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Screen News Digest. >> [music] >> Now Kodak, through photography, brings you this edition of the Screen News Digest. >> [music] >> Now Kodak, through photography, brings you this edition of the Screen News Digest. >> [music] >> Now Kodak, through photography, brings you this edition of the Screen News Digest. >> [bell] >> Now Kodak, through photography, brings you this edition of the Screen News Digest. >> Woo! >> Yeah. >> Woo! >> Hello everybody. This is Skip Altsman. I'm at my house because we have a plumber who is working on a kitchen draining issue, kitchen sink draining issue that is actually a bigger issue than I thought. So anyways, uh we're at how at my house and we're going to watch what to do in a gas attack. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Gas is being used in this war. Air raid sirens warn us of the approach of enemy plane. But in addition if gas is dropped by the enemy, a special gas alarm will be sounded. Learn what gas alarm has been chosen by your community. It will be a hand rattle or a hammering sound like the beating of a dish pan. War gas is dropped from planes either as a spray or in gas bombs. But should enemy raiders use gas against your community, there is no reason for fear or panic. Because if you know what to do, you can protect yourself and safeguard your family against the menace of gas from the air. The ideal protection for civilians is an airtight gas shelter ventilated by a system which removes gas vapors from the incoming air. Such a shelter can be designed to provide some protection also against the effects of high explosive bombs. Some war gases can be seen by the eye, others are invisible. But it is important to know that most of them are heavier than air and that they settle down and are most concentrated close to the ground. Hence if no gas shelter is immediately available, go indoors and go upstairs. The gas at that higher level will probably be less concentrated than down near the ground. First precaution is to prevent gas from getting into the house. So, close all windows and shut off all ventilation or air conditioning units that do not equipped to remove war gases from the incoming air. If windows are blown out by high explosives, stack blankets over the opening. Close fireplace dampers. And if you live in a one-story house, seal all other openings around doors and elsewhere with cloth or rags. In a larger house, go upstairs. Don't go down into an unprotected basement unless you have a gas-proof shelter there. Wait upstairs until your air warden tells you that it's safe to leave. You may have to wait until even after the all-clear signal, for gas may still be present in your section. Some war gases are spread as liquids which slowly evaporate, giving off invisible but poisonous vapors. This type of gas remains for a long time and hence is called persistent. Certain chemicals neutralize this liquid gas, and trained decontamination teams of the United States Citizens Defense Corps, which is the civilian protection force of your community, are equipped to neutralize the liquid gas so that the people may go outside without danger of exposure to the liquid or its poisonous fumes. But these workers must wear special gas-proof clothing and masks for protection. The completeness of their protective clothing emphasizes the fact that without such special protection, you must stay indoors until notified that the liquid gas has been neutralized and that the air is free of harmful gas fumes. Liquid gas may also be washed away by a heavy rain or by a stream of water from a fire hose. Out in the fields where liquid gas has been dropped, dry chemicals that neutralize the liquid gas are mixed with the earth. This seems to remind us to stay off the grass after a gas attack. Persistent liquid gas and the fumes that it gives off may be lurking unseen and covered by grass or shrubbery for days or even weeks after it has dropped there. Another type of war gas is dropped as a vapor. This cloud gradually thins out and disappears in a few minutes. When it has cleared from the neighborhood, it is no longer a menace. Because this type of gas disperses quickly, it is called non-persistent. So, after a gas attack, wait for your warden to tell you that it's safe to leave your house. If you should be caught outdoors when gas is dropped, hurry to shelter, but don't look up because liquid gas might fall into your eyes. Every second counts. Act quickly now in applying first aid. There are certain simple steps you can take to prevent or minimize the harmful effects of war gas. If the liquid splatters onto your skin or clothing, or if you have been exposed to gas vapor, remove all outer clothing outside the house, including shoes. This avoids spreading the gas inside. Remember, liquid gas spreads like contact like poison ivy. Leave the contaminated clothing outside to be decontaminated later. First, quickly remove as much of the liquid gas as you can by carefully blotting with dry cloth or absorbent material. Be careful not to smear or spread the liquid gas onto fresh skin areas. You must work fast. The liquid gas will cause blisters if not neutralized in a few minutes after exposure. You may use absorbent tissues to blot the liquid gas from the skin. Absorbent cotton may be used in the same way with equal success. Throw the contaminated materials used to remove the liquid gas into covered containers to be destroyed later on. Use ordinary household bleaching solution containing sodium hypochlorite to neutralize any liquid gas remaining on the skin. The exposed area of skin should be gently and thoroughly bathed with absorbent material saturated with a bleaching solution. Do not use rough cloths and do not rub with pressure as this might cause irritation. And for safety's sake, rinse the hands thoroughly with the bleaching solution. Provided eyes have been exposed, they should be treated immediately. The recommended treatment for the eyes is a 2% solution of baking soda, that is bicarbonate of soda. In order to be able to use this quickly, make this solution in advance by mixing a tablespoonful of baking soda in a quart of water. Keep this handy and tightly corked and properly labeled bottle. Now to actually irrigate your eyes, fill an enema bag with the prepared baking soda solution. Have someone help you irrigate each eye with a steady stream for at least 2 minutes. Alternate back and forth from one eye to the other so that injury from the gas does not develop in one eye while you are treating the other. If an enema bag is not handy, use a tea kettle or some other device that will pour a small steady stream. Results will be improved if you can hold the eyes open. And if you can't find anyone else to help, you can irrigate your eyes yourself even though it is awkward. Then get into a shower as quickly as possible. This removes the bleaching solution after it has neutralized the gas. Use plenty of soap and wash thoroughly for by doing so you were taking an added precaution in the event you may have missed some exposed area. And be sure to wash your hair before you're through. If you don't have a shower, stand in the tub. Soap yourself thoroughly. Meanwhile, fill buckets of water and pour them over you to substitute for the shower. Keep the drain open. Let the water run away. Don't sit in the tub full of water. It might spread the liquid gas over your body. After bathing, irrigate the nose with a stream of the baking soda solution. And to treat the throat, use the same solution as a gargle. If you haven't provided first aid materials in advance, don't waste time looking for it. Do the next best thing. Wash immediately after removing your clothes. Let water run into your eyes to help remove any traces of gas which may be in them. After being exposed to gas, you may start coughing or perhaps have a brassy taste in your mouth. Your lungs may feel heavy and oppressed. Maybe cigarettes don't taste like they usually do. In a case like this, you must lie down immediately. Relax. Don't exert yourself. Even if you feel all right, don't take a chance. Lie down because exertion may aggravate your condition if you've gotten gas into your lungs. Tell your warden to notify the emergency medical service. And if blisters develop, don't touch or attempt to break them. Breaking them might start new blisters. Summon medical aid for proper treatment. Now, let's go back to those clothes. The all clear has sounded and the warden has notified us that it's safe to come out. Don't touch the clothes. You might get liquid gas on yourself. A trained man from the United States Citizens Defense Corps will take them away to decontaminate them. Why does the enemy use gas against civilians? Well, gas bombs dropped by the enemy do not destroy our homes and factories as do high explosive bombs. War gas does not start the devastating fires that are the great menace of incendiary bombs. War gas does not shatter arms and legs as bullets and bomb fragments do. The real purpose of the enemy in using war gas is to spread fear and panic. To destroy our morale and to [ __ ] our war production. The enemy hopes that we will become scared and panic that the weapons our soldiers are waiting for will fail to arrive when crucial battles demand them. But you can thwart the enemy by not giving way to fear and panic because you know what to do if gas comes. Remember, close all openings which might permit gas-laden air to enter the building. Use blankets to cover windows shattered by high explosive bombs. Go up above the first floor. Don't go down into the basement unless you have a gas-proof shelter there. Stay indoors until your air warden tells you it's safe to leave. If you come in contact with gas outdoors, leave outer clothing outside the building. Time is your ally if you use it. So, apply first aid as quickly as possible. Quickly remove any liquid gas by blotting. Be careful not to spread the liquid gas. Then gently and thoroughly bathe the affected skin area with the bleaching solution. Wash each eye out with 2 minutes with a 2% baking soda solution. Soap and wash neck. Use lots of soap. Do a thorough job. Use either a shower or pour buckets of water over you in a bathtub. Irrigate your nose. And gargle your throat with a baking soda solution after bathing. Don't waste time looking for first aid material. If you haven't provided them in advance, soap and shower immediately after removing your clothing. Wash your eyes out with plain water. If your lungs are affected, lie down to rest while waiting for the doctor to arrive. Or if blisters form, summon medical aid. >> [music] >> Across the world's battlefronts, our fighting men are hammering the enemy with weapons forged in America's mighty arsenal of democracy. These are the weapons made and wielded by free men who answer the challenge of tyrants who would enslave us if they could. So, they fixed the uh the clog. It's awesome. All right, what do I got next? I don't I uh kind of doing this on the fly as I can. Um let's learn about leaders for leisure. Enjoy. >> [music] >> Ah, that's that. The story I've waited 3 years By George, we've finally got a recreation program rolling in the town, and rolling for good. But when I think how close we came to missing Boy, oh boy. 3 years ago, the citizens of Riverdale gathered in a new building built for them by them, out of their own tax money. This building was the last unit of a building program of recreation facility. The mayor made a proud speech. And I say you can be proud of your achievement in this building. This symbol of your foresight this recreation center you have built and all the surrounding play fields where your children can grow up with me through play where you yourselves can gather in friendly meetings and happy recreation and health-giving relaxation from the cares and worries of every day. In this magnificent center we are dedicating here today we will all find Sounded pretty good that night. But as the mayor talked on, I had a funny feeling that something was missing. He was explaining what the facilities would do for the town. But I'd heard it all before, so my notes of his speech were just doodling. The mayor said Think first of your children. In our homes, they will receive their first lessons in citizenship. And there they have you, their parents, to guide them. To introduce them to their new opportunities and their responsibilities. In our churches they will be taught the spiritual aspects of good living. And there our clergy stands ready to guide them into the paths of bountiful living. In our fine schools they will grow intellectually. And the principals and teachers have our complete confidence. And now with these excellent facilities for recreation in addition to home, church, and school we can complete our children's development opportunity. Citizens of Riverdale let us dedicate these new facilities to the future generations of our town. As the meeting broke up, I was still afraid we'd missed a step somewhere in our plan. But all those folks were so obviously convinced that I started to think my doubts were wrong. Well, there was nothing to do but wait and see. So I deferred judgment for a while. That was in late fall. All through the winter, nothing much happened in recreation. [music] But, the first warm sun brought out more than blossoms that year. It brought out more youngsters than I thought were in town. They swarmed over the play facilities until I thought it would collapse. They filled the pool to overflowing, so full there just wasn't room for some of them. And it was a little too rough for others. All our new play space was overcrowded. You can only get 18 boys into a ballgame. The rest had to wait. If the bigger ones got tired, the youngsters would have their turn. And there were plenty of arguments, but boys always argue, especially about ballgame. And anyway, the arguments gave the younger ones a chance on the diamond, at least until the fight was over. A few of the activities were new to the youngsters, but we knew how fast they learned. All you have to do is give them space and facilities, and of course keep them up for them. And the park maintenance people were seeing to that. Naturally, there were a few good players around town who took over the facilities whenever they wanted them. We thought they'd be examples. Perhaps the younger ones would learn by watching them. The recreation ideal was certainly working. And I was willing to admit my doubts were wrong. That was in June. Through the summer, the people were left alone to learn to use our new facilities. Then along about August, I took another stroll through the park. What a difference. This didn't look like community recreation. The park was empty. The maintenance people were still looking after the grounds, though. But, most of the facilities hadn't been used in weeks. Two months ago, the boys were fighting over this dump. Only a handful of skilled enthusiasts were playing. One boy looked as though he'd like to be playing, but he was outside the fence watching. Here was a kid who wanted to play. We'd given him every opportunity, we thought. But what he did that day made me start thinking pretty hard. Vandalism? Bad boys? Delinquency? I didn't know. At any rate, our facilities weren't doing the job we'd expected of. The youngsters were back where they'd always been doing exactly the things they'd always been doing. Playing in the streets with old parts at their disposal. Now, the town's recreation areas were the street corners again. I wanted to find out why. So, I asked questions. A playground? Ah, that's for kids. I don't like to play tennis. Every time I go to play tennis, the other guy's got the court. I don't get a kick out of baseball. I guess I'm not good enough. I don't like the kind of games they play there. It was the same story all over town. And it wasn't any different in the evenings when the adults had an opportunity for recreation. After dark, people go where the lights are. But our facilities were about as well lighted as a graveyard. That night, I found a few other people were worrying about our situation. They were members of one of our civic club. And when that group gets concerned about something, they go after it. That same week, they called a special executive meeting to see what they could do about our recreation dilemma. At first, all they could see was the problem. No solution. Then came an idea. A nearby town had a good recreation program. So, they decided to send a committee over there to find out why that program was a success when ours was operating so bad. I went along with the committee and from the very start I had my eyes open. The facilities didn't impress us a bit. We had better back home. But, they had something we didn't have because we saw more real recreation that day than our town had ever seen. They had a program for every day in the week, something for everyone, no matter what their interests were. We saw that program in action, too. Here was real community recreation. All ages, both sexes, everyone in on the fun. One lady came up and asked for some activity that wasn't on the program. Here were adults asking for recreation when in our town, with the best facilities, even the children weren't interested. It was on the tennis courts I noticed the biggest difference. I suppose I was still thinking about the boy who wanted to play tennis but ended up breaking a window. These youngsters not only wanted to play, they were learning how and having fun while they were learning. There were no sideline watchers, nobody sitting and wishing. Everyone at that particular time was learning. Someone was managing this program, making recreation available for all the people, teaching them how and then leading them, too. Then it hit managing manager teaching teacher leading leaders leadership That's what our program needed, leaders, someone to make it go. Back home we reported to the mayor and I have to give him credit. When he saw the mistake, he called a special council meet. And to avoid another mistake, he called in a professional recreation consultant. I remember his advice to this day. Gentlemen, I studied your situation here in Riverdale and I can only confirm your own conclusions. Your recreation facilities need management by a trained professional leader capable of protecting your investment in facilities, of organizing their use to the greatest benefit of the people, of administering a recreation department, managing a budget. A man who can run your recreation facilities as you'd expect your own business to be run. After that bit of plain logic, it didn't take the council long to approve the new recreation general. The board's first job was to select a lead. Few people around town thought they should have the job for all kinds of reasons, but the board had learned the special qualifications of the man they wanted and they were going to search till they found him. Finally, they found him. A man who had majored in recreation in college and had made it his profession. And they employed an associate, too, with years specialized experience as a teacher and leader in recreation. This was the team that was to show us the potential of our recreation investment. They had a big job ahead, but like any other professional person, they knew their objectives and how to reach them. Right away, they started to study our facilities, but they didn't seem to pay much attention to the new specially built facilities we'd mapped out so carefully. They were looking for space we hadn't thought of. They went to the commercial recreation establishments and arranged for their services to be used in the community program. Our private agencies had space we hadn't thought of as part of the total picture. But these two had different ideas. Unused buildings, churches, the auditorium, any idle space seemed to present an opportunity to these leaders. They surveyed the whole town. Vacant fields were studied and beyond the city limits, they saw a future use for hundreds of wasted acres. And most important, [music] the schools. Here were buildings the people owned, in actual use only about 15% out of each year. With the cooperation of the school board and the school staff, this could be the location for a variety of activities after school hours. When the leaders had finished their search, every potential on Riverdale's map had been located and studied. With a thorough knowledge of the facilities, the leaders turned to the people and started out on another survey. Now they wanted to know what kind of recreation the people wanted and needed. So they talked with everyone. They became a part of the community, listening with trained practiced ears to everything the people said. And they watched what the people did, sensing with professional accuracy their needs and desires. This understanding of our community was to be their guide for the program they were setting out to build. To design that program, they called together the people's leaders in all their activities. The leaders of youth groups and adult groups, the social agency workers, the clergy, the police, the school officials, all those whose daily work brought them close to the hearts and minds of the community. To this group, the recreation leaders presented their understanding of the people's request. One by one, every activity was evaluated according to the people's expressed desires and the community's overall need. And when the final tabulation was done, the people's initial program was clear. This was the beginning of Riverdale's recreation. A list of activities to satisfy the immediate need of the greatest number, designed in a pattern set by the people themselves and fitted into the overall social and economic need of the community. Now, how to get this starting program going? Obviously, these two leaders couldn't do it all themselves. They needed help. So, they set out to find volunteer and part-time paid leaders from among the people of the community. In every community, there are people with special recreation skills, as well as the native qualities of leadership. In our town, these were the people we thought would supervise activities when we first built our facility. Now, our leaders went to see them. Gladly, they volunteered to work with the new leaders. But, this time, the original mistake was corrected. Good leadership is more than skill and native quality. Even part-time leaders need training in the technique of instruction, the philosophy of recreation, and the psychology of groups. So, the professional leaders' first job was to pass on part of their specialized training to their part-time leaders. Soon, the leaders were ready. And Riverdale people entered into our new program in [music] a wide variety of activity. Many who had never participated because they didn't know how, started to learn how. And in learning an activity, they learned a newer, richer [music] habit of living. As instruction progressed, confidence increased. With confidence came enthusiasm. And with enthusiasm and the beginning of skill, came a deep pleasure of recreation. Some could find recreation [music] time only in the late evening. So, with modern flood lighting, we stretched the daylight hours. And more people started to learn to play. Through good leadership and instruction, they overcame the first great barrier to recreation. That timidity that accompanies lack of skill. The fear of doing bad. Soon, the leaders were introducing activities we hadn't thought of as recreation. And we found fun in creative constructive work. Skill or clumsiness were no criteria. The fun was in doing. Everyone in town got a share of the starting program, and the two leaders kept planning ahead of As each activity became established as a permanent part of our program, they started another. Starting, of course, with the [music] training of part-time leaders. As each new leader was trained, another activity was added to the list to introduce more people to more fun. More relaxation. More enjoyment from living. More deep-down satisfaction. [music] Through that fall and right into winter, our leaders kept on building the program. Recreation is year-round with them. And Riverdale no longer treats its recreation only as a summer program. Some activities moved indoors. The new program made the recreation center a teenage rendezvous. The school didn't close at 4:00 anymore. Every evening, the lights were on, and the community was, for the first time, getting a full return on its school investment. When spring came round again, we just moved back outdoors. The parks and play centers were now gathering points for many who used to think they had outlived their recreation days. And the youngsters were learning many of life's lessons through supervised play. Recreation became a means of expression far more satisfying than anything we had known in the street corner days of our time. Soon, recreation idea spread into our home. Our backyard became family [music] play centers and fun became a family affair. Daylight hours weren't enough anymore. So, we installed lights on the tennis courts. Now, there is no interruption of play at twilight and courts are busy far into the evening. More lighting on the baseball diamond made night softball and baseball leagues possible. And here, the many spectators that fill the stands have found another form of recreation. Participants in some activities of their own choice, they find additional recreation as spectators of other community sports. More people wanted more evening activities. We installed more lights. And now, many lighted areas all over town stand out as symbols of the success of our program. We discovered that modern lighting makes any activity just as much fun in the evening as in broad daylight. After dark, Riverdale people still go where the lights are. All we did was put lights where the people wanted to be. Today, from dawn until long after dark, from youngsters through to the old folks, through four seasons, the spare hours of Riverdale's people are filled with the pure joy of community recreation. The recreation we wanted and needed for years. There's a big difference from 3 years ago, and the difference [music] is in leadership. The change came with management, with trained professional leaders who could see the potential of our facilities, who could recognize the deep need in our hearts and minds, and who could use their natural ability and special training to adapt our facilities to our needs, and manage them in our best interest. They saw our overall problem, solved them, and made it possible for the people to play. In Riverdale, these leaders have proved that trained professional leadership is the first essential of any recreation program. Without leadership, the best facilities are largely wasted. And with it, any community becomes a better place to live. Give us the page one spot, will you, Jerry? It took me 3 years. And here's an illustration I made that tells the story even better than the copy. >> [music] >> So, [snorts] uh that it reminded me of Over the Edge, that that wonderful uh 1979-1980 film about the kids who have nothing to do and basically go crazy cuz they're bored. I think [snorts] that we have a similar problem now, where we have baby boomers who are retired and who are incredibly bored and are addicted to their phones. And we need to get them off their phones and doing like positive, creative things because they're causing mischief and mayhem. That's my That's my two cents. All right. Uh one last film. This is Our American Crossroads. Enjoy. >> [music] >> The The of today is a junction where people are always on the move. One crossroads creates a meeting place and a thousand crossroads bring travelers from all directions of the compass. The growth of this fine city is an outstanding example of what has happened in so many communities in this age of personal mobility. The freedom which the automobile has given us to move from place to place has helped to free our minds. Sleepy villages have become dynamic centers of industry and commerce, of education and culture. Basically, the automobile aids the traveler >> [music] >> and in so doing has brought about many far-reaching results. More than just a means of transportation, it [music] is also a real tool of communication. Communication spreads knowledge and knowledge is the builder of change, but change is not easily achieved. Often, it is a cycle of events fired by a single idea. One important idea of this century was the application of the internal combustion engine to the automobile. In Chicago, there's an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. It portrays the changes in the American crossroads as well as anything in the history books. Changes primarily due to the automobile. Let's drop in and look back over the years. >> [music] [music] >> Yes, sir. I recollect when the 20th [music] century checked in at Pleasant Corners. Look mighty like 19th century. Some folks, they said you couldn't naturally expect much new anymore. But, it turns out some folks weren't any great shakes at prophesying. Even now, they don't seem to appreciate what's happened. Happened to thousands of pleasant corners all over this land of ours. I recollect just like twas yesterday that afternoon when a parcel of us boys we was lazying on the front stoop of Adam Hill's store nothing better to do and we was passing a few remarks maybe sizing up this new man Teddy Roosevelt or maybe just wishing Springfield wasn't such a fur piece away. And I recollect too how we was watching young Betsy McPherson she was old Doc McPherson's young one and Adam's boy Pete building themselves a mud dam out in the puddles when down the pike Springfield way we see this contraption a-coming a genuine horseless carriage. Well Betsy and Pete they begin jumping up and down real excited-like and right off the boys they start yelling "Need a horse, mister?" and the like of that. Well, sir well, sir it couldn't have happened more comical. That buggy just sits down in its traces right in front of Jim Barnes' blacksmith shop wouldn't budge an inch. Jimmy come a-running out but he don't know beans about engines full of driving he knows less and the upshot is danged if he don't have to get a horse. All of us felt right sorry for that fella wasting his money on a fool device like that. Well, sir it must have been long about 1908 that them horseless buggies they began bounding by so often maybe two in the same day that Jim Barnes he went and built himself a garage and started tinkering with engines regular. Never could make one go, though. Well, in 1914, the state surfaced the Springfield Pike. You'd be surprised after that how townsfolk started nosing out our way. Following year, they built the steel bridge and fixed up the Smithtown road. Huh. Darned if some city fellow didn't sell old John Marshall the idea of putting up some cityfied uh what do you call them uh bungalows? Bungalows on his land. All of us felt mighty sorry for old John. Least ways we did until townsfolk started buying the darn things. No, old John built his new barn and all. How was we to know that city folks had that crazy notion of working one place and sleeping t'other? That meat market next to Hill's store Adam put that up for his son Pete. He figured Pete and Betsy maybe could someday make a nice living out of it. And I guess they would have, too. Excepting for Pete's enlisting and going right off to France. Well, that was the year we got a post office. And then that telegram about Pete come from the war department. As if that wasn't trouble enough for poor Betsy old Doc McFerrin, he caught the flu. Real bad, too. Wouldn't stay down no more than a cow would. And finally, Betsy, she had to carry her dad off to the mountains. One lucky thing, though, was she managed to sell the old McFerrin place to John Craig and his banker friends. Well old Doc died the summer they built another room on the school. After a bit, Betsy came back to Pleasant Corners. But, it wasn't the same Betsy. First thing we knew, she up married a a queer duck named Harris. We all felt sorry for her, especially when we got news about Pete only being a prisoner. But, she went right ahead trying to make a go of a marriage, even put up a little lunchroom for Harris down the pike, with what was left of her money. Seems like though, he'd rather drive the county gravel truck when he could work at all. So, she pitched in and run the lunchroom herself. She always was a plucky one. Good sinewy stuff in Pleasant Corners, and it only needed that crazy one-lunged buggy to bring it out. When you sized up 1920 against that sleepy crossroads of 1900, you realized that we'd come a long way. Maybe it didn't stack up much alongside of big towns with factories and such, but you can bet the activity of all the Pleasant Corners in the country, that meant a lot of orders placed in Chicago and St. Louis and New York. Course, John Craig over at the First National, he said when the country got back to normalcy, you couldn't look for things changing near so fast. He said 1920 motorcars was just about as good as engineers could make. It's pretty, too. And that with so many already on the road, why it was foolish to expect people to keep on buying a lot of new ones. Huh. You know, I just sort of wish old John Craig, he could have stayed around to see what happened. Though I expect he'd still be croaking the same tune. Well, sir, things really started popping just after he died, long about '25 that was. A rash of new houses in Marshall Heights, a new school, and the county's first four-lane highway. Adam Hill, he sold out his Emporium and meat market long in uh '27. After he finally gave up waiting for his boy Pete to come home and take over. Pete Hill, they say, he's done right smart for himself in the big town. Starting in with wholesale supplies and working up to a string of his own restaurants. Hill's Milestone Houses, he calls them. 1928, the state put in the concrete bridge across Mott Creek so's the buses could run Springfield. That's the new bus station alongside of Jim Barnes' garage. Well, the depression hit Pleasant Corners like any other place. Course, we got a fancy new post office and a town hall. But Alice Hill, she lost old Adam's money and she had to start that farmers' market. And Betsy McPherson, or rather Harris, she would have lost the lunch wagon if that no-account husband of hers hadn't run his car into the creek about that time. Course, all of us were sorry for her sake, but as a matter of fact, as soon as she didn't have all them IOU's raining down on her, why, Betsy, she begun putting some money away. And twasn't long before she bought a Hill's Milestone House franchise and the Siesta Motel down the pike there. Those Milestone House restaurants, they're popular as a melon patch in August. So, Betsy, she's hoeing a easier row now. And what's more, the big boss of the Milestone House chain, Pete Hill, that is, he dropped over between planes last week to inspect his newest place. Must be long time between planes because he's still here. Sort of Well, just sort of hanging around. You know, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Betsy and Pete Hill got married after all. Well, that that about brings us up to date on Pleasant Corners. They went and rebuilt the theater. And we got our own police department now, standing over there by the traffic light, facing Jim Barnes' new service station and showroom. Course, we still have our John Craigs. And I guess it's surprising that I ain't one of them at my age. But, you know, I still figure tomorrow is bound to be a lot better than today. It may not be men and motors or men and airplanes or men and atoms, but it will be men and something. Our country still has its ability to create and work and build. It's just now gathering itself together for its next spring forward. And boy, I'd sure like to be here to see that jump. In 1939, the tomorrow which is now today was portrayed by the original Futurama exhibit at the World's Fair. It's interesting to look back at the forecast made more than a quarter of [music] a century ago and find that the dreamers of yesterday had painted a surprisingly accurate picture of our cities and highways as we know them today. >> Imagine the wonderful world of tomorrow if the creators of Futurama II at the 1964 World's Fair are as accurate in their forecast. They said we would have thriving villages and cities in the land of the Arctic and Antarctic. Crossroads of progress in areas that were once steaming jungles and towns and motels [music] located far under the sea. Even as we're talking here, the moon has become a target of exploration. Can this be the pleasant corners of tomorrow? Anything is possible when we look beyond the contemporary and imagine things as we would like them to be. After all, our future begins with our imagination and our inventiveness. As dusk softens the silhouettes of towers in our great cities, we see the full-scale reality of what far-sighted dreamers [music] envisioned in miniature models only a generation ago. The automobile has immeasurably helped shape the way we live today. Many other new ideas are bound to help advance the world of tomorrow. Whether they come from a single individual or teams [music] of professionals, one thing for sure, man is continually striving to make the world a better place in which to live. And there is every reason to believe that our progress over the past few decades will be even more accelerated and exciting in the years [music] to come. >> [music] >> So, I had no idea how awesome that film was. And if you just go by the narration, Katrina is in another room and she's like, are the people complaining about how boring this film is based on the narration? >> [laughter] >> And I was like, quite the opposite because the visuals are insane. Um so did a little digging. This was part of the uh the GM uh progress on parade a parade of progress and they had these big cool bus looking things called future liners that would drive around and show different things. Um and so the exhibit I think was in this bus uh and then had this narration to it um and would change you know obviously over time like as you watched it and then it was at this the Museum of Science and Industry until 2001 I think. Um but man, that was nuts. That was quite nuts um and I love it. I absolutely love how incredibly boring it is but also how incredibly awesome it is at the same time. So thank you for watching today. Uh I'll be back at the archive tomorrow. Uh everybody have a great rest of your day. 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