AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 2-6-2026

Hello everybody. This is Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the AV Geeks Lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films. And it's Friday. What a long week with lots of winter weather and annoying stuff, but we survived it and we are back at the archive doing the work that we do, which is pulling films, scanning films, showing films. Uh, we're going to start off with this. Uh, this is a visit to a theater. Enjoy. >> Trouble, Cinderella. How could I BE IN TROUBLE? I'VE DONE ALL MY JOBS. YOU'RE IN TROUBLE. >> You can take her word for it. IT'S SUCH A PRETTY DRESS. >> GIRLS, LOOK. [screaming] [laughter] >> WHY? JEAN, how lovely you look. I never knew you could look quite so charming. Almost as charming as I. >> MAMA, I AM HERE. >> WHAT? JEEZ, MARIE. >> WHO IS S THEN >> SA >> BUT YOU COULDN'T HAVE FINISHED ALL YOUR CHORES. >> BUT I HAVE THE ONION, THE TWO TONS, THE PALM TREE, >> ALL 40. >> THE WINDOW SILLS, VARNISH. >> WELL, SEND IT FIRST AND THEN VARNISH. >> I've seen them. It's a wonderful job. Perhaps a bit rushed though. >> And the dresses please you. >> Yes, they are quite lovely. I can't deny that. AND YOU PROMISED THAT IF I FINISH ALL MY CHORES, I COULD GO TO THE BALL. >> YOU DID, MAMA. >> BE QUIET, JEAN. >> It is true. I did. >> But Cinderella, that is a lovely dress you made. Where did you find the material? >> It was in the attic. The dress belonged to my mother. I added a few new trims and lace. >> It is lovely. The lace is exactly like mine. Oh, it is exactly like yours. After I finished making your dress, there were some traps. Celestial work. >> It is nice. Don't you think so, mama? >> Mama, why are you LOOKING LIKE THAT? >> HOW DARE YOU USE MY DAUGHTER'S LACE? >> It was in the sewing room. I didn't think you'd mind. >> Jean, take the lace OFF CINDERELLA'S DRESS. >> IF I DO THAT, MAMA, THE DRESS WILL NOT LOOK AS NICE. >> Take the lace OFF. >> BUT THE LACE IS IMPORTANT TO THE DRESS. MY RIBBON. MY PRECIOUS RIBBON. >> Please don't. Mama, are not those your flowers? >> Yes, the flowers. >> OH, BUT THERE WAS SO MANY I HAVE TO GET MINE IF I DON'T. >> The way YOU PICK CINDERELLA'S SKIRT. >> SHE'S A GOOD SEAMSTRESS. YOU CAN SEW IT UP AGAIN. >> OH, MARIE. >> YES, MAMA. >> What is in Cinderella's hair? Please don't. >> I'm sorry, Cinderella, but thieves must return what they steal. >> But I didn't steal anything. Fair. NOW IT'S JUST YOUR DRESS. >> Shall we go? >> But I can't go like this. >> You're quite right. Come. called Jean. >> We'll tell you all about the ball. We shouldn't steal Cinderella. IT ISN'T NICE. BUT I CAN'T. I didn't. [music] >> Do we stop the world? >> Yes. [music] Pretending is always fun and we've all done it. But it takes lots [music] of people to actually put on a play. It all starts with an idea. That's the beginning. Whether [music] it's a new play or an old story, it still has to be written. Tryyous are held. >> All right. I'm glad you all came here today um for the audition for Cinderella. Once written, you must have a cast, >> people who will play each part as it is written in the play script. >> Cold readings. You've all of course read the script. Yes. Who's our first person? [music] [music] >> Tryyous are held. >> Not everyone is selected for a part. >> I suppose we should go in. It's much nicer here. And we can still hear the music. >> It's a lovely melody. >> It was written for you. >> For me? >> Well, not by name, but I wrote it. You see, I >> You wrote it? >> Yes. >> Why don't you give JB the scripts? Um, and let's see some uh waltzing. One of the things I want to see how you'll be a little fancy. If you want, turn her under your arm or walk her around. >> [music] [music] [music] >> I love you. >> Quite nice, isn't it? [music] >> We're in love. >> Yes, I know. [music] >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Afraid not. Besides, I've been thinking. We're in need of some extra help. Your help? >> My help? No. No. Now, as you said, there aren't any rabbits in Cinderella. IF YOU PUNK, >> LET'S NOT GET AHEAD OF OURS. >> You're not a rabbit, >> Uncle Harold. You can't get out. It's impossible. [screaming] >> Oh, I really will be late. >> No, you won't. Remember, in the land of make believe, time is measured different. >> When they see your rabbit, >> THEY WON'T KNOW YOU'RE A RABBIT. >> CINDERELLA, that is >> after all the parts have been cast, rehearsals start. >> Without settings, without costumes, and without props. >> I added a few new trims. >> The director studies the movements of the cast very carefully to make sure they all blend together. left over. >> How dare you use my daughter's lace? >> Let's stop a second. >> In designing this costume, it was my intention in putting these flowers along the bottom here and the ribbon and the lace around the sleeve and this collar and belt that in that scene, the other girls when they rip it apart can rip off any number of flowers that they want, any of the lace. As the flowers are pulled off, there's also a series of snaps in one of these sections. Um um that I think that might work. >> This collar can be made to come off very quickly because it snap or velcro or hook and eye will be right underneath this bow. >> I What are the problems of reconstructing it back to this position? >> Well, it wouldn't be too difficult for her to do. Everything would just simply snap back on, snap back on, snap back on. >> In the costume room, new costumes are made or old ones remade. After each performance, the costumes are pressed to keep them fresh looking. When the show is over, the costumes are stored here. Whereas, compared to the maroon and the rust color of the other two sisters. She'll have attention when she needs attention. It'll look pretty. It'll be nice and sweet because it'll be pink there. >> Although, we're still staying with those monochromatic tones. >> So, that we'll still be with what the set is doing, which is very much monochromatic. chromatic ex you spoke to the designer the set designer >> okay this is one thing I should tell you right away it's going to take longer one has to start before the other which will elongate the whole uh scene shift >> so in a sense we can do that thing I talked about which is the ability of taking out a scene as another scene comes in so we can get that >> yes >> that juxtaposition of two scenes going at once >> [music] [music] [music] >> That's it. After the models of the sets that were designed for this play are discussed with the director, they will have to be built. Other backgrounds and settings have to be made and painted. The people who design and build the sets are part of the backstage crew. But let's go and visit some of the other people who work on a play but are never seen by the audience. Okay, we need the three dining room chairs. That special table up there. >> Is that the square one? >> No, it's the the one with the three legs on top. Uh, need a rug, some plates, the cups, the saucers, and the forks and spoons, that type stuff. And I'll go get the glasses if you want to go get the table. The prop department sees that everything needed for the play is collected and organized so that the proper things will be there on stage for the actors to use. And the main prop the prince will need when he goes in search of Cinderella, the glass slipper. >> After weeks of preparation, it's time for a dress rehearsal on stage. I'm sorry. >> This is where it all comes together. >> At this rehearsal, everything is done exactly as it will be done in performance with an audience. >> Kevin's right. Brian's wrong. >> I'm wrong. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> But it was a funny idea. I'm not so sure I don't love it that way. >> Let's try it. >> Silly enough to work. [music] >> [music] >> Lady, please exchange partners later. >> The crew in the lighting booth works on their cues and light changes while the cast is rehearsing. The strong lights are necessary so that everyone in the audience can see the action on the stage. Because of that, the cast needs to add color and lines to their features so they won't be bleached out by the light. >> I think one of the things we're going to really do, Susan, is try and keep that makeup as straight as you possibly can so that what we really want to deal with is the ugliness inside of the stepsister and not the superficial ugliness. >> So, let's really work on that straight makeup. >> All right. Well, should I do something with my lips though, shouldn't I? Well, let's try using uh two two color tones. Try it lighter on the inside and just a slight darkening on the on the outside. >> Okay. >> Be very subtle with the color. That's fine. Yeah, I think the eyes will work well. Okay, going into bank [music] two again. Okay, it's gone. and go [music] complete JB porn electric 12. >> A stopwatch is used by the stage manager [music] as he sits with his script behind the set. He also cues the lighting and set changes as he watches the play on a TV screen. >> Sound 12 go. Standby electrics 14 and sound 13. Sound 13. Go. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> everything special. [music] [music] >> Finally, after all the meetings and rehearsals and [music] technical rehearsals and dress rehearsals, everything is ready. Okay, it's clear. >> All you need then is an audience. [music] [music] [music] >> House out. Standing by. Electric one. You love me. [music] You love me. I can't describe [singing] your gracefulness, your [music] tenderness, that smile that melts my heart. You're lovely. You're [music] lovely. Would you please be more? >> OH, MAMA. NO, I'LL NEVER BE A PRINCESS. >> YOU WOULD NEVER BEEN A PRINCESS. I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE PRINCESS. >> BE QUIET. BOTH OF YOU SUCH CHILDREN. YOU'RE BOTH QUITE DISGUSTING. OH, HOW I'VE SUFFERED. HOW I'VE SUFFERED. NOW YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE. G. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. >> YEAH. [screaming] You little [laughter] creepy LITTLE YOU. OH, that was wonderful. Wonderful. Well, now where do we go from here? It's Wait a minute. It's over. It's over. >> Cinderella. Cinderella. there for you. Magic from there on you. was great. [clears throat] Uh, I was in the theater as a kid, not that scale, but I did do children's theater, so that was awesome. All right, next film. This is actually from the Prolinger collection. We've been working with a lot of their stuff, uploading it to their own YouTube channel. This is The Window. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] [whistles] >> Hey, daddy. >> [music] >> a tin can, two pie plates, and a wire hanger. [music] What a simple bird feeder like this can mean to a group of alert and responsive children always amazes me. Eyes that are so eager to see, ears that are so keen to hear, need more than the three solid walls of a classroom. They need a window which looks out into the greater world beyond. As a teacher, I try [music] to keep the view through this window clear. Another familiar bird in the garden is the year round. Are >> you going to do anything with this area? The sights and sounds of nature stimulate different children in different ways. Let's try. Learning is discovery. And the discovery of a bird can also be the discovery of oneself, of interests and abilities, skills and aptitudes. Of [music] course, it's more than just birds. It's all the things that fly and creep, swim and run, live and breathe. And these things become part of a child's life at all times, not just when he's in school. From weekends at home and vacation trips, from fields and dunes come an abundance of treasures and experiences which expand our class program. A collection of shells is the medium for this girl's development of her skill in language arts. >> Different kinds of clamshells. There are different kinds come from different parts of the country. I read a book about shelters make out of them. Oh my god. Hey there. >> Hey, LOOK. >> Even at the most unlikely moments, this sensitivity to nature erupts spontaneously if it has been encouraged and nourished. My class didn't know what would happen during this recess, but in a sense, they were prepared for it. Of course, I have a constant source of assistance in the materials I receive from the Ottoman Junior Clubs. Identification of birds and animals, of plants and rocks, suggestions for activities, tips on how to build things. My class benefits from his participation in the junior club program in a thousand ways. But most important of all are the monthly project sheets which we receive. Each one becomes with just a few minutes of planning on my part an exciting class activity. Sometimes one of these projects leaves an impressive record like this mural of underwater life. But to get the real flavor, you have to be a part of one of these Ottoban Junior Club projects. Like for example, the one called Let's Explore a Pond. Almost every community has some kind of pond. The children are familiar with it and yet there's always something mysterious about it that invites further exploration about an experiment on water level. >> When children are really intrigued by something, they show a remarkable ability to work together, to organize into groups with common interests, to decide mutually what they want to do and how they want to do it. How how will we know how much? >> Right from the start, some of the class took a scientific approach. >> These boys wanted to know what keeps the right amount of water in a pond. What is the water cycle and how does it work? >> That's enough. How can we explain the whole thing when we write it? >> With almost no help from me, they set up a simple scientific experiment. They filled two jars with water, placing a piece of glass over the top of one and leaving the other uncovered. Regular measurements showed that with the process of evaporation, the level in the uncovered jar was noticeably lower every few days. But what happened in the covered jar was a miniature example of what happens in a pond. Water vapor would form on the glass cover, condense into drops, and then fall into the water like rain. The cycle kept repeating itself, and the water level did not change. The children learned this, but they also learned something about the experimental method which they will use again and again as their interest in science matures. that evaporates. >> This group approached the pond along another path with paper and paint, paste and scissors, leaves, grass, and a broken mirror. They made this diarama. I guess that's all right. >> Water evaporates very fast about 24 hours. >> Then there was the more practical group, the children who wanted to make immediate plans for visiting a real pond. Some put together pond scopes suggested by the junior clubs as a device for peering beneath the surface of the water at the life we usually don't see. tools. >> These things were new for me, too. So, I learned with the children. We made a few blunders, but I don't think I'm boasting when I say that we turned out quite serviceable carrier jars. >> Let's see what's on the project. >> What does it say? >> This concentrated craftsman was our chief manufacturer of dip scoops. Real water, a real pond teeming with life above and below the surface. The trip we had been anticipating for weeks. What excitement. What a sense of discovery. No living cell escaped the avid inspection of these enthusiastic eyes. >> Much as I love the out ofdoors, >> I had never dreamed of the riches that would be found by these young naturalists. It was hard to believe that such a great reward could come from so slight an effort on my part. A couple of pages of carefully planned material had blossomed out into one of the most vibrant activities of the whole school year. [music] I'm so [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] >> iPhone. [music] >> [music] [music] >> coming. Yeah. As the day ended, I had the intense satisfaction of knowing that the world of nature had come even closer to the children, that it was definitely their world and always would be. They have a permanent feeling of identification between their lives and all the life around them. Whether it inhabits the earth, the air or the water, what they enjoy, they will protect and conserve so that they and others may enjoy it in the future. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Sorry, finishing some chicken. A lot of you guys are geeking out about the film stock. Um, yeah. So, according to the notes, Preller folks scanning people. It was ectochrome commercial. According to some other notes, this film was produced in 1958. So, It's hard to say uh what that I mean we know the sector chrome commercial based on the notes on the side [snorts] of the uh the film print and it's a film print so you know there's lots of things to geek out about there. Okay. So, what we're going to do, it is Black History Month, and I view every day as potentially Black History Month because Black History is our cultural and um cultural history of the United States. But, uh this film is interesting. It's filmed in New Haven in the 70s, 1970. It's called I'm a Man. Enjoy. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yay, to bring to not things that are high. >> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Everything going be all right this morning. Oh yeah. Now, when I was a young boy at the age of five, my mother said I was going to be [music] the greatest man alive. But now I'm a man. I pass 21. I won't believe me, honey. I have lots of fun. I'm [music] a man. Spell him. A child in that rather than me. Oh child. Why that mean manage boy? The man of a full grown man. Man, I'm a natural lover. My main child, [music] I'm a rolling stone. My main child, I'm a hoochie coochie bag. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Sitting on the outside just me and my moon. Y know I made the moon honey come up two hours [music] later. What that mean? I >> Oh, hello Jenny. Yeah, John. Uh I'm downtown on the green at less. Uh uh just as I was coming up, I noted five policemen outside. Uh, they're probably going to pick me up in a few minutes. Uh, what I'll probably do is go into church and pray. Uh, well, I think the cops are kind of scared. They probably won't mess with me till they figure out some strategy. If they try to stop me, I'll just kind of jiggle them with my spear and just keep on going till I get to church. I'll probably see you late tonight. We can set in things in motion to get me out of jail. Tell the kids daddy said hi. And I won't be in jail long. Okay. Okay. Bye-bye. calling 36. >> Mr. Barber. Mr. Barber. >> No. The only thing I can tell you is this is a dangerous weapon. Can I see it, please? We'll take a walk downtown. >> Well, I don't want you to have it. >> I'll hold it until tells me it's a dangerous weapon. >> Is this is a dangerous weapon? You got my possession, >> right? And you I don't want you to have it. >> I'll hold it until I supervisor tells me it's a dangerous weapon. >> Well, we Well, keep keep the dangerous part. >> Look, without an arrest, you don't have the right to have my property. Do you understand? I can hold it. On what ground? >> 523 car 9 car 25. >> I mean, what what gives you a right to take something of mine and I can't take something of yours? >> Well, this is what I'm checking on this. Well, >> I mean, if the only thing I can tell you is this is a dangerous weapon. >> Is a stick dangerous? >> Could be. >> Well, why don't you hold this one? No, I'll I'll prefer to hold this. >> What? What's the point? What's the difference? Hey, my fist could be dangerous. [bell] >> What? What's it all about? >> I don't know what the hell to make out of them. What's happened? What's going on? >> It's pretty weird. >> When I uh walked down the street uh past Yale, you know, on agreement with the spear, some people thought it was outrageous. Some thought it was funny. Some thought I was just trying to attract attention. Some thought I was crazy. Some thought I was a nuisance. Some thought I was a danger, like the policeman, for example. But the thing was, I was controlling their responses to me. >> A man has some psychiatric uh problem. You treat it. >> What's the sense of walking around? I mean, what's the point of it? >> To cause tension, have people look at him and notice him. >> Interesting subject matter for the camera. Yeah, but for God's sakes, that's a real spear walking around in public. If we walked around with a knife on the outside, we'd be pinched. >> I knew when I purchased my spear that that that white people would get upset. It was an interesting experiment. Uh I was already wanted for for this inciting the riot like I already indicated. So, um additional arrest didn't bother me one way or the other. >> But he's probably parading around with the thing. What the hell? I don't blame the cops. New Haven cops are just bastards, you know. >> And they're only human beings with blood and arteries and flesh like you and me. The only dangerous weapons I've seen the ones in police in possession of police. >> Police are always frightened of anything that looks unusual. >> Well, that's how cops are like to bother people. >> Not real sense. Whitey had to had to move to stop me. Cuz since that spear was like an elongated penis and the one thing the white man fears is the black man's masculinity. >> No, I think he should be allowed to carry it wherever he likes. Looks like a stick painted, right? Black and white. >> Maybe he's carrying a threatening manner. It's >> not a switch blade. It's not a 5 in kind of blade that someone, you know, it's just like a walking stick. >> You'd be killed with it. Yeah, he could pick up papers with it, too, if you wanted to. I suppose. I mean, you know, everybody's got their bag. >> Arrested for it. >> Well, I don't really see anything too wrong about that. >> I mean to terrify Whitey. I don't think he can be moved by anything else but terror. I mean to use that kind of use as a weapon, the mythology that he has about the angry crazy [ __ ] if he came at you with that. >> None of them look violent to me until they either uh use a knife or a gun or something like that. >> Wouldn't have anything like that around my house. >> What about guns? >> That's something else. >> There are certain laws and everything. >> Everybody got to go by them. You >> can't fight city hall. You know what they say. >> We going to define our own law and order. Why? They made us slaves. He segregated us on the basis of love. >> When John first appeared in this court, he was [clears throat] dressed uh in African uh garb wasn't strange to me. But I think his costume was strange to the judge sitting on the bench. The judge is getting more and more upset. So this point he says, "Where do you think you are?" And I says, "I'm on the way to the land of freedom." which really, you know, knocks him off his rocket. He stands up with his arms gyrating by this time and says, "I mean, right now, where are you?" I tell him, "I'm on the way to the promised land. I'm striving for freedom." >> I'm sure he thought that John was uh what we call non-complicement, was uncapable of uh of understanding the proceedings then uh taking place. So, he ordered that John be examined by two psychiatrists. Oh, I made up my mind after the first telephone interview that he was uh in full command of his rational faculties and that there was no doubt that he knew he met the technical criteria for being mentally competent. >> I found Mr. Barber uh initially and throughout my contact with him uh to be a uh quite really highly intelligent and certainly very very intellectual, very well read, uh very enthusiastic, very dynamic young man. >> And real since I played a game, I remember them asking me um where was I? Where where did I think I was when I stood before that judge? I told a psychiatrist, "Well, now how you want me to answer that question really, doc?" And the psychiatrist said, "What do you mean by that?" You know, like must be some deep psychological meaning to I said, "Well, you know, I'm going to answer the question the way I want to in terms of my own interest. That's what you would do, wouldn't you? What do you mean by that?" He asked me. I said, "Well, you know, where I am, where I was then and where I am now is determined by the way I want you to think about it." The theory is that when a black man or a negro, whatever you want to call him, when a guy wants to be a man, he's either got to be crazy or he's a communist or he's a a fascist. You see, and the only way you handle a a crazy man is to put him in a crazy house. The only way that you can handle a militant is to lock him up. You know, right or wrong, this is a system. This is what white people think. And so I felt black people ought to be free to go ahead and uh burn and pillage and hate Whitey and do whatever they wanted to do the all American way is rap says and the all American way is violence of I believe I'm Prometheus here. I'm going to bring the fire on down to earth. Me and Rap and Stokeley. The fire burns in my heart whether you believe it or not. I believe you would hate to burn, wouldn't you? Barbecue. You know, I got relatives who were barbecued in Mississippi. Suppose you were barbecued, man. Like we nap people in Vietnam. It would be ugly, wouldn't it? You would be even black. Can you think of a fate more despicable? Well, I would barbecue you, man, in order to be free. >> August uh 4th and 5th, the store was burnt by uh a group of men. John Barber was supposed to have been one of them. He and four other fellas were captured in the car. One fella had as a confession and and admitting that John Barber and these four fellas were together when the store this store and Kenny Grill were burned. >> I went down there and watched it burn all night long. Burned for about 4 hours. While I was watching um he ran in his store to get his shotgun. He was going to shoot me on the scene. When the star first burnt and I didn't have insurance and I knew I was losing everything and I had in my mind all I wanted to do was kill. >> We'll burn down every exploitative whitey in the ghetto. We want whitey out of the ghetto. We want the right to determine our destinies which means we're going to control the black economy. Means we going to control black schools. It means we going to control a black political structure. People down here don't need people like John Barber. We don't need to make this a black ghetto area. >> If we have to burn down white America, we going to be free. Uh, and that's why I'm out here. And that's why I'm letting my little light shine. This is what I call pyro power. Black power. We mean to upset the old way. They are dying. They got to die. There's a new thing coming. It's a brilliant new thing. And it's black. And that's the thing that I'm part of. Long. It's part of the great tradition that that Gavei and Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm and Stokeley and rap represented. We're saying black is beautiful and like James Brown saying we're saying I'm black and I'm proud rather than kill. I I I'd really frankly uh make love. Uh when they uh arrested me for uh the arson in connection with that store, Kenny Supermarket, Ceseri store in Hartford. My alibi for that was at the time of the burning, I had my arms around two women. One was black and one was white. And I didn't draw the racial lines on either one of them. And both of them were fine. Yeah. >> Well, I think almost all black people have had to uh revolutionize their thinking in terms of the militant uh way our men are going now. Um I think it has its dangers. It certainly takes him away from the family more than I would like. It puts an extra duty on me as the wife and the mother to try to fill this gap. Uh but I think it's a necessary position that he has to take uh for his own psychological stability. >> I think some kooky white person might think he could get some masculinity in disposing of me or or or some white cop. Uh I I think it's highly likely that that I will provoke Whitey into the necessity to dispense with me. >> I have received so many threatening phone calls. They'll use quite abusive language. Uh we're going to burn the house down while you tell him we're going to get him. We know how he comes home. We know the route he takes. What you know, black America is producing for the first now time now is a group of assertive black males who who mean to bring about freedom for the race. Uh over the years, black women have had not only to support the family but to be the dominant influence uh in the face of men who who were compromised and beaten and brutalized. Now I live for my sons and I will die for my son. The thing that I want to leave uh is a legacy of manhood. I expect to die poor and black and hated by most white people and misunderstood by a lot of blacks. But if my children understand me, my wife understand me, I think that I will have contributed my part to black freedom. What I want my sons to be is not like me, but I want them to be free so that they can go ahead and do whatever they want to do. If one of them wants to be a black nationalist, he can do that. If one wants to be an assimilationist, he can do that. I want to give them the opportunity to become whatever they want to become, to become firemen, to become ministers, to become doctors or lawyers or even for that matter president. >> But I really don't really want to be president because there's nothing wrong. Yes, I really do want to be president. Stop the war, do everything, stop it, right? Stop everything. But I changed my mind. I would really want to be a fire me. >> Sometimes you get killed before you can even be president. >> Kevin was on both sides. No, they didn't want that. Either he was on their side or the color people's side. Now he was on both sides. So they killed my um candy. [clears throat] I can't I'm going to get killed. I'm not going to try to get peace in the world. The only reason I want to be a fireman is because is because I can save people's life. Oh yeah. Well, a lot of people think daddy sets fires. You think daddy sets fire? >> No. >> Daddy was in jail a little while, a couple days up in Harford about some fires. You remember that? >> But you didn't do it. >> I've been uh arrested over 20 times. I've never had a conviction. I expect to uh be convicted though for a long time. Spend some time in jail or or to be killed and of course of doing what I want to do about my life. >> Martin Luther King. that he saved the color people. Now he they had to get they got Martin Luther King first because he was the king of the color people. >> Every breath in me, every word that comes out of me, every movement of my body and every thought that I think is directed around beautiful things like freedom and blackness and power. >> The issue is you, John Barber. It's a real political thing, but that's why we've got to fight it. We've got to fight hard. You always have to fight white people. That's a strange thing in this society. >> Fight them and fight always. And >> that's what we're going to do today, right? We're going to pick the jury and we're going to ask all those good white folks whether or not they have any prejudices against you. And they're going to sit up there and lie to me, aren't they? >> They're going to say they never heard of John Papa. [laughter] >> They let those ladies. >> Now, here's the thing. Hell, man. about no matter what they do, I mean whether they find me guilty and put me in jail, we still going to have to do our thing. >> Sure. >> So it means, you know, probably more burnings and more riots unless finally white society can get on down with it and deal with the fact that we intend to be free and we going to do whatever it takes to be free. We're not for law and order anyway. We for change, revolutionary change, black people being able to be free. They expect me to to stay in my place. Be nice about it. Even submit myself to their judge and jury and in possible jail. The man took my property, the white man. See? >> Right. >> And I ought to do the same thing to him that they do to black people. When black people take their property in shops and things, they shoot him. >> Yeah. We're on the green right now. When I first walked across this green with my spill uh last April, right after Martin King got killed. >> The Whiteies felt challenged. >> We're at the courthouse, John. get on down here to see what we can do. >> She whiskey [music] [music] >> [music] >> Sitting on the outside just me and my man you know I made the moon honey [music] come up two hours late was that a man [music] I spelled him a child in that reb that means [music] boy man I'm a for grown man I'm a natural who loses man I'm a rolling stone some nice muddy waters in there. Yeah. So, uh a provocative document documentary about a provocative act um that was trying to highlight um racism in um New Haven. So fascinating film and its history. Uh you know you could argue how it's presented. It has its issues but it's it's an interesting uh capsule of what was going on at the time. And so we are going to give you a after-dinner mint after that very heavy dish uh with some stop motion animation. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Once upon a time, a little girl lived with her mother in a small stone cottage near the edge of a great forest. Everywhere the little girl would go, she always wore a beautiful red cape and hood. Soon she became known by everyone as Little Red Riding Hood. One morning, her mother asked her to carry a basket of cookies to her grandmother. Her mother told her not to leave the path or stop to talk to anyone on the way. Grandmother lived in a little yellow house at the other edge of the wood, and Red Riding Hood would have to hurry to return home before dark. After waving goodbye to her mother, she set out at once, carrying her little yellow basket over her arm. >> [music] [music] >> At first, Red Riding Hood walked straight along the bright forest path. But soon, near the riverbank, she saw a beautiful field of wild flowers. They were growing everywhere under the tall green trees. She thought it would be great fun [music] to pick a few flowers to surprise her grandmother. Then she remembered her mother had told her she must not leave the path. But the day was so beautiful, the forest so friendly, and the flowers so colorful that she thought there could be no harm in disobeying her mother just this one time. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> The flowers smelled so sweet, sweeter than peppermint candy. Then Red Riding Hood heard a gruff voice say, "Yes, they certainly are beautiful flowers." She turned and saw the big greedy wolf of the forest standing on top of a rock. Red Riding Hood had never seen a wolf before, so she was not afraid. She thought he was the biggest and most beautiful brown dog she'd ever seen. He appeared so friendly, too, when he spoke to her. She didn't know what a wicked animal a wolf could be. Mr. Wolf asked her what she was doing all alone in the forest. Red Riding Hood told him she was on her way to her grandmother's house with some fresh cookies and a bouquet of flowers. And where does your grandmother live?" asked the wolf. "She lives in a small yellow house with a red roof just over the hill." "Well," said the wolf, "Good day to you, my little girl, and he disappeared into the bushes." Red Riding Hood was disappointed to see the wolf go. She wanted him to stay longer, but it was getting late, and it was best that she be on her way. >> [music] >> Meanwhile, Mr. Wolf ran slightly through the wood, along the path, and over the hill until he reached Grandmother's house. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> When Red Riding Hood arrived at her grandmother's house, she knocked at the door, but there was no answer. She knocked [music] again, and a strange, gruff voice said, "Lift the latch and come in." It was strange, but the bright saw his room appear very dark. It seemed so dark to Red Riding Hood that she could hardly see her grandmother in bed. Grandmother looked so different, and her voice sounded so deep and gruff. Perhaps Granny been ill with no one to look after her. "Oh, grandmother, how you've changed. What long years you have," said Little Red Riding Hood. [music] All the better to hear you with, my dear, replied the wolf. [music] Oh, but grandmother your nose. What a long nose you have. All the better to smell with, my dear, replied the wolf. Oh, grandmother, what large eyes you have. All the better to see you with, my dear," said the wolf. And then Red Riding Hood saw clearly his long sharp teeth. "But Granny, what great sharp teeth you have! All the better to eat you with, my dear! [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Grandmother was ever so grateful to see Red Riding Hood safe and sound. The brave huntsman was very proud of his trusty old gun. Grandmother and Red Riding Hood thanked him for killing the wolf and saving their lives. The hunter bad them farewell, proudly shouldered his gun, and marched back along the path to his home in [music] the forest. Red Riding Hood was happy to know that the greedy wolf of the forest could never again frighten or harm her. So she started cheerfully for home to join her mother where she lived happily ever after. [music] Oh crap. Hold on. Sorry. Hope uh you weren't in the dark too long. Um, I'm teaching an intern how to rewind a film on film bench. Anyways, thanks so much for joining us today. I hope everybody has a great weekend and we'll be back on Monday. It'll be great. 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