AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 11-30-2023

that for that that that the thing is uh so when I have silent films I don't get a sense of when we're um done uh whereas uh with films that are educational films a lot of times there's a leadup music and then there's in the in the sound you can hear them kind of wrapping things up in to review blah blah blah blah and then you hear the music kind of like the outro music and then that's that's my cue because I'm just sitting like right over here uh you can't see my hand but I'm sitting next to the computer and I'm periodically looking up but you know so I missed that sorry sorry about that uh anyways uh I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the a Geeks lunchtime streaming show and uh we just watched some home movies uh shot by folks uh in 1954 uh visiting Detroit living in outside of Detroit um anyways uh a lot of people talk about how Detroit has gone through uh horrible time uh and you know rightly so but uh uh yeah it's interesting to look back to the past and kind of see what what happened and there's a lot of fingers being pointed a lot of people point to white flight but I would say also that the fact that the industry kind of there was a high point in the industry disappeared and you know that's what happens when you have a giant industry that disappears uh yeah anyways uh here's film scanner and trying to get this thing to uh load up sometimes these reel they have an indention in them so it's harder to lock lock the fil down and that's what is kind of happening here so close nudge this there we go all right here we go uh sheep sheep sheep enjoy oh no it just went out hold on I'll be right back [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] e [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] a [Music] [Music] man [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] no [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] man [Music] man [Music] [Music] [Music] the [Music] for [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] that was literally pastoral um and the soundtrack man I it almost felt like uh listening to King Crimson first album a little bit like it was a little uh kind of of that ilk and then at some point I was expecting the melron to bust in and then you know thinking about the court of the Crimson King or something like that um yeah I like it you know I like showing a film that is um just some relaxing footage of sheep frolicking uh with no narration like we don't need people I mean and what's funny is so it's I don't know if it's funny but um as a way to help me not read headlines before I go to bed I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos where there's no narration or it's in Japanese so I watch a lot of things about manufacturing processes and and it's just very light music and the sounds of the machines kind of and it helps me just kind of fall right asleep and I have I have whacked out dreams but um it's still pretty great and so anyway so something like that I can see the purpose of that to help people fall asleep um let's learn about microorganisms that cause diseases and hopefully there's no animal testing in this enjoy this is a hospital where patients come to recover from disease for x-rays for lab tests and sometimes for surgery but if you were suffering from an infectious disease the hospital laboratory would help identify your illness in the lab microscopes and other special tools are used to identify the tiny germs that cause infectious diseases some microorganisms or germs can cause diseases these germs for example cause pneumonia all microorganisms are either simple living plants such as these fungi or simple living animals such as these protozoa disease producing germs are found among each of the five kinds of microorganisms fungi bacteria viruses RSI and protozoa some invade the circulatory system and produce toxins that poison the body some cause disease by invading the lymph system almost all disease producing germs are parasites they live in healthy tissue and organs thus destroying them so destroying of cells is the final result of all disease germs here we see some single celled fungi all fungi are plants that do not make their own food they depend upon other organisms living or dead for their food and life have you heard of athletes foot this is one example of what happens when disease producing fungi invade the body in this case the skin athletes foot is a common fungus disease this is the way the fungus looks under the microscope many of our serious infectious diseases are caused by bacteria bacteria are found really everywhere they are in our mouths and sometimes in other body tissue these bacteria normally in our mouths can often cause disease by destroying cells no scientists do not yet fully understand exactly how some bacteria destroy cells but they do know a great deal about bacteria for example a single bacterial cell is simply a mass of protoplasm surrounded by a firm cell wall bacteria secrete enzymes with which they digest food it is believed that it is such enzymes that destroy cells let's see some examples of how bacteria destroy healthy cells this tube contains human blood blood the red color of the blood comes from the red blood cells this bottle contains a toxin toxins are poisons made by disease producing germs this toxin is made by the streptococus germs this is what a streptococus looks like under the microscope when the streptococus toxin is added to the blood we will see that the red blood cells are destroyed in a short time the red liquid slowly becomes clear why because the toxin destroys the red cells and they disappear this is one example of how cells are destroyed by disease germs on this rabbit we shall see another way in which cells are destroyed we have shave some of the hair from the rabbit's back we shall inject some disease bacteria under the rabbit's skin over a period of 3 or 4 days we can see that a sar is developing on the skin holy cow sorry about that uh let me see if I can if I can get ahead of it one second of Ms that normally in our mouths but they do know a great all right bacteria are found really everywhere they're in our mouths and sometimes in other body tissue the these bacteria normally in our mouths can often cause disease by destroying cells no scientists do not yet fully understand exactly how some bacteria destroy cells but they do know a great deal about bacteria for example a single bacterial cell is simply a mass of protoplasm surrounded by a firm cell wall bacteria secrete enzymes with which they digest food it is believed that it is such enzymes that destroy cells let's see some examples of how bacteria destroy healthy cells this tube contains human blood the red color of the blood comes from the red blood cells this bottle contains a toxin toxins are poisons made by disease through an electron microscope which can magnify germs more than 100,000 times viruses differ from other germs in that they can live and grow only inside tissue cells these polio viruses are about the size of a very large molecule viruses are sometimes infectious particles as we see here some may form crystals like this Crystal of poo virus let's see how a virus destroys cells this is a cross-section of a normal Al spinal cord notice the large nerve cells after infection by polio virus most of the large nerve cells have been destroyed in the laboratory we can see the effect of another kind of virus pneumonia virus this virus affects lung tissue we can infect this mouse by placing drops of virus solution in the mouse's nose the mouse's lung tissue before the infection is a healthy pink color after the virus enters the lung and causes pneumonia the lung becomes swollen and discolored let's see one more example of how disease viruses destroy cells these test tubes contain living human cells we infect the cells with a virus that causes upper respiratory disease in humans these micros show how the tissue cells are destroyed by the multiplying virus have you heard of other virus diseases there are many have you heard of the retzi ey ret ey look very much like the bacteria and like viruses they grow only in living cells ret ey are passed from animal to Animal by biting insects like this tick to cause cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever we have seen the disease causing fungi and bacteria which are single- celled plants and the smaller viruses and rets which seem to be related now let's look at the protozoa this is an amoeba one of the many different kinds of protozoa protozoa are the simplest members of the animal kingdom protozoa have many different forms some can move some cause disease this protozoan causes a Digestive Disease here is another protozoan seen in human blood this protozoan causes African sleeping sickness this diagram indicates how the protozoa which cause malaria destroy red blood cell cells when one of these protozoa enters a red blood cell as we see here it grows and starts to multiply within the cell within hours the cell is destroyed letting out more protozoa into the bloodstream these May invade other red blood cells like all other disease organisms protozoa do their greatest damage in those parts of the world where people live live in crowded unsanitary conditions poverty and ignorance cause poor health practice and may lead to epidemics yes scientists already have many answers about disease germs but there are still many questions to be answered for example how do bacteria destroy cells do viruses form cancers more study more research more answers are needed perhaps one of you may someday have an occupation that will help scientists in the battle against all germ diseases o uh so apologize um so a lot of these things that I censor where I basically it's like not good for lunch um those films exist uncut on uh our YouTube channel so you can go and check those out so this is more about just you know like people don't want to be sitting there eating Chinese food like I am and see uh animals getting injected with diseases um yeah that's that's the reason why we do it okay uh what do we got what do we got um what time is it let's uh let's learn how uh the Soviet workers work enjoy before the 1917 Revolution Lenin described zaris Russia as the most backward state in Europe a nation of peasants with little secondary [Music] industry [Music] today the Soviet economy is the second most powerful in the world after the United States this remarkable transformation has been mainly achieved through a series of 5-year plans first launched in 1928 under which the government controls the pace and direction of economic growth [Music] this is a Minor's day ceremony in the city of donit a th000 kilometers southeast of Moscow every branch of Soviet industry has its own special annual day on which tribute is paid to the workers for their contribution to Economic Development to encourage respect for labor and stimulate greater productivity the ceremony follows the usual pattern of such celebrations vadir sheno is director of the abakumov mine of communist labor he congratulates the miners on fulfilling production targets and calls for even greater efforts in the future Champion workers who've broken individual output goals in socialist competition campaigns receive awards from the chairman of the Trade union [Music] committee functions like this with their public recognition of outstanding performances by both individuals and brigades are designed to build up people's pride in their work and give them a sense of personal identification with Soviet society and its declared aims the chief emphasis of the 5-year plans has been on heavy industry today the Soviet Union is among the world's leading producers of Steel machinery and many other industrial goods as well as a large number of minerals it possesses about 40% of known iron deposits and its oil resources are thought to be the biggest in the world the abum of mine is part of the the donet Basin or donbas one of the ussr's major coal regions coal production totals about 700 million tons a year only about 1,000th of estimated [Applause] reserves coal has been one of the industries which have not found it easy to keep Pace with production Targets in recent years and not all other sectors have been performing as required either for many years the government claimed great success in fulfilling its economic goals but under the n9th 5-year plan ending in 1975 for almost the first time many targets were not met among the reasons were a growing labor shortage and low productivity in many fields though coal is not one of these any significant rise in productivity required a massive investment in new technology but despite increased expenditure on new Machinery not enough funds were available some 200,000 miners work in the donbas region the abakumov mine itself employs about 3 and a half thousand 3/4 of them underground they produce over 5,000 tons of coal a day which is delivered to the state at a fixed price bringing in the equivalent of almost $30 million most of the output represents the mine's Target under the coal industry's National plan from the proceeds of the Surplus come the workers bonuses the size of which depends on how much they've exceeded production [Applause] quotes new machines have helped to raise output and made work less arduous this is important in the donbass where although the co itself is of high quality the seams are thin and difficult to get [Applause] it like other employees in heavy industry miners are the aristocrats of the Soviet Workforce with bonuses a top team at the callace can earn as much as 500 rubles or $600 a month per man this Compares with the average Soviet wage of around $160 a month planning has helped to drag the Soviet Union out of the past to equal the West technologically in many fields but despite greater flexibility in recent years it's beginning to prove too cumbersome and rigid each Enterprise is at first a lotted a production Target often this is too high and then it's up to the director to dig his toes in and negotiate a more realistic figure if he fails he's likely to find himself Under Fire from his workers whose bonuses for excess production will suffer as a result as head of the abakumov mine it's sh enko's job to see that the plan is carried out on the job his word is final and workers are legally obliged to obey his instructions his reward is a flat salary of $500 a month less than the over overall wage of many of his underground miners of course plant directors also get many fringe benefits like a chauffeur driven car an entertainment allowance and in shena's case a Seaside Villa Soviet workers are organized into 25 huge unions each covering a particular industry all employees of the abukuma of mine from underground workers to office staff and even the director are in the miners Union one of their main functions is to help the plant management mobilize the workers to meet their production targets strikes are not officially illegal but are exceedingly rare and certainly never called by the union leadership wages are set for various jobs by a Central State committee and any disputes that do arise are settled by local commissions on which management and labor are equally [Applause] represented while for many years heavy industry like mining steel and machine building received priority in Soviet Economic Development the 1960s saw a significant and in some cases spectacular rise in the production of consumer goods after years of sacrifice the planners finally realized that the Ordinary People wanted and needed a better deal these were the boom years living standards Rose and previously scarce items like TV sets washing machines and even cars became more readily available 20 years ago refrigerators were a rare sight in the Soviet kitchen production totaled only 500,000 units a year today the figure is 6 million by the mid 70s however the rate of growth had slowed down due to a shift in emphasis back to heavy industry output of consumer goods in the 9th 5-year plan failed to meet projected Levels by almost 25% as a result more modest targets have been set under the current plan much of the expansion in light industry was financed by large scale purchases of Western Equipment the red banner order refrigerator plant at Minsk for instance is Italian designed and built it makes 600,000 units a year and employs 4 and a half thousand people all of them members of The Light Industry Workers Union Valentina akula is full-time chairman of the plants Trade union committee elected for 2 years at a time a former design engineer she's kept busy with a wide range of Duties involving the welfare of the workers who elected her as well as solving any problems which might affect production or disrupt smooth relations between management and labor one of the Union's biggest headaches is the provision of adequate housing for its members despite a huge construction program in the last 20 years there is still a great shortage of accommodation sharing of Apartments is not uncommon and in most places there are long waiting lists for new Flats Industrial Enterprises devote a large proportion of their profits to housing construction for their workers this is the latest apartment block to be financed by the Minsk Refrigeration plant on land made available by the city council when it is completed the union will allocate the flats to its members but it will be maintained and administered by the council like buildings financed by the state one of valentina's jobs is to investigate applications for more living space this family of seven has been waiting for some years for a bigger apartment having outgrown their present two room [Music] flat the woman complains that the kitchen's too small hardly big enough for all her family to eat in at once and there's only one bedroom one compensation for such overcrowding however is that rents are extremely cheap seldom exceeding 5% of a family's income this and other things like free education and health and low public transport fairs help to make up for high prices for food clothing and other Goods relative to wages following valentina's inspection the application will be considered sympathetically the husband's a good worker at the plant and the family's name is near the top of the waiting [Music] list the decision is made by a joint meeting of the Trade union housing and Welfare Commissions in addition to need an applicant's work record participation in Community Affairs and even his moral behavior and political attitudes will be taken into account and generally a good worker will get an apartment ahead of a bad one in the woods outside Minsk the refrigerator plant maintains a sanatorium for its workers the Union's welfare commission is responsible for running it and Valentina and her colleagues make regular inspections to make sure that everything's in order employees of the plant and their families come here for up to 3 weeks at a time for medical care or simply for a holiday break during the summer it just can't meet the demand for places so the plant has earmarked almost $3 million for major extensions including a sporting complex the union is in charge of the project it also operates three kindergartens for the children of working mothers and a free Factory Clinic where workers can get medical checkups or treatment for minor ailments or on the job accidents trade unions also provide their members with a wide variety of benefits on a national basis the most popular and highly prized being the chance of a cheap or even free holiday by the sea the resort town of SOI 2,000 kilm south of Moscow lies on a stretch of the Black Sea Coast known as the Russian Riviera 3 million people come here each year mostly of course during the summer half a million of them take organized Health Care at one of the sanatoria operated by each each of the nation's 25 industrial unions this is metallurg run by the Steel Workers [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Union [Music] a 3 week stay here including full board and treatment costs only about $8 a day but as most patients are subsidized by their Trade union committees they pay only 30% of this themselves the sanatorium employs 26 fully qualified medical personnel all but four of them women medicine like teaching is an overwhelmingly feminine occupation in the Soviet Union and poorly paid by comparison with the West even top Specialists earn a maximum of around $250 a month far less than many of the steel worker patients they are treating but they can supplement their income With Private Practice [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's a different world 5,000 kilometers away at Bratz on the angara river in Siberia in Zara's times and also under Stalin Siberia was famous as a destination for political prisoners but it's more noteworthy today for its vast natural resources huge deposits of oil natural gas Iron Coal gold uranium and other minerals so great is siberia's potential that extraordinary efforts have been made in recent years to exploit its latent wealth and many new Industries and whole new cities have been built a number of siberia's Great Rivers have been harnessed to generate power from a series of giant dams the Bratz hydroelectric plant on the angera built in the 1960s was briefly the biggest in the world but has since been surpassed by even more gigantic Siberian schemes with abundant forest or igar covering much of its surface Timber is one of siberia's most important natural assets logs from distant Lumber camps are floated across the Bratz sea the immense artificial Lake formed by the damning of the [Applause] river the bratsk timber complex processes the logs into a number of wood and paper products still being expanded eventually it will employ 20,000 people designed and built by Swedish experts the plant illustrates again the Soviet Union's Reliance on Advanced Western technology to modernize its industrial base but the economic setbacks of the last few years have forced it to curtail this ambitious program Soviet purchases of foreign equipment fell from more than $6 billion in 1976 to Less Than 3 billion the following year many other Enterprises have followed in the wake of the Timber plant to take advantage of cheap power from the Bratz Dam in less than 20 years brat has grown from a front settlement to a modern city of over 200,000 people wages are double those in European Russia and a crash construction program has made the housing situation a lot easier with incentives like that there are plenty of volunteers these days to make the move to Siberia that few would have undertaken willingly in the past but keeping them there in the harsh environment is another matter back in the west of the country lies the port of Odessa on the Black Sea founded 200 years ago to open Russia to trade with the Mediterranean and the Middle East the sheer vastness of the Soviet Union makes transport one of the most important arms of the national economy Odessa is the headquarters of the rapidly expanding Black Sea shipping company whose Fleet of 300 cargo vessels and passenger liners ply most International sea Lanes the Soviet Union is one of the world's leading Maritime powers and its Merchant Marine fleet has grown greatly in recent years surprisingly however in relation to its size and economic might the country is still only a comparatively small International Trader nevertheless the volume of sea Freight is considerable almost half of it is handled in Odessa and other Black Sea ports Nikolai timun is the leader of a brigade or team of Dockers unloading a cargo of sugar from Cuba the 20 men in his team are a permanent unit always working together and close friends off the job like miners Dockers are another Elite group their pay is similarly related to the arduousness and economic importance of their work particularly for those who turn in the best results like nikolai's gang which is one of the top teams in the port they often earn up to $500 a month Nikolai as Brigade leader gets an extra $60 or so making his total pay more than that of some of the captains of the ships he and his mates unload every [Music] day the money goes even a little further by virtue of cheap subsidized food in the doc canteen where a solid meal costs about 50 about a third of the price in an ordinary public cafeteria the port also provides the usual run of holiday Resorts kindergarten schools and sporting and cultural facilities for the workers and their families at the end of each day's shift Nikolai usually calls his gang together for a short meeting to discuss the day's work the next day schedule and any problems affecting the brigade's performance this is one way of bringing colletive pressure on any member not pulling his weight or maybe giving a bit of sympathetic advice to someone with personal worries today the gang found out they've just won a $250 bonus for their results over over the last month split between them this is enough to pay each man's rent for the next 4 [Music] weeks not so long ago Nikolai timon's car would have marked him out as someone of importance today all it means is that somehow he scraped together the $7,000 in cash to buy it for cars aren't plentiful enough yet to allow for higher purchase or time payment to ease the pain material rewards for greater effort are one way the Soviet system obtains the cooperation of its citizens in fulfilling its plans for the future the other is by moral incentive campaigns of socialist competition between individual workers brigades and different Enterprises to exceed production Targets this is a ceremony marking the end of a six months emulation campaign between brigades on the Odessa docks victory in the competition means a hefty bonus for the Brigade concerned but it also brings more intangible rewards public recognition and Prestige decorations and a highly prized glory to labor Banner which the winning Brigade proudly keeps for as long as it's on top if you ask these people how they feel about their country most of them will tell you with fervor that they love their Homeland and their right behind government policy it's our state they say a workers State we fought for it during the war and we' defend it again the factories and Farms belong to us but the question Still Remains of how much say they actually have in running their country in the workplace in their own trade unions in government and politics it's a big question and maybe the main one the Soviet Union still has to [Music] [Applause] answer Russians um yeah so the TV series um so the title and the end credits were obviously done with video and then they were kinoscope and tacked on um it's fascinating it's always interesting to look at at uh other cultures in the 70s and the 60s to kind of see how they they all handle things and um what they got wrong and what they were like oh uh what they got well that's actually better than what we got um you know it all boils down to Corruption of course and and governments are run by people and sometimes people are no damn good but you people are awesome uh I'll make an exception for you guys you're you guys are great uh and you're also very patient and understanding when uh technology is going a little chaotic over here or I'm a little distracted for whatever reason uh I appreciate you guys for doing that um if you are in the Raleigh area tomorrow at lump Gallery I will be showing some films uh that were requested uh that I I used to do shows at lump Gallery like I don't know 27 years ago 30 years ago um and uh this is in downtown Raleigh and uh I did this one series of films about uh rats uh and it trauma I showed a film called ratos and it traumatized a whole bunch of people and so one of the people that runs lump was like Hey can you show us rat topis again again and I'm like yeah sure okay and hey can you show ABC's a sex education for trainables okay sure so they want it to be all awkward uh so it's an awkward screening tomorrow if you would like to come by and I think there's also going to be some noise bands some sound bands uh Etc uh I'm going to start at 7:00 and then periodically show movies until probably about 11: or so so yeah come out and see me if you're in town would love to see you uh otherwise I'll be back tomorrow uh and do a lunchtime streaming show uh everybody take care if you like what you saw thumbs up um what else you know hit like subscribe the notification Bell um etc those are all great great ways to support us you can also watch other films that we have um but uh we will see you tomorrow anyways everybody have a great rest of your November and we'll be back with a brand new month next uh tomorrow take care bye