AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 10-29-2025

Hello everybody. I'm Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the AV Geeks Lunchtime streaming show uh where we watch old 16 mm films. And today my computer was very sluggish and that is uh unnerving to me because that might bite us in the butt later on. Um, anyways, it's gross and rainy here, so it makes sense that everything is slow and sluggish. It's just a one rainy day. [Music] Jimmy doesn't like rainy days. Not at all. He doesn't like the trouble of putting on boots and taking them off. He doesn't like to wear a raincoat either. It's more extra trouble. See, [Music] Jimmy thinks that nobody likes rainy days. But maybe Jimmy will change his mind for Miss Lane is going to read a story about someone who does like rainy days. The story is called The Little Girl Who Was Glad It Rain. This is Peggy. Peggy is going to the store. That's why she has her purse. There is shopping money in the purse. She also has an umbrella as anyone can plainly see. Now, why do you suppose Peggy is carrying an umbrella when the sun is shining so brightly? Look, the clouds are heavy and dark. Have you ever seen clouds like this? Do you think it's going to rain? Peggy thinks it is, and she's glad the rain is coming. You see, Peggy and her family like to build a fire outdoors and roast hot dogs and marshmallows. But where Peggy lives, it hasn't rained for weeks and weeks. Do you know what happens when it doesn't rain for a long time? The flowers wither. The trees get dry. They could burn easily. That's why signs are up all over the woods warning people not to build fires. Not even for roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. The wooden houses are dry, too. But now it looks as if the rain is coming at last. After a rain, Peggy and her family will be able to build a fire and roast hot dogs and marshmallows again. That's what Peggy is going to the store to buy. No wonder she's so happy. [Music] [Music] Now, what is Peggy doing? What does she want the umbrella of? Listen. Oh, I'm the queen of the circus. A tight rope walker, you know. A way up high in the big top with everyone watching below. I wear a smile. Ooh, I never frown. Ooh, but really and truly, I'm glad to get down the wind. Have you noticed that it's almost always windy just before a rain? The wind is blowing the rain clouds closer. >> Oh, but look here. Doesn't Mrs. Johnson know it's going to rain? Her wash will get wet. Now it's getting darker and Peggy knows the rain will soon be here. But look at this. If Mrs. Frank doesn't close her window, her floor will get wet. Peggy isn't afraid. She's glad the storm is coming because afterward she'll be able to roast the hot dogs and marshmallows she's come to the store to buy. Now everybody knows it's going to rain very soon. [Music] It's a good thing Peggy brought the umbrella. [Music] [Music] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Is it Is it It's raining. It's raining. [Music] [Music] Peggy loves to listen to the sounds of the rain. Mr. Rings are falling everywhere. Lightning thunderashing, crashing, looming, booming here and there. Raindrops washing streets and sidewalks washing all the stuff away. Trees and flowers [Music] on a rainy rainy day. >> Peggy likes the sounds of the rain. And when the rain is over, they can build a fire and roast the hot dogs and marshmallows. Peggy likes this best of all. And now you know why we call Peggy the little girl who was glad it rained. That story was fun, wasn't it? Jimmy liked that story. He even likes rainy days better. But is it still a rainy day? No, the rain has stopped. After a rain, the air is cool and fresh. And look, it's a rainbow. Isn't this a beautiful way for a rain to end? [Music] I'm baffled why there's this wraparound story where the kids go to school and then they listen to a story about rain. It's like what? Why do you need this extra padding on it? Just tell the story of the girl in the picnic and it raining. Like I don't know. It's really strange. It's like the times that, you know, and I like these times when the kids go into a classroom and then they watch a film and we get to see what they watch and it's a way to like in in a lot of cases that's like reusing u footage uh that um and providing from a previous version basically and it's it's hilarious. Uh I think it's time for uh rain. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Wow. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] pap. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Mommy. [Music] [Music] I got to say the Wonderalk series is pretty great and the music is, you know, there's some electronic stuff in there and just really pretty great and some of them are have no narration like what we just saw. There's some I think there's one called Some Friendly Insects which has like a rhyme like a a poem in it, but uh the narration is pretty sparse and they're short films. So great. Um I'm showing a bunch of these films because it's raining here and this is like the third day it's been raining here in Raleigh. We need the rain, but it uh it negatively impacts my enthusiasm. It's kind of like so trying to make the best of it. Uh this is Adventures of a Junior Raindrop. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Have you ever wondered about a raindrops family. Let's drop in on Papa Cloud and Junior Raindrop. [Music] Uh-oh. Junior, get up. Get up. It's time for you to visit your mother earth. >> Oh, Pop. to stay here with you. >> Stop your pouting. And mind you, behave yourself. Get along now. Off with you. Along. And out come millions of earthbound raindrops. >> Ouch. Foreign and welcome. This is Mother Earth can't kick me around. I'll run away. >> So, Junior joins a group of other raindrops looking for excitement. The bare soil speeds them on their way. Nobody seems to care what they do. As he passes by, Junior hears some plants talking. Some are so sick from having too many cows and sheep chewing on them, it will take years to get well. Other plants are dying from the same cause. They say unless fewer cattle and sheep are allowed on waterheds like this, ruin will follow. >> Gosh, I hope this waterhed isn't made better, cuz if it is, we can't slide on it anymore. [Music] Oh well, let's leave Junior to himself for a while. You know, little runaway raindrop love forests where too many trees have been cut down and rangeands that are overg grazed. They especially love burned oaths like this to dig their heels into. These hoodlam raindrops leave a trail of erosion, wasting soil that is needed to grow plants for grazing cattle and sheep and trees for timber. Soil that is needed for growing food. Soil needed to store some of that water. They choke streams boiling water needed for our farms, our industries and homes. They leave silt in reservoirs. wasted work. Reservoirs are built to store water, not mud. Well, I wonder what's happened to Junior. Just what I feared. He's formed a gang and they're whooping it up for a flash flood. They're rushing down the canyon. They made a wall of water 20 ft high. Look out. Too late. Now Junior is a real outlaw. No longer satisfied with flash floods, the gang is planning bigger and wetter floods. Junior is getting dangerous. He's getting tougher and bolder every day. Now he's tough gangster. heading for the big time. Raging along, waging gang war, robbing, destroying, killing. And all because somebody started a forest fire. Somebody cut down too many trees. Somebody put too many cattle and sheep on this range. Well, sir, Pop Cloud is pretty disgusted with man's carelessness. He knows it isn't Mother Earth's fault. She just isn't getting cooperation from enough people in the USA. Everybody is affected by the way wheds are managed and everybody ought to do something about it. It's too bad Junior didn't know his wersheds and land on a good one. Junior and all the other raindrops could be useful if they're treated right. If they were welcomed on a cushion of plants, trees, grass, and leaves, they would seep slowly through the earth into springs, trickle into streams, keep house for the fish, and play with fisherman's lines. They would splash in lakes and pools and fill irrigation ditches with clear drinks for farm crops and orchards. In ever increasing numbers, they would use their excess energy to supply power and light for people's needs. [Music] Supporting ships of commerce, the raindrops finally enter the ocean. Until more people cut only trees that can be spared without damaging the land, and plant seedlings as needed, improve their management of rangeands by allowing no more cattle and sheep than there's grass to feed and reed when necessary. Until more people are careful not to start forest fires, we can't expect little raindrops to behave. So Pop Cloud has signaled the sun to bring Junior back. It's time to talk things over about how earth folks for their own good should play fair with raindrops. Gosh, it's good to be back here with you, Pop. >> And I'm glad to have you home again with me, son. [Music] Yikes. Um, I mean they meant well, but yikes. And do you think that that was made for kids? Do you think that was made for adults? General audiences? Yeah. What do you think? Um, in the meantime, here's another question. What makes Rain Encyclopedia Britannica? What? Wait, no. Is this H? What film is this? I don't know who made this film. We'll we'll discover it. Enjoy. [Music] >> Now for my mail. What's this? [Music] A letter from Billy Johnston. I wonder why he's written me. Dear Mr. Weatherman, can't you do something about the weather? Today I was getting ready to go on a picnic with mother and dad, but it rained and we couldn't go. So I decided I would write you. I know that the rain comes from the sky, but how does all that water get up there and what makes it come down? Yours, Billy Johnston. P.S. Please promise me good weather for our next picnic. Guess I'd better answer Billy's letter right away. Too bad the rain spoiled his picnic. Dear Billy, you know that neither I nor any rain stop or start. But maybe I can tell you where it comes from, where it goes, and how it gets back up in the sky. Do you remember how you've looked up and seen the clouds shutting off the blue sky? The clouds got bigger and darker as you watched, and soon it was raining. Rain does a lot of good work, Billy. It fills the streams and brooks and rivers. It gives water to the trees and bushes and flowers so they can grow. Some of it makes puddles on the ground, maybe by the walk in your yard. But when the rain stops and the sun shines again, the water in the puddles gradually disappears. Though you can't see it, some of the water is going right back into the air. When you've watched mother get your supper, have you ever noticed the tea kettle boiling on the stove? As the water boils, the steam rises from the spout and goes into the air. If the water boiled long enough, it would all turn into steam and go into the air. And that, Billy, is what happens to the water in the puddles. The sun warms the water and turns some of it into water vapor, which goes into the air, but so slowly that you can't see it. This invisible water is called water vapor. And here's another way to answer your question, Billy. You may have helped mother hang wet clothes out on the line. If water didn't turn into vapor and go into the air, those clothes would never dry. No matter how long they hung, they'd stay wet, full of water. But because water does turn into vapor in the warm air, the clothes will dry as they hang out on the line for a few hours. Whenever water goes back into the air, we say that it evaporates. Evaporates. See the word vapor in there? Evaporates means to turn into vapor. Later, when you came back to take the clothes down, they were nice and dry because all the water in them had evaporated into the air. All the rain that falls sooner or later goes back into the air. That's how the rain gets up in the sky. Water evaporates from the puddles. It also evaporates from the brooks and the lakes and the rivers and from the oceans. Everywhere it is evaporating, turning into water vapor and going back into the air. You've played with a mirror, haven't you? Flashing the sun's reflection on the side of the house. If you blow on the mirror, you'll see that your breath gives off water vapor, too. See how it dulls the mirror? You can rub it off. Plants, too, return water to the air, but again, you can't see it because water vapor is invisible. Yes, plants of all kinds give off water vapor. The flowers, the bushes, and the trees. They all use water from the earth and send it back into the air. Some of it goes high in the sky where it gathers into pretty white clouds. But now, Billy, what makes this vapor return to Earth as water? Watch sometime when mother pours hot water into the sink. When the hot steam touches the cool glass, it forms drops of water which are almost like raindrops. See how wet the window gets? Heating water makes it evaporate. Cooling vapor changes it back to water. We say it condenses. Look at the glass next time you drink your milk. Does it seem to sweat? Well, the glass isn't really sweating, of course, but it is wet. It's just the water vapor in the nearby air being condensed or turned back to water by the cool glass. The same thing happens outdoors. Invisible water vapor is turned back to water by the cool air. Some vapor condenses on flowers and bushes where it forms tiny drops of water called dew. Sometimes the cool air condenses the water vapor into a heavy gray mist that looks like steam called fog. But much of the vapor rises into the sky. There it condenses into tiny water droplets which gather into clouds. As more vapor rises and cools, the larger and darker the clouds become. When they are heavy with water, the rain falls. On very cold winter mornings, you may have seen an icy white pattern on the window pane. That's frost, which comes from water vapor in the room and freezes on the cold glass. When water vapor freezes in the sky, it falls to Earth as snow. Snow stays on the ground for a while, but slowly melts under the sun's warming rays and goes back into the air as vapor. Just remember, water always evaporates into the air from the oceans and rivers and brooks. It evaporates also from plants. But while water is always evaporating into water vapor from some places on Earth, in other places it is constantly returning as dew or fog or frost or snow or rain. It's important to understand that the earth and everything on it use the same water over and over again. I know what else I can do. I can send Billy this book. It tells what makes rain. When you open this book, look carefully at the drawings. They show how when the clouds are heavy with water, the rain comes down, forms puddles, travels on top of or through the ground to the brooks and rivers, even to the ocean. how some of it goes into the ground to feed the trees and plants. This water evaporates and goes back into the air as water vapor. Some of it rises into the sky where it forms clouds to fall again to the earth to be used over and over again. You see, Billy, water is never lost. It condenses and evaporates into water vapor to condense again. That's the story of rain. Where it comes from, where it goes, and how the earth has been using the same water over and over again ever since the world began. P.S. Now you know too why I can't promise you good weather for your next picnic. I was chewing on some um mixed nuts. Yeah. So fascinating. The beginning and end of that film were it was all clipped. Um, I think this came from Mogular Brothers, which was a library, and they just tacked on whatever the end they had. And I think they did that as a way to if somebody complained and said the film wasn't complete, they'd say, "No, it was. You solved the end in it." Right? But they didn't bother to make a title. All right. Um, let's learn about Rain for the Earth. Again, it is raining outside and that's why we are watching films about rain. Enjoy. [Music] Clouds, rolling seas of anger move across and drop that tragic burden of burning dust. [Music] The earth is not the good earth to man without rain. Rain for the earth bring up the falling water table. Rain to make crops grow. Rain for the grass that ties the earth into place. When the wind clouds gather, nothing holds down the soil. [Music] [Music] Where man has been forced to leave, the grasshopper hangs on like a plague. The gleaners as though they could find something here that the farmer has overlooked. Always digging away. But the dry rot of a dead corn stalk can offer but little even to a grasshopper. Dust on the rampage. Dust that rides in the wind that follows the storm that spreads over increasing areas that piles thicker and thicker adding to the woes of the west. Those behind closed doors and tight windows must inhale a daily quot of powder dust. Tidings from the outside world reach the farmer. But no matter what news he has received, it cannot be as harrowing as the story he has to tell. [Music] Women and children fight their way through blinding dust to carry on their daily tasks. The patient uncomprehending victims of wind and shattered earth. Whirling dust stings the nostrils of man and beast. Straw where there should have been wheat. Emptiness where there was hope. and dust to dribble out of an empty hand into the wind. The early plainsmen built their houses of sod. Some children thrive in them or could thrive if only the plains were green again. [Music] A few of these houses still remain, threaded together by grassroots. These were pioneer homes, monuments to the courage of the first settlers. The deserted barns and ravaged farmyards tell a moving story. Sometimes with nothing left to stay for, the planesman moved on. Vagrant winds closed the door that was left swinging. Implements rust in the sun. Man's inventions like his plans discarded and cast aside junk. Nothing for farmers to ship away and sell to Ve to their stock to leave to their sons. There's plenty of wind for the windmills, but the water and the wells they pump must be conserved. [Music] Sheep roam the plains where the water holes are dried. [Music] Four times a day, the sheep rancher hauls water from the nearest well, 5 miles each way for these men. Too far for sheep to travel. [Music] The sheep drink and life goes on until other pastures can be found or until the rain comes. When nearby wells fail, farmers haul water from distant places for animals and household needs. The homesteaders settled and fenced and plowed this farm. This is not old land. One generation pioneered to tame it. Their sons and daughters with the same gallant courage are struggling to conquer and develop this land. Over [Music] the rains they Um [Music] along the roads and through towns, little herds and big ones from across the plains, moved out or sold, but never the basic herd, the breeding herd, the stockman's capital when it can be saved. And almost always it can. These cattle are moving on to green pastures. [Music] What happened? I don't know what happened to that. It just kind of ended. Huh. Okay. We don't know what happened. We have no idea. Um, yeah, that must have been a shortened copy where the ending was uh clipped. Uh this next film from my collection uh the previous one was from the Prellinger collection that we've been uh slowly working with uploading etc. Um this is let the rain settle it. Enjoy. >> What's the matter? Daddy hates money. Let's go. Knock your door. Well, this old black top road text our can is just too hard in the middle of the day. I feel the heat waves rising from the pavement. I think my shoes are burning away and that old midday sun has no mercy. Just wants to melt me down to play. I need somebody to help me on my way. [Music] [Applause] I smell the corn fields of baking in the sunshine. I see the red dust choking out the green and my foot throat is aching hot for water. Just like the land is aching for the rain. I got to find me some shelter from this furnace. Lord, won't you hear me when I pray? I need somebody to help me on my way. [Music] Daddy, I feel sick. Our car broke down. I was wondering if I could use your phone and call text. >> I ain't got none. >> Could I use your car? >> No, sorry. I ain't got nothing. Oh, you go up the road there. You might be able to hitchhike. Get your ride to Texas. >> Yeah. Thank you. Dad, you go in there and get the your grandpa's hat and get this man some water. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Hey, you better leave that boy. He's had too much fun. I'll keep him. You stay here, son. I'll go get the car fixed. >> Come on, boy. Sit down. I'll take care of it. [Music] [Music] Where's my daddy? >> He's going to Texas. >> Where? [Music] Hey, you have much to do, boy. >> Come on, white boy. [Applause] Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Who is this boy? >> His paw living here. >> Where is this p? >> He going to fix his car. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] What makes this corn so hard? They've been in here a long time. Well, I'll be knowing. What? You can eat this corn. Make good grip. Stuff will kill you. Ain't kill me yet, honky. Chloe, I love your m [Music] [Music] Eddie, how far is it to texture? Cana. >> Oh, about far a mile. >> Did you your grandpa and your grandma live here? >> Yep. >> Where's your mother and your father? >> Eddie, call your grandpa. Self is ready. Are you hungry? Me? Yeah. Come on. >> Father, we stand in the need of some rain. All of these blessing we asking in our son Jesus's name. Amen. >> What do you Paul do? He's a traveling salesman. >> Sometimes I get to go on trips with him in the summer. >> Excuse me. I'm not very hungry. What's wrong with that boy? >> What's the matter? >> Got to go to the bathroom. >> Gold behind that tree. >> You kidding? [Music] Hey. Hey, uh Eddie. Um where where's the um >> the catalog is on the plank. >> Yeah. You always go to sleep this ain't nothing else to do. >> What's the sound? Sound like rain. IT IS RAIN. COME ON UP. >> OH GOD, we do thank you for the rain. FATHER, [Applause] [Music] FATHER, we thank you for the rain. Thank you for thank you for the blessing to the glory. Thank you father. [Applause] [Music] We pray that you work out all night. We realize we'll run in the house without the shadow. You'll be able to say to have yourself and all of you in our church in the name of our baby. Thank God. [Music] Well, boys, getting high, but I'm not getting any richer. Just charge it to the dust and let the rain settle. Hey, don't eat no cheese with me. Ed. Ed, where are you? The man's here for a boy. >> Dad. Oh, >> how you doing, man? >> I'm great. >> I got back as quick as I could. >> That's okay. I had fun. >> I don't know how I can ever thank you. >> Let me pay you for the food that he ate anyway. >> Oh, no. That isn't necessary. >> Pleased. >> Oh, he's just glad to have him. >> Thank you very, very much. All right. You're glad to get out of that house, ain't you, son? Keep your heart growing like the rivers ever flowing. Time has come for rebirth. Building the earth. Learn from the seasons. There's a lesson to be found. Do not fear the new winds, new waters on new ground. What was home may soon be torn. What was dead shall be reborn. Reborn. Keep your heart growing like the wind is ever blowing. Time has come for rebirth. Building the earth. [Music] Sorry about the language at the end. That was the point of the film. Um, and uh, yeah, it it looks idealic. Um, I'm sure I would have loved it as a kid. And that's before I uh could not tolerate humidity. Then it would be really horrible. My favorite line in that film is like, "We're going to bed now." It's like, "What else do we have to do? There's nothing else to do." Um, it's a great film and it's uh I think it's the the Franciscans made this and there's a whole series of of these. Um, I think it was part of the Blooming Human series. So, uh, Catholics, uh, so thanks for tuning in today. Maybe it won't rain tomorrow and that will be great. Um, thank you, Nathan, for donating via the superthanks button. You can also donate, excuse me, uh, via ko-fi.com/abeks, patreon.com/avgeeks. Uh, hit the thumbs up, hit the like button, even if you didn't like these particular films, if you like the idea of what we're doing. Um, I appreciate that. So, uh, join us tomorrow. Uh, as, uh, Zaman says, "Love each other and listen to each other." Um, and he of course is quoting the great Michael Landon when he says that. Uh, all right, everybody. Take care. Stay dry. and we will see you soon. Bye.