A/V Geeks 16mm Lunch 3-5-2026

Hello everybody. I'm Skip Alhammer. Welcome to the Age Geeks Lunchtime Streaming Show where we watch old 16 mm films until the power goes out. And that's what happened yesterday for no reason. It went out, it blinked for a couple of seconds and that was enough to take everything down. um the internet connection um mostly it was what what the problem was is that we lost that and then the cable modem cycled through and we couldn't get back. So, and it was 2 minutes away from being done with the show. So, it's very frustrating. So anyways, I'm just going to go ahead and show you the remainder of Roofers Pitch, which is what we were watching yesterday, which is a safety film for people who work on roofs um in an industrial setting, commercial properties. Here it is. Enjoy. And there's one thing more. Today, it seems as though the roof got covered a bit more quickly. Teamwork can make a difference. For Joe, any morning like this is routine. He must [music] have done it hundreds of times before. But since the accident, he has become more aware of the way his crew works. this morning. He didn't actually notice that his kettleman [music] wasn't wearing his goggles. It simply registered somewhere in the back of his mind. To Joe, the proper firing of the kettle is vitally important. The valve on [music] the burner must be closed before firing. Joe checks the line from the kettle to the propane tank for any leakage of gas. A leak can be seen, smelled, or heard. He notices that the propane gas tank is a good 30 ft away from the kettle. Meanwhile, the kettleman, Mike, cracks open the valve on the burner and lights it. He inserts the flame into the kettle and turns the valve on the burner fully on. Because weather affects the pressure from the tank to the burner, pressure must be regulated by the controller valve. When the burner is first lit, the pressure should be around 10 lb per square in and then slowly raised to 30. This is done by adjusting the valve on the pressure controller. In case of fire in the kettle, a leaking hose, or the flame being snuffed out, then the gas container valve must be turned off immediately. After that, it is a matter of starting all over again with the nose removed from the kettle. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Having made sure that his crew is working safely and efficiently, Joe now gets on with his work. [music] He always figured he could do this with his eyes closed, but after last Friday, he's not so sure. For instance, before the accident, he'd have removed the curb and then mopped over the hole. Now, he's not taking any chances. Watch the way he comes up to the edge. He can tell when he's getting close, but still he never backs up closer than 2 ft. When working near the edge, extra care has to be taken. This means good housekeeping, making sure that nothing falls down to the ground below. Even if there are distractions which take the mind off the job. Maybe it seems like a lot of things to have to remember. But after a while it becomes second nature. Finally, there comes the day when the roof is finished and it's time to move on to the next job. >> Okay, now >> you got it, Gino. >> Now Joe can take a look at the equipment to make sure that it's in good shape. ahead. >> Anything that's in need of repair has to be tagged. Frayed cables, cracked ladder rungs, in fact, any damaged equipment which could be responsible for an accident on a job is left at the yard for repairs. This particular job hasn't been the same as all the others. To Joe and his men, it will be remembered as the place where Carlos had his accident. Bill knows how they feel, which is why he's come straight over to let them know that Carlos is going to be all right. It'll be a long time before he's back with them, but lucky for him, he will be able to work. >> These seven men are part of an industry which is helping to [music] change the face of a city. Seven men, seven individuals. What happened to [music] Carlos Fernandez helped bring them closer together and molded them into a team. It made them understand [music] that each has a responsibility both to himself and to the others. A responsibility [music] to work the right way, to work safely. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Yeah. So, uh, there you go. Uh, all right. I've been, uh, looking through this hard drive and found some things that, uh, we haven't seen before. So, here's, uh, Rhinoceros. Enjoy. Mommy run. >> [music] >> I have to do that. Huh? Huh? Hey, I'm Come on. run. All right. All right. Are you coming? Come on. What is that? Oh, hey. Oh, I want Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Hello. This is true. Woohoo! Woohoo! Woohoo! [music] [music] Huh? Huh? Huh? Come here. Huh? Beep beep beep beep On. Yeah. >> [music] >> I think that's part of the um Silent Safari series. um I think the filmmaker reached out to me via um Encyclopedia Botanica about trying to do like a 4K scan of the films, but I haven't heard anything. Um that was about a year ago. All right, I have an important question for you. Are drugs the answer? >> Are drugs the answer? Will they turn you on or will they turn on you? >> Were you taking drug or was anyone taking drugs in the junior high like six, eight years ago? >> Well, that's changed. It's true. mostly at first it was a college kind of thing and then in the last oh four 3 years we've been seeing most drug use in high schools and now it's getting down to junior high school level the same way I hear college students now saying my gosh you know my little brothers and sisters are way ahead of where we were it's it's almost like the younger and younger people are becoming more and more aware on the other hand Some of the really young kids are popping anything. They You give them a pill, they'll drop it. I mean, almost insane. >> His name is Dr. Alan Cohen. He is a psychologist. But what's more important, he knows about drugs firsthand because he was one of Timothy Liry's original disciples. He lived the psychedelic life for about 3 years before he decided drugs are not the answer. Drugs, he decided, did not promote peace, love, and human understanding. Now he often discusses the whole drug scene with groups of junior and senior high school students. This is one of those discussions. >> Uh I'm speaking kind of from a funny position as a psychologist and instructed by Timothy Liry and others. We took some field trips that year which were a lot different than any trips we had taken before. Uh so I stayed with the scene for about 3 years. Took lots of drugs, sampled this and that. thought it was a good thing for a while and then later kind of saw through it. I think now you know a lot of adults are very upset about the whole drug thing and they don't understand why kids are turning on. If they just look at say TV for a while at the media, they're getting this message over and over again. Something wrong with you? Turn on. Headache perhaps? Don't worry. Thousands of things. Too much acid in your stomach? No problem. Constipated? Don't worry. Right? God forbid you should get nervous even. We have things for that all over the counter. If you're really uptight, uh you can probably get a prescription for something. And the thing is, I don't think adults realize that uh not all kids who experiment with with some kind of dope are fiends, degenerates, you know, immediate criminals, weirdos. They're not my kids who could possibly be experimenting. And you hear things like mothers on the phone saying, "I've just found out that my kids using marijuana." Quickly, the tranquilizers, you know. Uh so there's there's hypocrisy around. People in my experience use drugs to feel better. There's a lot of other motives going on for kicks or out of rebellion. Sure. Curiosity, yeah. Social pressure, there's that. Seeking insight, uh-huh. For no reason at all, yeah. But underneath it, when people get high, it means that they're not feeling so high ordinarily. The question is, is the kind of high that you can get with the kind of drugs that are being used now worth it? Now, I want to talk a little bit about three main categories of drugs. Uh, speed, uh, the strong psychedelics and good old marijuana, right? All of which are fairly controversial. Now, speed, not so much. speed. They're stimulants to the nervous system. Uh they're taken by dropping them by capsules or pills and occasionally people shoot it with a needle. Very powerful stuff. What it does is excite your nervous system. It can get you in a state of euphoria and a lot of energy for a while, but it also takes a great toll on your brain if you use it long enough on your liver and especially on your head. Uh over a long period of time, you lose your appetite. you don't sleep so much. You begin to get paranoid that means very suspicious and distrustful. Uh so that actually in the long run things like like speed much more dangerous than heroin because the body builds up a tolerance and you have to take more and more to get the same effect and the higher you go the harder you crash the harder you come down and it's this period of depression and feeling of great uh loiness that is so bad with speed because you got to turn on again and again. They say speed kills. Well, the hip culture is beginning to learn this. And it isn't so hip anymore to use speedy now with psychedelics more controversial. Yes. LSD, DMT, psilocybin, measculine, peyote. They come up with a new name of their PCP, MDA. Another year there'll be all kinds of names. They do something strange. They do something to your consciousness which isn't done by the hard narcotics which put you dead asleep. the barbiterates which also turns you off. Uh the stimulants changes mood and consciousness alters it. It's awfully unpredictable and sooner or later at least in my experience and I know a lot of people sooner or later if you don't stop in time you flip out permanently. You blow your mind. You don't know when but sooner or later it happens. Now they begin to found some things about the psychedelics about their effects on chromosomes. We don't know all about that yet, but there seems to be an effect on all these drugs on either the genetic material in your chromosomes or some kinds of factors which can influence perhaps unborn children. There's no question that if you have a pregnant rat at home should keep her away from LSD. So there's obviously caution on the physical level. Now you get around to pot marijuana that's really controversial. On the one hand, you have people saying, "Ah, I know what it is. It's that dopey narcotic. Anybody who takes that should be put in jail forever. They're just deviates." Uh on the other hand, you got people saying, "Man, grass is really groovy." I mean, uh, not only should be legalized, but, uh, should turn on everybody, little kids, make a better world. And they're going back and forth, and these people don't talk to each other. The laws turn out to be very severe, perhaps unfair, and perhaps a a legal approach to using drugs is not as good as a public health approach. I'm not talking about sailor manufacturer. In terms of my own experience, I think the most important thing was that they finally found the active ingredient. You say you didn't think it had an active ingredient. Well, if an can or some other kind of aspirin, why not? Why not pot? It's a drug called delta 9 transetrahydroinabonol, right? I get away with calling it THC. And it turns out to be psychedelic drug, not a narcotic, not a stimulant, not a depressant, a psychedelic. Question is, does it accumulate? Do all the physical effects add up? If you've had 10 joints a week, is that 10 joints worth of THC or eight or five? We don't know a lot of these things, but there's no reason certainly to think that that grass is harmless. I mean, there are a lot of things. because I worked for two years at the counseling center at Berkeley saw a lot of kids uh using pot and I didn't see any side effects but then I didn't look for them. After I found out about the research I went back and saw that a lot of the things I would have suspected from long-term use of LSD in small doses occurred also with grass. Some of them a decrease in memory, concentration ability, increased passivity or feeling like doing nothing, creeping paranoia, difficulty of translating thought into words, uh getting hung up with other people, distrusting, uh and denying that drugs could ever be harmful. The thing is with grass, it's so subtle. It's so dangerous because you never look for the side effect. It's sneaky. It's a sneaky drug. All the psychedelics are sneaky. So there's a question of of watching out to see if you're getting too far. All these drugs make you dependent. They make you a slave. Freedom is inside. You go up, you come down. You never get to keep what you have. It's like being asleep and experiencing that you're waking up. >> Yes. Uh, could there be some kind of a physical addictment to marijuana? >> Well, there doesn't seem to be a physical addiction to to pot in the sense that the body craves it, has to have it to get straight, like for example is true with heroin, the narcotics, with strong barbiterate use, or even strong methadine use. Now, whether it's habit forming is a tricky issue. It probably is. Although the pthead will tell you, I can stop anytime I want. I just don't want to. I remember a kid coming up to me and getting very angry and saying, "Look, I know that pot's not habit forming." And I should know I'm an expert. I've turned on every day for 3 years. It's a tricky issue. It's easier to give up smoking pot than for most adults to give up smoking cigarettes. But you can get dependent on it, I think. >> Does it change the user's personality? >> Does pot change the user's personality? It can. Again, it varies. If you smoke one cigarette a year, you don't look for smashing personality changes. Although people have flipped out on one marijuana trip if they're very sensitive. Gradually, if you you use a lot, there is kind of a a change of disintegration in personality. People aren't as interested. They get more egoistic. Uh they feel that they know it all. They're not likely to to be very tolerant towards people who don't turn on. uh they go into a kind of a fantasy thing sometimes and they don't feel that they can act on the world effectively. Yes, sometimes there is a change. Again though it it does vary with dosage and use and who you are. >> How can you reach a person who just doesn't want to listen? >> Well, you have to try. You have to communicate and you also have to try to figure out if you're concerned about them is why they're turning on in the first place. What is it that makes it so difficult for them to listen? You know, are they missing somebody that's to be close to them? Are are they missing friends? In other words, try to find out what it is and then try to work on that. Sometimes you just have to be very patient and very honest and just lay it on the line and point out the kinds of things that might be happening, changes that you might see. Now, it sinks in sooner or later. I mean underneath everybody who's turning on everything knows that it's a bad scene on some level. I used to rationalize like crazy. I used to make all kinds of excuses. But you know basically your intuition knows that it's not going to work for you. And that's on your side if you're trying to communicate to somebody about the use of drugs. >> Yes. Um >> do you think that the use of drugs nowadays is more or less bad or do you think it's really a change in the way people are thinking? Well, I can't help but think it's it's a change because, you know, all these drugs were around before. There were fads in in all of these kinds of materials. It seems to me that the level of awareness of teenagers is so high today. The level of dissatisfaction is so so high and the need to try to do some changing in terms of oneself or in society. So, I think that you see drugs are not the problem. Life is the problem. If you solve the problem of life, you don't have to worry about taking drugs. And it seems to me that we're we're a critical time and people are searching for meaningful answers. We've taught them that drugs are one way, but it turns out not to be. >> Yes. >> Do you feel that uh the marijuana should be legalized? >> Well, the legalization problem is very difficult. Uh clearly from what we know about the active ingredient in pot, it would be insane to legalize it in the sense of now go to your five of dimes store and pick up some pot because there's a very powerful chemical in it. On the other hand, I think we should be thinking about dealing with drug use in the same way that we deal with alcoholism as a health problem. I'm not in favor. I don't see it doing any good for young kids to go to jail just because they've been experimenting with a drug. I feel strongly the people who are pushing it and dealing it and manufacturing it and making money from it should be for their own sakes uh criminally prosecuted. So I hope that we get to the position where possessing drugs is not necessarily enough to get you put away for life but where people realize that perhaps maybe they don't want to go that road. I think that's where we're going to have to go. Education outside. Well, I know a lot of kids who do take drugs figure that it's their own life they're harming. What do you feel about? What do you think about this? >> Well, that that old point that, you know, what do you care about when I do to my life as long as I don't hurt you? Well, people can argue back that people get strung out on drugs and are stoned all the time don't help society much. If they happen to be dumb enough to be stoned while they're driving a car, there could be a problem. But again, the question to the person is not whether or not society has a right to determine whether or not they should use drugs, but really what's happening to them. Suicide is a bad trip. It also turns out to be against the law for whatever that that means. And to me, the critical issue with one's friends is pointing out to them again, sure, you have the right to do anything to yourself, destroy yourself, but wouldn't it be groovier not to? Wouldn't it be groovier to make it to place where you're happy? >> Um why do so many kids say that um that pot and LSD is less harmful than alcohol or pot mostly is less harmful than alcohol if you know so many doctors are saying that it really is more dangerous. >> It's like comparing apples to pears. That's the problem. The drugs do different things. Alcohol is a depressant and it knocks you out. It's a turnoff drug. Pot and LSD do something else to consciousness. Now, obviously, if you uh guzzle a a quart of gin every day, like can compare that with smoking some lowgrade Nebraska pot once a year, you've got a good point that alcohol is more more dangerous. On the other hand, if you're turning on a lot of hashish or maybe even taking LSD once, it could be a lot more dangerous than than having a couple of of cocktails or a little bit of wine. Again, abuse of any drug doesn't make sense. Yes. >> Uh where do these drugs come from and are they pure? >> They're very interesting question. Uh most of the drugs on the market are not manufactured by drug companies. They're made uh most of the marijuana comes from out of the country. Uh one of the same with the LSD is manufactured in labs. One of the big problems for any of the drug users is that the stuff is so so terribly impure, particularly the psychedelics. The black market has very low quality control. It's much more difficult to make it pure than you think. And also the most important thing, they don't care how impure they make it because you can't tell the difference. A hallucination on fake acid. Sometimes they put Belladonna, throw in a little uh speed or measculine and then throw in some strick nine which is a deadly poison. You can get high off of that too. You can drop dead also, but you won't be able to tell a difference and you can't go back to your dealer and complain because he's going to say, "Well, a trip depends on what you're thinking the set and setting." So that's why they can be so terribly careless about it because you're not going to be able to tell the difference and it is a big problem. Let's see. Question. >> Uh, yes. You said there was no way to tell if a psychedelic was pure, but how about marijuana? >> Well, that's a funny question. I remember once turning on a very old pthead in terms of his experience. And I told him it was the best grass he'd ever get straight from Central America. He was so stoned after one puppy. He was wobbling around. He he started hallucinating. I was roaring hysterically because he was smoking tea, you know, like from the kitchen. Uh, a lot of it is psychological so that it can be marijuana can be cut with almost anything and if you think you're getting high, you usually are. >> Yes. >> I'd like to know what made you change your mind from taking drugs. >> Then how did I quit? Well, I found out that that in fact the drugs didn't work. I was lucky cuz I got out before at least the final thing blew in my mind. I'm a survivor. I'm an exception. I'm able to sit here and talk to you about it. Uh I saw they didn't work, that we were being hypocritical. And uh I never felt guilty about using drugs. And I don't think kids should. Who cares what you've done in the past? The question is what you're doing today. And it's no reason to continue using drugs just because if you stop then you have to say you made a mistake. That's silly. Some people have said today is the beginning of the rest of your life. And that's where the decision should be made. Don't feel regretful over what you've done, but start making clear decisions about what you're going to do in the future. [music] [music] [music] The choice is yours. You can change the world or you can cop out with drugs. If you're thinking about drugs, [music] think about this. What do you do when the music stops? Where are you then? Where are [music] you then when you've dropped full blown on all the mountain tops? [music] Where are you then, my friend? What do you see when your pupils [music] contract? When you're out in the alley after your act and you're not quite whole [music] and the straight world's intact, where are you then, my [music] friend? You can choose to change the world, but for that you need your head straight and in the right place. If you choose drugs instead, where are we [music] then, my friend? Where are we then? Wow. That uh that little short PSA at the end was better than the whole film prior to that. I love watching these films though uh given the current state of uh drug legalization in the world. um and some of these arguments. It's it's kind of funny. All right. Uh this is uh this next film is from the Pllinger archive and this is a stunningly beautiful film about American innovation and design. It's called American Maker. It's so good. Enjoy. Of [music] [music] [bell] [music] all things Americans, are. [music] We are makers with our strengths and our minds and spirit. We gather, we form, and we fashion. Makers and [music] shapers and put it togetherers. We start young out early in life what it's like to feel something grow and take shape beneath our [music] hands. We start young [music] and we stay young, modeling with careful pride the things we expect to endure and for others. [music] We build for use and we build in fun, joining eyes and hands and brains into knowing teams [music] that bring great dreams to life. We build for the day and we build for the tomorrow. For our children, for their children, and for the future of America. Look to the land and look to the sea. [music] Wherever you may look in this world, you're apt to find something that got there because some American found a good way to put it together. A longer, higher bridge across a wider [music] span of water. A slender missile driven into space, reaching across the [music] oceans and reaching for other worlds. As makers of today and shapers [music] for tomorrow, we Americans seem to share an inborn understanding of how to go about making the things we want. Whether we're reaching for the moon, hobbying in the home, doing [music] our part on a convenience to be enjoyed, or preparing a tasty tidbit, we're all of us makers. All of our different ways of making to the [music] differing tastes of others are not all so very different. After all, we make by moving materials, getting what we need in the right place to work with it. [music] [music] We make by removing material, getting rid of what isn't needed. [music] >> [music] >> We make by shaping. Just so [bell] [music] we make by adding material to material. We make [music] by combining. And then by applying our finishing touches [music] and by testing and testing again to make sure what is finished meets with our own approval [music] and earns the customer's liking for what is done. [music] With our craftsmanship and our conscientious [music] control, we build for utility and for eye appeal and [music] for satisfaction at every step of the way. That's the way we make things. Make them right and make them to the user's satisfaction. With youthful enthusiasm, [music] we make things with pride. And into whatever we [music] make, we try to model a satisfying usefulness and some measure [music] of beauty. Oncoming attractive, useful products, well-made, more and more products acceptable to the more and more exacting demands of more and more Americans. >> [music] >> All in our own personal choices of colors, models, sizes, styles, price ranges, and types. Better made, more dependable, more nearly trouble-free than products made in any such quantities anywhere else in the world. All a part of the beauty produced so bountifully for you and for me by our American makers. [music] >> [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat >> [music] [music] >> Wow. [music] Wow. >> [music] >> Wow. [music] Wow. Wow. [music] >> [music] >> There was a time when many of our needs had to be imported from other countries. But now, American needs can [music] be filled by Americans. American desires met by products American, made [music] the American way, and by makers American. [music] The American maker works [music] for tomorrow as well as today. And he has a host of new products in store for us. Some of them ready for immediate viewing. Some of them are visible in the nearer distance, while others yet remain a dream of the future, but all of them on their way to us. [music] Oncoming attractive, useful products. Automatic highways with cars and buses that drive themselves. [music] [music] Compact new cars. [music] [music] Batterypowered transistorized TV that is really portable. >> [music] >> panel TV to hang on the wall like a picture. All these and more and more. [music] [bell] We Americans have always [music] been makers. And in the beginning, we had to be. When America was young, [music] we learned how to make the things we needed because there was no other way to get them. We worked with our hands, and our hands served us well. At the blacksmith's [music] forge and the potter's wheel, we learned honest craftsmanship. At the spinning wheel and the loom, we studied patience. >> [music] >> And the greatest patience most of us learned was the patience to see to it that what we were making was good. Then looking again to make sure what we had made would serve and serve well. In early America, men with the skills to do the things that needed [music] doing were few in number. Craftsmen we had, but each could make only enough for his own family and for perhaps a few of his neighbors. We had little, but we knew much of want, of shortages, [music] of make do or do without, of even the necessities. There wasn't enough to go around. As our numbers [music] increased and our wants multiplied, easier, quicker, better ways of doing things [music] had to be found. Young we were, youngest in the family of nations, when a Yankee craftsman named Eli Whitney showed us how to do something about it, something that never in all the world had been done before. Already a famous man as inventor of the laborsaving cotton gin, Eli Whitney had been given a contract by Congress to produce 10,000 musketss. Now his time was almost up. >> Mr. Whitney, we gave you a contract for 10,000 finished pieces. What do you mean by bringing us all these bits and parts? >> Gentlemen, I am offering you something far more valuable than musketss. I am offering my country a new method of producing on a mass scale. You see, it takes years to train a workman to produce a completed article from start to finish. But it takes only a few days to train him to do a single part of the job. The solution, gentlemen, is to divide the labor. Divide and specialize. One man to make one part, one to make another. Each to do what each can do best. >> Ridiculous. Impossible. Parts made by different people will never fit together. >> They will, sir. They will. If each part is made exactly like every other Then each of these pieces are made by a separate man. >> Exactly. >> Eli Whitney didn't have a word for it, but we call it interchangeability. Interchangeability of parts. >> [snorts] >> A Yankee craftsman had laid down the basic principle of modern mass production. Divide and specialize. One man to make one part, one to make another. Each to do what each can do best. A new method of dividing the labor to let the American maker [music] work more quickly and efficiently meet the everinccreasing demand for more goods. producing on a scale the world never before had known. The seed of mass production had been planted. But even so, we still had far to go before we could begin to reap the harvest. Our tools were simple, and for power, we had only our own muscles, or the force of falling water, and maybe a turn from the wind. And then the next great forward stride for the American maker came with the coming of a new source of mighty power. Unlimited new power to multiply thousands of times the productive energy of every man and create a revolution in the tools to be used. Tools to extend the power and finess of his hands. High-speed tools to turn, to bore, to drill, to mill, tools to plane, to shape, to slot, to grind, to forge, to form with an accuracy and a precision impossible to the finest [music] of handcraft. Tools that hold the work you're working on. tools that hold the tool you're working with. With all the wonderful tools that have been invented to [music] help the American maker get more from his day's work and more for it, every bigger, better, and faster tool [music] has given new abilities to the man who uses it. Advancing from simple hand tools to great electric driven complex machines. As more and more of us join American teams, there are more and more others of us who are investing hard-earned savings to help buy the newer and better and bigger tools we now need to supply the conveniences for modern living. The products we create and build grow ever [music] more complex. Today's automobile, for example, may call for as many as 14,000 parts. And each part must be as precise as thousands of pairs of hands and eyes and thousands of human brains can make it. If the final product is to be just about trouble-free. No one plant or single factory can make all the many kinds of parts. It takes thousands of separate suppliers. And in every supplier plant, each man and woman must work with a feeling of [music] responsibility toward the eventual owner of what it is he's helping to make. On the conscientious contributions [music] of every single one of them depend the success and reliability of [music] what is made by others and the satisfaction of all the others who use them. [music] The fundamental freedom of America is our freedom of choice. All of us want our choices in whatever we buy. Our personal choices of color, of model, of trim, of engine, transmission or steering, as well as of radios, of heaters, air conditioning, accessories, and a host of other special options for convenience, safety, comfort, and appearance. On a single four-door sedan, there are 7 million possible combinations that may be asked for by any one owner. the makers could be called upon to build for years without ever turning out exactly the same car twice. The owner's choice for this chassis, among many other options, is for a red body. The first show of color is in the wheels, while the body of the right shade must be on its way already from the body plant a quarter of a [music] mile off. >> [music] >> All the many parts, accessories, and special equipment must meet at their rendevous. The call is for individual choices for custom service on a mass production basis and the response must be a fine accomplishment of meeting individual needs and personal tastes in terms of millions of individuals. Modern assembly [music] is timing and teamwork as well as organization. And every year to make way for changed models, everything may have to be rettimed. reteamed and reorganized with new tools, new assembly line fixtures and new working procedures. And just [music] as all the parts that must fit together must be there at the right time from thousands of plants all over the country, so from all over the country [music] and all over the world come the people who put them together for other people in thousands of different places. Giant teams of [music] working people all fitting together. Tens of thousands of people, all different, different in ability, in degree of interest, in each day's varying enthusiasm for the job. Differing in understanding, and in their pride of workmanship. different in age, in skill, in length of experience, and in the way you feel from day to day. Presenting human problems which are challenges to quality control. The best of us may occasionally make a mistake. The best of tools may call for adjustment. So, in the all-American game of making things for ourselves and others, there must be catchers as well as pitchers. The inspector's job is to catch any slip and eliminate it from the finished product. The performance you get out of whatever you buy, the long time you can use and enjoy it, the pride you can take in it, [music] depend not only on the engineers who design it and the men who make it, but also on the painstaking conscientious vigilance of the quality control inspector who checks and doublech checkcks all along the way. [music] >> [music] >> So the way we Americans do it, quality in the things we buy is designed in, built in, and inspected in from start to finish. [music] And to help them make sure quality is built in and checked in, new devices are continually being [music] developed. This machine automatically checks dimensions to a [music] 10,000th of an inch. A part deliberately made too small is put into the machine as a test of its efficiency. [music] [bell] Out it goes. When products were simpler [music] years ago, inspectors were few and far between. But in these days with [music] more complicated things to put together, inspectors are many and inspectors are important. And even after a product has passed all the factory tests, it still must meet the approval of the conscientious dealer who sells it. For in his turn, the reliable dealer places [music] his own pledge of quality on everything he sells. He knows that the user [music] finally depends on the dealer's own fidelity. The man who sells any final product shares with its maker the credit and shares with its maker the responsibility for its performance and for the owner's satisfaction. In the quality relay, the dealer is the final qualifier. [bell] >> [music] >> No other people anywhere have achieved more for themselves and for the rest of us than the thousands upon thousands of hardworking American men and women. The millions who pull their skills and talents to produce [music] the things we need and want. And we who enjoy whatever they have made for us do well to be thinking of [music] what they are giving us. Oh yes, we know they work for their pay, for their food, and for the needs of their wives and the wants of their young ones. But also they make for the joy of making things right. Whatever the whims of our choice and the twists of our tastes. [music] So as we ease into our necessities [music] [music] as we nestle into our comforts [music] as we relish [music] our conveniences. It is well for us to remember that all these have come from the roots of the maker's mind are the fruits of the maker's labors. [music] That is the job that is being done for all of us by the American maker. Producing by the millions for the millions to make life in America more enjoyable for us all. The grand job of the American maker. [music] [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> So that was epic. Um, and that that film made by Jam Handy, uh, Marvin Miller, the narrator, and uh, we've heard Marvin on other uh, promotional films, sponsored films, uh, including ones that aren't Jam Handy films. There was another film that Jam Handy made called The American Engineer, which also kind of talks about American innovation and ingenuity. Um, and both of these were made early 60s. That one was 1960 American Maker. And um super idealic, beautiful footage. Holy cow. Beautiful. Beautiful. Um and we can talk about what went wrong [laughter] because I think things definitely went wrong. Uh I would uh blame there's some greediness. Uh there is some uh people looking to cash in on companies that had wellestablished legacies and just bleeding them dry uh and to the point where they are no longer a company. Uh that happens a lot. Uh I've seen um but yeah, greed. I'm just going to say greed. Greed is what um changed it all up. Um yeah, there you go. [snorts] Uh anyways, that's my soap box. Uh [laughter] but uh thanks for watching today. I appreciate uh your eyeballs. Please uh donate via the super thanks button and giving us a thumbs up. It's about greed again, all about the money. Uh patreon.com/avgeeks is another way to support us. I'm about to put another Patreon only um show online, one that I uh feature some stuff I've shown on this channel, but also some stuff you've never seen before. Um yeah, [snorts] thanks for joining us. Uh so tomorrow is going to be another big move in film. Uh like we have almost emptied out one of the storage units. It feels so good. Holy cow. We might get that done later today. definitely by tomorrow. Uh but uh I am going to try to do a jukebox of movie trailers. We'll see if it works. Um if I can get it done. Depends on how much time I have tonight. But anyways, uh I'll be here, but really won't be here. But thanks for watching and uh everybody have a great rest of your day. It's beautiful outside here. Um just before the bugs and the pollen comes out. So, I'm going to go outside and