AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 11-28-2025

Hello everybody. I'm Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the AV Geeks lunchtime streaming show where we are at the archive and trying to connect cables and get things so that I can pull show films from the scanner and stream them live. So, I got it working except that I realized it's having the same problem that it had prior to me moving out of the archive, which is it has a weird the sound kind of drops uh when I'm scanning. Uh, but it doesn't drop when I'm just showing you a film. So, I'm just going to show you films and then I'm going to eventually figure out the audio problem. Um, and yeah, so uh [groaning] where are we gonna show first? All right, so here's the first film we're going to show. Uh, it is from, uh, a Richmond County, uh, uh, Columbia, South Carolina. The man who bought Monday Night. I have no idea what this film is about. So, here we go. Enjoy. >> Green jelly beans. >> Ah, that's good. Um, power. >> Superman. >> Okay. Basketball. >> Flumsy. >> Clumsy. Good. T-shirt. >> Pants. >> Tashiki. >> Island. >> Battery. >> Blue. >> Yardstick. >> Feet. >> Cookie. >> Food. >> Wizard. magician, >> lightning rod, >> fire. >> Okay, the idea of this reading is just to kind of get your imagination going. And what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about stories and where stories come from. Uh how you make up stories. It's the whole kind of process of doing it. Let's just kind of talk about where and how you would find a story. What's uh is is the first thing that that you would think of, Allison? Where would a story come from? >> Um your imagination. >> From your imagination. Okay. That's one of the great sources of stories. No matter how you do it, uh you have to your imagination. But generally some other places that you might get a story. Me, do you have an idea? >> Well, you can think of things that you've done. from magazines or you know something you'd be looking at you could get an idea from. >> Uh-huh. All right. Can you give me another way for instance of saying what uh what Meg said? It comes from things you've done. Is there any just say that in in another way? Uh okay. Um Rick, >> your past experience. >> That's it. Your experience. Stories come from experience. Your experience. For instance, um can you think of a a kind of an experience that that uh you might have had that uh might make a story? Uh okay. De >> Olympics. >> The Olympics. That >> we had in fifth grade. >> Oh, the the fifth grade Olympics. >> Fifth grade Olympics. >> Good. Good. How about experiences that other people have had, Carrie? >> Well, my father bought a sailboat and he got stuck out when there wasn't any wind and there was a storm out in the middle of the ocean >> kind of race. >> All right. Well, you combine that with something else. Maybe a an enemy sub comes up in the middle of the storm and there we have we're off on a big adventure tale. What do you have, Alison? >> My friend you moved out from New York and this is a strange place. That could be a a very good story about someone who starts in school with no friends and and all sorts of of things could happen. If you're a professional writer, you would take the experiences of other people and then you would as somebody suggested always to use imagination. You'd use your imagination to expand that and that is a good deal uh has a good deal to what we're talking about here using your imagination with your own experiences. Any other place which you might get stories? Okay, Tom >> from Dreams. >> Dreams. That's very good. That's excellent. Let's take Oh, some famous authors that we've heard about. How have they very often gotten their stories or their ideas for stories? Anybody have an idea on that? Um, okay. But >> historical things, people get ideas from historical. >> Right. Right. A great source of stories is the basic kind of history that we have. Can you think of an an author who used really history in all of Well, I'll give you a clue. In all of the plays he wrote, what do you got, Neil? >> Shakespeare. >> Shakespeare, right? Shakespeare really used kind of history and even Romeo and Juliet is based on actual kind of incidents. Also, how about King Arthur? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that's a that's a good example of romanticizing or using your imagination and expanding history. The whole idea of this is to take uh an experience and kind of expand it. And that way you can use your own experience, you can use friends experiences and you can use historical experiences and you can move them back and forth. And with imagination you can then get interesting stories. What we're going to do now is a a little bit of an exercise. We'll do it as a class first. Uh, always begin when you want to use your imagination, begin with something specific. Okay, we're going to this is going to be a story about a person and we'll all do it together. Um, let's think of a name. Start with the name. Carrie, give me a name of a character. Just a name. >> Okay. Robert Smith. >> Robert Smith. We're going to write a story about Robert Smith. Let's have some of his physical characteristics. Um, Ricky, just how tall is he? >> 5'6. >> Robert Smith 5' 6. Okay, Tommy. Uh, just build on that a little bit more. 5' 6. What else? >> Okay. He has, um, gray hair. >> Gray hair >> and gray eyes. >> Gray hair and gray eyes. Okay. But Debbie, >> um, and he has big arms. Really big arms. >> Okay. Allison, go ahead. He doesn't have any teeth. >> Aha. But he's very popular and very rich. >> And very rich. Okay, Gar. >> He lives in a large mansion by himself. >> All right. Okay, Tommy. >> Well, he doesn't have any kids or any wife. He just has a big dog. >> Okay. All right. What do you got, guy? >> And he hates Monday Night Football. [laughter] >> All right. Now, look what we have. Just starting with a name and then beginning with his physical description. Now, we've gotten into some of the the characteristics. We've gotten into some of his family situation. We've gotten into the place he lives in and some of of his habits. Uh would he have a a particular uh something that he wanted to accomplish or a particular problem that he would have? >> Carrie, [clears throat] you started all of this. Robert Smith. Well, he didn't, like Gar said, he didn't like Monday night football sports, so he bought the television station and he made it be off the air. >> All right. >> His next dream is to buy Monday night. >> Now we have the title, The Man Who Bought Monday Night. This is getting very, very interesting. All right. We had a pet that was mentioned. Um, any particular kind of relationship with the the pet? Wow. Neil, go ahead. >> Okay. Well, really didn't show that much interest in the dog. >> Okay. Debbie had her hand up here among others. >> Um, it's an old English sheep dog. You know, this big kind. >> Yeah. >> And he never gave it a bath or and he never and he never brushed it. So, it's all like a mess of hair and she doesn't take care of it too well. >> Okay, Tommy. >> Well, the sheep dog fell in love with this little um skinless Chihuahua and [laughter] and oh, hairless Chihuahua. So, um >> I like [laughter] that's what they look like. So, um so he brings she always put her in the house and so Robert gets really mad. He takes a stick and he starts chasing after the darkness. Happens like once a week. >> Okay, very good. Now again, we we we're getting a lot of associations. We began with something specific and our imagination has certainly gone in many different directions. Now, I'll tell you what I want you to do. I want you to do me a little exercise here. And I want you to start with a name. Be a character. This is someone that you maybe will want to write a story about. And just start. And again uh as we have done here use your imagination but all these are kind of notes to yourself. Start with the name of the character. Then give me some of his physical characteristics. Then tell me a little something about his family and then about the circumstances of his life. And in other words is uh how much money he has, the part of town that he lives in and uh in the end tell me what his what a problem is that he has or something that he really wants to achieve. And I want you to do this very quickly and I'll give you all scratch it out. Let me give you about four minutes. Just get it down and save it. Then we'll discuss it. Okay. All right. I I want you to keep those character sketches. We're going to use them later. Now, if I asked you what would be the dayto-day history of any particular time, what would that be? If you wanted to find the day-to-day history of say the period from 1947 to 1949, where would you go? >> Got an idea? All right, Beverly. >> Library. >> Library. What would you find in the library that would give you the dayto-day account of what's going on at a particular time? Okay, Debbie. >> In a certain book like um that would have the information that >> a particular book. Okay, Tommy, >> the newspaper. >> The newspapers, the day-to-day account of history really uh is the newspaper. And that's why I asked you to bring in this morning some clippings. Now you can get many many ideas, many stories out of newspapers. They they are they represent actually the experiences of many people not only your friends and yourself but people all over the world. Now let's let me read you a few headlines uh to show how they might suggest stories of all different kinds. I'll read you the headlines first and then we'll talk about some of the newspaper stories. This says air traffic comes to near standill in many countries. Can you see a story in which a fellow has to get to Algeria in the morning and the airlines go on strike? Uh this is neat. Technician seized accused of picking computers brain. There's a whole wonderful kind of science fiction detective story. What kind of a story could you get? Uh oh, let me direct this at uh at Ward. What kind of a story could you get out of this? It's about a 9-year-old girl who won a throwing and catching contest uh over all the boys in uh Minnesota. She scored 243 points out of a possible 264 and she beat 24 boys in her division. Now, what kind of a of a problem do you think might what kind of a story might come out of that? You could have her being rejected by the boys and practicing very hard, having a lot of emotional feelings about being being a girl trying to win the contest and having her practicing for it and having the feeling of getting better and finally on the day it happens winning. >> And when she wins, she wins something, but what else happens? >> She also wins the respect of other people. >> But all right, fine. Tommy, >> she'd keep on doing this. So, you know, as she got older and she started, you know, like dating, you know, how girls do, you know, they would Yeah. Well, so, you know, she'd become a tomboy, you know, >> very interesting. That's moving the story ahead in time and you get a very interesting thing. You take a nine-year-old girl and she's very expert at something and what happens when she's 18 years old. So, you move it ahead in time. Go ahead, Rick. Tell me what you had in mind. >> The boys might feel resentment towards him. You know, just block her out completely. >> Very good. that might might make uh you know considerable problems and it makes an interesting kind of story. All right, this says Igor Uspensky once accused of being an international master spy died in a St. Louis home today at the age of 81. All right. Now, the first thing I want you to do is to move the story backwards. He's died at the age of 81. What would a story be that happened early in his life? Okay. He could have been like just like a mailman and he was walking along one day and all a sudden like a person who looked exactly like him, you know, like a a a master thief or spy looked exactly like him and they switched identities, you know, and he was really innocent. >> Okay, very good. That's moving it backward in time. And you have a mistaken identity, a classic kind of story. >> Go ahead, Barry. >> All his life he wanted to be a spy. And let's say he he pretended that he was a spy. He told everybody that he was a spy. And then at the end, like before he he died, no one really knew if he was a spy or not. >> Okay, that's a good variation. Now, start at the time he dies and start a story and move it forward in time. Now, what would a story be? All right, Tommy. >> Well, they take it to court and they find that somehow he took something with him, you know, like on his clothes. So, they dug up the grave and they found that there was no one in there. >> All right. That's the basic idea. You can take a story and say, well, what happened before this took place? You can also take it and project it ahead and get another idea. And these are this is very much uh the same kind of thing that you did with the characters. You take a specific incident which is why the newspaper is very valuable. It gives you something specifically to begin with and then you expand it. You change it. Might get into many different areas. The principle thing is though to find a specific place and to begin. Now I I want you to get your your uh papers and pencils out uh and we're going to do uh an exercise here. I'm going to give you a circumstance and I want you to expand and uh make up a story. you uh I think that all of you may in your experience may possibly remember a school teacher that you did not like. [laughter] Can't think of one. Eha. All right. Now, uh I don't want you to use any names. If it's a a lady, you can use the name of Sarah. And if it's a man that you didn't particularly care for, use the name Bill. But now I want you to consider this person, this teacher as being 11 years old. Okay? Can you imagine a school teacher that you didn't like at the age of 11? That's kind of hard to do. But it's the same thing. We've used history and we've used the newspapers and we've used madeup characters. Now we can use real people, too. All right. Your teacher is 11 years old and um she and or he and brother had a a favorite cat, a pet cat. And the cat has been lost for two days now. The two of them, the brother and sister, go out together and they go into the woods and up in this old kind of very high tree, they see the cat trapped up there. Now, I want you to tell me what happened. Keeping in mind the character of the school teacher that you didn't like. Tell me what happens with the two of them out in the woods. What happens to them? What happens to the cat? I'm going to give you uh 12 minutes on this and you can just go right ahead and let's see what happens. I don't know. [laughter] So, I have another uh film in this series, and this is the thing that I'm realizing. It's it's these provocative titles, and the other one's called When the Jail Door Went Clang. And and there was another one called Mean, Nasty Cinderella. So, I guess I have two others. And these are all explorations of creative writing. Uh, and all have incredibly provocative titles. And, uh, this one was super splicy. Um, and that's why it was jumping around. So, I have it going straight from the scanner to here. I'm going to try to run it with the software and see if I can do some stabilization. But I I pre-scanned uh something before the show as a test. And so we're going to run this, but I'm going to have to um and [clears throat] hopefully this will not get us a YouTube copyright strike, but I'm going to uh cut out the music at the very beginning because I mean, you'll see why. This is a magic lantern show. Enjoy. The Screen News Digest presented by South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. We try to make life easier. >> Lights, camera, action. >> How do you do, old sport? I'm Gatsby. A waiter. Uh, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts? In these late 80s, I invented the motion picture camera. The recording camera is what made motion pictures a success. [music] >> [music] >> The wizard of Menllo Park, Thomas Alva Edison, is the man who [music] makes moving pictures move. In the early 1880s, Edison is already [music] famous as the inventor of the phongraph and the incandescent electric lamp. He is a tireless worker who says that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. His camera using film [music] developed by the Eastman Kodak company is able to record 16 individual [music] pictures or frames per second. When these frames are projected, the human eye cannot separate them and they are seen [music] in continuous motion. The first motion picture studio ever set up in the world was in the yard of my laboratory at West Orange. The building evolved to follow the sun. We dubbed it the Black Mariah because it was covered with black paper inside and out. >> Shooting begins in the Black Mariah in 1894. [music] And gentleman Jim Corbett is one of the earliest performers on film. [music] Americans see their first motion pictures not on a screen but in a peeps box [music] invented by Edison and called a kettocope. [music] Many a man pays a nickel in 1896 to see Carmen Cheetah perform a most daring dance. [music] [music] Later, Edison experiments with a motion [music] picture projector that is synchronized with a record player. The result, a talking picture. But Edison's talk is really a squawky. Yet, even without sound, the magic of motion pictures is taking hold. In 1900, May Irwin and John Rice shock America in The Kiss. [music] [music] Early films are a minute or less in length. Action is explicit. Witness the reenactment of an execution by hanging. Humor is simple and easily understood. [music] [music] And pioneer filmmakers are both creative and imaginative as they blend animated and live action. [music] Finally, motion picture frames are taken out of the kinettocope, enlarged thousands of times, and flashed on giant screens in darkened theaters. President William McKinley is shown speaking [music] in Buffalo only moments before his assassination in 1901. Audiences marvel as people, places, and events pass before their eyes and come alive. Milestones of history are recorded by the motion picture camera and preserved on film for generations to come. William McKinley is buried and America has a new president, Theodore Roosevelt. [music] Theater owners make certain to present programs that will appeal to audiences of all ages. [music] [music] Long before the forward pass and the T formation, this is college football. Yale against Princeton in 1903. [music] More and more theaters spring up across America. [music] Inside the rulers of the world pose and strut to the melodic strains of a tinkling piano. >> [music] >> Through the camera's [music] eye, audiences see sites, visit places that they never dreamed of seeing or visiting in person. Newsreal cameramen travel the globe until east and west meet on the silver screen of the neighborhood movie theater. >> [music] >> Next, a reminder [music] and a warning. And then, the great [music] train robbery, distributed by the Edison Company and destined to become the prototype of the motion picture feature. The plot, simple as it is, is completely original, and the one real 10-minute [music] film involves more locations than ever before. It is barely 10 years since the first recording camera and photographic [music] film enabled Edison to take motion pictures, and so scenes are limited to simple actions in wide angles. Nothing is left to the imagination. >> [music] [music] >> How many times and in how many movies will the good guys and the bad guys [music] battle it out to the death and always with the same results? [music] This is where it all begins. On a forgotten hillside on a day long ago. [music] More than 20 years will pass before motion pictures talk. [music] But when sound comes, it provides news reels with a dramatic new dimension in covering world events. >> We take you now to Lake Hurst, New Jersey. >> The ship is riding majestically toward us. It's practically standing still now. They've dropped rope out of the nose of the ship. It's bur. Get this, Scotty. Get this, Scotty. It's crashing. It's crashing terrible. Oh my. Get out of the way, please. It's running bursting into flames and and is falling on the morning fast and all the folks between this is terrible. This is the one of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh, it's just a funny oh 4 500 ft into the sky and it's a terrific crash ladies and gentlemen. It's broken in flames now and the framers crashing to the ground. Not quite to the mooring mass for humanity and all the fire. The 1930s, Hollywood is the film capital of the world. The motion picture industry is in its golden age, and feature films now run 2 hours and more. Stars are born and become famous the world over. Robert Young, Gary Cooper, Ross. I say what a chap. What a judge of distance. If Ronnie could only see. Are they like ours? Do they load themselves as soon as the air strikes them? >> What? Don't what load? >> The bomb. It's magnificent. I shall never forget it. >> The bomb >> that left Wang. >> Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. >> Humor is sophisticated. Example, Clark Ael and Claudet Coar in It Happened One Night. >> Aren't you going to give me a little credit? >> What's for? >> Well, I've proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. >> Where actors and actresses [music] once came to the camera, now production crews travel the globe to film on location. Where Edison's camera [music] used only 35mm film, now professional and amateur equipment can photograph in 8, 16, and even 65 mm. Color film, split screens, and special optical effects provide new and everchanging creative opportunities for film producers. [music] High-speed photography projected at normal speed captures graphic sports action in dramatic slow motion. Congratulations, Papey. You stayed in there the full 60 days. >> Spinach Power did it, sir. Throw space in an hour on pure spinach power. I pop by the sail on man. [music] Why? Why didn't you wait for me? >> Because rich girls don't marry poor boys. Dear Gatsby. Spectacles, love stories, cartoons or sporting events, motion pictures have come a long, long way from the ketoscope and the black Mariah. [music] The recording camera is what made motion pictures a success. The Screen News Digest is presented to help you see where the world is going by the same people who help you see where you're going. South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. We try to make life easier. All right. Um, that was fascinating. And yes, I had to I was concerned about the hard days night uh audio. Um although it looks like they used the Beatles uh TV cartoon um for some reason. Uh maybe they couldn't get rights. Uh let's see. Uh I've got another thing set up on the scanner. Um so somebody wrote, "No, it's not stoves. This is not a film about stoves. It's a film about stories." So, here's some stories. This is another film I have not seen. So, here we go. This is the the magic of of this is this is a world probably 21st century premiere and you're all here for it. So, I'm very excited to be back at this place. We're still working out kinks, but I appreciate you guys um enduring them. Here we go. Come on around. Let's all get in a big circle. >> Okay. >> Okay. Have a seat. What we're going to try and do today is a little exercise to create a story. And we're all going to make the story together. >> Okay. >> Everybody ready? >> Okay. Go. Um, one day there was a cat and his name was Herman and Herman wanted to go to the store. >> Skip. Okay, we'll come back to you. Go ahead. >> He liked to play at the store because there's a lot of things he could eat and chew on and wouldn't have to pay because nobody thought he had money even though he did. Every single day he was trying to look for a girlfriend, but he couldn't find the one that would fit right for him. >> Why do you write stories? >> It just pops in when it be real quiet. It just pops in my mind. >> Why do you like to write? >> Because it's fun sometimes. What you think, you can just put it down on paper so you know you can remember it and everything. The reason that I like to write stories is that somehow or other it kind of helps you to freeze a particular moment in time. >> And sometimes I don't want to write a story. >> I just like to make up things. >> Mhm. >> Because you get the feelings from what you want to want other people to know on the paper and then you give it to them so they'll know what you feel. >> True. Why do you like to write? >> I don't know. It's just fun. I noticed that most of your stories had some kind of a character in them. One of the stories had a character who was what? >> Monster. >> Monster. >> A monster, right? >> Cat. >> Cat. >> Dog. >> Dog. >> Dog. >> Girl. >> Girl. So, the character sometimes is an important person in a story. Now, I'm going to ask you today to help me make up some characters. You can just say, we're going to put our brains together. We're going [applause] to see anybody. Just make up any name you want. Okay? You have monsters, but you want you can give them a name. No. >> Ronnie the rabbit. >> Ronnie >> the >> Let's have a king. King of bling. >> King of bling. >> I got one. >> Okay. >> I got I got King of Georgia. >> Why not? Now, I'm going to ask you all I'm going to choose one of these characters. I'm gonna say the name and I want you to try to picture this person in your mind and I want every one of us will probably see this person in a different way. So let's close our eyes first. Let everything just kind of slow down. Close your eyes and imagine Margarita. Margarita. She had a lipstick that went like this and she had a long black hair. >> She was a ballerina and she danced pretty. She was going slow and she had on a pink dress, pink socks, pink shoes and >> he was >> that's all >> a manager for Ralph Supermarket and had a red and white dress on because that's the color of Ralph and she had yellow shoes. >> And she had glasses on. >> My my my. Okay, got another character for you. Use your imaginations. Go inside. And this is going to be Ricky the [ __ ] Now, just get the picture in your mind. And then when you open your eyes, going to ask you, Annalene. He had a mustache and a beard and a black face. >> And he had on him some sunglasses. And he had a big natural. He had on a shirt, you know, it got love on it. And he had on some pants. It got love on it. [music] >> And he had on a watch and a hair 2:00. >> You really got a good picture of Ricky the Picky, didn't you? Let's hear your picture, Celeste. >> He would always be picky about things. >> I saw Ricky the picky with the toothpick with a whole bunch of cheese in front of him. Picking the ones he wanted. He kept picking flowers. >> Ricky the [ __ ] was a flower picker. >> Picky means, but he was just picking the uh just the pink one. >> [laughter] >> Mickey means what he wants, >> right? Make your picture all clean so that you don't see anything at all. And this character's name is Max the Detective. >> Kina, tell me, how did you see Max? >> I only saw one thing of him. >> Well, what did you see? >> You saw his shoe. What was his shoe like? >> Brown. >> Brown. Was it a big shoe? Was it a little shoe? >> He was always tripping over everything. He had a magnifying glass in his hand. And he had glasses, a shirt. Um, that had a collar that went all the way up to his nose. >> What? >> You know how the collars that go like this? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah, I know. >> What do we use magnifying glasses for? >> They want to see >> Looking for clues. >> They're looking for clues. >> Looking for fingerprints and stuff. >> Clues. >> Okay. This one, it was Larara's character. And this was Fluffy. a person. Lara, >> she's an old lady and um she had on black shoes. She had on a short dress and she was chubby >> and she had fluffy hair. >> And the only thing unusual about her was that she had a mustache. >> A mustache? >> Yeah. >> That's what you dream of your mind. >> [laughter] >> Characters can lead you to stories. >> How do you begin your stories? >> Well, once I started a story that with the words once upon a little before time and once upon a time obviously people started like the front couldn't be exciting, but it leads to a plot at the end. Those are the best kind of stories that lead to a plot. >> Do you know what the plot of a story is? >> It's what's happening. The plot is what's happening. I was thinking about like the story that Jeff did about oranges. >> How does that story go? >> Once upon a time, there was a boy named Henry who loved eating oranges. >> And what did he look like? >> Well, he had a face with a kind of short he had a medium nose and he had a very round face and just a couple of whisks of hair. One day while eating an orange, he found a ring. On the side of the ring, it said wishing ring. "That's the silliest thing I ever heard of," said Henry. "But just the same," he put the ring into his pocket and went home. [music] When he got home, he showed the ring to his mother. His mother had a good temper, and she read the words, "Wishing." >> "Why don't you make a wish?" >> asked [snorts] his mother. "I don't believe in that," said Henry. But to please his mother, he made a wish. >> I wish for a ton of oranges, >> he said. And nothing happened. You see, said Henry. >> Go clean your room, >> said his mother. But behind his door, he found a ton of oranges. So they ate them for dinner. >> [music] >> After dinner, his mother said, >> "Now wash up and go to bed." >> In the morning, his mother woke him up. >> "Can I have an orange?" said Henry. >> "We're all out," >> said his mother. "But we've got a ton," >> said Henry. "You are only dreaming," said his mother. At the end, >> that story had a very involved plot. "Where'd you get the idea?" Um, I don't know. Thinking about oranges cuz I was hungry. >> Where else could kids get ideas? >> Well, for one thing, when you're sleeping, you think of one little idea, something that might happen that was that would be funny. And then the next morning, you think of some more. And then you just put it together, and you'll find out if it ends to a story or not. And I see I bring piece of paper and things and I draw and I make a thought. I make the words to go with it. >> That's all you have to do is just look at something and then write about it. >> Like what? For example, >> I could I could write about right now. >> We're going to talk about different places where stories take place. Um the set or the settings right now. Where is the setting for where we are right now? Where are we right now? >> The school. >> School. So that would be our setter setting if we were all characters, right? That's where we are. Where else could stories take place? >> Oh, the forest. >> Okay, let's write these down. Mountains. >> Can you help us? Where else do stories take place? >> Castle. C A S T. >> On a boat. >> L E. Okay. Boat. When a person doesn't know how to spell a word, what can he do? >> He could sound it out. He could ask somebody, >> how beat the dog. D E A C H. What other kinds of things does the weather make a difference on your set or settings? >> Beach, desert, >> different things can happen depending on where you are. >> One day when I was at the beach, I saw a seal in the water. At the beach, I found a whole bunch of clams. I picked [music] up a big clam in the water, but it turned out to be a creepy crawly thing. [music] It was an octopus. My friend found a crab in the rocks, but she did [music] not pick it up at all. No way. At the beach, we discovered a place to play. [music] Me and my friend played and played. It was fun. Then we [music] went home. [music] On the way, my friend cut her toe, but she did not cry at all. And we also saw a man walking around and he had this snake over his arm. I think was um it was a this huge snake. I forget what [music] it was called. >> Do you like that ending? >> Nope. >> Why not? [laughter] >> How do you like stories to end? Well, they usually have that happy because like if somebody robs somebody, they'll get their stuff back cuz that always happens. I wish for once the bad guys would always would for once get the money. Surprise endings. They make you laugh and some make you get really scared. >> What do you do with your stories after you write them? >> After I'm done, I like to put them in my pile and I got a pile of stories this big. When I'm cleaning up my room, I like instead of just keep cleaning, I like to read them every once in a while. >> Mhm. >> I put them in the bottom drawer of our dresser and then when I get a lot of them, I put them into a book and then I let my friends read them and then when I grow up, I'll show them to my kids. >> And then you'll have a lot of stories left. When you grow up, you can look at all your stories and say, "Look what I did when I was little." And be proud of yourself. And then what happened, Jeff? >> He ran behind the tree and the policeman went ran after him, but he he like dodged behind the tree and the policeman ran right by him and he turned it and ran the other way. Um, wow. So, I like that better because it actually had um recreations of the stories and the characters. Um, so those those are the films I like. All right. So, I am going to quickly get this film off and put uh the last film on. Um, and this one is pro I think it's also it's not part of this series. It's a different one, but this is part of the the serendipity series and it says speak up. And so, these all came from South Carolina. And this is a collection that I have not um been um they've been offsite. So I just I would periodically go to where they were and pull some titles that I thought were interesting. But now most of these are in the film vault. So they're downstairs and I can just come up go down there and pick some films, come back. So this is very exciting for me. All right, let's see. And then I need to pull a core. No, these cores are too big. One second. I need to get a core. This This core is for 35. So, one second. I'll be right back. [laughter] Oh, no. I got one right here. All right. Sweet. Good. um you know with the uh the scanner doing it with the scanner. We're going to get back to that that whole situation where there's going to be tech problems related to the scanner. So, we're just adding yet another potential thing that could go wrong, horribly wrong. uh along with um the computer crapping out, along with power going out, along with me turning off or not turning off the microphone. Um so add just keep making it more and more difficult for me to show you films. Um that's part of the deal, right? Okay, so here it is. Speak up. Enjoy. 307 bombing production. Speaker, take one. [music] >> [music] [music] >> S [singing] and dip the tea. Dip dip dip the tea. [music] S and dip the tea. What a [music and singing] wonderful way to discover things, uncover [music and singing] things unexpectedly. We sometimes find [music and singing] the things that mean the most happen. Sarantipity, [music] [singing] the world's right under your nose. >> [music] >> Thereity it's right there under [singing] your toes. Words can pass you by. [music] So keep your eyes open and [singing] you'll soon be reading and writing words and using them [music] when you speak. It's so easy. Yep. So, this this happens. Um, let's go past a little bit. See what's going on. See if we can get this to do the tension. All right. >> Here we go. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 26 20 17 29 32 1 >> [music] >> Raise your voice. Speak up. Speak out. We can sing and we can shout. People talking all around. [music] Speaking words with different sounds. There are no two ways about it. There's no way to live without it. Communication is the key. Speaking [music] is the recipe. Sing along in harmony. Speaking is [music] for you and me. >> Ready or not, here I come. >> Open up your mouth. Let [music] a word come out. It's the same for you and me. It's the very best way. When there's something to say, speak up and you will see. [music] Most of us take speaking for granted. That's because we do it all the time. >> If you want to communicate something, speaking is the fastest way to do it. >> Knock-knock. [music] >> Who's there? >> Olive. >> Oliver. >> All of you. >> Knock-knock. >> Who's there? >> Banana. >> Banana. >> Knock-knock. >> Who's there? >> Banana. >> Banana. Who? >> Knock knock. >> Who's there? >> Orange. >> Orange. Who? >> Aren't you glad I didn't say banana? It's fine for you. You wait. Grunt, you squeak. But what does a box of popcorn say? I know one say poppity pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop >> speaking is the most direct way of communicating of all the ways to use our language I think speaking is the most fun >> you get the idea that your house can look like any kind of thing that you wish >> yes >> can you have a circle house if you want >> can you have three or five chimneys >> yes >> can you have stairs can you have a porch Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Now, I'm going to show you how you can start building your own house. >> Speaking seems as easy as breathing. >> Most of the time, we don't think much about what we're saying. >> No one knows what mine is, Harley. >> Oh, I know. A tent. >> But what kind of tent? I love Hey, did you hear something? No. Poppity pop pop. How come I can't scare anybody? You've got to speak up to be heard. >> Trick or treat. >> What? >> Trick or treat. >> Oh, trickor treat. I didn't hear you. >> Oh, thank you. >> Have this apple, please. >> I keep forgetting to speak up. >> May I have this apple, please? >> Oh, sure. I'm sorry. I didn't hear you. It'll be a quarter. No matter what you do each day, when you're at school or you're at play, it doesn't matter [music] where you are, it's all the same, near or far. Don't be shy [music] when you speak. Speak up strong and don't be meek. Speak up strong and loud and clear. Speak up so the world can hear. [music] The words you say must reach and hear. So speak up and we all can hear. Open up your mouth. [music] Let a word come out. It's the same for you and me. It's the very best way. When there's something to say, speak up and you will [music] see. >> That was scary. When I try to explain something to other people, I have to think more about what to say and how to say it. >> And a flower. the smoke coming out of the chim chimney. >> He got a mouth and there's a eye. And this is um a TV. >> Tell us more about the inside of the house, Christie. Outside is super fantastic. >> That's me. >> Who does the cooking? >> Me. >> Are you a good cook? >> What's your specialty? >> I don't know. Sometimes pizza. >> No. Everyone's done such a tremendous job. >> Sometimes speaking is very difficult. May I have something to drink? [music] [music] >> Uh-oh. Trouble. H yours. >> When you get in trouble, it's hard to know what to say. >> I'm sorry. I broke your window. [music] >> I really get scared when I have to talk in front of a lot of people. I guess I think they'll laugh at me. Do I have to? As I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there. I met that man again today. I wish that man would go away. >> Teachers, fellow students, and principles, I am Gary Malmet. I am running for vice president. >> Speaking in front of other people doesn't have to be scary if [music] you're prepared. >> I know many of you students personally and all the teachers. [music] Remember, what you see is what you get. >> When we play charades, we can't really say anything. We have to act it out. That's a [music] kind of speaking, too. Yeah. >> Bird. >> Kangaroo. >> Is it an animal? >> Yes. >> What did you think it was? A person. >> Bear. When we speak, [music] we use our hands and arms and legs and the way we stand. We use our eyes when we're surprised and when we must apologize. We're talking when we twist and dance. We're talking [music] when we pass a glance. We use a handshake when we meet. We smile [music] sincerely when we greet. Gesturing with hands and feet. We use our bodies [music] when we speak. Open up your mouth. Let a word come out. It's the same for you and me. >> It's the very [music] best way when there's something to say. Speak up and you will see. >> We need a clue. >> Oh, a lamb. A lamb. >> Sheep. >> Sheep. >> What could you think of that in the first place? >> How do you feel? about speaking out about your feelings. >> Happy. I feel like it's a secret. >> And what are you doing with the secret, Mark? >> Spreading it around. >> To me, it's it's like no special thing. I'm just telling of what I feel like. >> I'm telling what I feel inside, and I feel happy about it. I love you. I love you, kitty cat. >> Sometimes you just talk to yourself. Window. Window. Window. Window. Window. Window. [crying] When things aren't going right, it's good to have someone to talk to. >> What's wrong, Barry? >> I hurt my leg and I missed the ball. >> Come on, Barry. We could play some more football. You'll catch a pass. Sometimes when your luck is bad, [music] when you're low and feeling sad, it helps to open up your mouth and let your feelings [music] tumble out. Talk about what makes you mad. Talk about what makes you glad. When you're [music] happy, you can shout and tell us what it's all about. Open up and [music] you'll find out just what speaking's all about. Open up your mouth. Let a thought [music] come out. It's the same for you and me. It's the very best way. When there's something to say, speak up and you will see. [music] 2 4 6 8 All right. again. [music] >> Speaking in front of an audience can be scary, but it's fun, too, especially when you're doing it with your friends. Oh, look at this picture. Isn't it pretty? And look at all the boys and girls. Gee, wouldn't it be fun to have all them as our friends? Hey, what's the matter? Oh, silly. You'd know I'd never trade you away for anything else in the whole world. Cuz you're the only best friend I've ever had. And look here, Teddy. Oh, I'm so sleepy. >> [music] >> Well, hi there. >> Who? Who are all you? >> Don't you recognize us? Why? We're your story book friends. And do you know why we're here? >> We're here to sing songs with you. >> Oh, wow. >> Raise your voice. [music and singing] Speak out. Now we can sing and we can shout. People talking all around. [music] Speaking words with different sounds. >> There are no two ways [music] of hiding it. There's no way to live without it. Communication [music] is the key. Speaking is the recipe. [singing] Sing along in harmony. Speaking [music] is for you and me. Open up your mouth. Let a song come out. It's a for you and me. It's the very best way when there's something to say. Speak up and you will see. >> Open up your mouth. [music] Let a song come out. It's the same for you and me. It's the very best way. When there's something to say, speak up and you will see. Now the scanner is making a weird sound. Hold on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, you know, it's been a while. [laughter] So, um, thanks everybody for tuning in today. Uh, I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving yesterday and I hope today you've been able to get a break. Uh, even if you had to work today, maybe hopefully you were not working retail and everything is nice and relaxing and you have a weekend coming up where you can spend time with family and friends. Um, and so I will say I read in the comments people were like, "What is the point of those films where the kids are just telling stories and using their imagination?" Well, the films are designed to be shown to teachers and the teachers uh help do similar things. And when you have kids use their imagination, you're flexing those muscles uh and they can use that uh when they're doing problem solving, uh any type of problem solving. If you have a bigger imagination, then you can sometimes bring in different different ideas and different concepts to help with problem solving and troubleshooting. And that's uh I I say this because I was a child who used my imagination a lot and was encouraged as a kid and I feel like I have benefited from that. So anyways, there there you go. Um everybody have a great rest of your Friday. Uh, I will be back on Monday live and we will keep messing with this scanner to try to make it better and better so that we have a better viewing experience and I can scan films at the same time. Uh, double dip. So, love you guys. Uh, take care and we will see you on Monday. Bye.