AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 10-22-2025

That was weird. What was that? What was that? A cow. Buffalo. What was that? Um, I was concerned what was going to happen uh given that that shot. Uh beautiful uh sunset though and yeah, you know, water water foul footage. Yeah, that's all right. Um although I will say that um sometimes these films, these amateur films capture things that no longer exist. Um so uh sometimes a film will show an animal that is now uh extinct. uh that happened I believe in Australia where it was zoo footage which is traditionally really horrible um just to see animals in captivity like that bored um and they they captured a Tasmanian wasn't a Tasmanian devil was another animal which has now become extinct and so this was the only footage of of that animal. Um, so all right. Uh, I'm Skip Alzheimer. We watch old 16 millimeter films here. Uh, and I feel like I showed this film, but I don't see any evidence of it. So, here is flow of electricity. Uh, in the comments, if I did show this recently, let me know. Enjoy. At the flip of a switch, electricity to start cleaner. Electricity toasts our bread and irons our clothes. It brings news and entertainment from the far right. It gives us light to read and work by and it makes life more portable by operating the everyday machines we depend on so much. Because we use electricity all the time, we hardly ever stop to think about it. And too often all we know about it is you uh plug it in and pull a switch. What is electricity and how does it work? Betty Brown's in trouble. Her lamp doesn't seem to light. How about it, Bobby? Can you help? Well, it would light Betty if you put the plug in the wall. That's where the electricity comes from. And you must have electricity to make the lamp work. But why? Betty wants to know. [Music] And that's where Bobby is stumped. Let's ask dad. He usually knows how to explain things like this. Sure. Dad knows the answer. Bobby, get that little lamp from the workshop and we'll go into the kitchen. [Music] And here in dad's hand is something that will give us the electricity to light the lamp. It's called an electric cell. The two knobs you see at the top are called terminals. They are like doors to the cell. One terminal is for the electricity to come out and the other terminal is for the electricity to go back in. But we know that electricity travels along wires. See the lamp has two wires attached to the base. When the loose ends of the two wires are fastened to the terminals, electricity flows out through this terminal along the wires to the lamp, making it light. But Betty still wants to know what electricity is. What's in the wires? Well, electricity is made up of electrons. That's what's in the wire, Betty. Electrons. Electrons are tiny particles so small that we can't see them. But here's a drawing of the electric cell, the wires, and the lamp. And show us what electrons would look like if we could see them. See, they might look something like this. Always moving about. Even though one of the wires is not connected, the electrons keep moving about but not going anywhere. But when the wire is connected to the terminal, the electrons start flowing in one direction. They flow along the wire to the lamp where they make the lamp light up, pushes them out again. The cell doesn't make electrons. It just pushes them out as fast as it can. This movement round is called the flow of electrons. For that's what electricity is, Betty, the flow of electrons. And when electrons flow and light a bulb or run an electrical appliance, we have what is called a circuit, a closed circuit. This circuit is called a closed circuit because all the wires are connected and there are no loose ends unconnected. Only where we do have a closed circuit can the electrons flow out of the cell, down the wire, into the bulb, making it light up, and along the wire, and back into the cell. Then they are forced out again and keep going around and around in the same path. When the circuit is broken at any point, the flow of electrons stops. So the light goes out when this wire is loose. It makes no difference where the circuit is broken. It can be here at this terminal or here at this terminal or any place at all in the entire circuit. As soon as the circuit is broken, the flow of electrons stops and the light goes out. As soon as the circuit is closed again, the flow of electrons starts and the light goes on. But Bobby has a question. What about the switch? When he pushes it, the light goes off. That means the circuit is broken. When he pushes it again, the light goes on. That means he has closed the circuit. But how? He hasn't touched any wires. The switch breaks the circuit for him right here inside. A switch is just a simple way of breaking or closing a circuit. It saves the trouble of unfassening a wire every time we want the flow of electricity to stop and of fastening the wire back every time we want the flow of electricity to start. Well, that's the first part of the story about electrons. Unless there are any other questions. Yes. Betty wants to know about the lamp cord. Why is there only one wire instead of two? In the circuit Dad just explained, there were two wires. One for the electrons to flow out from the cell and another for the electrons to flow back into the cell. Aren't two wires absolutely necessary to light this kind of lamp? They certainly are, Betty. Without two wires, we can't have a closed circuit like this. But if you look closely at this small piece of lamp cord dad is holding, you'll see that there are actually two wires inside it. One here and one here. A lamp cord is just two separate wires with a covering around them. Notice that the wires on all the electric cords you use around the house are covered. That's for protection. The electricity used at home is strong enough to give you a dangerous shock unless there is a covering or insulation around the metal wires to prevent them from touching you. Well, Betty and Bobby have found the answers to some of their questions. They have learned that an electric cell can give us electricity and that electricity is made up of electrons which are tiny particles always moving about. They've seen that when a wire is connected here the cell pushes the electrons along the wire into the lamp making it light up along the other wire and into the cell again where they are forced out once more to keep going round and around. This movement is called the flow of electrons. They know that when the circuit is broken at any point, the flow of electrons stops and the light goes out. They've seen that a switch is just a simple way of breaking or closing a circuit. They found out that there must be two wires in this kind of closed circuit. one for the electrons to flow from the cell to the lamp and the other for the electrons to flow from the lamp back to the cell. And now there's just one more thing that's puzzling Bobby. Where is the electric cell in our house? Is it hidden in the wall? Do we have several of them? And when the cord is plugged into the socket, does it connect the wires with the cell? Well, Bobby, not exactly. There is no electric cell in the wall. Lamp gets its electricity from something different, but the idea is the same. There are just two more wires for us to learn about. The plug connects the lamp cord with the two wires in the wall like this. The wires in the wall lead outside of the house where they join a main line which may be underneath city streets or overhead until they reach a big powerhouse miles away. Inside the powerhouse is a generator which like the electric cell can also provide electricity by pushing electrons out along the wires. But while the electrons that flow from an electric cell can light only a small lamp, a big generator can supply enough power electricity to light many homes. So the next time you switch on the lamp in your living room, pause for a moment and think. Isn't it wonderful that we can control electricity and start it flowing over a circuit that may be many miles long to light a lamp or do any one of a thousand tasks which make life simpler and more convenient for us. And we can do all this with just the click of a switch. I lost which window I was on. Uh I have a little tiny um MacBook Pro and the windows uh the screen's not very big and so I'm oftent times doing research or bouncing around. I'm preparing for a um I won't be there personally, but I'm uh the science museum in downtown Raleigh is hosting a zombie prom adult night. And so they asked me to provide some footage of uh zombies and proms. So, that's what I'm kind of compiling. I have about an hour and a half worth of stuff that I'm trying to to put together, blend together into a delicious uh dip, stew, I don't know. Uh, okay. So, this film we scanned recently. This is part of uh Orgon Archive uh films that we scanned last week. And I showed this a long time ago, but um this is a better copy. Um I think I showed this like five years ago. So this is we we watched choosing for happiness I believe last week uh where a young lady uh tries to pick a suitable partner B um and is I I feel like she's a little picky, finicky. But um this one is by March of Time and this is talking about our n our nation's search to be happy. master of the sky above and the earth beneath, modern man applies his utmost ingenuity and inventiveness to the pursuit of speed and comfort In search for his most deeply desired objective, happiness, he has surrounded himself with ever more complicated mechanisms to reduce mental and physical effort to a minimum. Man is ever employing vast scientific resourcefulness for the creation of entertainment devices to provide him with constant distraction. Year by year, the number of appliances and gadgets contributing to man's convenience multiply around him. But despite all the mechanisms he has invented in his pursuit of personal happiness, Sorry, there was a weird um crash that I'm trying to stop here. Um, and I'm trying to quit out of this. All right. It's uh something that was uh taking up too much processor speed and so that has caused problems. So, I'm working on trying to kill that process. Um, it's a okay computer. It's not the best one day. All right, stop me yelling at my computer. Stop. Stop. Stop doing this. Okay, I think we're good. All right, back to where we were. He has surrounded himself with ever more complicated mechanisms to reduce mental and physical effort to a minimum. Man is ever employing vast scientific resourcefulness for the creation of entertainment devices to provide him with constant distraction. Year by year, the number of appliances and gadgets contributing to man's convenience multiply around him. But despite all the mechanisms he has invented in his pursuit of personal happiness, man is finding existence in the modern world full of frustrations and vexations. [Applause] Today, the machines man has invented to conquer his environment seem themselves to be conquering men. >> Driver, driver, I have to be at Penn Station at 3:30 and it's 20 after now. >> Listen, lady, I can't pick up this cab and carry it, can I? >> How dare you speak to me that way? You're the most [Music] [Applause] [Applause] In the calm of America's universities are many thinkers who pondering the pressure of today's mechanized world are seriously concerned with the effect of modern living upon mankind. Among them is Professor Ernest Albert Hooton of Harvard, eminent anthropologist whose studies of the human race from the stone age to the present have left him totally unimpressed by recent technological advances and none too hopeful of the prospects for happiness of the tottering biped known as man. It took millions of years for man to evolve from a super ape into a thinking animal. But during the past 30,000 years of increasing gadgetry, man has backslid mentally and physically. Technology perfects machines that even feeble minds can operate. The unintelligent user of gadgets still retains the mentality of primitive man. He resorts from moral support to mumbo jumbo just as did his savage ancestors. Machines get better and better. Illogical beliefs persist. Mechanized in moronic man extinction. Any questions? Corroborating Dr. Putin is the American press where reports of the current trend toward mental disorders and crimes of violence testify that man is far from happy. One out of every 10 Americans is due for a nervous breakdown. One American in every 200 is now a patient in a mental hospital. The great variety of popular books on mental problems bears witness to the everyday American's troubled state of mind. Among the commonest worries of most people is the problem of how to succeed in one's job. No less urgent to the average man or woman is the problem of how to attract the opposite sex. Faced by these and other problems, troubled people have always turned to the traditional counselors. The family doctor, experienced and reliable, the school teacher instructor of the young, the man of God who ministers to the spirit and the elders of the family group. But that traditional counseling is not always adequate is shown by the success of syndicated newspaper columns of personal advice. Read by over 15 million Americans every day is the most popular of these columns written by the venerable Dorothy Dicks. >> I am desperately in love with my boss, a married man with whom I am having an affair. Shall I ask his wife to give him up so that he can marry me? >> No sensible man is likely to give up home and career for a later of love. You're wasting your time on your married sweetheart. Turn your guns on lawful game. Airwave equivalent to the LoveLorn columns are the personal counseling programs on the radio which broadcast the troubles of unhappy people to millions of listeners every week. You have just been listening to Experience Teaches Elmer P. Lightwood's personal counseling program. Are you unhappy, depressed, in trouble? Write a frank statement of your problem to Elmer P. Lightwood care of the station to which you are listening. He can help you as he has helped thousands. >> Troubled people by the thousands send in requests for advice every week. And from among them, the radio counselor picks the most theatrically effective for discussion on his program. [Applause] Carefully withholding the names of the participants, the counselor probes their dilemas before a nationwide audience. And what's your problem, Miss Y? >> Oh, I don't know. It's just that my fiance was killed in the war. Life doesn't seem to mean much to me anymore. It's as though I couldn't bear to live sometimes. >> Oh, come, come, come now, Miss Y. Many of us have lost persons dear to us in the war, but we've learned not to take it so hard. Think of the sunshine, Miss Y, and all the beauties of nature. Can you think of all those glorious, everlasting things and still say that you don't want to live? >> I don't care about anything. That's how I feel. >> Oh, so you're going to turn your back on things, eh? You're going to say no to life. Is that it? Well, now let me tell you, young woman, >> seriously concerned about the morbid interest these programs arouse and the quality of the advice given is Dr. George Stevenson, medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. >> Listen to Experience Teaches next week. Another gripping human half hour. >> You know, these radio programs that exploit people in distress on the pretext of helping them should not be allowed. Advice given by self-styled counselors who aren't prepared scientifically to deal with human problems is apt to be both misleading and dangerous. Of equal concern to doctors is the blind faith of many people that diet alone will solve all their problems. The addiction of Americans to food fads as a means of bolstering themselves up has enabled many a diet theorist to build his private formula into a flourishing business. >> I use liver, brain, spinal cord, heart, kidney. mixed the juices of raw vegetable that fixed up gray hair, wrinkles, bad teeth, sagging chin, brittle nails. If somebody has sex problem, your worries are over. But the currently popular health theorist has by no means crowded out the colorful medicine man with his nostrils guaranteed to cure every ill and solve every problem. >> Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see how Dr. Mayfield's famous vitone remedy works. Carrying his germ destroying properties to every corner of the human system, ridding it of impurities, Dr. Mayfield's wonderful vitone remedy brings a new spring to your walk, new life to your worry jaded eyes and a ready glow of health to your pale cheeks. Only $1 a bottle, MY FRIENDS, FOR DR. MAYFIELD'S VITAZONE, surpassing all the medical specialists in all the hospitals of the globe. Who's going to be the first to buy a wonderful bottle of Vitazone? Oh, I see a fine intelligent young gentleman there. Oh, thank you. $1. Who's going to be the sick? >> With unfl flagging optimism, man has been buying potions and pills for centuries, forever assured that a miraculous solution of all his problems is just around the corner. Another means of self-improvement, mail order courses in muscle building have for years enjoyed a phenomenal success. From offices which cover a whole floor in a New York skyscraper, strongman Charles Atlas operates a million-doll business from all over the world pour in the inquiries of clients young and old, all of whom are ambitious to achieve a torslike atlases. Why? Only the other day a very rich man called me up and said, "Charlie, I have just lost a half a million dollars. I'm going to blow my brains out." So I told him to forget it and get to exercising. Let me teach you how to become strong like this. [Music] Today, some doctors have grave reservations as to the value of exercise for everybody. Prominent among them is Dr. William H.Sheldon, noted authority on the human constitution. >> For some people, physical culture is a good thing. For some others, it may be disastrous. But despite wise counsel, millions of men and women continue to search for happiness, each in his own strange way. Ever seeking to win the admiration of others, never daunted by his previous failures, man is forever sure that next time he'll hit the jackpot. [Music] Part and parcel of every man's spirit of hope is his immemorial desire to know what the future holds in store. upon fortune tellers and fortuneelling devices. The American public spends some $150 million a year. The fact that the same person may hear three or four contradictory versions of the future from as many practitioners seldom does anything to shake her faith in the ancient arts of soothsaying. >> Now, here's your heartline. Well, you certainly get plenty of attention from the wolves, don't you? [Music] Bad confluence is looming up next year. Do not swim in the ocean. That would be fatal. Moon and Pluto in the air sign Jiminy H. Your love life's not very satisfactory, is it? [Applause] >> Naturally, you've had bad luck with a name like Ruth Farrell. The letters don't coincide with your astral influences. Now, if you'll change your name to this one I've worked out for you, you'll be in tune with the infinite and all your problems will vanish. >> What's my new name? Your new name is Krior Roal. [Music] >> For the pretensions of numerologists and astrologers who base their predictions on the stars, there is no respect whatever among astronomers whose job is to study the stars scientifically. Men like the Hayden Planetarium's chairman, Gordon Atwater. >> Astronomy is the science of the stars. Astrology is a cult. a cult which claims that the stars have a direct influence upon people's lives and that they may be used to foretell the future. Astrology has no scientific basis whatsoever. If any of you have come to the planetarium expecting us to cast your horoscope, you have come to the wrong place. But watching man's fumbling pursuit of happiness from among primitive evidences of human irrationality, even the sardonic professor H. Hotton is not completely pessimistic. People who consult mystics, divers, and prophets of the occult employ the same sort of subhuman reasoning as produced these masks and magical paraphernalia. You seem to take a very dim view of humanity, Professor Hooton. Haven't you any hope for the future of man? >> Certainly. But we must realize that we need not merely better machines and sounder beliefs, but wiser and healthier men. When we have learned what qualities of mind and body combine in heredity to make superior individuals, we may then produce intelligent human beings who will ultimately salvage civilization. Bolstering up the scientist's hope, a national committee of 13 with a campaign of good humored burlesque to expose the baselessness of humanity's fears and phobias is trying to prove on a popular level that superstition can be eradicated. Backed by people as well known as illustrator John Vasos, the committee feels it may in time get mankind to substitute logic and common sense for its eternal wishful flight from reality. To educate by example, these iconoclasts publicly violate all the time-honored taboo. For with the scientists, they believe that until men learn that their future lies in themselves, not in cults or charms or mumbo jumbo, the security and happiness men have sought down the ages will still elude them. Time marches on. That film was awesome. Holy cow. It'd be fascinating to remake that, but Time magazine's not going to do that. They're not interested in that. Um yeah. Wow. And the reason why they're not interested because a lot of their advertising dollars comes from people who are taking advantage of people who want to spend money on things that uh you know it's the same things. uh weight, uh sexual prowess or sexual um potency, um you know, uh improving your looks, uh age reduction stuff. All that stuff is all out there and that's advertising dollars and it's all bogus. All right. Um I think this is Canadian. Um and we have not seen this. Enjoy. [Music] James Howard is not going to get up in time for work this morning. This morning he cannot face the day. >> Good morning, Jimmy. >> His wife is older than he is and more mature. The day holds no particular fears for her. His job has been getting him down lately. He feels that his boss asks too much of him and doesn't appreciate him enough. He needs a lot of appreciation. Sometimes to his wife, he is like a boy. We all depend on others, but demands that are legitimate in a child are not practical in adult. Such persons ask so much. Jimmy is like this, and like a child, he does not feel obliged to make return. [Music] [Applause] He is late for the office but he is not consciously avoiding his work. He feels very badly about not being there. He feels sick too and because of that he can justify himself. He is not a malinger. He is sick. All right. When he was a child he learned that sickness brought him extra love and attention. As he grew, he found that he could always gain by being sick. The self-reliance he should have developed was stunted, mostly because of a mother who protected him too much and a father who neglected him and whom he dreaded. Now, to feel strong, to work well, to cope with his problems, he has to feel loved and appreciated. If he does not feel this, he still attempts to win the support he needs by becoming ill, as he did when he was a child. [Music] [Music] Hello. Oh, Jimmy. Where are you? At the office. >> No, I'm sick. I had an awful night. Like, I need a thing. >> Oh, Jim. What about that special job Mr. Aker wanted you to do? You said I'd have to be done today. Have you phoned him? >> No, not yet. I thought maybe you'd do that. >> Jimmy, I can't phone him. You'll have to. Well, yes. I'll call a doctor. I'll try to make an appointment for right after lunch so we can come back downtown together. Be ready and don't worry. Everything will be all right. Let me speak to Mr. Aker. No, wait. Is Mr. Hammond there? Hello, Art. This is Jim. Look, I tried to get Aker, but his line was busy. Would you tell him that? And tell him I'm sick and I've made an appointment to see the doctor. Oh, I don't know what it is, but I feel lousy. Well, thanks, Art. He would like to, but he could not face the boss. He knows this, and it makes him miserable and angry at himself. And as to the boss's phone being busy, people who are upset as he is sometimes lie more to fool themselves than others, only to feel guilty afterwards. [Music] Jim, you're not dressed. You know you're seeing the doctor at 2. >> 2:00? Why did you make it so early? >> Get dressed, dear. I'll get you some lunch. >> Oh, don't mention food. I couldn't eat a thing. Did you call Mr. Aker? >> Sure. >> Did you fix enough about that special job? Well, I couldn't do it. >> I said I had to see a doctor. How's everything at the office? >> Oh, all right. Very busy. You almost ready, dear? >> What tie should I wear, Marion? My gray suit. >> The tie is unimportant. What does matter is for people to concern themselves about him. >> Oh, anyone will do, dear. This one will be fine, dear. Thanks, Marian. Better hurry. We'll be late. Where's my wallet? >> Did you look in all your pockets? >> Certainly. >> Did you look in your other suit? >> Of course. >> Oh, Jimmy. >> Oh, come on. Let's go. Mr. Howard? >> Yes, I have an appointment with the doctor. >> You're a little late. >> Only a few minutes. >> Oh, it's all right. But there's someone with him now. He won't be long. Won't you sit down? >> Fine. I don't mind waiting. Would you come in, please? >> Come in, Mr. Howard. What can I do for you? Sit down. Well, doctor, I felt so awful when I got up this morning that I couldn't go to the office. I had some pretty important work to do, too. I've been working too hard lately. I think I'm pretty sick. >> What seems to be the trouble? >> Well, it's a lot of things. My stomach. I feel nauseated a good deal of the time. And I can't eat. And I don't sleep well at all. I don't feel rested. I'm tired all the time. Now today I egg all over and my heart. I couldn't have heart trouble at my age, could I? It races and I feel it throbbing in my ear. I've noted things down. I put off seeing a doctor for a long time, but I've kept track so you'd have the whole picture. >> Yes. >> Oh, yes. I get too many colds and a lot of heavy congestion. I thought I'd better make sure that my lungs are all right. These colds and this congestion and the pain from my sinus are pretty bad. I've missed a lot of work this year. I want to get back on my feet again. Now, let me put down what I need to know about you and then I'll give you a thorough physical checkup. We'll find out what's wrong with you. You can get dressed now. To feel strong, he has to be given things. He needs tokens of affection. If they are not offered, taking is sometimes better than having to ask. >> Well, how do I stand, doctor? Well, I've given you a thorough physical examination, and I'm glad to be able to tell you that there's nothing wrong with your heart or with your lungs or with your stomach. Of course, to make sure, I'll have some further tests done. But as machines, these organs are fine. >> It is not easy for everyone to grasp the idea that emotional conflicts can cause real illness. But so much of the illness a doctor sees is of that kind. James Howard must be made to understand that he is not unique, that always there are two causes for symptoms such as his. a history of emotional difficulties going far back and forgotten and some present cause that stirs up the old trouble disturbing the normal functions of the body. >> I take it it isn't the first time that you have been troubled in this way. >> No, it's a pretty regular thing. I wish it weren't. >> What about when you were younger? >> Well, as a kid I was sick a lot. I missed quite a bit of school. I learned easily, so that didn't matter. But I spent quite a bit of time in bed being looked after by my mother and sister. >> How's my little Jimmy? >> Oh, fine. [Music] >> This poor little baby sick again. Mother, if you're too busy to help me with my homework, I'll go out and play baseball. >> His scorn is jealousy. He would like this attention for himself. >> Never you mind, dear? Never mind that little stinker. Here, look. >> Here's your medicine, dear. >> No, I don't want it. >> A Come on, take it, sweetheart. It'll make you better. [Music] >> Your mother and sister were really much too concerned about your health. It was about this time that you had your tonsils out, wasn't it? Yes, I still remember that hospital. [Music] Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy. [Music] It still bothers me. I dream about it. >> Of course, it bothers you. >> It can be a very harsh experience for a child of that age, but sometimes these things have to be done. Now, I want to know more about you. Could you be back on Friday at the same time? >> Why, yes, fine. But isn't there something I should take? >> No, not right away. Oh, maybe I should have a certificate for the office. >> I told him I had to see a doctor. Should I go back to work? >> Yes, I think you can. Goodbye. Well, Mr. Ar will call you and let you know about those tests. A prescription might have helped convince Jimmy's conscience of the reality of his illness. A certificate might have brought him the understanding attention of his boss. But in withholding them, the doctor has taken a positive step toward helping Jimmy to realize that he is able to stand on his own. >> James Howard, 25, married. No physical findings which could indicate organic disease. Half chest plate and gastrointestinal series done. Youngest child in family were other children were six, seven, and eight at his birth. The fact that he was born late and probably unwanted certainly has influenced his development. Further investigations of childhood necessary matches. >> He had expected the doctor to protect and back him more because he feels that he has been let down. He will seek comfort where he can. Hi, Jim. >> Hello, Dennis. >> Hi, Jim. How are you? >> We're not so hot. Just came from the doctor's. >> That's all. You don't look so good. Sit down. Have a drink. >> Oh, I just have a glass of milk. >> My milkshake ready? >> Coming right up. What's the trouble? >> He doesn't know yet. Got to go back. I've been feeling awful lately. Pains all over. Headaches. Well, that's too bad, Jim. Better take it easy. How's the job? Banging out for a while? >> Well, I should be there today. There was something down at the office the old man wanted me to do. He didn't let him down. >> Well, you're sick. >> Yes, I sure am. Excuse me a sec. I got to make a phone call. Got a nickel? >> Little things. The bill for a drink. A nickel. Not much. But because he takes them as his right, people sometimes resent him. Because he is disappointed and unhappy. Jimmy, like a child, turns, as a child, does to his mother as the only safe source of comfort and help. >> Hello, mother. We're not so good. I've just come from seeing the doctor. Well, he's not sure yet. No, I'm not going to the office today. Just going to be there. I promised Marion I'd be home to dinner, but I can drop by your place on the way. Oh, I can get there by myself. All right. Okay. Pretty soon. Did you pay? Shouldn't have. Thanks, beautiful. Thought it was my mother. Dennis wants to see me. I'll be seeing you soon, eh? So long. >> Well, dear, didn't he say what was wrong? Did he take any X-rays? >> Well, no, he didn't. He knows what he's doing. I did expect him to give me a prescription, though. Well, what you need is a little looking after. >> Hello there. Anybody home? >> Oh, there's your sister. >> Hello, mother. >> Hello, dear. >> How's the mother-in-law? >> Very well. >> How's my Jimmy? Now, you look wonderful, Jimmy. >> Well, he's not. He's not well at all. He's just coming for the doctor to >> Jimmy. What's the matter? >> Well, he doesn't know yet. >> Guess what, mother? How's buy a new washing machine? >> Well, isn't that fine? You're very good to her. Jimmy, you're staying for dinner? Of course. Some of mother's good hot food will do your work good. >> Oh, no. I don't think I could eat a thing. Beside. >> No, never. You mind, dear? Mother knows best. I'll marry it right away. At home, he has always found comfort, but at the price of never being allowed to be strong. He is vulnerable now because as a child, he was never allowed to face small frustrations and gain the experience, which makes us able later to handle bigger ones. >> Oh, hello, Marian. Dear Jim staying here at the dinner, dear. He was at the doctor's, you know. I'll give him a good hot dinner. So, don't you worry, dear. I'll look after him. >> Mother, I have dinner all ready for him. Oh, all right. Goodbye. [Music] Worrying over a long period of time can upset you just as much as a physical illness. We are built in such a way that if we get upset, we feel that we're in a jam. Our body automatically gets ready for action. The heart starts beating faster, the muscles tighten up, the stomach slows down, we breathe hard, and we sweat. Now, those changes are perfectly normal as long as they don't last too long. But if you're worried over a long period of time, or even if you succeed in pushing those difficulties out of your mind without having solved them satisfactorily, then your heart may start pounding or you may start to get muscular aches and pains or indigestion or other discomforts which may leave no permanent damage but which make you feel just as sick. Now, in order to help you, we'll have to review your life right back to your childhood. Now, in doing this, you will yourself gain a better understanding of your reaction to people and things and how these reactions are responsible for your symptoms. Well, I know you said it would take time, and certainly I've been doing a lot better these last few weeks, but now everything's gone wrong again. Today I feel as bad as I ever did. >> You're bound to have relapses, Jim. In this kind of treatment, you should expect them. You go forward then back a bit. Altogether, I think you've gone forward a good deal now. What's happened? >> The incident itself was simple. His growing confidence led him to make an appointment to discuss a job of the kind he had always wanted, and which, with his real ability, he could manage very well. While he was waiting, he suddenly felt terrified without knowing why. >> Yes, Mr. Stone >> felt panicky. All of a sudden, I knew I couldn't stay there. I had to say I had another appointment and couldn't wait. Couldn't face him. I felt trapped. I had to get out of that place. Then I felt ashamed. I felt the same way coming to your office. Angry, tight in my throat, afraid. I felt like a small child. >> I felt the same way with my father. I always wanted to be like him, to do the things he did. But he never took the trouble to help me learn. >> No, no, Jimmy. You can't use my tools. You're too young. You don't know how to use them properly. >> I got so I was afraid of him. [Music] Now, do you see why it was so difficult to go in and see about that job? I don't think I'd be quite so scared about it next time. Oh, doctor >> Marion and my sister want to talk to you about me. Would that be all right? >> That'd be fine, providing you agree. >> He nearly died at birth. Mother never got over the fear of losing him after not really wanting him in the first place. I think >> she was too old and hadn't planned on having any more children. >> I'm afraid we treat him much the way your mother did. We've always more or less looked after him. Marion and I have been friends for years. That's how Jimmy met her. >> I see. >> Jimmy was awfully upset after father died. And Marion was good for him. I helped get along. >> Yes. >> We started going out together. I got him to take up golf. >> Although Marian protects him and leads him, she does so without robbing him of self-esteem. And since he feels loved, he feels as though he has gained new freedom from the over anxious domination he has known at home. We had marvelous times together. [Music] We had to put the wedding off twice because he was sick. Nothing serious. Now I think he must have been afraid of getting married. [Music] We've been very happy together except for Jimmy's sickness. And I know he hasn't liked his job. Except that I want to have babies. >> Of course, >> Jimmy loves children, other people's. I think he's afraid to have any of his own. >> You can help him by realizing that he is an adult full of capabilities. Don't treat him as a child. He may like it unconsciously, but you may be sure that he doesn't really want it and that he resents it. Encourage him rather to do things. Don't take over too much. Stand by him. Remember that he needs and wants to depend on himself. Pay more attention to his assets rather than to his flaws. He has many assets which deserve your respect and he's a very capable man. >> As his treatment progresses, Jimmy becomes able by himself to free himself from the early fears and longings that have been such a crippling influence on his life. >> Timmy and his sewing circle. The lack of understanding, support, and example from his father, and too much protection from his mother and sister kept him from a boy's normal competitive games. [Music] A guy doesn't like to be called a >> I wasn't a [Applause] [Music] >> Deprived of help and example, his mild attempts to gain strength were easily defeated by his unsympathetic brother and the other boys who could not understand his inner struggle. [Music] [Applause] HOME was the only place of refuge from the disappointment of his failures. [Music] [Laughter] But he is losing his fear of being free. >> Here you are, mother. >> Now I want you both to come to dinner. I've made your roast pork for you, Jimmy, and lemon pie. >> That's swell, mother. Oh, I forgot. I told a couple of fellas we'd try to meet them at the hotel. It might be a lead on that agency job. >> You can see them again, dear. You go if you think you should, Jim. I'll stay with mother. Well, >> I'll for you later. Have a good dinner. Goodbye. >> Goodbye. As yet, he can gain his independence only with assistance. Marion helps him to be free and protects his mother from feeling too much deserted. It's a good job and I like it. The kind of work I think I can do. >> Do you remember last week I was telling you about always wanting to go fishing with my father and he never would take me? >> Yes. >> I always hoped he'd take me, but he never did. Oh, please. >> Oh, Jimmy, you're too young. I'll take you sometime on your own. I had a dream the other night. I did go fishing with him, but it was all mixed up. I was the fisherman with a hat full of flies and high boots and a tremendous fishing pole. And my father was barefoot and was fishing with a stick and a bent pin and catching nothing. But I I caught a beautiful big silver fish. >> Don't rock the boat. [Music] >> Well, I guess you want to be in your father's shoes. >> I guess maybe I do at that. >> Jimmy is less demanding now. He is more sure of himself and sufficiently at ease to enjoy the doctor's friendship. Well, I've got to get back to work. I'm leaving now, Mr. hard unless there's something you want me to do. >> No thanks. I'll be waiting for a while. >> Do you need cigarettes or anything? >> No thanks. I'll see you in the morning. >> Hello. >> Hi. >> Want eight? >> No. Be with you in a minute, dear. >> How's it coming today, Jimmy? >> Could be worse. >> Met your boss. He's nice. Well, >> he's all right, but don't let him take you in with his fancy talk. I guess I'll finish this tomorrow and keep the wife waiting. You know, >> Jimmy is on his way to better health. He has learned to respect himself and that discovery has freed him from his overdependence on others. >> Hey, what are you trying to do? Kill me? >> Now satisfaction in his own accomplishments comes from within himself. And with this new strength, he can begin to give attention and affection to others. [Music] Oh man, I just wanted to shake him. I have certainly worked with like in work environments and also in college and school with jimmies um to where they're just like I'm helpless. And yeah, I get it. I try to be empathetic, but oh my god, it just works my nerves. I'm like, dude, just get over it. And I know that's not but that's the knee-jerk is um trying to be empathetic about folks like that, but man, they just drain me. Absolutely drain me. Anyhow, thanks for watching today. Uh we saw different things, wide variety of things. Um and I appreciate Nathan. Thank you so much for the donation uh for the Charles Atlas uh clip. 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