AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 2-12-2025

e I I is for is is I all right so that go goes on for a while uh and unfortunately we don't have uh the soundtrack of what he's saying um that's from the National Archives collection hi I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the a Geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 mm films and um yeah so as I said that was from the National Archives we've been working with some of their films files Etc um so yeah I'm very tired I had to take my wife to the airport very early this morning and so um I'm on three cups of coffee and it's not really clicking plus it's gray outside let's watch a uh Warner Brothers cartoon uh which was made for the US Air Force and is very similar to another film called 90-day uh wondering or wandering which is a Warner Brothers film made for the Army so this is very similar except that Ralph is not in it this is another character do you remember Ralph from the Chuck Jones cartoons uh well he shows up actually in an army uh animated film about reenlisting or re-upping uh so here's a hitch and time enjoy [Music] this is John MC Roger Airman First Class that Blissful smile on Jon's face is because johon has reached the end of his first hitch and Jon is getting out he is now contemplating the advantages that all civilians take for granted like a solid gold jagala a penthouse overlooking the river a good job and a beautiful wife and to pant to send home to me wife poor wife no cares have I to grieve me no pretty little girl to deceive me uh Happy here it comes the message as we go rolling hi Mac rolling home name is Grogan technical Gremlin first class yeah yeah yeah I know and you're here to show me why I should reinlist about all the multitudinous advantages accruing to the reinlist the look friend I don't know what all this sarcasm is about but I'm getting out of this man's Air Force capital O capital u capital T out hey you getting out too wait that's different let's pick up our discharge papers together uh uh buddy are you you kidding why the minute they start talking to you you'll go all soft and sign up again but I no buts sit down honest I've been dreaming about getting out ever since I got in all these guys are the same pushovers wild blue yonder pushovers I don't know why I'm so soft-headed but I guess I've got to brief this character so he won't be a paty and get talked back in these GI magic wands always fouled [Music] up later [Music] later now then the first thing they're going to try to do they're going to try to tell you how much better off you'll be staying in the Air Force okay just for the record let's take a look the average veteran of your age is earning about $325 a month in civilian life do you realize that's about 40% more than you make Mac why that's an outrage that's that's of course to be perfectly Fair the civilian does have to make uh certain minor deductions from his paycheck that you don't like food lodging clothes higher income taxes medical and dental bills uh uh minor deductions like that there well uh it only amounts to about 275 bucks a month only another thing I uh forgot to mention was that an Airman can increase the size of his check by uh seniority advancement in rank allowances overseas Duty flying Duty and proficiency pay and you will get several times your monthly base pay is a bonus for your first reenlistment but the civilian still gets more money sure sure and anyway the money isn't the important thing is it Grogan it's the job that counts brother you are so right there today we find John MC Roger Apprentice drill press operator happily at work hey Matt there you are [Music] are yeah I I don't know Grogan it just doesn't seem quite what I want to do look pal you can't back out now why now uh you take a retirement do you realize that as a civilian you could look forward to retiring at the age of 65 with a cool 125 bucks coming in from Social Security every month yeah well in the Air Force I can retire when I'm 38 and draw down more than that for the rest of my life what are you a has been or something where do they get off retiring you at 38 it's an imposition some imposition okay I decide I don't want to be imposed on I decide I'm going to stay in another 10 years till I'm 48 then they really impose on you I'll get over twice as much as a civilian on Social Security and get it 17 years sooner and Grogan I've already got foure start well uh you could retire on that kind of though as a civilian too oh absolutely all I got to do is I got to save up about 990,000 bucks and put it out at a good rate of interest a cinch all right yeah I know I know you say 50 or 60 bucks a week for 30 years okay okay so it's ridiculous I'll admit there's a few good things about about the Air Force like 30-day vacations every year with pay and medical expenses and family allowances and housing and a chance to travel and don't forget the Technical Training and educational opportunities and most important Mac like you said before it's the job that counts US Air Force guys have the most important job in the world we're the ones who keep these beautiful birds flying these beautiful birds that fly all over the world long distances and short on patrol protecting our country our country depends on us even though most civilians don't realize what we're doing but we know don't we Mac we sure do Grogan unsung but proud let's get going yeah I guess we both know what you want to do now right right hey wait buddy if you think you can get by in the Air Force without me you got yourself another thing [Music] coming we got important work to do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah so mil M blank did all the voices for that um and there is a gremlin that shows up in some Warner Brothers cartoons um that doesn't look like that uh and that looks like the the the fairy the private first class fery that shows up in um I believe some uh private snafu cartoons um so there's a there's a history there of Warner Brothers and uh doing things for the the US government and Armed Forces so there you go uh this film is uh as the city sleep enjoy this is from our propaganda branch of our US government uh the US Information Services um so this was meant to be shown outside the United States to talk about how great the United States is um probably in the 60s early 60s enjoy [Music] [Music] GE it's kind of early for a load of artichokes to be getting in those guys must have made good time coming in from the valley looks like the Market's going to be busy tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I'm glad I decided to walk to work tonight it's good night for it that fresh air feels good San Francisco always looks swell from up here there's a million people asleep down there now they probably wouldn't like to work at night they probably don't know about guys like me who are awake and just going to work City sure growing I can remember when a lot of those houses weren't there I guess it's because San Francisco is such a big sea port one of the biggest in the United States biggest on the west coast anyway there's new businesses and factories moving in all the time and ships moving out all the time to places like Manila or Singapore or maybe Australia funny thing I've lived all my life right here between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay and I've never been to Sea yeah it's a fine night all right but I'd better get to work [Music] a wholesale produce market it's not too busy yet the trucks are just beginning to roll in the whole Market's only about four or five city blocks Square to see it at this time of night you'd hardly know what a big job goes on down here to get fresh food into the City and people just take it for granted they never stop to think how their food gets there takes a lot of food to feed a million people thousands of tons of fruit and vegetables every day most of it comes in here the night before and all of it gets handled by a few hundred people people like bumpers to unload it off the trucks Porters to move it off the curb people to buy it and people to sell it it takes a lot of teamwork to run the market each wholesale house has a floor manager like Charlie here to keep track of the shipments and to tell us what he wants done next me I'm a lumper a lumper is a guy who unloads the produce off the trucks during the night I work different places depending on where the trucks have to be unloaded but I usually start out at the house where my friend Al the porter Works to say hello find out what's new of course no matter how early you come in there's always some trucker in early to beat the rush hey Elmer you're working in this market or a't you never mind I ain't got all night a keep your shirt on Al and I have worked together for years he likes his job and I like mine nobody's watching over us to see how we do our job we know what has to be done and we do it [Music] it takes more than muscle to move produce all night you've got to know how the old-timers know the best ways to lift and handle crates of food and how to work together [Music] sometimes a load comes in that has to be moved into the house right away when that happens the porters have to keep moving and they beef when they have to wait for a stack of crates so it's fun once in a while to get together with the trucker and stack up the crate so fast that the porter gets so busy moving the stuff in he doesn't realize that half the Market's laughing at him [Music] looks like this is Al's night for it [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] good old l [Music] [Music] Nick's coffee shop is a kind of club for the guys who work in the market almost everybody stops in here sometime during the night [Music] it's a good place for a quick game of checkers and the guys who play can count on plenty of free [Music] [Music] advice of course the main reason for going to nyck is the coffee it comes strong and hot [Music] everybody likes to relax and talk a little Nick's in a good spot to pick up all the market gossip he's always ready to help settle an argument there's no special time set up for us to break off work for coffee guy has to grab a quick cup whenever he can after lumping produce for a while it's good just to sit down for a minute or two take the load off your feet usually I find myself thinking about the family maybe how we spend the weekend it's only a couple of weeks now until the fishing season opens up man I can hardly wait to go up to the mountains and hook into a few trout I think I'll take my boy along this year he's old enough he'd get a big kick out of [Music] [Music] it by the time Al and I get back from from coffee Charlie's Got plenty of work lined up for us the Market's really getting busy right at this one house several trucks are waiting to be [Music] [Music] unloaded all over the market in wholesale houses like this one truck after truck comes rolling in strawberries Tomatoes asparagus grapefruit carrots melons crate after crate all night long [Music] as fast as the lumpers can get the food unloaded each Shipment has to be sorted out by the porters it has to be weighed and graded so the right price can be put on it the floor men are experts at figuring the price of a shipment just by looking look at a few samples it takes an expert to set a price high enough to make a profit and still low enough to meet the competition so the food will sell fast [Music] it's daylight by the time the last truck is unloaded and a lumper Knows by then he's done a good night's work 60,000 lb a night five nights a week that's my average and I don't mind saying I'm proud of it now the market is jam-packed with fresh fruits and vegetables and even before the day has really gun the retail dealers are in to take it to the neighborhood markets and stores my S now hereu about the time I'm finished with my job the rest of the people in San Francisco are just starting on the way to their jobs sometimes on the way home I feel like I've been feeding the whole city single-handed I like to walk through the morning crowds they don't know me but I feel like I've been doing something important for them and I guess some of the other guys feel the same way hey Elmer walking home from work is all right but after a night in the market I could use a lift home I'm kind of glad Charlie came along he goes out my [Music] way Charlie's a trout fisherman too I remember once in the days we used to take the street car together we got talking trout fishing so hard I forgot to get off at my stop [Music] the guys who work right in the wholesale Market get to like fresh fruit and vegetables Charlie had some of the first melons of the Season picked out nice of to give me one nothing tastes better for breakfast and a good melon Charlie's a good guy always doing something like that [Music] yes sir there's nothing like getting home from a good night's work coming up your own Street looking forward to a good hot meal and a hot bath a chance to relax and talk to the wife and especially no more stuff to lift did I say no more stuff to lift [Music] yes sir 60,000 lb a night [Music] so yeah that's just a pro USA piece um you know and it was shown in other countries and it was showing like hey this is what the Working Man does and this is what his life is like and this is what it's like to be in an American city and um you know create this idealic view of of the United States at the time all right um this is a great film about nutrition and about the Head Start program um almost everything I'm showing today is from the National Archives by the way so there you go um this is Jenny is a good thing enjoy what a long P that a whole some full of P we can open it up now and see what's inside PE PE oh what color are white white why with so many little PE a long sh is this the way it grows out here like yeah sure that's the way it grows now is it round or is it FL oh the pee is ground tell me do it feel soft or hard soft how many does Dina have in her hand look 1 2 3 4 5 is it s or is it bitter how does it really take [Music] some are outgoing some are shy all are children three four and 5 years old they come from City ghettos Royal Shacks Indian P blows the experiences they bring with them are not the experiences of the privileged these are poverty's children but like all children privileged and poor they hold promise and potential Head Start recognizes that promise and seeks to develop that potential [Music] nutrition plays a major role in the head stop program it's an integral part of the daily activities many children come to the center without breakfast they can have it here when nutrition is more than just eating it is learning finding out that food can be fun the fun of preparing it the fun of a new experience shared with others the fun of discovering what and why and how [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my name is Johnny and where do you live in a great big apartment house what's your address nutrition in all activities at the center try to improve the child's concept of himself give him a healthy image that is not Twisted by poverty how a child feels about himself is how he friends Community he's loving if he knows that he's loved he's proud he's treated with dignity he grows if he's given encouragement and opportunity at the center the child learns that he's an important person J L to [Applause] J to you tell you you are J J hello to now and you can dream of wings to my S and you are just [Music] do you know J now [Applause] the that you can be you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] let me let somebody else nutrition activities like snack time add to the child's Knowledge and Skills and build his self-image what is cou is it fruit through food he learns new words and colors he learns concepts of size and shape and texture now we cut it all the way around you were right what does he really see how does it smell is it rough or smooth to touch soft or hard is it good to taste food can waken his senses and his curiosity he doesn't reach for fruit instead of candy because he knows that fruit is more nutritious but because he has enjoyed it fully it has meaning for him Beyond just eating a chunk of yeast dough is food it can be baked into bread but it can also be poked and squeezed and pounded and rolled and stamped and and even sculpted and it can be something from which you create something of your very own a chunk of dough can be many things maybe only one child's small success but small successes make Head Start [Music] start a good program doesn't depend on elaborate [Music] facilities it depends on Ingenuity in this old and crammed kitchen the ious hot lunches are prepared each day for over 75 [Music] children it depends on Courage this Center came from a poor negro woman who wanted to help the children of her community she begged on the streets till she had enough money to buy a land and a building then pi and volunteers soared and hammered scrubbed and painted a nearby Auto dump supplied playground [Music] materials and some of the land was saved for a garden where the children could plant dig weed and [Music] grow here each child has his own water pale placed at a level he can easily reach with projects like this Garden the child learns about food through direct involvement at Head Start Learning is an adventure [Music] [Applause] pap a [Music] w [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] there is much for the child to explore in the world of food field trips can show him the relationship between the food he eats and how it is raised harvested marketed and prepared he can help to grow greens for a salad or help choose them at the market he can make a salad [Music] he can learn to handle new [Music] utensils or rely on his own more basic method [Music] through related experiences the child begins to understand the logic of the world around him and feel his own importance in it arranging and setting a table is a social experience and a personal [Music] accomplishment headstock brings children and food together happily at the center each child gets at least one hot meal that gives him a good share care of his nutritive needs for the day the children eat family style each serving himself and helping to serve others bread is quarted meat and vegetables cut into manageable sizes teachers and AIDS sit at the level of the children eating with them helping them to identify Foods [Music] [Music] meals are attractive and the environment is [Music] relaxed children aren't punished for not eating and if a new food is introduced they're not forced but encouraged to taste it [Music] individual cultures and Regional backgrounds are preserved even in the child's diet meals include those foods that have long been familiar to him and his family mutton stew and a large chunk of traditional Indian bread make a delicious and balanced meal so do pinto beans tortillas and squash the food and the at at the center influences the food choices and the meal time atmosphere in the home twice each week a headstock parent eats with the children as their guest and eating with the children and I enjoy eating with my own children at home I am I guess I'm a little old fashion but I used to believe in eating and being quiet and I've learned from them that you're supposed to talk at the table and I enjoy eating with them to hear what they have to say and they have learned to eat new food foods that I thought that they wouldn't eat and so did they and now we all eat and we enjoy raw vegetables and fruit and different meat what the children learn here at the table they learn informly and by example [Music] and here you don't have to clean your plate to get [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] dessert good food habits set in the early years lay the foundation for later life and good food habits include responsibilities brushing teeth after meals helping to clean up a full participation that builds confidence and self-respect for whatever the reasion race or culture these children are above all individuals they have a claim on the future and they have a right to be healthy children a well-nourished child has a better chance to grow to learn to look and feel better to have more energy for work and play a child who's fed when he's hungry feels cared for and [Music] secure nutrition like every part of headstart Works to break down poverty's most corrosive effect believing you are less than what you are these children must learn that they are good because they exist they must know they belong to a society that cherishes their existence [Music] Head Start start is not an end to the problems of poverty's children it is just a chance to have and enjoy a beginning [Music] afternoon nap man I think I'm going to have to take advantage of that because I am flagging here very tired and I'm not going to have a fourth cup of coffee cuz that's going to be problematic all right so this next film uh Southern New England shows uh things in the 60s and uh we had talked about was it yesterday we talked about Emulsion scratches this thing looks like somebody just like ran it through sandpaper or something in the beginning uh it does clear up eventually but I was like whoa so here we go enjoy [Music] this old shoe factory has been deserted for quite some time now it would be almost impossible to get it working again even then it wouldn't be very useful for it would be way out of date it wasn't the only Factory that had to shut down in this area Ken's grandfather and many others lost their jobs during those hard times this is the story of how those people of Southern New England have won their battle for economic Prosperity Our Story begins with the land when the first settlers came to New England they found only Hills trees trees and rocks instead of fertile land to make the ground usable as Farmland it first had to be cleared every stone in this fence was taken from the soil of the nearby Field The Long Cold Winters left only four or five months of the year for farming however the region had one valuable feature that the oldtimers soon put to work abundant water it was easy to use the water for power because of the very hilly country side this is an Old Grist Mill that is run by water [Music] power the weight of the water running downhill and falling over the water wheel turns the shaft inside the mill the shaft turns one large Stone wheel against another the grain is poured in between the two stones where it is ground into flour [Music] Grist Mills and were the forerunners of many small factories in New [Music] England when this land was first settled each family had to make most of their own tools and clothing the women even W their own cloth later on when towns began to appear shoemakers and other Craftsmen opened their own shops each article was made separately [Music] for many years everything was handmade with very crude tools then in the 1880s these simple tools were replaced by Machinery run by water power it was possible to turn out dozens of pairs of shoes much cheaper and faster than before new inventions such as the leather rolling and sewing machines help towns like Lynn and Brock Massachusetts become important shoe manufacturing centers talented people like Samuel Slater introduced new machines his power loom soon replaced the old hand Looms with these machines large quantities of cotton goods were made much faster and at lower costs men and women skilled at working the handlooms learned to run the new Power machines the manufacturer of textiles became a very important New England industry Massachusetts and Rhode Island produced cotton textiles especially in the mill cities of Paul River New Bedford pu Tucket and Wocket mil towns such as L and Lawrence grew famous for making Woolen textiles and depended mainly on water power Boston and Providence became Great Sea ports here raw cotton arrived from the south and Finnish textiles were sh dipped to many markets although most cotton Mills used water for power some used steam the coal to make the steam with was shipped by boat from Pennsylvania nearly everyone who lived in the M towns depended on the factory for a living not only did the Mills pay the town's people their wages but they often owned the General Store as well Southern New England was a busy and prosperous place to live until after after the first world war a period of hardship for both workers and Factory owners began near the end of 1919 times were so difficult that people had no money for food and had to stand in line through all kinds of weather for Relief [Music] meals the manufacturers were located in old fashioned plants the cost of improving them was more expensive than building entirely new factories in better locations for this reason the shoe and textile Industries started moving to other parts of the country where labor was cheaper and taxes lower the southern pedmont area of the United States was such a location and so many Industries moved there from New England the people of New England were left in serious trouble what could they do about their closing factories and lost jobs the future looked Grim but the people faced their problems bravely towns formed planning committees to attract new Industries to their communities workers applied their skills and experience to learning new trades slowly these efforts began to show [Music] results New Industries came and built plants to make electrical equipment Machine Tools Metal Goods and Home Appliances these industries had good reasons for wanting their plants in New England the same water which once ran Grist Mills can turn generators to make electricity now plants no longer have to be located near water for power before the 1920s most factories also had to be on the railroad line or near a harbor so that they could receive raw materials and ship out their finished products today because of excellent roads and fast trucks factories can be located at any spot where it is easy to get workers and raw materials finished products can be trucked directly from the factories to the great trading centers of the Eastern United States or taken to Ports to be shipped to other parts of the world the busy ports of Boston and Providence became the transportation centers of New [Music] England here r materials are unloaded and taken to factories to be turned into finished products the new products are then shipped to busy markets in America and abroad most important in this industrial growth were the people themselves they worked hard to use their intelligence and Technical knowledge in new jobs industry helped workers to learn new skills a man who could operate a complicated machine in a shoe factory could quickly learn to run another machine in a Precision Tool plant this training was very important during the second world war when New England's Industries produced weapons for our country's defense the ship building Industries turned out warships like this submarine in New London Connecticut aircraft manufacturing became another of New England's leading Industries now much of the nation's scientific research is being done here scientists and technicians are needed to fill the many new jobs that have been created by the Space Age much of this specialized education is available right here in New England where some of the world's most well-known universities and colleges are [Music] located Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard and Yale are centers of experimentation in space technology here a new satellite is being carefully checked before its journey into space at MIT the nature of radioactive materials is being explored new ways are being developed for the use of these materials in Science and Industry This research has helped the development of old and new Industries in New [Music] England the many factories along Route 128 just outside of Boston are examples of New England's recent Industrial [Music] expansion here you can see mile after mile of modern factories and research centers from this highway of science come ideas that help to keep America growing the ideas born in research centers come to life in factories and help our country's Industries to remain the greatest in the world thus we have seen that the history of New England is one of NeverEnding change the early settlers found farming difficult because of the rocky land and Long Winter they soon turned to shoe making in factories like this one later on shoe and textile Industries could no longer make money but in time the people of New England overcame the problems of closing factories and lost jobs they set out to attract new industri applied their skills to new kinds of work these industries are now among the most important in our country New England's Prosperity is still growing there are plentiful Water Resources to produce electrical power transportation is convenient and its ocean ports are always busy [Music] today New England has come a long way since the early settlers learned how to use water to turn their machines the Ingenuity of the first Yankees is still helping Southern New England to grow [Music] thank you so much for all the uh donations for coffee and for showing a heartfelt film uh makes me feel good it warms me up on a jewy cold day where I'm on the verge of falling asleep um yeah so that film like I said at the beginning it was scratched horribly uh and it's possible and you saw how it cleared up so it's possible a couple things happen one is it wasn't threaded right and so it was running through the projector it was going and it was rubbing against something that should have been rubbing against and then they stopped it and they fixed it two there was some horrible clot of dirt that just stuck there and just scraped scraped scraped scraped and eventually it got clear um and so that's what it was pretty severe too too you saw it was green and then it was white so it was pretty harsh um scratch there and there's very little you can do as far as restoration work for something that's you know when it takes up like that much of the screen you know it's like that you know you could try to do AI to fix it but it would just be wrong it wouldn't look right and I've tried I've tried different tools to try to clean up scratches uh there's definitely good tools for cleaning up those BAS scratches those thin black lines that we were talking about but the green ones they're usually too thick and then sometimes they actually have a little bit of shadow on the other outside of it too cuz what it is is it's scraping and then the Emulsion is kind of building up a little bit so then you have to kind of figure out a way to to deal with that and uh there's frame by frame tools to do it you can certainly do it in Photoshop but yeah it's a lot there's a lot of scratches but thanks again for tuning in we'll be back again tomorrow Thursday uh everybody have a great rest of your day and hey uh thanks it was great to see some of you last night on the found footage Festival uh VCR party show um they had me on as a guest that's available on YouTube and I showed a couple of clips from my collection um so they were saying like oh my God you've done too many shows you're doing too much uh you're uploading too many videos it's too much and like well you know you do what you do like I collect these films to show them so uh and I show them whenever I can in their entirety uh whereas they like to clip down they don't have the attention spans that we have so thanks for those nice shoutouts last night and uh we will see you tomorrow Everybody Take Care get some good rest I am I'm not going to get up at 6:00 in the morning uh to go to the airport so uh I will be very very much rested tomorrow take care everybody bye e