A/V Geeks Lunch 1-31-2022

[Music] [Music] so [Music] good [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] pursuit [Music] [Music] [Music] hey everyone uh good to see you it's katrina uh welcome to the lunchtime av geek streaming show i'm happy to be here and your guest host today for our 500th show very exciting um [Music] can't believe it it's almost february 2022 and it's a monday and it's beautiful here in raleigh north carolina and hi everyone seeing all the notes um i'm really happy to be here and i want to introduce our special guest for today we have a special guest and it is skip alzheimer the uh owner operator archivist curator for av geeks hi skip hi how are you i can hear you okay how about everybody else can everybody else hear skip give us some notifications hello hi everybody uh and let me say thomas thank you so much for your very kind gift um so we have a special gift planned for you as well awesome awesome well skip is streaming live um from another part of the archive i'm in the regular old booth here in the front in the old laundry room and skip is in the back in the archive and he is going to start the day by giving us a tour of the space that you guys have all seen probably over the last um 500 shows in different clips where he does a quick tour but he's gonna actually walk you through and give you some downy dirty uh literally dirty gross um images of the archive skip tell us when you moved here um so uh i found this uh property this is a former boarding house and i found it on the internet in probably this spring of 2001 and what i was doing is i was doing these searches for a house that had more than five bedrooms that was within two miles where i worked uh at the time at a computer company software company and was less than a hundred thousand dollars and so this place uh popped up and uh it was uh depending on how you count it it has either eight bedrooms wait let me count that let me short one because you're in what would have been a bedroom let's do one two three four five six seven eight so either eight bedrooms or uh twelve bedrooms if you count downstairs which you're really not supposed to because it's not bathrooms down so this was a boarding house that had been foreclosed on and what i'm going to do is i'm going to flip the camera around so i can kind of take you around what i realized is so i have a laptop and i realized that the laptop is too big to go through some of the spaces like it's so anyways um right here is a [Music] painting of a rose that says much love it was painted by one of the people that lived here in the glory house and i met the person who owned the boarding house at one point and uh the place had been foreclosed on and he told me that he was going to try to get the place back and i said all right well good luck with that i said there's a bunch of stuff in here now so um it's gonna be hard uh and then i think he uh passed away but um yeah there were a lot of shenanigans in this place um and so i have to lift up the laptop to get over the shelf hopefully i won't drop anything um navigating again not all of them are this fight but we i really squeezed in i love the sound effects skin as many shells as i could in the back um to accommodate all the films and one of the things that i did uh is i ended up getting a collection of films from pennsylvania and i actually moved the films into the basement of this house before i had actually closed on the house so my real estate agent said i don't know anything about that so don't let anybody know that you did that because the house there was nobody in the house basically and so i put a lock on the basement door and moved in three thousand films before i ended up actually buying the house and then uh ended up living in the house at the end of 2001. so so i have a quick question um if you can move a little slower skip because it is a little uh disorienting there we go that's so much better thank you um of the 3000 films that you moved in before you you moved into the house before you even closed on the house had you seen all of those 3 000 films no these are new films these were brand new films that i've gotten from pennsylvania so you hadn't even brought them to pine house yet you brought them right to the archives here yeah and so at the time um i had 10 000 films at the previous house that i was renting so um the 3000 were brand new in boxes um so what's that piece of equipment there uh let's see which piece uh this this right here yeah which is uh what's called a film inspector it looks huge it is huge i'm on my third one of these because they break down and the first one i got um my friend ian and i went to a library in eastern north carolina picked it up and i accidentally dropped it on my foot and uh lost the toenail oh yeah so this is the way libraries so i often have shown something that a little piece of paper says please do not rewind that are in the cans and the idea is that you run the film you you have it on the rewind you take it back and then somebody at the library or media center previews it make sure that there's not any splices or any issues and then they roll it and clean it there's a cleaner right here um they clean it and put it on the back on the reel and they use little stickers when they when it's inspected so are you using that now do you use that machine now because it's not like it's in the heart of where the films are or is it just kind of building up films to show i was doing it um building up films to do like live shows okay i would hold up multiple films unreal i would use this or if i was quickly wanting to scan through a film just to see quickly what's on it then i would use this um but i haven't used it in a couple of years so but it still works so as many of you know skip and i are partners and i moved in to this boarding house when we just before we got married and back in the day all of skip's equipment was in this room here and the room across the hall from that right so this is uh this this is an old school telecity um that weighs a thousand pounds uh it's called bosch made by the same people who make your dishwashers or your uh headlamps and your headlights and your cars they made a film early telecini um and i bought this for 300 on ebay those were the days man those are the days we misspelled the word tell us which is how i got it and then i sent it to some guy in um pennsylvania near philadelphia and he renovated it for thirty thousand dollars because all of the chips had gone bad so he did all the work and so then i ran into truck and drove it down here and somehow figured out how to get it wait thirty thousand dollars yep wow so you bought it for three hundred and then you spent thirty thousand dollars to get up and running and then got into the archive wow it is not worth that now correct i mean that is like you can find them for you know basically like junk right now yeah and unfortunately the person who worked on these has passed away um so talk a little bit about that skip the what's happening to these people who caretake these machines what's where they're all going yep i mean so a lot of people who know this stuff and this is the case with video as well i'm going to walk into the room that also used to have just equipment in it that is now just filmed um yeah so the people the experts the engineers who made these these pieces of equipment and who also um you know maintain them are getting old they're retiring or they're passing away and so there's the problem isn't necessarily about the media deteriorating uh or even the decks deteriorating it's just the people who know how to run the decks and how to repair them are uh becoming less and less so if you want job security learn how to repair pneumatics how to repair pneumatic [Music] video decks because there's a big there's a lot of those out there that need work and there's not a lot of people so calling all cars did you hear that people who repair this equipment that allow skip to do what he does and allow him to share these 500 shows and thousands of films that you have all seen there's no one out there reliably well there are people of course but they're getting harder and harder to find and um so it's like we need a new um enterprise a new industry where there's apprenticeships and uh mentors and then skip knows about you and then he tells all his arc of his friends and it's very exciting come on uh so let's take a little break and so we can all get um even more excited about the uh 500th show and this show is skippy want to tell us about this show this particular film oh he's gone i think we lost skip so let me tell you about this film it's uh i think if i remember it's called the winning ride and it is about the daytona 500. enjoy come to daytona each year see what detroit's best can do when the chips are down this speedway is the fastest toughest proving ground in the world for automobiles a track designed to challenge today's cars and tomorrow [Music] the daytona international speedway was the dream come true of one man bill france nascar president built at a cost of over three million dollars the two and a half mile high bank speedway has accommodations for over a hundred thousand fans and a schedule of year-round events between events the 450 acre speedway waits the pit walls are empty [Music] the garages are still but not for long weeks before the racing season starts the clean quiet garages come to life they get their first taste of oil and grease stains feel the weight again of 200 pound men and 4 000 pound cars and the sound of mechanics at work and engines revving fills the low ceiling sheds three weeks two weeks a week to go before the big race under nascar regulations for stock car racing only modifications for the safety of the car and driver are permitted but everything has to be right everything has to stay right and the only way to be sure is to get out and run practice begins [Music] the top drivers in the country are on hand to measure the cars and themselves on this great speedway indianapolis winners are here roger ward aj point troy rutman [Music] and the fastest qualifier in indianapolis history carnelli jones speeds climb to a fantastic 166 miles an hour nascar champion joe weatherly talks it over with bud moore his mechanic freddie lawrenson keeps an eye on the clock and the competition fireball roberts last year's winner what will it take this year all former 500 winners are here junior johnson lee petty now crew chief for his son richard all former winners are here that is except marvin patch a week before the big race patch flipped on the track in a sports car and he was pulled to safety by steve petracek of firestone and tiny lund another driver [Music] marvin panch recovering but not able to drive asked the tiny take his place for the 500 in the ford number 21. tiny has been racing 18 years without a major win crew chief and car owner glenn wood put it this way we wanted him to drive one thing because marvin suggested it and two you have to have a good driver and uh tiny always uh drove hard and we figured he could do it and a lot of the boys don't make a good showing because they don't have a good car a good enough car as glenn wood or any competition driver will tell you has total performance that is built in well i've raced boards ever since i started racing 12 years ago i had the edge on durability i think [Music] there are 69 entries here for the upcoming 500-mile race with only 50 spots available and everybody wants end this is the first big test of the new model cars qualification races are run the week before the race to determine which 50 cars will be in the race and in what order the starting field is chosen but some try too hard [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me thanks to seat belts and other safety practices no one is injured after a week of time kyle their hopes and the effort of months of preparation lies strewn on the garage floor [Music] race day and the fans motorists all have come to this great automotive show from every state in the union [Music] the competition cars move out of the garage and impound area for fuel and last minute nascar inspection the cars are all limited to 22-gallon gas tanks and they're going to have to get maximum power and mileage from every gallon and then it's on to the track lining up in the pit area two by two an investment of over one million dollars ready as they ever will be but something else is here too and it could be trouble a tricky crosswind almost a gale whips across the track does this mean rain or just hazardous running with an apprehensive eye on the weather the drivers and crews wait for the one o'clock starting time some try to relax and chat some just wait out the time whatever the weather like tiny lunch with my pit crew and good automobiles i had i had this chance i mean i never said to anybody how i felt but that was what i told my wife a few minutes before starting time dark rain heavy clouds swoop in over the speedway and it rains cover up and take cover an hour goes by the rain is still coming down harder than ever but then the very wind that was a threat carries the storm away the sky begins to lighten the gusts subside the crowd lets out a roar there will be a race [Music] the cars can be drive off quickly but the track roadway will take a little time too late to start may mean a shortened race bill france called the drivers meeting to get going the men agreed to run the first 10 laps under the caution flag and dry off the track track officials get the word from bill france and miss firebird takes a tour around the track as a signal to the happy fans that the race will soon be on [Music] [Applause] [Music] the cars move on to the course for the caution last [Music] holding their positions and their speed to 90 miles per hour they circle the track ten times [Music] the pace car pulls away into the pits the green flag drops and they're off on lap 11. full feet ahead [Music] 50 of detroit's best are on their way pontiacs fords chevrolets mercury plymouths dodges and chrysler the leaders set a pace of nearly 167 miles per hour and the field springs out behind them [Music] a 500-mile race isn't a test of speed alone the winning ride depends on car control and staying power before the race is an hour old the pace takes its toll junior john number three chevrolet loses a push rod [Music] goldsmith and one pontiac blows his engine in the first 150 miles the lead changes 12 times [Music] rutherford a number 13 chevrolet spins on the back stretch cars fit frantically for fuel tires repairs [Music] [Music] more trouble in the back stretch how does it feel to lose it at 160 miles an hour like nothing in this world time lost or gained in the pits can mean the race with a possible 100 miles per tank full crews plan a total of four quick stops for refueling you're in trouble if you lift the hood [Music] the grueling afternoon wears on the grandstands throw long shadows across the track o2 pontiac loses the wheel at 165 miles an hour aj foyt guides a car into the infield out of traffic [Music] jim mcgurk and o5 pontiac comes into the fifth the hard way at the halfway mark it's a new race only 30 cars are left on the track jockeying for position in high-speed traffic takes all the liveliness and dependability you can get lorenzo number 28 board challenges johnson 7-8 pontiac for the lead ned jarrett and number 11 ford is moving up in third place close behind are robertson 22 pontiac and london 21-4 bobby john's father his crew chief has to prime the engine there's a fire fuel vapors burst into flames the fire is put out without serious injury to the car or to papa john at 350 miles lorenzen and jarrod are running one and two [Music] robertson lund are drafting in positions three and four drafting saves fuel the second car moves in as close as possible to the car in front and is pulled along by the vacuum bumper bumper-to-bumper the first car pulling the second pushing [Music] at 392 miles the leaders make their fourth pit stop they've been averaging only 98 miles per tank full because of the terrific speeds they have 108 miles to go they all pit except tiny lon who keeps going lorenzen roars away after tiny [Music] jarrett gets out of the pit in a hurry no matter what kind of driving you do you need acceleration to merge safely with traffic three precious laps seven and a half miles later tiny pits and gives up the lead to lorenzo and jarrett tiny hasn't changed the tire in four pit stops a terrific tribute to the total performance of his equipment tire suspension brakes precise steering he's away in half a minute [Music] [Applause] for the last hundred miles it's larenza number 28 ford jarrett number 11 ford lund 21 ford all out in front in fourth and fifth it's nelson stacy number 29 ford and dan gurney number zero four it's a battle of the fours only 18 miles from the checkered flag the ransom the leader is pitting he's coming in for gas [Music] a nine second pit stop some service station tiny lund is now riding in first jarrett is drafting in second [Music] garrett's team worries his tank must be empty he's gone 100 miles since his last stop laurenson is 24 seconds behind london jarrett three laps to go and it's jarrod pitting for gas streaking past lund's crew who sense victory [Music] 10 seconds [Music] 15 seconds let's go jared a man in a hurry tiny lund has a firm hold on first place if his fuel will hold out it's a strange feeling when you say you're that close to victory i race that big and then uh with one lap to go all i could do is i just hoped that i wouldn't run out of gas and i think i said a prayer or two in that last lap and i made it the checkered flag for tiny love the man who got his chance and came through just to prove it wasn't luck ford's also finish second third fourth and fifth the crowd hails a tremendous victory for the driver and his fast back forward tiny wheels into the winner's circle [Music] his wife greets him along with other admiring fans the crew joins him in the winner's circle for the glory of getting home first and the biggest purse ever offered in a stock car race a share of their winnings has been allotted to marvin pants by both tiny and glenn wood win this race and he did it's been a long but memorable day for the drivers the crews and the fans one that will not soon be forgotten the fifth annual daytona 500 a race that had everything wind and rain part and hard driving and performance and endurance of cars proved in competition [Music] wow that was so exciting it was like the last 500 av geek shows all wrapped into one film uh what do you think about that skiff um i guess ford is the way to go with your car thanks ford motor company for that fine film that was pretty great yeah i have another one uh it's called something at daytona and it's it's showing off i think the comet the fort comet and it's a similar type of thing where they do some sort of endurance thing with this budget car to show how great it is um but yeah it's you know it's a sponsored film so it's meant to be entertaining it's also meant to drive home the fact that ford cars are the best um uh speaking of sponsors hey uh thank you so much nathan mitch and kevin for your kind coffee donations um not only do we spend money on coffee with these donations we also buy things like uh i don't know um shelving units this is a new shelving unit that we got um to store films uh trying to keep them organized uh also uh my assistant uh keishan has been recanning films uh these are new plastic to the plastic uh gray cans uh we've been pulling them out of metal cans which are rusting shut and causing problems with vinegar and we are putting them in um nice plastic so an example of that is in here where he's been going through and organizing all the earth um try not to go so fast that you guys the whiplash but um you see the plastic trying to get away from the metal metal if it if it um rusts shut then it can become airtight i mean there's more downstairs which i'm not going to show you in the more at storage units at other places but we have a lot of films here um and i apologize of the laptop battery guy which is i thought it was plugged in but it wasn't so did you have more questions for me or did i not i no i have a question just you know if you know off the top of your head which i'd be curious if you knew um how many shelving units we we think you have about 30 something thousand films now how many do you think you have 30. between 30 and 36 000. all right so how i'm to stop for a second 30 to 36 000 films so when i met you you had about 20 000 films maybe 22 000 films so uh that's a lot and i'll tell the story the first time i went to skip's archive um and somebody mentioned professional organizer in the cr in the chat i'm i'm actually that's what i do that's my job i work with people in their homes and businesses and help them create systems and declutter and so when i first met skip um i came for i used to do screenings in the archive on sunday nights and i came here and i asked to see the archive in the back and i asked the questions you know how do you find your films and and i was impressed about how organized he was clean there's there's things on the floor show them the floor skip yeah cleanliness is not you know you can't be good at everything people you can't be i'm not the cleanest person either but the uh my husband is better at cleaning stuff up yes so a lot of this is little labels that have fallen yeah there it's detritus it's detritus it's not seen because why would you look at the floor when you could look at these amazing films and but i was really impressed about how skip how they were organized and that like his finding system they're not necessarily organized they're organized by shelf by letter on a shelf by letter and size on a shelf right yeah so like we do so these are all 815 which can be up to 20 minutes in length and so these are by you know so all the a's are here and then the bees slow it down the b's slow down and you know the c's so we don't alphabetize within the letter but we what that means is that we can pretty quickly find something if we know the size of it so the the key was to me that it doesn't take skip very long to find a film because he has it in a system now he may have to look at okay he looks at the the database and okay it's a 400 film so he goes to 400 shells and looks at the a's and somewhere in there he will find it so i would say you know in less than five minutes he'll know whether the film is on site or not and i think that's pretty great considering how many films they have that's the database that tells me if something's off-site and what i've instituted in the basement and off-site is i have shelf numbers so i can look i know that the film is on a given shuffle so that makes it more organized so let me uh there's a couple people just got here so let me let you guys know um i'm katrina i'm skip's partner and i am hosting today's uh av geeks streaming lunchtime show and with our special guest skip alzheimer who's back in the stacks at the archive um yes we got to come up with a ditty 500 um the other thing i wanted to say is if if some of you have some questions for skip and you want to throw them in the chat we'll look at them and go ahead and uh try to get skip to answer some of those some burning questions over the last 500 shows um skip you want to come on screen uh just so we could see your face right now um because i have a question for you do you have another uh film uh lined up here nasa uh okay um i want you to think on this and i don't know if if it'll come to the top of your head my question i thought of was out of your collection out of all the films you've seen knowing your beautiful crazy brain creative brain what is the film that you wish you made of your collection and why you don't have to answer it now but i want you to think about it because you know and and i'd also love for you to talk about uh you know and maybe this will tie into it but your the your kind of i wouldn't say obsession but your interest in sex education films and how they've changed over the years because that's really interesting to see but anyway i'm going to go ahead and throw another show on uh which is nasa's 50th skip tell us about this uh this is actually a video of made by the lewis space center which is now the john glenn space center in near cleveland and this was to celebrate nasa's 50th anniversary and so it's has a guy who's the head of the space center welcoming you and then they have like a music montage um and this is part of a big batch of videotape that i digitized for nasa and put up at the end all right here we go nasa's 50th anniversary enjoy hey [Music] it all began here in cleveland 50 years ago an aircraft engine research laboratory was established its purpose to study the problems of piston aircraft engines today lewis research center is a world recognized leader in not only aeronautical technology but space technology as well aircraft propulsion space propulsion space power microgravity science satellite communications and space transportation systems these are only a few of the areas where lewis is making very important contributions as we move into our 50th year let's take a moment to remember the past and also take a moment to look at the ways in which lewis is planning to encounter the challenges of the future [Music] [Music] and who can predict the advances yet to be made in the 50 years in front of us what we can predict is that the men and women of lewis research center will be making them and helping us to understand how our world works [Music] we're back yeah we are hi welcome to the warmer part of the archive yep it's uh it's cold in the back um so uh yeah so you put forth a challenge to me of all the films i have and there were a couple that resonated uh you said like what is the film that you wish that you had made yes um and so right off the bat it would have to be animated okay um and so i pulled the film and i have it behind me on the telecini in the telecity is what we use to uh transfer uh and so what's interesting is so i showed earlier that bosch telecini which was a thousand pounds uh and so what year was that i'm curious that you got that bosch oh i got it when i moved in here so it was like probably 2002 okay 2003. um and so it started getting very frizzy because it has literally hundreds of little tiny cmos chips um and i ended up buying uh this from germany this was shipped to me from germany and this was 50 000 new so i bought it new um and it's only 250 pounds and it doesn't heat up a room like the other one does the other one is like heats up the room and this one can only do 16 the other one could do 35 and 16 but the quality of this was better than what i was able to do and i was able to do this giant um advertising a digitization project for duke um where we did digitize 10 000 tv commercials so that ties into one of the questions we had in the chat which is how do you how do you how does avg get income av geeks you know because some films we get for free right people just send them right some films uh you purchase right not so much anymore um you know occasionally i go on ebay and buy something but it's almost what happens now is people approach me and say hey we have these films and i'll say well i'll pay for shipping right so that can be very expensive depending on how many films are and like like i got a bunch of films from alaska and so that was pricey but there were some amazing films in that collection and there was a long time where you weren't making the collection wasn't itself wasn't making money he was collecting films but how he was making the money was digitizing other people's films right and i was also doing shows i was touring and doing shows and that was there was a a couple of years where that was making bringing back a lot of money it was covering the expenses plus some and then i did dvd compilations with phantoma films with uh alpha video and then uh with kino and that was making money um but uh it was mostly digitizing other people's stuff and that's what justified getting this machine was that i had a job that was gonna pay for this right um so most of the equipment came in as part of pricing out the job and knowing that you had other work coming down the line that could sustain the machine made sense to get it yeah and that's how a lot of these machines these other i have film scanners in other rooms um that um were the same thing like i knew i had a job that would pay for or a couple of jobs that would pay for it and so now we can do this is still that is just standard definition but the other ones we have can do up to 4k so so the 500 shows that you all have seen or been able to see over the last two years almost two years um so skip used to go on the road for those shows so you are lucky enough that you get to uh see them from your own home but there is something about being in a room with people even if it's a small crowd right um and interacting with the film responding to the film and having skip um there and not having to uh write your questions in the chat you could actually ask i mean you know if there were if we were doing this and there was no comments um this would be this wouldn't be fun because i wouldn't have that feedback i mean this is not the best way to get feedback but it's still pretty great um but having you know feedback in the room hearing people laugh and he hear people um go like oh you know wince and all that stuff is that's i like that a lot and i hope to be able to do that again at some point there's usually a point in the show where i scream or howl or yell no oh my god [Laughter] [Music] all right so i'm dying to know what this film is yeah have you shown it before i have i showed it for my birthday uh october 6 2020. okay um but it's still good and it's short and it's great all right all right um so here it is flying fur enjoy now back to our show [Music] uh [Music] uh [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] pop up [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello [Music] uh [Music] huh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] [Music] from [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] um [Music] hmm [Music] but [Music] hey yeah all right so that was amazing why why do you wish you made that film because when i was younger i wanted to be an animator um and that's how i got into computers was trying to do computer animation and uh what i like about this is it's it's kind of post it um it's taking a soundtrack of a cartoon that already existed probably from the 40s 30s or 40s or maybe even 50s and it's creating a brand new animation on top of it using the sound effects uh and also making references to animation styles and um so it's it's really great and i think it was a student uh project probably cal arts um if i had to guess so you don't know who the artist was um i don't yeah i mean i have like some of my favorite animators and um that's one that i didn't know about and i basically got this film uh i think from a bunch of uh university films in rhode island actually and this one i was like what is this flying fur and i watched it i was like holy cow this is like amazing it's so great so um yeah that's why i showed it again awesome thank you that was awesome all right i've got some questions first of all uh in answer to my own question earlier about how you get training to repair films you mentioned that there's a museum of broadcast technology is it in rhode island it's in wound socket rhode island and i've been there and it is incredible some retired uh gentlemen from a television broadcast but they have tape to film cameras equipment they're really neat guys and uh so they just basically collected or collected equipment and then have it in a warehouse yes i mean it's and it's a beautiful space and they'll give a tour um you got they're not up there all the time but i bet you i bet you they'd be loved to train right uh you know but they all they're all retired i think and they just stop by yeah and the thing about that is like a lot of these engineers who are retired know about other engineers across the country so well if they're not if that's not convenient for you you might be able to reach out to them and they can recommend somebody that you can learn from but um yeah that's one of my laments uh in high school is that i took french instead of taking electronics because i could learn how to um uh use a multimeter i could have learned how to really solder solder which i'm not really good at and all that stuff could have been something i could have had early on and then i would be able to use it a lot now when it comes to repairing stuff in retirement skip yeah like skip is going to retire that's our family joke yeah all right i'm going to race through these questions so this is a speed round questions from you i'm sorry i didn't put the attributes uh but here they are okay who's your role model and why um maybe in what area well okay um so i would say my mentor is rick pralinger uh he's been doing this longer than me like 10 years young longer than me uh and so i look to him for advice and he's given me advice and he's also turned to me for advice and i've helped him get his collection online at the internet archive so put more than 5000 films online there from his collection and we digitize all his stuff from tape so he had stuff digitized the tape and then we digitized it and put it online which is ideally not the way you want to do it no we want to go back to film whenever we can so his films are now at library conference library congress he donated those films so uh we do the best we can rick's an amazing guy and if you haven't i'm sure skip's shown some praline our archive stuff on his show yes and uh yeah but most all old-timey documentaries that you see will have something from perlinger archives in there uh so coffee do you own a grinder i do have a grinder yes um we have one here at the archive and i think we have two at the house right it's just questioning yes yeah uh so drip pour over or press uh press always a press um i should say uh so i went to um i was in school of design at nc state and um someone who i went to school with uh helped design this this is beat to hell and he's got another one yeah i've got another one but this is a uh it's called an impress and it is a mug that has a french press in it insulated mug they did a kickstarter and coffee is the jam man they they ended up selling way more yeah than they intended so you see there's a screen there and then the grounds go in here and so what you do is you get hot water and you pour it over the grounds in here you let it seep and then you press it down and then you have an insulated travel mug an insulated travel mug that is also you know french pressed coffee yeah and so that company bobble makes it now they they bought the uh patent and they make them so you can get them there but um so that's what i use and it's i went through a series of french presses which broke like three or four one of them just the components fell apart one of them i had a i woke up i was really tired and i accidentally pressed wrong and it flipped over and smashed it was glass and it had so there was hot steaming coffee and glass on the counter so uh metal from now on all right we're speeding through them who's your favorite person who starred in your your films like who is the one that showed up you're like oh my god the best hmm that's a good question let's come back to that we're gonna come back to that um when will you run out of room skip i've run out of room um i would say that you know it's already run out yeah so it's now is the challenge is to figure out like what what's the next step as far as space um do we add on to this uh archive do we build an out building but yeah i mean the fact that i have two outside storage units uh that are filled packed with films is you know it's telling so uh we might try to get creative with shelving at these units to try to squeeze some more stuff there but um yeah i have to be a little bit more selective in what films i'm taking on if they're big collections um but that being said i've taken on big collections yeah so yeah no but there's been great stuff there and one of the things is like how do you pay the bills well stock footage is one way yeah so that's a new model that's come up in the last five years seven years and so there's a lot of people watching documentaries and producing documentaries and television shows and they're using my footage and that's something that's always been people like reached out to me and it's only recently i figured out how to streamline it and make it available so exciting um you can go to archivalclips.org and see dot com archivalclips.com to see this um how many stars and i'm gonna add how many stars or filmmakers have you met from these films um or maybe who are the top three that like so jim stringer who did uh shake hands with danger and shows up in um a shoplifting film um which i can't remember caught uh caught in a ripoff uh let's see um uh the guy who made parable ralph forsberg i saw i met him um and there's others but i can't i'm suddenly can't remember okay because you're under the gun there you go all right um here somebody asks what's the holy grail film and i put what is your what is the film your the film you want that you don't have an industrial or educational that you don't have i would say right off the bat it's a count the return of count spirochete which is an animated film about syphilis made by the navy um that's one i've been looking for it came up on ebay and it went for more than 200 which was i was like yeah i'm not going to spend 200 on it well in hindsight i realized i should have spent 200 on it more because i it has not come up again and i haven't found it so one day i'll find it and so i want to this kind of brings you back to my original comment which was about sex education or vb films i guess like just kind of give a little just your little synopsis about why those films are so intriguing to you well so um when i first started collecting i was working at a um well i read a book called no magic bullet which is of a history of a venereal disease in the united states uh and how it affected uh public health but also culturally how the united states dealt with it um at the same time after i graduated i worked at the national aids hotline which was run by asha the american social health association which made a lot of films that were mentioned in the no magic bullet book and so i actually for them i actually did a thing where i edited kind of a historic um kind of compilation for their anniversary i think their 75th anniversary so i did that and then i got more interested in the vd films and i they were showing up in the collections that i was acquiring so i kind of kept looking for more and more uh and so i've got probably uh 30 or 40 vd films from different time periods in different places uh so at some point i'll do a movie or a book about it i haven't uh i was talking with a person who kind of has co-wrote and co-written articles with me about working on something and then code it happened so maybe once we get through this public health crisis then we can start talking about public health crises from the past yes and we love your ideas about maybe having a zoom show with just uh the people some regulars or have a you know a not a lunchtime time at a special show everybody wants to do an av geeks after dark to show all this that might have to be private and violent yeah this sketchy one yeah yeah this game no it wouldn't be streaming it would be the sketchy one yeah the sketchy one and also if uh we'll have live shows again absolutely yeah i love it and we love to travel so if there's a way to do a show where you are we can figure out a way to make that work and also if you happen to be in the area at some point after pandemic times and you want to get a tour of the archive um skip zoe's interested in showing uh showing off his collection and we have a gift shop too do we well yeah i have a gift shop that has uh stickers and merch and t-shirts oh online no like in the space oh you do yeah i haven't been here in a while well i just show them like whoa would you like a sticker exit through the gift shop yeah okay we're gonna exit through the gift shop well thanks everybody it was great to be here today on your congratulations yeah and thanks for uh hosting oh my pleasure and it's so great to see you all here and here see familiar names and uh i'll be back yeah and i'll be back tomorrow one o'clock cause it's still pandemic times people be safe out there yeah and this has been very successful so i'm gonna just keep doing it even though youtube shut me down twice last week um and facebook shut me down as well um later uh well i guess this is the double edge of going to films that you've never seen before too right like we don't know what's on them so who's to say there's some soundtrack it's usually soundtrack related right music usually yeah yeah so you know we just roll with it um so everybody have a great rest of your day and we will see you tomorrow thanks so much everybody for the coffee and the kind words you guys are the best we'll see you bye bye five four three eight seven six five four three seven six five four three