AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 4-30-2024

e e e e e for is is for is is for such a scowl um hi everybody I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the a Geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 mm films and that was raw footage for a cornet film about Napoleon and you know they did some Recreation footage there obviously the there was no film footage of Napoleon but uh this is proof that uh Ken Burns did not invent the uh pan or tilt uh across a still image uh in a documentary um what they call the Ken Burns effect in iMovie I think um they've been doing it for quite a while so uh uh yeah um God it's it's the end of April it's nuts how quickly April shot by I guess uh when you travel that kind of happens um but the one thing that has still not been answered I looked and and saw uh what is an amphibian let's find out [Applause] [Applause] amphibians are the most primitive land animals a group believed to be the ancestors of all vertebrates that live on land they are something like fish out of water their movement over the land is reminiscent of the movement of fish in water this is not surprising in view of the fact that the ancestors of amphibians probably lived only in the water during a time when ponds were drying up in order to survive such animals had to have the ability to move from a drying Pond to one that was not yet dry how did animals capable of making such a transition happen to originate about 350 million years ago During the devonian period when large areas of land were swampy there existed fish that had some amphibian like characteristics such fish still exist they had bony fins which we now know were capable of evolving into legs within each fin were three basic Bones the basic bones of such a fin are comparable with leg bones of a primitive amphibian other bones of the fin were irregular we now know they were evolving into toes as changes occurred certain lobe finned fish became modified became capable of existing on land they were the first amphibians fossil skeletons indicate some of the intermediate steps in the development of amphibians although many stages in the transition are unknown we do know that the skin came to be an accessory breathing organ furthermore improvements occurred in the blood supply system amphibians evolved A system that delivered blood from the lungs to the brain the control center of the body a system having a three chambered heart to keep fresh oxygenated blood separate from blood returning from the tissues Evolution taking place over millions of years produced the amphibian found on Earth today animals that are imperfectly adapted to both land and water their limbs sprawling on both sides do not succeed in lifting the animal's abdomen from the ground indeed amphibians have several characteristics in common with fish though most of them breathe air all are capable of existing in water for extended periods of time more important nearly all amphibians must lay their eggs in water the eggs much like those of a fish develop into tiny embryos then into larvas since there is little Yol in an egg for a larvae to absorb an egg must hatch while the larvae inside is still quite small it patches the emerging larvae lives a fish-like existence there are gills for respiration and there is a well-developed tail for swimming as normal maturation proceeds gills disappear and limbs Bud out and become functional soon the amphibian is nearly mature ready to live in air but not all species of amphibians behave in this manner some like the aelole never leave the water such species fail to mature completely their gills never disappear their skins never thicken and their limbs never become welldeveloped for land locomotion as they grow they merely become old larvas having gills and capable of reproducing experimentation reveals a clue as to why the gills of some amphibians do not disappear it appears that the thyroid gland plays an important role in maturation when an old larvae is injected with thyroid extract it begins to mature in a few days the gills are absorbed into the body the salamander has become an air breathing land animal amphibians are found in and near almost all the fresh waters on Earth Earth in freshwater areas one may find several orders of amphibians in the water are salamanders some like the Congo eel are highly specialized for existence in water their legs never become suitable for movement on land others like the triturus are not so highly specialized when mature they are able to move onto land there they spend most of their lives in damp places such amphibians must remain in damp places for you recall their skins act as accessory breathing organs another order the toads and frogs are different from other amphibians they lack tails in the mature stage like nearly all amphibians their laral environment is aquatic their larvas commonly called tadpoles are found in freshwater ponds during the Spring months tadpoles are vegetarians though their bodies are shaped differently from the of other amphibians they have fish-like tails as they mature the larvas develop legs since some species Take 2 years to mature several Generations may exist together mature frogs are capable of quick hopping movement though their sprawling amphibian legs make plop Landings inevitable [Music] several members of this order have attained some degree of freedom from the water they have moved on to land into trees which provide a humid atmosphere they are the tree frogs this South American tree frog secretes a protective [Music] poison some tree frogs lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves some toads are adapted to live in dry desert environments in order to survive their larvas must at some stage in their development live in a wet environment a third order of amphibians the Sicilians have no legs like all amphibians they are of interest to biologists in their study of the biotic World in particular scientific experimentation upon amphibians has increased our knowledge of embryology and development embryologists work with developing eggs of amphibians they may remove add or transplant portions of an egg then they examine the developing amphibian over a period of Time how will the embryo develop will it mature how will it differ from the norm such experiments give us important information about the process of animal development as well as about the biology of amphibians animals that are something like fish out of water the lowest vertebrate animals that have adapted to life on [Music] [Applause] landine all right pretty great uh so behind me I have a um hold on let me nudge this there we go uh behind me I have a film scanner and I have a film set up on it um and so let's uh let's watch it the promise it's not the promise of that Pillsbury slideshow that I showed this is uh something else enjoy [Music] [Music] Alana Alana over here Daddy [Music] Alana are you awake there oh Mommy I was dreaming it's so pretty Daddy and I were out riding with aie honey Mr Gonzalez is on the telephone [Applause] hi Mr Gonzalez fine thank you have I on Tuesday oh sure what time four well who's riding them oh okay goodbye Alana are you okay what's wrong Dear Mr Gonzalez says he has to selly Oh Daddy I don't want to be digging away from me Alana honey listen Aggie's not yours you knew he had to be sold sometime yeah but I've been taking care of him daddy I love him it's hard to lose something you love but sometimes there's no other way honey maybe it's time for someone else to love him hey tell you what how about if you and I go for a ride tomorrow tomorrow i' like that Al for Mr Gonzalez okay okay I'm so sorry let's go hey Brian hi Ted hi Alana Alana and I are just going riding hey how are Lois and the kids a it's a long sad story I'm a little mixed up about it you think I could talk to you for a while it's serious maybe we go for a drive honey do you mind if we put off our ride until tomorrow afternoon Ted looks like he's in real trouble yeah sure listen why don't you just pull back a bit and I I'll be right with you thanks bro tomorrow at 4:30 okay over here Daddy I'm over here Daddy [Music] tomorrow at 4:30 okay I just came by to tell you that I I can't fix your water heater today you see my uh my daughter's waiting for me to go horseback riding I'm late already I don't have any water now I haven't had any water all day well I I can come back tomorrow will that be all right here you go Bab [Music] Alana Alana I'm sorry I get stuck did you go for a ride you know I can't go outside the Stables without an adult come on look I'll call Mr Gonzalez again we can ride tomorrow Aggie's going to away tomorrow forever look I'll quit work by 12:00 we can be on the trail by one what do you say Daddy yes promise yes I promise you know it's getting hard for me to believe you you oh Lana I'm sorry Daddy but that's the way I feel honey sometimes things happen that just can't be helped things that make it seem like I don't care but I do I love you very much see you tomorrow eggy maybe I can buy you WGY that'd be great let's go talk to Mr male okay Mr Gonzalez I could buy eggy I mean I don't have the money now but I could give you what I have sa you know I could get another job you know like last year when believe me I'd like you to have Aggie but I need the money now yeah but what will he do he'll think I don't care for him anymore agie will never forget you atanta after all you help raise him yeah for [Music] guess your dad got tied up again huh hey how about you and I go for a nice quick ride thanks but I'll wait for my dad oh they're here early [Music] there he is hgy [Music] Hy hi hi how you doing fine good it was him yeah how old would you say he is oh he's about 6 years old uhhuh he's got good looking legs he is fairly a nice looking horse you sure think this is what you want to do Jean mhm yes I promise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] egy come back I love you egie please [Music] eggie Daddy you promise you promise Oh Daddy I just love him I just love him well it'll mean a lot of responsibility you'll have to groom him and feed him I promise can we take him now sure well why don't I uh turn the car around and we'll load him up okay I'm sorry Elana his sure going to miss you do you want me to give you a lift [Music] back no thank you goodbye eggy love you [Music] [Music] honey sometimes things happen that just can't me help things that make it seem like I don't care but I do Alana I love you so much help hey come back Alena Oh Daddy it's okay I know you love me [Music] [Music] bummer the uh blumen Human series we've shown other films from that series and um the poist made this film and pists uh were a Catholic mass media organization who uh did films and TV shows uh so blooming humans was one of the the shows that they did the series that they did I don't know if this actually ever showed on television but they did another uh show that actually did show on television called Insight which was kind of like a weird twilight zone is uh thing uh with it features lots and lots of of actors and actresses that you know uh from TV and movies and um some of them are whacked out episodes and some of them are more conventional but uh Bloom and human it's all about kids and disappointments it's all about that's all it is and it doesn't I don't think it actually ever gets reconciled like it's always you're left at the end going like what am I supposed to do in fact I think this one has questions uh let's see yes uh the promise that only cost $16 to rent this and if you wanted to buy a copy it was $210 so here's some questions I'm going to throw at you uh why does alen love Aggie so much why do you suppose that she does not have a horse of her own how can you tell Alana's father loves her how can you tell that she loves him what would happen the first time to keep riding from happening or what happens the first time to keep the riding from happening what could her father have done to keep his promise then would that have been right why how does a react when her father breaks the promise um then we're supposed to share uh at the bottom what great disappointments have you had could they have been avoided how how did you react how would you react next time why so there you go and this the subject areas of the film is family relations family living marriage uh guidance values counseling uh language arts and language is spelt wrong um the topic coping with unav avoidable disappointment um so yeah this is why what we do is we watch these old films and then we ask questions of ourselves um all right uh this next film is part of a series I believe was made by um the Federal Department of Social Services I'm not sure I can't remember but it it's a series and this one's called Bridge from No Place distant drummer it's about drugs [Music] when Peggy and I moved into this house we thought it was just a normal house where people were using some acid some grass maybe some speed we found out there was a lot of shooting up going on some people were using heroin to the point that we couldn't trust each other anymore the work wasn't getting done we began to lie to each other so Peggy and I took a stand against hard narcotics we called a house meeting the house members agreed that we wouldn't have any more heroin or methodin in the house but some people found these two drugs Just Too Groovy to give up and it sort of destroyed the whole [Music] house again now we build it up again up again up again now we build it up again my now we build it up again up [Music] again the communal is destroyed by heroin but to most of us the more important and meaningful institution is also being destroyed with alarming frequency the American Home narcotics and their relatives amphetamines and barbituates rip apart the fabric of family life at every social and economic level a tragic aftermath fills hospitals prisons and rehabilitation centers across the country the entire question of drug use is vastly complex the drugs themselves are many and varied the precise information available to us when it does exist is often cloaked in myth and controversy drug users do not fit within any comfortable grouping they are young as well as old they are disadvantaged but often affluent I I do the Harden narcotics for escape I do the uh I do more interesting drugs of psychedelic drugs for learning it wasn't enough for me to smoke I needed something else the drug scene in Vietnam is it's really strange thing um it's hard to describe like drugs are very prevalent there they're all over the place you can get um marijuana you can go out and pick it I was um a very nervous uptight lost little girl and uh after I turned on I may not have found the answer to everything but at least you know it didn't seem of such immediate danger to me heroin is is is a pain killer it kills all pain it kills mental physical anguish it kills anxiety it kills boredom it produces pleasure just based on the drug itself and nothing else got to the point where everything I did uh everything I made I poured into the Habit uh the problem is I'm in a drug culture at one time it was considered unusual for anyone under the age of 16 to be experimenting with drugs but now it is not uncommon to see it among six graders and in one well-to-do school on the west coast the drug experiment is numbered among 70% of the student population a house destroyed but a house that can be rebuilt the man who stands at the center of the rebuilding operation and who show as much of the nation's concern over drug abuse is Dr Stanley f yolis the aim of the national program is to rehabilitate the estimated 100,000 narcotic addicts and the estimated half million persons in the United States who regularly abuse non-narcotic drugs because drug abuse and Drug dependence is apparently the result of physical psychological social and other factors the research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health or carried out directly by the National Institute of Mental Health must range from basic studies on the mechanisms of drug action on the addicting qualities of new drugs and how they act in the body to studies of social patterns of drug abuse as well as studies of new methods of treatment and Rehabilitation deep in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Country is the town first and foremost associated with the treatment of narcotic addicts since the first prisoner patient was admitted in 1935 the federal hospital at Lexington and its companion at Fort Worth Texas have borne the brunt of caring for these little understood and often feared and much maligned American dop addicts for decades these hospitals themselves have been maligned and misunderstood they have often been cited as Prime examples of how hopeless it is to treat much less cure an addict It is Well to remember that when opened these institutions were only a first step in society's enlightened policy towards the drug addict while steel bars and grill windows are necessary to enforce the punitive side of our judgment National conscience for the first time suggested research treatment Rehabilitation since 1967 many changes have taken place the bars and the grills are being being removed taking emphasis off the custodial aspects the hospital now called The Clinical Research Center and administered by the National Institute of Mental Health has intensified its Research into many approaches to Rehabilitation one technique basic to many treatment methods is encouraging addicts to help addicts by working together playing together and just being together within the same complex at Lexington is another Center this one engaged in addiction research its mission is to investigate the nature of the drugs themselves our understanding of the scientific working of drugs their physical effects on people what changes they cause in the body our questions to which we have few precise answers have another sure yeah why not that's free yeah come fo patients from The Clinical Research Center volunteer for a variety of tests involving the actual intake of drugs to The Outsider these tests may appear meaningless and from a conservative point of view immoral however they bring us closer to a clearer understanding of the chemical relationship between body and the agent whether the agent is marijuana a marijana cigarette a synthetic drug or one of the opius highly sophisticated equipment measures the concentration of drug molecules within the body this enables the researcher to compare what he sees in human behavior with what the instrument reveals the drug is doing to the body's organs tissues and chemistry through experiments such as these the Addiction Center has racked up an impressive record and unmasking supposedly non-addicting Pharmaceuticals the center demonstrated The Addictive nature of the barbituate certain tranquilize and even perform pioneering work in the understanding of alcoholism while Lexington's Outpost in the wilderness of drug research was amassing information on the addict and on the drug little else little else in the country was being done during the 40s and the' 50s more and more people f victim not only to heroin but to a host of synthetics while long used as a means of temporary Escape From The Ghetto marijuana in 1963 became one of the symbols of a youth in Revolution our criminal statutes became harsher penalties stiffer there was virtually no difference in the eyes of the law between selling a deck of heroin on a street corner or selling marijuana in a college dorm but in the 1960s there were also signs of progress in both the understanding of the addicts problem and in the law our narcotics laws have created a web which the addicts need for money leads to crimes crimes which reinforces the punitive enforcement of the narcotics law and thus drives the attic deeper and deeper into secretiveness and fear started a civil commitment program the first state to do so even though high fences and Bob wire were constant reminders that inmates were still Prisoners the accent was not on punishment rather treatment aside from early Federal programs at Lexington and Fort Worth it was the first time that the public institution was used to treat addicts instead of just confining them New York 1962 the Meda Boker act allowed many of the state's addicts to elect Hospital treat treatment instead of prison sentence the 1960 saw enactment of the first major federal law designed to realistically appraise the addict's problem and restore him to his community the narcotic addict Rehabilitation Act of 1966 allows the defendant in certain criminal cases to elect treatment instead of punishment including an extensive program of after care under the supervision of the Surgeon General sinam first established in Santa Monica is perhaps the most publicized of the self-help private approaches rehabilitated addicts like Don Parker have carried on with the synony philosophy in other cities from California to New York to Chicago each establishing his own Therapeutic Community a residential Therapeutic Community if I may explain it for a moment is a 24-hour day living working situation in which people go through all kinds of emotional changes uh drug addiction of course is not a physical problem it's an emotional problem and that's what we approach in these communities the addict is first taken off drugs either cold turkey or by gradual medicated withdrawal he then starts the long humbling process of living shoulder to shoulder with other addicts people who have made it people who have little sympathy with members who refuse to be honest with themselves why don't you be honest with him you boil and you can't even talk calmly you explode every time you talk you're all emo and you sit there you're boiling and you've been boiling your whole life and you sit say other people you got a cop out are you afraid of them these are the residents of New York's daytop Village a private therapeutic community supported by federal state in Municipal funds graduates of daytop Master far more than their past craving for drugs they learn a new lifestyle centered around helping others bettering their communities when he returns to the street The daytop Graduate will be a force for Action in his old neighborhood even if it's only rallying people to clean up their block some of jop's byproducts are surprising and they're exciting this is the stage of an off Bradway theater where daytop residents tell their story behind the foot lights to capacity audiences and to critical acclaim [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Rehabilitation during 1960s saw a decade of experimentation trial and error approaches that sought and sometimes found cures through group therapy through computers and through the test tube in Chicago a young father of two children hopelessly addicted to heroin forced to steal support his habit opens a door to possible hope this is the methadon maintenance approach still in the experimental stage methadon a synthetic opiate is administered in fruit juice as a substitute for heroin and at the same time satisfi the junkies need for drugs and like heroin methadone is also addictive but spares the user the harmful effects the program's Chief sponsor is Dr Vincent Dole at New York's Rockefeller University so that we estimate conservatively I think that every patient that we ret treat saves the community $40,000 a year in Goods that are not stolen in neighborhoods that are not spoiled in families that are not abandoned methodone maintenance as many other treatments and approaches has its critics there's no way that in my opinion that a person who is drugged and a personal methadon is drug can really take a look at himself most methadon proponents consider Ed irrelevant whether a patient ever comes off the drug the important point they make is that addicts are rapidly returning to society and are able to cope with responsibility to cost an inexpensive clinically administered glass of orange juice on the way to work another chemical approach to keeping an addict of hard drugs is cyarine cycline is a narcotic antagonist blocking the effects of heroin as it tries to act upon the central nervous system there are other approaches neighborhood centers like exitor House New York's teaming slums concentrate help During the period when it's needed most during act care as in other valid treatment approaches ex addicts who have begun to remake their lives work closely with the residents helping them through each day Rising on time reporting to work relearning the simple day-to-day Lifestyle the rest of us take so much for granted in time many of them will be eased back into their communities stronger perhaps for their experience after care is one of the most important phases of restoring a former addict to a useful life the counselors know the patient they know his daily routine and they are wary of pitfalls you may have an argument with your wife you might go to work in the morning and all of a sudden uh where you used to handle 25 cotton a day the boss gives you 30 cartons and this is another excuse see this is an excuse to go I got to handle 30 cartons so I'm going to go out and shoot don't you know uh you can be free from drugs for five six seven months and all of a sudden you want to reward yourself you know like wow I've been clean now for six months you know I'm doing great you know I'm making money I got money in the bank my wife loves me my kids love me let me go out and get high you know and this happens so the these are the things you have to be aware but the point that I want to bring out is that if you do use don't be afraid to come by you know and tell us because that's what we're there for treatment programs are important but even of more importance is prevention 10 years ago drug use among the young was concentrated in the ghetto we thought at that time that eliminating the slums would eliminate that aspect of the drug problem well the answer is not so simple drug abuse including heroin and a wide range of synthetics has sprung up among the children of upper middle class families as well here affluence is a lifestyle and the pressures and anxieties of the ghetto are unknown but perhaps there are anxieties in the suburbs anxieties of a different nature it's like a fortress to protect this allwhite community of 40,000 people who live live in one of three models of housing of total cultural starvation it's not a fortress it's like a prison of of of of uptight shallow people and and the only and the only and the only food for their brain that they that they get is television and and booze and adultery and the only and everyone has money there's no identity in money you can only say I have more money or less money and that's no identity that's just quantity the only thing you can do with money is buy mass-produced products and everyone has mass l p uh Detroit makes 5 million cars all the same the tragedy is that youth in rejecting our values too often uses more than rhetoric to express dissatisfaction was driving north on lar at an excessive rate of speed of 60 M an hour I pulled his car over and asked him to produce his driver's license and he had none I immediately arrested him and searched him and on his person I found a bag of white powder that has since been analyzed by the crime laboratory Mr St you hear what your lawyer just said yes I did and do you still know that I'm this plea ofil this court is going to send you from 3 to seven years in the State Penitentiary yes sir I do it is so another Hipp convicted on a narcotic charge now why should we be concerned why because in a few years those under 25 will make up one half of our population marijuana among college kids is only one drug and one population group but it serves to illustrate that our interest as a nation has been more than somewhat hypocritical uh it seems as though the college kids the middle class kids in this country suddenly discovered marijuana in the mid 60s the early 60s and uh up until that time marijuana was used almost exclusively by Negroes Puerto Ricans and Jazz musicians and you know who gave a damn about them so that we could have all kinds of repressive laws and nobody would would bother with these people or even look at the laws but all at once Mrs Murphy's kid from the suburbs who was attending a prominent University gets busted for marijuana and I can tell you from personal experience I've had medical students law students uh kids going to uh scientific institutions on uh National Science grants I've had all kinds of people who have been arrested for marijuana violations and when this happens suddenly our society starts to become aware of a problem socalled the entire question of drugs use is vastly complex cutting across the boundaries of the law medicine and society's attitudes the source of the problem is a simple flower a hearty plant beautiful in their natural habitat as they are dangerous often lethal when abused by man in his environment after 60 centuries of abuse society's attitude is only now beginning to change beginning to bring Enlightenment to our understanding of drugs and why people use them we beginning also to realize the fact that there is no single bridge that will return the atct to Society for there are many drug takers and each takes his journey to nowhere for numerous and complex reasons bringing them back home will require many bridges many different approaches each designed to reach one segment of the drug dependent Society whether Solutions are found in a maintenance approach a Therapeutic Community a narcotic antagonist one thing is certain we we must continue to build Bridges back into society as many bridges as possible let's call them Bridges from no place [Music] it was Nim that distributed them like uh National Institutes of mental health Nim um there were some injecting stuff in animals um none of them injecting into uh Rats of course but uh Rod stiger I I was like man that voice sounds so familiar I could not figure out who that was and so there you go Rod stiger um thanks for tuning in today very much appreciate your eyeballs uh we say farewell to April and uh tomorrow is May and um yeah if you like what you saw what you can do is uh hit the thumbs up or the like or subscribe um you can also tell other people about what we're doing and what we're watching and come back tomorrow um and um you can also donate financially by uh using the super thanks button that's one way to support us uh you can also go to ko-fi.com avgeeks or patreon.com avgeeks that money will be spent on hard drives lots of hard drives we use we have close to a petabyte of hard drives uh storage um that we use we don't really use cloud storage because it's expensive it takes a long time to upload it takes a long time to download so we do that for specific things but not 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