A/V Geeks 16mm Lunch 3-11-2026

[snorts] >> Hello everybody. This is Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the AV Geeks Lunchtime Streaming Show where we watch old 16 mm films. And um this first film we're going to watch is actually three short films that were in a lab can and it said in very faint handwriting on this piece of tape on the can, it said TV Com, period, Gorilla. And I was like, oh my god, we got to watch this. Uh and that's what sometimes I do is like when I'm moving a bunch of films, I'm like, wait a minute, what's this? We got to watch it. So, uh we're going to watch it. Three parts. There's no sound. So, this is kind of raw footage. Um enjoy. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Yeah, I have no idea. And so there were three separate reels and I or rolls on cores and I was like, well, is this is this the order? And I put it in what I thought the order was, but I'm not sure. So, yeah. Anyways, that's a mystery. I don't even know where those came from. Uh they're not in the database uh and so who knows. But maybe one day someone will say that's me or that's Bill such and such. All right. Uh the camera speaks. Are you listening? >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hello, Pop. >> Hello, Bill. >> Say, Pop, do you mind if I park my camera in your room tonight? >> No, bring her in. >> Thanks a lot. Go ahead, Joe. Right over there in the corner. >> Okay. Out kind of late tonight. >> Yeah, we were down at the opening of the cocktail parade. Took pictures of all the celebrities. Boy, what a crowd. >> Cocktail parade? Sounds like the good old days. Say, Bill, get a load of this cigar box. They used to call it camera. Oh, boy. You don't mean to tell me you really took moving pictures with that thing, do you? >> If that camera could speak, it'd tell you plenty. >> Uh-huh. Come on, you. Goodnight, Pop. >> Goodnight. >> So long, Pop. >> [music] >> Hey, Chief. Hey, Chief. >> Yeah? >> How do those young punks get that way? >> Ah, don't let that get under your skin. These new cameras with their fancy gadgets [music] and sexy trimmings can't stand the gaff like you did. You'll always be a side with me. >> Thanks, Chief. You know, when they talked about covering the opening of that new picture, The Cocktail Parade, it brought back memories of the time we shot the grand opening of that first prohibition picture, John Barleycorn. Remember? >> Yeah. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people went other places. In fact, they stayed away in droves. There were a few curious ones, however, who attended this powerful warning against the evils of bending the elbow and baiting the constable. >> [music] [music] >> I'll never forget those intelligent-looking faces. >> [music] [music] >> Yes. Yes, I'll never forget that. I'll never forget it. >> I don't see how you can remember anything. You were full of firewater. Uh-oh. >> Not to change the subject, but do you remember the time we shot the firemen's parade at Newburg? >> I'll say I do. And how the mayor burnt down the city hall and mayor on it. >> That was some day. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> It was only shortly after that we were assigned a feature production. >> They were the best days of my life, Chief. Meeting all those stars. I sure got a kick out of it. >> And they liked you, too. Remember the time Dorothy Dalton carved her initials on your back? >> Yeah. And I've got dozens of other autographs, too. Look them over. >> Louis Stone. Bessie Barriscale. And look. Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon. And here is an initial carved by Charlie Ray when he played with Dorothy Dalton. One of his first pictures. >> There's Charlie in his new high-powered supercilia. Charlie's on his way to meet Dorothy Dalton. The voluptuous sweetheart of the old-time cinema. >> [music] >> Charlie is in love with Dorothy. She certainly has him on the run. In fact, she has him in the air. Dorothy, figuring her home is too comfortable is waiting for Charlie in the swamp. >> [music] >> He is now burning with passion. I hope his celluloid collar doesn't catch on fire. Don't forget your rubbers, Charlie. >> [music] >> He approached Dorothy with love light in his eye and a pain in the stomach. You couldn't tell whether it was love or indigestion. And there they were. The idols [music] of the masses standing in water up to their knees. Too bad the water wasn't deeper. I wonder if Gloria Swanson remembers her slapstick days when her clothes were furnished by Sears Roebuck instead of a Parisian modiste. >> [music] >> But even then Gloria showed signs of the glamour she possesses today. >> [music] >> Hey, who was that guy Houdini? There she is trying to put on the dog. I said trying. The famous swan dive. Uh, it was only a Swanson dive. The whole place is leaking. I hope the baby's all right. Here, Teddy, catch. >> [music] >> And Teddy caught and took it to our hero Bobby Vernon. >> [music] >> Bobby was going places in those days and made a big splash doing it. >> [music] >> They were a great bunch of troopers. Real pioneers. Ah, they had everything. Romance, drama, love, comedy, but no Mae West. >> No Mae West? >> No Mae West. >> Is that so? >> Don't you remember Louise Glaum? She was the Mae West of the vampire age. Why, she was the vampiest vamp of them all. That is, uh, horizontally speaking. >> Aw. Aw. >> And many a fool there was, was longing to get caught in her web. >> [music] [music] >> Aw. >> Don't worry, folks. That's not passion, just a little asthma. >> [music] >> Pardon me, Mrs. Vampire. There's a fool outside to see you. The old-time movie vamp always liked to have a little fool around. >> [music] >> He was a respectable businessman until he met Louise. After that, just a businessman. >> [music] [music] >> It's never day. Uh, he looks more like hell. >> I used to love to cover those political meetings. I used to get a great kick out of those fiery speeches. >> Remember William Jennings Bryan? >> Do I? And isn't it funny that the very thing he fought for is now a major item in the present-day recovery plan? [music] >> What's that? >> Silver. The re-monetization of silver. >> I can picture Bryan now in Union Square. >> [music] >> The silver-tongued orator always attracted multitudes whenever he spoke. >> [music] [music] >> It was here that William Jennings Bryan said, "The Populist platform adopted by the National Convention of 1892 contained these words, 'We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.'" >> 16 to 1. >> [music] >> That's funny. >> [music] [music] >> So, that's a clip show. They were basically like, "Well, we have all this raw footage. Like, hmm, what if we did like a short narrative kind of a look back um and we could release that as a short. Um And show some of our old silent stuff. That's what that was. Okay. This one I've shown before and this has the same Basically I scanned a bunch of stuff and I did full frame scanning so or over scan so you could see the sprocket lines and so I quickly made something that was uh not uh uh basically I tried to crop in but I think I cropped too tight but this one might be okay. I don't not sure. Uh this is confidential file hot rods. Enjoy. >> When does a child become an adult? This is a child. In a few minutes she'll be a woman. What you're seeing is her initiation into adulthood. Tonight we're going to discuss the initiation of your child. Confidential file. A report by Paul Coates, one of the nation's distinguished news reporters, brings you a factual report on America today, its people and their lives. >> [music] >> Before a boy can become a man, he must be able to do three things. Mate, provide for his mate, and assume the responsibilities of a productive role in his community. In a primitive cultures, these skills are acquired at an early age, about the time of puberty. But in our culture, the transition from child to adult cannot be achieved so quickly. We live in a complex society that requires many years of preparation for the child to become an adult. Unfortunately, but necessarily, this creates a kind of limbo, a period of many years in which we find the personality of a child in the body of a man. We call it adolescence. And as all of us should, but few of us do remember, it's a tough spot to be in. It's a time of confusion, frustration, and painful flashes of love and hate. A house may not always be a home, but a teenager's room is always a teenager's room. It's the in-between world of outgrown toys and the searchings for self-expression and maturity. It harbors everything from model sailing ships to [music] boxing gloves to dirty socks. This room belongs to Jimmy. He's 16, a high school sophomore, an adolescent. Every generation of adolescents has its own uniform. This time around, it's flat-top haircuts and blue jeans. For other generations, it's been bell-bottom trousers or white ducks or zoot suits. The uniform varies greatly, but many of the problems remain the same. Like pimples, for instance. To a smooth complexion adult, a few skin blemishes may seem a pretty insignificant thing, but to a teenager they can be a real source of despair. Jimmy feels that the entire world is just as aware of his acne as he is, and he's deeply troubled by guilt as a result of having heard the same absurd and damaging stories you and I heard about why a boy gets pimples. Jimmy would be very uneasy if his friends found out that he clips coupons [music] from magazines and sends for patent ointments. But then of course, Jimmy's friends wouldn't like him to find out they do the same thing. And at this age he's anxious to show himself and the world his physical progress. Adolescence is still pretty much the same, but so are mothers. Still understandably intolerant of things like sloppy rooms. She can't see why he's so slovenly and lazy. Sooner or later he's got to live up to prescribed rules and standards. She wants him to start now. He's a dynamo of energy when it comes to playing baseball or messing around with cars or model planes, but he just won't muster enough drive to pick up his socks and pajamas. His mother and dad can't understand why Jimmy finds it necessary to dress, act, and talk exactly like every other teenager in town. Why he mumbles unintelligible, almost dirty sounding jive talk. But it is necessary. At this particular stage of his development, Jimmy has an especially great need for security, and you can get a lot of security from being able to identify yourself with a group. His parents feel Jimmy is carrying on a private little revolution against them, and he is. This too is a natural part of growing up. If Jimmy is to assume the responsibilities of an adult, there has to come a point at which he begins making decisions for himself. And this point is almost invariably painful both to the child and his parents. Even his poor schoolwork is probably a reflection of this need to overthrow authority, to show the world it can't shove him around. The result of this struggle both in Jimmy and his parents is confusion. They can't seem to get their stories straight as to whether he's a boy or a man. The answer, of course, is that he's both. In our society, the way to manhood is over a series of steps. It takes time. You don't just cross over the line from yo-yos to maturity. While the home may be the axis of Jimmy's life, most of his interests revolve away from it. He spends as much time at other places as he He heads for the ball field, the corners, [music] or a buddy's house. And when the same withdrawn, uncommunicative adolescent [music] comes in contact with other withdrawn, uncommunicative adolescents, a change takes place. It's because these are guys he can get through to. Guys that'll give and take. They know each other, understand each other, and relate to each other. The kid who sits [music] disinterestedly in school and daydreams, who flunks math and everyday living, who is sloppy and careless, can bring precision to a carburetor. He can tear down and rebuild an engine, and prove it with his own innovations. If he had his way, his homework would rot. But he thinks nothing of sweating long and diligently on a motor that doesn't even belong to him. Why? Because nobody told him to fix the motor. It was his own idea. If you want to get an accurate indication of a teenager's abilities, watch him doing something he wants to do. Carburetors and transmissions aren't his only interest. Boys around Jimmy's age begin to take notice of girls around Jimmy's age. He's got a date for a big dance tonight, but he needs wheels. He'd like to borrow his dad's car. His dad doesn't have any real objection to loaning Jimmy the car, but he's not going to let a chance like this go by without reminding his son about a few items. The family car hasn't been washed lately because Jimmy hasn't gotten around to it. And another thing, why should a tired old man have to mow the lawn when there's a strong young man around? How about it? Oh, he'd mow it all right, but he just hasn't got the time right now. He's practically late as it is. Now Jimmy's got to listen to some talk about not coming in late, about taking it easy, and what seems like an awful lot of unnecessary guff. It's the price of the car rental. But as usual, the old man comes through. >> [music] >> Adolescence is like a seesaw with sloppiness, neglect, and indifference on one side, and social consciousness, propriety, and pride on the other. Holding on to the defenses of childhood and still wanting the advantages of adulthood. This is the socially adult Jimmy, clean and neat. He may look to you as if he needs a haircut, but in his circle, he's the picture of sartorial perfection. And he smells good, too. He feels like a man, and why not? He's got a girl, a car, and enough money to see him through the evening. Uh-oh, he forgot to do something. Forgot to take the car keys out of his pants. A couple of years ago, Jimmy scoffed at the idea of neckties and dances. [music] He considered the neckties constricting and the dances revolting. But a lot of things have happened in the last couple of years. He's felt strange stirrings and new curiosities. These new feelings prompt young people into experimenting with new situations, such as the one you see here. And in a situation like this, he's called on for a much more mature kind of behavior than he is at home, where his role is that of a child. Here he's on his own. He spent most of his day thinking up clever, sophisticated things to say to his date tonight, but he finds that he's still a lot more comfortable talking to his buddy than to his girl. That doesn't mean, of course, that he wouldn't like [music] to talk to her. As a matter of fact, he's a little scared of her. >> [music] >> Teenagers are masters of the defensive maneuver. In order to prove how little afraid of girls he is and how many of them he has on the string, Jimmy casually shows his buddy a picture in his wallet. >> [music] >> He makes [music] a pretense of concealing the picture from his date, but needless to say, the whole thing would be pointless if she didn't see it. The picture is actually of his cousin who was out for a visit last summer. A kid's stunt? Sure, but [music] then Jimmy isn't all man yet. This comparatively new experience of dating creates both a new social consciousness and a new self-consciousness. He begins to think of himself as a man because more and more he feels the urges a man feels. Still, he's uncertain and awkward, unsure of his own ability. He's afraid of the inevitable mistakes and rebuffs. He takes desperate refuge in the debonair act of lighting a cigarette. There are excellent medical reasons why a teenager shouldn't smoke, but he's not buying them. Men smoke, don't they? And right now he needs more than anything else to feel like a man. He's using the cigarette for exactly the same reason the girl used the lipstick. It makes him feel grown-up. Being a teenager is far from all fun. You'd have to search a long time among the adults of the world before you'd find any more uncomfortable people than these two at this moment. The textbooks tell you that puberty is the period in which the physical sexual characteristics and the emotional drives that give them force mature in the individual. But maybe you remember it as the time when you began to realize what makes the world go round. The time when you traded in the sugar and spice and snails and puppy dog tail story for a more realistic and gratifying understanding of the life process. Call it puppy love. You may have forgotten the feeling, but you didn't go through life without experiencing it. Nobody does. And you had other problems these youngsters have, too. Money, school, work, going, study, choosing a vocation, pimples. It's a lot to face at this age, especially when you feel you're facing it all alone. The first kiss, an important, fearful, wondrous, and beautiful thing. A lovely thing. And in millions of American families, it's taboo. Parents feel it's terribly dangerous that petting can lead to disgrace and destruction. And they're right. But it's also a necessary exercise in the education of a human being. The problem, obviously, is for the parent to choose a course of action that will protect the adolescent from the dangers without depriving him of the experience. So, for an evening, Jimmy crossed over into the realm of manhood. But when he re-crosses the threshold of his home, he's not a man any longer. He's a boy. It's 2:30 a.m., a perfectly acceptable hour for a man to come home, but it's way past a boy's bedtime. And there's a committee of two on hand to make this abundantly clear to him. >> He's a kid in a corner again being asked for explanations and having privileges taken away. >> [music] >> Again, he's [music] paying the price of being a part-time adult. >> [music] >> Comparative logic is based on both differences and similarities. Sometimes we can learn important things about our own problem by comparing it to a very different one. >> May I have your name, please? >> My name is Anyogu Elekwachi Okoro. >> And your age? >> 27. >> And your occupation? >> Well, I'm studying to become a doctor and I'm planning to go back home to my country, Nigeria. >> And you've spent most of your life in Nigeria? >> That's right. I was born in Nigeria. I'm a son of a tribal chief. >> Tell me, Mr. Okoro, does your country have a teenage problem as such? >> Well, in Nigeria, there's nothing like teenager. >> What do you mean by that? >> You are either a child or a man in Nigeria. There's nothing in between. >> How do you become a man, Okoro? >> Well, according to tribal tradition, which still exists in some parts of the country or in the rural areas, a child undergoes a number of steps at the age of eight. >> Uh what is the this initiation he undergoes? >> Well, he makes himself a bow and arrow and begins practicing by shooting lemons and oranges. His first target is to kill a bird, a sweet a sweet bird. And he shouts around the compound for his conquest. Then after then he attaches one of the feathers on the bow to indicate he has accomplished one of the steps to manhood. >> What are the other steps? >> At the age of 12 and 14 he's supposed to kill an animal. This animal he sells and uses the money to buy a gun. Then the this he use the gun to kill more animals in order to save the money to buy a danshiki which is the ceremonial suit he wears for the ceremony. >> And this is the danshiki. >> That's right. That's the danshiki. >> Mhm. Is there any instruction given at the ceremony? >> Yes. The initiate is taken into a special room where he listens to tribal chants and history. He's given instruction of how to be cooperative in the family or in the society and how to treat his wife and to respect the his elders. >> At what age does a child usually become a man? >> Well, between the age of 15 and 16. >> How about girls? >> Well, in case of girls they're trained at home and as a matter of fact they become eligible for marriage at the age of 16. And by then they're ripe mentally and physically. >> Mhm. Mr. Okoro, what do you think is the most important deterrent to juvenile delinquency? >> Well, I think that that's a matter of family loyalty. See, the mother is supposed to stay home to take the care of the child while it's young. But as a matter of fact that's not the situation in this country because of the economical situation the mother and father work leaving the baby in care of a babysitter who's interested in the money or on the child. >> And you're familiar with the juvenile delinquency problem in our country, aren't you? >> I've heard a lot about it. And I've seen it in some movies on it, too. Even I mean, sometimes it makes me wonder why people in this country think Africa is uncivilized. >> Mr. Kunou, thank you very much for your cooperation here tonight. >> Thank you very much. >> The young lady you're about to meet wrote me a letter concerning her problems at home. They seem to me such universal problems that I asked her to appear here tonight. May I have your name, please? >> Rose Cezar. >> And your age? >> 13. >> Your occupation? >> I'm in the ninth grade at Catholic Girls High. >> How many children are there in your family, Rose? >> Five, including me. >> Both of your parents live at home? >> Yes, they do. >> Do they both work? >> Yes. >> How do you get along with them, Rose? >> Well, pretty well, but at times we have disagreements, but uh more or less pretty well. >> Are they mostly about one thing in particular? >> No, they can be about almost anything. >> Rose, in the letter you wrote me, you talked about the difficulties you have in letting your parents know what you mean and trying to get them to understand how you feel. Could you tell us more about that? >> Well, uh they don't actually show that they understand my feelings about things around the house, and uh if I do give my opinion, but they don't pay very much attention to it. And uh well, uh they uh if something's bothering me, they just kind of pass it up. >> Mhm. And you don't feel that's right. >> No, I don't. Uh I feel that I'm a person, too, and that my opinion should count. >> Do you feel that your parents love you, Rose? >> Yes, they do, but they don't uh always show it. >> How about you? Do you show that you love them? >> Yes, uh well, by trying uh to help them in things. >> Mhm. Do you show an interest in the things that they like? >> Yes, I do. >> Mhm. Do you feel your parents show enough interest in the things you like? >> No, I don't. A few months ago, I felt that I could and wanted to be a lawyer. And I got some books at a library and I started studying about it. I talked it over my parents and they just sort of laughed and said that uh I didn't know. I'm too young to know what I want to do. >> How did that make you feel? >> Well, even if I am too young to know what I want to do, I still think that uh uh they should be interested in what I think. >> And do you feel that you are permitted uh to make your own decisions enough? >> Uh no, I don't. >> What kind of decisions do you think you should be allowed to make? >> Well, regarding clothes, hairstyles, and who my friends should be. >> Rose, how do you think your parents compare with the parents of other kids you know? >> Well, more or less the same. >> Mhm. And do the other kids say more or less the same things you do when the bunch of you get together and talk? >> Yes, they do. >> Rose, I want to thank you very much. You've been very helpful and you're an interesting person to talk to. Thanks a lot. >> You're welcome. >> We've established some of the teenagers' common violations of our cultural rules. We've said that these violations, after all, may be perfectly natural. But that really doesn't help the situation much. The question is, what can and should a parent do about it? Uh may I have your name, please? >> Yes, Dr. Ruben H. Siegel. >> And your age? >> 42. >> And your occupation? >> I'm clinical psychologist, research associate at the University of Illinois Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry. >> Have you had clinical experience with teenagers, doctor? >> Yes, I work with the problem at the University of Illinois Clinic and uh have uh worked with the students who come in frequently at the Wright College Counseling Office. >> Doctor, practically every teenager has behavior patterns which are disturbing to his parent. Why is this? >> Because the young kid is growing up in all directions both emotionally and physically. And he's seen as a different person from day to day. Sometimes he's treated as a kid and other times he's expected to act as an adult. And all of this leads to some form of confusion, resentment, and even some forms of rebellion. >> And how can a parent handle this rebellion? >> By understanding the problem first. Uh he might understand that teenagers are more law-abiding than the parents themselves. >> What do you mean by more law-abiding than the parents themselves? >> He will conform more to the laws of his own group. >> Oh, I see. >> Of his teenagers than he will to the adults. They're more accepting to him and he's more accepted in the group itself. >> And you feel that if parents understand this that it would ease the tension between parent and child? >> I think this would help quite a bit because the fear would be released a little bit. They wouldn't think that the child is breaking them. >> I see. >> the law. >> What should a parent do about teen the teenager's desire to violate sexual taboos? >> I think the essentially boils down to the parent remembering when he himself was an adolescent and had emotional feelings about the thing. >> Mhm. >> And to try to understand that the kid is trying to work through his own relationships with other adolescents. >> So that the problem of violating sexual taboos is pretty much the same as any other teenage problem. It's a question of the parent trying to remember how what his feelings were at the time. >> Mhm. >> What do teenagers think about sexual education at home? >> Most of the conversations I've had with the teenagers has been that the parents handle the problem in rather embarrassed and somewhat clumsy manner. >> The kids are very conscious of this. >> Yes, quite conscious of this. >> What are some other common complaints teenagers make about their parents, doctor? >> They will indicate that the parents don't understand them or nor do they make a realistic approach to understanding. >> Mhm. What do you think are the best tools a parent has to work with in dealing with the problems of a teenage child? >> First, uh, love and understanding and acceptance and primarily a respect for the adolescent as an individual. The It's a two-way street. The life of a a growing adolescent is difficult enough, but with love and acceptance, I think he can find his way toward a mature and useful adult. >> And also, the parent should understand, I would say, that adolescence is a very difficult time. >> I should agree with that. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Siegel. What you've heard and seen tonight won't solve the teenage problem, but perhaps it will provide a little more understanding about why the problems exist. Certainly, understanding is the most important contribution a parent can make to a person in the in-between world of adolescence. And now, here's a message from the sponsors of Confidential File. >> You've witnessed another authentic report by Paul Coates, distinguished columnist and news reporter. These factual reports are brought to you each week by this station. >> [music] >> The opinions expressed by Mr. Coates and the participants in this program do not necessarily reflect those of station or sponsor. >> [music] >> Wow, it was Irvin Kershner. Uh somebody in the comments mentioned uh that he did some and that's the director of Empire Strikes Back. Um there was no mention of Hot Rocks there. Uh so that was what was written on the can when we scanned it, but um no, that's like Teenage Rebellion. That's what that's all about. >> [snorts] >> A lot of talk about acne, too, which is kind of hilarious. All right, I hear the 20th century 21st century calling. Can you hear it? Hello, 21st century? >> [music] [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> All pads used with ladies choice. at this terminal. Round trip passengers, turn your left as you leave the train. Exit to your right. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Here is a world of communication tailored for your needs of today [music] and tomorrow. Bringing together all people in a new era of understanding. >> [music] [music] >> Keeping in touch by means of the amazing new Bellboy is the Bell System's answer today for doctors, salesmen, deliverymen, or anyone who [music] must be available at all times in the fast-paced world of Century 21. When someone calls and you are out, you can be reached by dialing your Bellboy code number. When you get a signal on the Bellboy, you can go to a phone to call your office or home and get the message. This is the automatic dialer. Just listen for dial tone, insert a number card, and press the start bar. The Bell System automatic dialer dials for you more quickly and easily than you can do it yourself. Numbers you call frequently can be punched on small plastic cards. Pick a city, then see how fast direct distance dialing really is. Dial the area code, then the weather report telephone [music] number. Presto, instant weather. With DDD, most calls go through in 20 seconds or less. Here you see the Bell solar battery in action, turning light [music] into electricity to run this display. Solar batteries are used to convert sunlight to electrical power and make our satellites talk back from outer space. >> Thank you. Hi, this is the Bell System's new Touch-Tone dialing. With this indicator, you see how many seconds you save the new way. >> Let's try it. >> Okay, I'll race you. Ready? Go. I beat you. >> Welcome to our exhibit. I'm glad to have this opportunity to tell you about the telephone switching center of tomorrow. The electronic central office, which is made possible by the magic of the transistor and other tiny but amazing devices invented by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Imagine, if you can, an electronic brain operating at millionths of a second speed. I say brain because the new electronic central office will almost think for itself. It will not only carry out instructions you dial into it, it will also remember instructions you provided earlier. These memory features will offer many convenient services I'm sure you'll be delighted with. For one thing, you'll be able to reach frequently called numbers by dialing only two digits. All you'll have to do is give the telephone company a list of the numbers you dial most frequently. The electronic brain's memory will do the rest. To see how it works, please watch the screen. >> Is it time to phone Grandma? >> Well, let's see. >> All right. >> Now, let's say you want to call your mother who lives in Des Moines. You call her fairly often, so the telephone company has assigned 53 as your special number for making this call. When you dial the five and the three, the electronic central office's brain says, "Uh-oh, something special." Searches its memory for what those two digits represent. And dials the area code plus the full number in Des Moines for you. >> Hello. >> Hello, Grandma. >> Ever been invited out for an evening and had to turn it down because you're expecting an extra special call? Well, the electronic central office will solve that problem for you, too. When you do go out, it will be a simple matter to have your calls transferred. All you'll have to do is dial a special code, which tells the equipment's brain you want your calls transferred, and then dial the telephone number where you can be reached. Our amazing electronic central office will take it from there. >> I think it's a wonderful telephone. >> Oh, nice talking to you. >> Hello. >> Diane? >> No, this isn't Diane. It's Linda. >> Linda? >> What gives? This is Jim Morton. I was calling Diane Brown. >> Oh, yes, she's here. She had her calls transferred to my house. Hi, Jim. >> And what about those times someone has tried to call you when your line is busy? We've thought of that, too. >> Fine, Sarah, that's fine. I'll have the information for you at the meeting next Wednesday. >> When you hear the beep tone on your telephone, you know someone else is trying to reach you. >> Sarah, will you hold on just a minute? Someone else is trying to reach me. >> All you do is flick the switch hook to hold the first call while you take the second. >> Uh hello, dear. I was just talking to Sarah. I see. Okay, dear. Would you tell Fred next time he's in town he's to bring Helen, right? Bye, dear. >> You flick the button back and go on with your first call. >> Hello, Sarah. That was Bert calling. >> Easy pie, isn't it? And here's another feature you're going to find handy. Now, look. >> Sarah Jane knows a lot more about that than I do. Why don't we get her on the line and find out? Okay, just a minute. >> Want someone else on the line? That's easy too. Flip the switch button, then dial a code number and the number you want, and presto. >> Hello Jane, this is Martha. This is my friend Sarah on the line and we want to know what to do about >> As we look to the future, we see many extras for tomorrow's telephone users. One day, you may be able to call home and automatically turn off the oven. Or from a public telephone a couple of hundred miles away turn on your home air conditioner and have the house nice and cool when you return from your hot trip. It may even be possible to call and water the lawn during that dry spell when you are many miles away on vacation. Sounds fantastic, doesn't it? But it is all possible because of the basic research our scientists and engineers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories are doing to make your service better day by day. From their work has come breakthrough after breakthrough in science, providing the intricate devices that lie at the heart of your telephone service of tomorrow. Through the invention of better things, we are trying very hard to give you the kind of telephone service you want and need. And we think you'll agree after seeing the many exhibits we have here, there is no end to telephone progress now or in century 21. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Century 21 Century 21 How will >> [music] >> life be in the 21st century? [music] [singing] On a needle up high, you can look through the eye, and you're seeing it all. [music] Yes, you're seeing it all. As the present unfolds [music] what the future beholds, you're elated, >> [singing] >> fascinated. >> [music] >> See the art shows, walk the thoroughfare on the boulevards leading everywhere. Ride a rickshaw, dine on caviar, you can telephone a star. >> [music] >> It's a wonderful age on a beautiful stage still demonstrated for you. Been created for you. >> [music] >> It's just a part of the thrilling start of Century [music] 21. >> [music] >> I love it. >> [clears throat] >> So great. Um my girlfriend at the time and I went, we went on the Space Needle, and yeah, it was a lot of fun. And then I went back for a conference years later in the 21st century. And uh it was the it was funny, it was a a moving image archivist conference, and uh it was I was walking around the day that they approved they made marijuana legal, and they made gay marriage legal, and it was a joyous time. >> [laughter] >> There was a lot of celebration going on, especially the Space Needle. There were a lot of people smoking pot at the Space Needle. And everyone's like, "Hooray!" So, good times. Um thanks for watching today. Very much appreciate your eyeballs. I'm sorry about the weird cropping issue. Um the software I use to do that is finicky, and sometimes it does whatever it wants. 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