How old am I when I don't get what I want?" I rated myself 10 years old and my dad put it even lower than that. So, I'm going to get in the habit of controlling my temper and maybe next month I'll have a better rating and by next year I want to catch up with my real age. >> That's something to look forward to. >> I'll see. Well, I'm not going to tell you all my ratings, but I thought you might want a copy of this. >> I certainly would. I think everyone here should rate himself and have his friends rate him this way to make sure he grows up evenly >> and gets rid of those infantile reactions. >> Uh, I think I'd like my pencil back now. >> It's there on the desk. >> Oh, thanks. Thanks, Mr. Edmonds. Goodbye. How old are you? Wouldn't you like to try rating yourself on a sheet like this? [music] [music] Oh, yeah. That you have to keep watching that uh and think about like how old am I? Like what, you know, what's my deal? All right. Um, this is another National Film Board of Canada film that's not about hockey. So, I feel like it might be okay, but I don't know. This is similar to what we showed yesterday, the body talking film. So maybe this has a song. This is a sense of touch, joy. >> I just had a flash of an idea that might work. It's like [clears throat] >> nice. Uh, have you checked for leakage on the kick drum in the intro? Cuz we might have to use sticks instead. [music] >> Good idea. >> Okay. You want to record this one? >> We can do it now. >> You ready? >> Okay. One, two, three, four. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Hey, Heat. >> [music] >> Hey you. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] Yao. Oh, Definitely the same uh filmmaker, same um time period, all the same. So, pretty great. No singing though. I wanted there to be a totapper in there, but no tot. All right. Uh, plankton. Enjoy. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> The sun is the prime source of energy [music] for life, a principle equally true on land or in the oceans. But a casual look underwater [music] reveals nothing comparable to the huge mass of plant life that supports terrestrial animals. Until the early 1800s, scientists had no idea what constituted the basic [music] food supply for life in the sea. [music] Creatures like the basking shark might have offered clues. Cruising slowly [music] near the surface with jaws wide open, the shark is feeding [music] on minute animals and plants. It filters from the water, [music] imitating nature, marine biologists tow a fine mesh net underwater to collect [music] samples of plankton, an inclusive name for a great variety of organisms that drift in [music] the sea, most of them extremely small. The depth of the net is critical for many plankton [music] migrate daily, sinking deep underwater during the day and rising near [music] the surface only at night. [music] Many plankton are all but invisible due to their transparency and small [music] size. The apertures of this net are smaller than 1/100th [music] of an inch. And yet many plankton are smaller still and even finer nets or other techniques are necessary [music] to collect them. Incredible numbers of plankton [music] swarm in the sea. Some are plants, some animals, and some combine characteristics of both. They constitute a vast and largely invisible universe of sea life. Without [music] its rich and varied populations of plankton, the sea would be virtually lifeless. Considering the importance of plankton, we know remarkably little about these intricate and essential organisms. >> [music] >> The basic and by far the most numerous plankton are minute drifting plants drawing chemicals from the water [music] and energy from the sun. They constitute the basic food supporting all other forms of sea life. Responding in complex ways to the changing seasons, they appear by the billions in [music] spring and fall. Typical of animal plankton forms are radolaria, an abundant and [music] especially beautiful order of plankton. From apertures in their skeletons, protoplasmic filaments protrude, acting as tentacles to ent trap food plants [music] and animals that drift within reach. A model of a radioarian skeleton. Its intricate [music] symmetry no less remarkable than the millions of tons of them that lie on the ocean bottom accumulated over millions of years. [music] Larger and probably less numerous than radolarans. [music] Terrapods are predatory marine snails. Terrapods, [music] like all plankton, have special means of keeping afloat. Some plankton [music] have passive means of flotation, but the terrapod must flap its fragile wings [music] in a tireless lifelong fight against the force of gravity. A marine worm larvae, prey in the plankton world, is captured by amphanima, a tiny jellyfish. Countless such encounters fuel the complex food chains that lead from such minute plankton up to massive sperm whales. [music] Within a few hours, the worm will be almost [music] completely digested and amphana prepared to trap other prey. >> [music] >> Many plankton are almost totally transparent. Even predators like the sea gooseberry benefit from invisibility in a world where virtually [music] every species is food for dozens of others. Sea gooseberries and their relatives, the barrel-shaped baro, are capable of swimming movement. Virtually all animal plankton perform a remarkable vertical migration, rising at night, [music] sinking during the daylight hours. A galma, a jellyfish related to the Portuguese man of war, belongs to the plankton community. A colonial animal. It is regarded [music] by biologists as a confederation of individual organisms, each with a specialized function. A flotation organ near the top helps stabilize a galma's depth in the water. Propulsive water jets ring the lower body, pointing in all directions and maneuvering a galma, much like small directional [music] rockets on a spacecraft. Digestive organs, like a mass of small stomachs, cluster around the lower parts of a Galma's body. Below the long stinging tentacles, which capture a galma's prey. In effect, the tentacles form a kind of floating trap which sweeps wide areas of water even if a galma's movements are slow and sporadic. Many planktonic [music] animals are the laral or younger forms of larger and more familiar sea animals. But some resemble their parental forms so little that scientists who first described them considered them separate species. [music] [music] Now and only slowly is confusion clearing and larve traced to their adult forms as for instance [music] many kinds of shellfish. Most larve like many open ocean plankton haven't yet been successfully raised in [music] aquariums. So tracing the progressive and very different stages of laral growth from specimens collected in the open [music] sea is very difficult. Only an expert after long study [music] can trace the development of a larvae into a particular species of crab. The first laral stage of the barnacle. Active and [music] free swimming and once thought to be a totally unrelated species. Drifting with the ocean currents, the larvae may travel for a while, gradually developing into its [music] adult form. Full grown, the barnacle is fixed in place for life. and no longer considered plankton. Indeed, it now feeds [music] on plankton, sweeping in minute plants and animals that much resemble its own larvel children. Among the largest planktonic animals are the jellyfish. The word plankton means that which drifts. And any sea creature not capable of making strong headway against ocean currents is generally regarded as belonging to the plankton community. [bell] [music] Even some newborn fish can be regarded as plankton. Some too weak and vulnerable to thrive alone stay close to a drifting jellyfish while they are young. [music] The jellyfish affords them protection against predators and they in turn may lure prey into the jellyfish tentacles. When grown, they will swim free and no longer belong to the plankton community. [music] >> [music] >> Mysteries abound in the world of plankton. The single eye of this copapod, [music] one of the most abundant of animal plankton, is remarkable in its color and internal design. No one so far [music] can explain exactly how it works or why it has evolved. This planktonic plant is called basilia [music] paradoxa. Paradoxa because its mysterious [music] sliding movements have yet to be fully explained. Somehow they must serve a vital function, but it has yet to [music] be discovered. First photographed [music] when this film was made, this tiny, brilliant planktonic animal has yet to be >> [music] >> identified and may never have been seen before. Mysterious and full of unsuspected beauty, plankton are vital to the nutrition of man. This critical link in a chain of [music] energy exchange that begins with the sun and ends with the food we harvest from the sea abounds with mysteries and unsolved problems. The world of plankton is a world yet to be fully explained and [music] explored. [music] >> [music] >> So, I used to watch National Geographic all the time on television. Um, this is before there was a National Geographic channel. Uh but yeah, I used to uh a lot of the Jacusto and other things they would show was on Saturday or Sunday nights. Um but yeah, it was really phenomenal. Uh okay, I got to film on the scanner. Let's uh see if it works. This is loser takes all. Enjoy. >> [music] >> On your mark, set, go. [music] Hey, who is that jerk? Hey, dude, this ain't no parking lot. >> Hey, Son, you understand the English? >> Hey, dude, you blew my time. Thanks a lot. >> Sorry. >> You see this? >> Numero uno, that's cool. >> Hey, RIP. Come [crying] on, man. Let's go. >> Hey, you want to race? He couldn't whip a lame snare with that crate. >> Hey, come on. You want a race or you're scared? >> We're going to the top. >> No, man. [screaming] You'll kill him. >> You win. I toss your papers for a week. All right. >> Hey, man. What's the lose? >> Just maybe your neck, chemosabi. Just maybe your neck. [music] On your mark, set, go. >> Oh, lookucky here. Hey, you lose your paper. >> You're not such a hot tamalei after all, huh? >> Hooray. >> Hey, winning isn't everything, but it sure beats losing. >> Hooray! Let's go. >> All right, let's go. If that's all bike couldn't be the name snail. >> What? >> It ain't good enough for racing. Look, this is what I need. Macho one. A BMX bike. A racing bike. All the guys got them. Look. Chrome alloy frame, extended racing forks, and mag wheels. I could beat him with this pop. I know I could. >> Beat who? This guy, he thinks he's so hot. >> Well, you know the deal. You work, you earn, you get, right? >> Maybe he can loan me. >> In this family, we don't borrow, right? Everybody loses sometimes. Like everybody wins sometimes. >> But I don't like to lose. >> Who likes to lose? >> I was on a team, the best team you ever saw. Kickers, legs like trees, heads like cement. Goalie could stop anything. We go right to the championships. Huh? No matter. Uno. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> But you know what? >> What? >> If we hadn't lost the year before, winning wouldn't have meant as much. >> But you did win, and that's what counts. >> Well, by that time, I found something that was more important. >> What's that? >> I met your mother. >> Papa, I want to be a winner. Papa. Papa. I want to be I want to be I want to be >> [music] >> Hey, you know your game. [screaming] >> Winning isn't everything, >> but it sure beats losing. [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Hey, where have you been? >> I had something to do. Hey, Tony. I heard you were going on a vacation. >> Yeah, next week. >> Got a sub? >> No, not yet. >> Can I have it? >> It's your funeral. >> Hey, I need bread. >> He's saving up for the races. >> You playing the horses? >> Not the race track. The racetrack for bikes. You know, BMX. Oh, sure. With that crate. >> Hey, man. I'm getting a new one. >> Look, don't waste your bread. Risking in that track. No one beats him. >> No one >> ever. [laughter] You're not a hot after all, huh? >> [screaming] >> They can't be here. >> Hey, what's that? >> Johnny's papers. I brought them for you. >> Oh, thanks. >> Got enough money for your bike? >> Not yet. >> Oh, look who's here. Hey, Taco. You laugh? >> He's not a taco. >> Hey, he's not lost, man. He came here to race, right? Poncho. >> He's not a poncho either. >> Oh, yeah. That's right. Hey, Riv, tell them what it is. Loser. [laughter] >> Someday he's going to beat you. >> Oh, yeah. Win. >> Anytime. >> Yeah, anytime. >> Well, there's a race Saturday. Are you in? >> Well, um, >> yes or no? Okay. [laughter] >> All right. >> Anytime. Listen, man. I didn't mean to. >> Look, I'm collecting both loops now. I'll make it. >> How much you got to clear? >> 20 bucks. >> That's steep. How about old man? >> And now, family, we don't borrow. >> Hey, you'll beat him. Somebody's got to. Well, good luck. Thanks. [music] Anybody home? Uno. >> Yeah, he's still collecting. >> So late. >> Yeah, he's doing Tony's route now, too. >> Two routes and all for a bike. >> And he works out twice a day. Maybe we expect too much. >> Manuel, >> maybe we should lend him. >> I don't think so. Okay, I could be wrong, but I don't think so. You're his father. He wants you there. >> Now, don't start that. I bought him two bikes and all that riding gear. That's enough. >> It's a big race. It means a lot to him. >> He has big races all the time. FC plays Notre Dame only once a year. >> There are some things that you just can't buy. >> I'll go next time. Riff, >> what are you doing here? >> Collecting for Tony. >> How come? >> I need the money. >> Why doesn't your man take care of you? >> Mom, paper boy's here. >> Tell him I sent it in this morning. >> She sent it in this morning. See at the races, Kimosabi. Well, go on. Get out of here. >> Hey, how'd it go? >> What's wrong? >> You know that guy that was bugging me? >> Yeah. >> Well, he's got it bad at home. >> What makes you say that? >> It's just a feeling. >> What time's the race? I ain't going. >> Why? >> You know why? I don't have the money for a new bike. And I sure can't win on this. >> You know, I've been thinking. Where's that BMX bike got that yours hasn't? >> Everything. >> Wait a minute. Now, we could uh we could cut here and uh maybe spot weld the frame here and here. Get rid of all this dead weight here. First defenders. What do you think? >> Papa, it's too late. >> Come on, don't give up. We work together. I mean, a team, you and me. Okay. [music] Heat. Papa. >> Yeah, >> it's a winner. >> Well, bikes aren't winners. People are. Look at that. What a team, huh? >> We will start out today with a 14 and over open class. We want you to be up there and be ready. No more of the team riding. No more kicking in the turns. And the boys that are doing this know who I'm talking about. If you would not stop here. >> Hey, anybody seen that Mexican kid? >> Are you kidding? He won't show. Everybody here? >> There was another guy, but he ran into a taco. [laughter] >> Last call for 14 and over. >> Got a number. >> No, ma'am. You're 89. >> Hey, thanks. >> Yeah, get ripped, baby. You got the whole shot today. >> Get him on the driver's side. >> Papa, >> thanks for the helmet. Hey, there he is. >> Come on, man. Let's go. It's too late. >> No, let him in. There's one more guy to beat. >> Yeah, well, I've heard he's been practicing. >> What? Stoping, tortillas. [laughter] >> Hey, spread apart a little so this guy can get in there. >> Can I call your number? >> Come on, baby. >> Okay. But what I No. Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [screaming] >> And the winner of the last race, Ray Milligan. [music] >> [music] >> Tomorrow we will be racing at yard. >> You know there's a race next Saturday. >> Yeah. Now I'm going to clean you. All right. I feel like that was a blooming human film. Um or you know, so that shows up a lot. Um, anyways, thanks for joining us today. I just got a message that OBS freaked out. So, hopefully that's We're back. Um, if you like what you saw, please uh hit the thumbs up, hit the like button, subscribe, all those great ways to show your support. Uh, commenting is a way to support us. 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