A/V Geeks Lunch 12-02-2021

so so so so so so so so so so hello everybody i'm skip alzheimer and welcome to the av geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films um from my collection at av geeks or from uh other collectors who we've been scanning their materials um so i should just say before we get started i just put a link in the comments to a interview that was done uh by mitch hampton who's one of the people who actually uh tunes in uh and mitch and i just did a deep dive and started talking about stuff um related to films etc i'm gonna mute myself on this other computer that i have next to me um so also an apology yesterday i showed a film called targets because i thought it was a drinking and driving film it turned out to be a film about victims teenage victims and what to do about it so it could have been triggering because it talked about lots of things that trouble uh adults who experienced things as teens and then also it had like a shot of like teenagers holding targets which is a little um it's problematic uh these last couple of days so i apologize for that um you know we watch things this that's a film i've not seen before so i and i only watched the first couple of minutes of it before you know so anyways um that was a little tone deaf of me um so hopefully this next film that we're gonna watch on the telecini won't have that uh type of um triggering in it but it's about drug abuse um so we'll see anyways it's called choices enjoy wow so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] do so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] two [Music] [Music] so it's actually choice not choices i i got that wrong um you only have one choice uh i gotta say this is like that all those other uh films about pollution that i've seen that came out around the same time where you have beautiful idyllic scenes of nature and the beauty of nature then it's begins to be intercut with a footage of uh litter and uh trash dumps and it's it's the same thing it's really and it's you know there's no narration it's uh yeah it's yeah i think it's a little lazy very lazy um and i'm sure this didn't impact anybody um who thought about it um you know basically people who are using drugs probably are not worried about being in the shadows and grainy and all solarized but um anyways yeah drug films so my dad used to be a drug educator and so i i got to hear his message and he actually showed films in my class like that's um and they weren't the scare films they were the more get high in live films um so this would be something he would probably show but still um all right this next film let's figure out what this is trying to teach us um this came from my friends in houston uh elizabeth and paul nelson um who used to do screenings under the name cinema beaumar and yeah let's just see what this film this is an educational film in its truest sense enjoy so [Music] foreign uh so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so if you see behind me i'm rewinding the film choice that we just saw um yeah so that was uh uh a short 16 millimeter film that was probably shown uh probably you could purchase it uh if you were a collector maybe in the back of a um magazine or something a police gazette or something like that um this is a kind of a light um i you know i would call it a girly reel even though there's men in it um you know and there's different levels of of this of like beautiful people parading in front of the camera in different stages of undress um from this time period so um yeah a little bit of eye candy for you uh all right let's go to banana land get on board each plant bears only a single bunch of bananas bananas are harvested the year round the men usually work in teams of three one is called a cutter here is a team starting out to work [Music] the cutter uses a sharp edge tool on the end of a pole as the plant bends the bunch comes down on the shoulder of another man who is called a backer each bunch weighs from 50 to 75 pounds when a man has to carry this load on his back it is easy to understand why he is called the backer the fruit must be cut at just the right stage of growth when the bananas are not too fat the bunch is made up of clusters called hands each hand has from 12 to 20 bananas and each bunch has from 6 to 14 hands now how many bananas are in the bunch [Music] the bunches are laid carefully on padding to keep them from being bruised rough handling at this point leaves bruise marks on the tender fruit the whole operation right from the first cutting is planned and timed or from the moment the truck arrives to start the bananas on their way to you everything runs on schedule even as the bananas have loaded for the first stage of their journey a ship of the great white fleet is on its way scheduled to make port at the same time the bananas arrive from the plantation notice how padding is placed over the bunches at all times to protect them from the sun to keep them from being scarred by rough handling [Music] here is a tractor trailer on its way to a place on the plantation where each bunch of bananas will be washed and inspected before being loaded into freight cars for the trip down to the coast in the waiting steamship [Music] see how each bunch is dipped several times great care is taken to see that the bunches are clean before they leave the plantation [Music] that is their principal food crop only a few have their own cattle and the farmer who owns an ox is a rich man as you can see their way of farming is very simple compared to ours [Music] on higher ground we find the cocoa tree in spanish it is called cacao here is a cacao pod the bean grows in this pod it is from this bean that we get our cocoa and chocolate the sharp knife he uses to open the pot is called a machete now you've learned another spanish word after the cocoa beans are spread out in the sun to dry they are packed in bags and shipped to countries all over the world people drink a great deal of cocoa but americans drink more coffee here are coffee beans being stripped from a bush did you know that they look like little red berries although we call them coffee beans they rarely are seed that grow inside their red fruit [Music] coffee is one of the biggest exports of middle america large plantations may have a million trees and employ thousands of workers coffee grows best on high ground with good drainage and is found only in the tropics carts first bring the ripe berries or seeds to drying pits where they're unloaded to dry in the sun [Music] here's a typical drying plant where coffee beans are spread out in the sun the outer hulls are removed by washing here you see men pushing the beans through a watering trough this washes away the hulls or outer parchment when they are thoroughly washed they are spread out in the sun to dry after they turn green in the sun the beans are split packed into bags and shipped to coffee roasters all over the world we all know what happens to coffee after that now huge streams of water being sprayed over a banana plantation is our first introduction to why this rich area is called banana land banana plants need a great deal of water in the dry season they have to be watered in this overhead way another method of bringing water to the plants is by surface canals this is called irrigation [Music] here is a large banana plantation now before we go any further let's take a look and see where bananas first came from bananas originally came from the moist tropical region of southern asia alexander the great found them here in time banana roots were taken from their original home to the east coast of africa from here the banana was carried westward across africa by the arabs portuguese explorers before the time of columbus found them growing here and took them to the canary islands off the north african coast around the year 1516 father thomas de balanga brought them to the islands of the west indies and later to the mainland was from a place we call banana land equally now the ship is about ready to leave to afford to have or to buy here's how the banana is planted holes are dug a foot deep and 15 to 18 feet apart a banana root a bit looking very much like a tree stump and weighing three to five pounds fighting the atlantic and pacific oceans in the 1500s spain dreamed of linking her many new world colonies by joining the oceans ships might sail from ocean to ocean without making the long voyage around cape horn the place to build a water path there remained only one way to ship goods by water from east to west around cape horn a long trip of three to nine months in the 1800s the united states began to grow people businessmen carry passengers and goods across the isthmus of panama to waiting ships but a better way of crossing the isthmus in 1881 ferdinand de lesseps the great french engineer attempt to overcome the problems of building a panama canal were the main block in the path of the proposed canal de lesseps french company planned to cut through with its dread diseases dense vegetation and stifling heat and humidity here drink dates in the early 1900s this country realized its growing naval and merchant fleets these historic films of the canal zone show how hundreds of work much of this work was supervised by george washington goethals a united states army engineer also important was the contribution of dr william gorgas who directed the successful fight in overcoming health and sanitation problems dr gorgas had pools and swamps drained to destroy the mosquitoes that carried deadly yellow fever the warriors completed the great task of building the canal in 1915 the first cargo ships went through the canal the wall today the panama canal remains a vital link for sea travel between two great oceans this ship is in one of the locks or steps that make up the canal well that was weird [Laughter] so excuse me this came from a collector who probably just had this extra footage of panama and decided they would just like i would just put it on here on this reel because you know reels cost money um and i know of there were some collections out there and collectors who that's what they would do they would build these reels of thematically similar clips and uh for stock footage purposes or for their own filmmaking purposes and um so they have lost their integrity as far as where did that come from i don't know and this happens on ebay too where some people go in and they clip out thematic things because they know that those themes might sell better especially railroad footage locomotive footage from home movies so it's frustrating because you lose the context of where it came from and you know it makes it hard to research like what is that from i have no idea uh the only way i would find out i could be able to find out what that um panamanian film was is like find the actual film and confirm that oh yes that indeed is from this coordinate film on panama um so anyways that's that's what we deal with sometimes uh all right i got another film set up on the telecity behind me i'm gonna change the title to what is it critical driving patterns so i missed the alternate uh pronunciation of machete but i know that erwin moon in the moody institute of science he uh in the film about um electric eels he talks about machete he just says machete doesn't say machete um so yeah i missed that one i might have to go and and uh listen to it again to see if we can add it to the list okay so anyways critical driving patterns uh it's missing the title but hopefully you'll get the gist of it enjoy [Music] a test driver's assignments aren't always easy but they're designed to prove the car's capabilities under widely varying conditions [Music] our high speed track is built for maximum performance and durability tests other assignments have us putting a car through its faces under handling conditions torturous tests bring out the ruggedness and performance in a car [Music] but out on the highway we have to cope with additional circumstances to test a driver's ability hang out the best or the worst in a driver that's the reason for this assignment critical driving patterns we'll be driving under unfavorable conditions those critical times when good habits pay off we'll be investigating the value of the decision pattern under adverse driving conditions and the importance of correctly identifying critical clues to prevent trouble before it begins to do that we'll be looking at what happens when our driving pattern is threatened by three things a sudden loss of vision steering or braking even all three at once on the proving ground it's not so bad no traffic to worry about no real surprises on the track but what if this happens out on the highway the situation may become critical while i couldn't see my car wheels went off the pavement that means difficult steering and uneven braking i need to slow down gradually staying in position with my right wheels off the pavement when my speeds down i and check behind for clearance i then turned sharply back onto the road to get my right wheels over the pavement's edge no panic no frantic steering i knew my positioning in traffic before the unexpected happened trouble was i made a mistake i short circuited the decision pattern missed the critical clue i failed to realize soon enough that the underpass was flooded that error made the driving test more difficult things happen too fast what is the basic driving task how can i explain it as a driver i'm usually confronted with 10 or more highway and traffic events each second at least two of these events are relevant to the driving task and will have to be observed each second a few of these events will require a decision on my part and these decisions will demand i take some kind of action from 30 to 120 times a minute if my steering speed control and positioning are accurate conflicts will be avoided but risk most drivers make at least one minor driving error every two minutes and a critical error [Music] which could lead to this every hour or two the real experts critical errors are years apart the skill driver minimizes errors and in turn the chance of a collision that's why a habitual decision pattern approach to solving driving problems is important it'll keep us out of trouble when the unexpected happens you see when an unfavorable situation arises and threatens us with an emergency here's what happens the initial alert indicating something is wrong your point of decision with no timeline for steps two three and four the skilled driver does not allow himself to be caught by surprise in the first place here's a good example of the initial alert and point of decision crowding up on each other regaining control when a skid starts like knowing how to turn your wheels into a skid takes experience and a lot of seat of the pants driving we won't teach you that in this film the important thing is to know how to prevent a skid you do that by reading the critical clues that mean there's trouble ahead and then by making decisions soon enough to minimize the problem learn to read the scene recognize patterns that provide critical clues indicating breaking steering or visibility problems clues like these changes in pavement colorings can mean different coefficients of friction oil water ice all can produce skids shaded areas can mean wet slippery leaves on the pavement water frost or ice or hidden gravel bridges overpasses and underpasses ice up and frost up first melt last in winter snow falling from trees can suddenly blot out the road ahead if it hits and sticks to your windshield wet pavements are as slippery as ice the first of a rain washes oil and road grease to the surface water on the road can cause hydroplaning the wheels at higher speeds float on the surface of the water you can't steer dips in the road and underpasses can be flooded actions of approaching cars and of cars ahead could have tipped me off in our first example few things happen in driving without any warning at all critical clues can provide you valuable time and space to adjust your speed and maintain control on the road your car takes a beating too in addition to following the regular maintenance schedule check for worn tires that lead to flats and blowouts or that indicate alignment and steering problems low pulling or squealing brakes that demand immediate attention and unless you're a service technician get a pro to give your car a safety check one defect can lead to another you have to see danger in order to avoid it just as you have to be able to spot critical clues and drive a car that responds properly to cope with their warnings and there are other factors to help you understand yourself and your condition as a driver for one reason or another you're not as sharp some days as you should be many factors can influence your driving performance inattention fatigue boredom alcohol drugs they all can dull your driving edge lower your skill in combination they can kill you there are even critical clues that you're far from your best you have difficulty keeping your vehicle in its lane [Music] you find yourself surprised by unexpected situations [Music] you forget your rear view mirror or turn signal or you forget you're on high beam you unconsciously creep up on the car ahead until you have to break suddenly [Music] that's the time to get out from behind that wheel let someone else take over the driving or just take a break and even when you think you're fully alert research has shown that you may still be easily distracted are you neglecting the basic rules of strategic positioning in traffic are you finding the proper gap for each maneuver you make giving the other driver a break when he needs it meanwhile learn to gain for yourself critical time and spin situation spot [Music] a little spicy there so 1971 you think that's what that was seemed like a little bit later in the 70s but yeah um so there's this amazing series that came out 40s 50s called industry on parade and it's made by the national association of manufacturers and it's kind of like a newsreel setup um and but it excuse me highlights different things products different manufacturing processes and how it impacts us in our everyday life and so this is one of an example of one of those industry on parade enjoy who would do this to a beautiful rose garden how do water clear crystals further national defense what's the familiar product of this unusual machine why would a million women bake a cheesecake industry on parade a brand new look at our america produced on film each week at the national association of manufacturers [Music] research headquarters for a company in newark new york do they look like greenhouses to you well that's what they are for the company is jackson and perkins a name associated with roses the world over we're about to see some of the steps that go into the development here of more than ten thousand new varieties of roses each year eugene borner director of research collects pollen from a rose he intends to cross with another to produce a new hybrid the pollen is brushed onto the pistol of the second rose in nature this job is handled by the wind and by insects who carry the pollen from one flower to another on their wings and feet but here it must be known exactly which roses are involved in the cross [Music] to ensure that insects or a stray breeze won't ruin the experiment a paper bag is placed over the flower [Music] in about three months the plant produces a rose hip or rose apple which contains the seeds of the newly created hybrid the seeds are planted in beds called flats as soon as they produce roots they're transferred to small flower pots then into larger and larger pots until they are ready to be brought outside new varieties that show promise are placed in trial gardens in all parts of the country so it can be determined how they will do under every climatic condition then they're graded according to vigor appearance of the leaves size of the flower fragrance firmness of the petals and a dozen other factors finally from the years production of ten thousand new varieties top management must make the final decision must select the two or three that will be produced in quantity theirs is the task of picking the ones that will sell and rejecting the ones that won't and a mistake here could cost a small [Music] fortune here's a field of eight hundred thousand bushes not one of whose blossoms will ever be marketed they're wild roses two years old grown to supply a sturdy root system for the hybrids budding eyes from the hybrid plants are grafted to the stems of the wild plants the flowers that will result will have no resemblance whatever to wild roses once the new shoot is well established the top of the wild bush will be cut off and discarded this not only assures the hybrid of healthy roots but permits one new plant to produce many additional plants in a single season one year later the plants are dug up like this and prepared for market [Music] the plants are bundled their tops are trimmed and they're sent off to special storage sellers to await shipment to greenhouses or home gardeners time was the firm sold its roses only to big growers who supplied retail florists but a display the company put on at the new york world's fair aroused such widespread interest that it went into mail order selling which now accounts for the major share of its volume of more than 10 million rose bushes a year [Music] the proper use of this nation's renewable natural resources soil water forests grass fish wildlife and so on poses a serious problem for all americans careless waste of such resources can gravely affect our entire future federal control over the use of our natural riches should be kept to a minimum industry endorses only those practices and programs whether from local county state or federal sources that contribute to permanent conservation sound development and wise utilization of our resources the job is mainly one for non-governmental groups [Music] industry on parade looks in on a salt lake city plant whose major function is dissolving in water crystals of a chemical called ammonium dehydrogen phosphate then converting the solution back into crystals the large optically perfect crystals thus produced are vital to the national defense and the job of making the big crystals is one that requires two months time here at king laboratory incorporated these particular crystals are going to be used as seeds for the production of other crystals control of the temperature in the tanks is the key factor insulating blankets around the tanks help the automatic controls gradually bring down the temperature at a pre-controlled rate the big reason why large perfect crystals are rarely found in nature is that fluctuating temperatures interrupt their formation [Music] looking down into the tanks through a glass porthole on top you see this the seed crystals rotating back and forth day and night for eight long weeks as layer after layer of clear and symmetrical crystals build up on the seed pretty to look at but as we said very useful too for these crystals are piezo electric if you compress them they give off electricity and if you subject them to electricity they give off sound thus the vital purpose they will serve is in sonar equipment used by the navy for sending and receiving sound underwater before they can do this however they must undergo extensive additional processing like a diamond which is also a crystal incidentally the adp as it's called must be cut by an expert who follows the plane surfaces and thus leaves a minimum of waste [Music] now the crystals must be cut down still further into very thin wafers [Music] this little wafer when brought to exact dimensions accurate to a thousandth of an inch will be the heart of a piece of equipment that permits a naval vessel to detect the presence of submarines and also is vital to the operation of submarines themselves through the electrodes being added here a flow of electricity will cause the crystal to send a burst of sound out through the water an echoing sound returning from the bottom of the ocean a school of fish or any other object nearby will cause the crystal to give off an electrical impulse which activates dials and oscilloscopes and supplies a wealth of information wherever the fleet sails on the water or under it those little crystals sail with it helping to keep it safe corrugated boxes weighing mere ounces being loaded with products of industry weighing many pounds the boxes will carry their heavy load safely despite weeks or months of all kinds of rough handling we've come to accept the ruggedness and shock resistance of corrugated boxes without realizing that they're actually made of paper at firms like samuel m langston company in camden new jersey no one ever forgets that a paper product can be so strong for it was this company that helped develop this surprising use for paper and which today after half a century is a leading designer and builder of machines used in the manufacture of corrugated paper and associated products the machines that corrugate paper or paper board are made up in large part of rollers rollers that will actually do much more than corrugate they'll apply glue and a paper facing to both sides of the crimped paper board for example then print trademarks and other information on the outer sides cut slots in the boxes so they can be quickly easily assembled and do just about everything but assemble the box and put in the contents this is another of those industries which serve only other industries one whose products we ourselves may never use or even see but which contribute much to our way of living because they make the things we do use more convenient and less expensive to dramatize for visitors to the plant the amazing qualities that their machines can impart to paper workers here like to stage an occasional demonstration of how much weight even a tomato carton can hold america is growing fast four million babies are born every year that's 11 000 a day 458 an hour more than seven a minute by 1975 we'll have an estimated population of 220 million with a population of that size it means we'll have to create more than 22 million new jobs in the next two decades to add this number of jobs means industry must invest some 264 billion dollars in plant tools and equipment in order to raise this money we must preserve the incentive to invest and create a fair tax policy to fulfill the promise of the future a homemaker prepares a new dessert guided by a recipe in her favorite family magazine it's strawberry cheesecake something she's trying her hand at for the first time she might assume that the recipe was concocted by a famous chef in the employ of the magazine and some dishes do originate in that manner but more than likely the recipe came from a reader just like herself who developed it by experimenting with an earlier recipe in the hope of giving her family a pleasant surprise to learn a little about how this recipe got into print let's visit the magazine's editorial offices better homes and gardens is put out by meredith publishing company of des moines 90 of the recipes it carries are submitted by readers and surprisingly enough those recipes like everything else printed in the magazine get a careful going over by the very top editors out of hundreds of recipes studied each month only those that sound downright delicious and practical are sent to be tried out in the magazine's tasting test kitchens here in the modern kitchens five home economists are kept busy full time baking broiling frying and roasting foods nominated for the honor of being labeled a prize tested recipe products of the kitchens are studied and measured with all kinds of scientific equipment but this is the most important hurdle of all the reaction of a tasting panel is the cheesecake too bland what about the color do you like the texture how does it compare with other cheesecake you've eaten there'll be dozens of similar questions and only if the answers are preponderantly favorable will the recipe appear in the magazine next step the artwork this includes drawings and photographs in black and white or full color a strawberry fill cornucopia is an appropriate centerpiece to accompany the cheesecake and finally after comparable detail work in every department the magazine goes to press and tucked away in its pages is the formula for a dessert that an estimated one million women will either try out immediately or clip for insertion in their better homes and gardens cookbooks one million cheesecakes no wonder those people back in des moines are so determined that when their handiwork arrives here the results have got to be good in this case it would appear evident they have nothing to worry about whatsoever [Music] um so i was looking up on wikipedia about when this uh industry and parade was made and why it was made it was um 50s to 1960 over 500 episodes it was mostly made for distribution to tv stations and um was really uh promoting the national uh i'm saying a lot aren't i the national association of manufacturers agenda so much so that the afl cio took issue with some of their episodes that were decidedly anti-labor and pro-industry and pro big business uh and we saw an example of that talking about the taxation and like well taxes no whoa hold on don't inhibit growth taxes so uh afl-cio supposedly demanded their own public service time on television and they got it and they that's when they made the americans at work series of which i have shown at least one a couple of others maybe on some of my shows the one about barbers uh one about book binders um so that's its own separate thing uh made in uh response to the popularity of industry on parade now the one thing that troubled me is there was a lot of bad behavior around all that heavy equipment and we know what to do about that i can check that back here in a minute so don't touch anything okay [Music] hey get down from there now [Music] hey turn it over what if it bumped that control by accident you'd be mincemeat by now what have i told you you don't work on equipment when the engine's running well i told them not to touch anything all right i guess i wasn't thinking you weren't thinking you mean you'll work on engines and machinery and not think of your own personal safety here shake hands with danger shake hands with danger meet a man you ought to know i used to laugh at safety now they call me three finger joe [Music] i was young and feisty never did things by the book just let me get my tool box and i'll take myself a look i climbed up on a dozier with my mechanics pride said you can keep it running friend while i poke around inside shake hands with danger meet [Music] although i learned a lesson [Music] i was grinding on some steel my other hand got careless who fed my skin into the wheel shake hands with danger step right up and say hello grinding wheels and metal are what made me three finger gel [Music] watched them caught in trouble seen them take a chance and lose they get careless for a moment and spend a lifetime with the blues [Music] [Applause] me [Music] shake hands [Music] [Music] [Music] move around inside [Music] shake hands with danger and some friends i used to know compared to them i'm lucky to be just three finger joe [Laughter] thanks for indulging me there um i see a lot of heavy equipment i see uh um some shenanigans with some people um standing on some sort of thing that's being lowered on cardboard i think yeah yeah they need this film they need to watch this film uh and of course this was a remix that my wife had commissioned from a singer-songwriter friend of ours um who i might still try to get uh he's a schoolteacher and uh for a year around school and so um i i need to find him when he tracks out for the holidays and then maybe have him on um the guy who did the uh um the remix um so uh thanks alex thanks mitch for the coffee um you can buy us coffee at um ko dash fi.com coffee dot com slash av geeks also the buy me a coffee.com slash av geek still works although they are discontinuing paypal for it so it's getting harder to use but thanks everybody for tuning in today we'll be back again tomorrow one o'clock we'll watch some more films it'll be great you'll love it um please rewind love each other take care of yourself and we'll see you tomorrow bye eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five four three eight seven six five five three