AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 5-2-2025

Hello everybody. I'm Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the Age Geeks Lunchtime streaming show um where we watch old 16 millimeter films. And that was some uh raw outtake footage that was not from the show, the film that I showed yesterday called East Side West Side. That was separate footage. Um, but it was also from the National Archives and uh I've been pulling stuff from there uh for different projects I've been working on and so when I find stuff that I think you might like then we watch it. Uh so I'm excited today uh because I got some of these which will go in uh this saddle stitcher. What I'm going to try to do today if I don't run out of time is uh so I'm doing a show at the uh fruit in Durham tomorrow. Uh it's part of a kind of evening uh vendor marketplace and it's called let's get physical media and so people will be selling stuff uh physical media like books, vinyl, uh videotapes etc. Uh, and I will be one of the performers. And I think I'm going to try to embrace the physical media thing and do a zen. And that's what this is for is I can actually um, in case you don't know, uh, you can put your folded paper here and you can saddle you can do a saddle stitch or saddle staple on the side. And so pulling that out made me think, oh, you know what? It's a physical media thing. I should do some physical media. Um, but one of the things that's uh that I need to be aware of is where my hands are when I slam that SL stapler down. And this film, which I haven't shown in 5 years, which is crazy cuz I love this film. Uh, is uh it tells us the cautionary tales of if you have a styrofoam hand. This is on every hand. Enjoy. [Music] This is a truly remarkable device. It can button, zip, tie. It can pull, twist, turn. It can touch, feel, examine. It can wave, indicate, talk. It can shift, reach, manipulate. It can push, lift, carry. It can press buttons. It can sort. It can mail. It can nail. It can strum, pick, hit. And every day, this remarkable device, the human hand, helps make a living, a very good living for millions of people in thousands of different ways. Hands work efficiently and productively with the tiniest instruments and with great powerful machinery to do tremendous jobs. Hands get into close quarters. Hands are right where the action is. Hands work in intimate proximity to many otherwise very useful machines and materials that are capable of destroying or mutilating them in one senseless moment. There are several specific kinds of danger in most work situations. Each kind deserves the greatest respect and understanding. First, there is the shear type of machine or situation, a guillotine for hands. It chops hands or fingers right off. Among the common examples are paper cutters, cleavers, even the common scissors is in this class. A pair of heavy, hard-edged objects can pass close together and become a shear. A hand or finger in the gap may be chopped off. Once you know what to look for, you'll discover examples of the shear around your work situation. You'll soon learn to recognize and respect this type of hand and finger hazard. The next specific type of danger is the rotating motion. It may have a horizontal axis or a vertical axis or be on an angle. It may have a tooththed, spiked, bristling, or jagged edge that can cut into fingers or hands. It may have a sharp point or sharpened spiral sides that can cut right through a hand. It may have irregular projections that can come around and hit fingers and hands hard enough to break them. It may be able to catch a finger or hand and mutil it. The rotating or spinning pattern is a common one in many places of work. you'll be able to spot this danger and keep its hand destroying possibilities in mind. Don't get too familiar with spinning fan blades, small ones or big ones. They can cause a disabling injury. A third specific type of hazard to hands, is the inrunning nip. It grabs fingers and hands to crush them and tear them up. Watch for the dangers of inrunning nip points in gears or any place that you find material being rolled or wound up. Wherever there are parallel rolls or shafts turning inward together, you have the danger of the inrunning nip. It's the old ringer action. Watch for the dangers in belts and pulleys, chains and sprockets, racks and pinions, and other similar drive or conveyor situations. Learn to recognize and respect the grabbing power of the inrunning nit, a menace to your hands. The fourth specific type of hazard to hands is the smashing action. a useful servant to man. It does what it is supposed to do. But it is certainly no friend to fingers or hands. That's why it is usually so closely and ingeniously guarded. A smashing machine can't sense the difference between raw stock and flesh and blood. Even if it could, there's no way for it to stop in time. Just doing its work, it can destroy a hand beyond repair. beyond any further usefulness to anyone. Learn to identify all the types of smashing machines in your work situation. Make sure you know what guards are supposed to be working on the machine. Ask for specific information about the guards and the rules for safe operation before you get your hands near the machine. Know what you're doing. Never take anything for granted. A variation of the smashing machine hazard is the pinch point. It is an everpresent danger to hands. Fingers and hands that get into the pinch point can be painfully squeezed, smashed, or broken. Every doorway or fixed object is a hazard when moving or carrying a heavy load. Just trying to put a heavy object down with your hands in the wrong place can cause a painful disabling accident. Think ahead. Keep your hands where they won't be dangerously pinched. With just a small movement, a pair of heavy drums can crush. But hands can be hurt in ways that do not involve machines. Acids, steam, fire, corrosives, sub-zero processes all have their useful roles to play in modern manufacturing, trades, and services. But unprotected hands simply can't live in contact with them. They have the power to burn, freeze, disfigure, or destroy fingers and hands. Know what sort of materials you are working with. know what their effect may be on unprotected hands. Make sure you use the right kind of hand protection if your job should require it, even for short periods of time. In just one thoughtless moment, the damage may be done for a lifetime. [Music] Science is developing more and more remarkable substitute devices, but there's nothing quite like the human hand in its original healthy, perfect state. Never try to get past the guards on machinery. Shortcuts can be costly. Take a second to turn off or disconnect the power when you adjust, clean, or oil a machine. Take off rings and metal watch bands or bracelets when you work with machines or electricity. Use a brush to sweep away scrap or shavings, not your hands. Get treatment right away for any cut or tear or break in the skin. Know when and when not to wear gloves while working. Wash up with soap and water or hand cleaners that will not damage your skin. Your life will be so much better if you never find out how much you can't do with disabled hands. Mutilated hands can sometimes be repaired and rebuilt, but not just like new. In countless ways, your hands are essential to your good living. Learn to take care of them as if you really appreciate [Music] it. Little spicey at the end. Yeah, I'm amazed. I have not shown that more than once because I really I love that film. And that was in that first big batch of 500 films uh that we got for $50 back in the 92. And uh it's so good. There's so many films from that from that batch that the payoff was really high. There were a couple of clunkers in there, but yeah, a lot of great stuff. So, anyways, uh I'm going to I put the Staples in. And so, I'm taking the Staples because I bought it at Staples uh receipt and we're going to uh I'm going to show you what this does. So, let's suppose that this is a bunch of paper um that I folded into a neat little zen. And let's put this up here. So you can see this the fold is on the the where the uh stapler hits. What do we call it? What was the platin? The anvil is what we called it. Um and there's the staple. So there's a or receipt zen. Um yeah, hopefully I'll have something better than that. And it might not work out. I might uh run out of time because I also have to put together a show that I'm doing tomorrow at 7 o'clock. Uh so that's going to take precedent because that's what people are expecting. Okay. Uh uh so this film is uh a profile of uh Joan Gans uh Cooney. Does anybody know who that is? Anybody? Anybody? Um, she's one of the people behind uh Children's Television Workshop. Enjoy. [Music] Someday little [Music] children there's going to be a lot of people. Yeah. And they'll be living on the moon. Yeah. people living on the moon someday. Are you wondering who? Well, I tell you little children, it just might be you someday. Little children living on the moonday. Children on their way to school like children everywhere with one difference. These children will watch a television show called The Electric Company. A B CDE E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D Television is being used to improve children's ability to read. Ask. Oh, ask. In an age of mass electronic communication, television has been discovered as an effective teaching tool, improving the real tool of all education, the ability to read. Watching television and reading at first seems to be a contradiction. But educators and parents the world over are beginning to learn that this contradiction does not have to be. This concept was not only possible but has been immensely successful due to the hopes and hard work of one woman Joan Gans [Music] Cooney. Joan Cooney was born and raised in Arizona, studied journalism and went on to a career as a television producer. Joan firmly believes that all children should read and read well. This is her major goal and she's making it a reality today as president of the Children's Television Workshop headquartered at New York City's Lincoln [Music] Center. She has been its guiding spirit since its beginning 5 years ago. Today, the workshop produces two series of programs, Sesame Street and The Electric Company, seen by millions of preschool and grade school children in the United States and abroad. The key to the continued success of these programs is Joan's fostering of a unique partnership between scientific research and creative production. Under her direction, the programs are constantly being re-evaluated in the light of experience. It is a day-to-day search for the best combination of entertainment and teaching. The striving for excellence. They concentrate on teaching the alphabet, letters, words in their use, numbers, and geometric forms. They strive to awaken their young audience to the beginnings of social, moral and emotional development, problem solving and an awareness of the world around them, the environment and the sights and sounds which excite them and stir their imaginations. Uh roles do we wanted to show an integrated street. We wanted to show adults treating one another kindly and we wanted the adults to be forceful and dignified even if they amusing and senses of humor and all were certainly not ruled out. Someday little [Music] children there's going to be a lot of people. Yeah. And they'll be living on the moon. Yeah. People living on the moon someday. Are you wondering who? Well, I tell you little children. It just might be someday. Little childrenday. Children on their way to school. Like children everywhere with one difference. These children will watch a television show called The Electric Company. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D Television is being used to improve children's ability to read. Ask. Oh, ask. In an age of mass electronic communication, television has been discovered as an effective teaching tool, improving the real tool of all education, the ability to read. Watching television and reading at first seems to be That was weird. It doesn't look like I mean, is the thing on there twice? Uh, that's very strange. Uh yeah. Anyways, uh thank you Joan uh Gans Cooney. Um I mean Sesame Street Electric Company, uh 321, contact Contact, all those were amazing uh things. Um and uh I should say that they along with uh teachers that were um also um supportive and parents who were supportive that contributes to who I am right now. And I should just say that um I think there was an executive order that wants to defund PBS and I think that's a horrible it's a horrible idea. uh for both children and adults uh because PBS uh captures a lot of things that regular broadcast television doesn't care about at all. They don't think it's interesting. And I think that uh sometimes PBS is boring, but it's important uh because it's boring. It covers things um covers local things, regional things uh and does things without the interest of clickbait, without the interest of advertising, uh etc. So there's my soap box. Um while we're on a soap box, here's a film that I have not shown surprisingly and I think it's very important. It's called The Great Rights. It has been shown many times, so it is super scratched. You'll see a lot of green emotion scratches. It's animated and it features all the voices that you know. So, enjoy. [Music] No Hey Millie, I want to read what it [Music] says. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What's that mean? Unalienable. What? Oh, uh, it means that uh, nobody can take it away. Take what away? Oh, right. You know, right. Right. Oh, yeah. Like in the bill of rights. Yeah. Let's go see it. See what it's a bill of rights. What's there to say? There's nothing to say. It's just a piece of paper. Piece of paper? Do you know what it says? What do you mean do I know what it says? It says uh rights. Uh, you know, four score and seven uh don't shoot. Do you see the whites of their How do you know it's there? It's always there. What would happen if the bill rightites disappeared? What do you mean disappear? How could it disappear? It's a document designed for the ages, backbone of the nation. Cors typicano and Tyler 2. Give me a liberty here. Give me What if the Bill of Rights disappeared? Disappeared. Disappeared. Disappeared. Hello, dear. Hi, Marv. What happened to the paper? Oh, I didn't notice. Uh, somebody seems to have u censored it a little. Who? Um, I guess the people in charge of these things. Are they allowed to do that? Uh, no, sweetie. No. No, they're not. Well, somebody ought to complain about it. Mhm. Why don't you? Me? Well, you know, I'm uh kind of busy and uh Well, anyhow, they left the crossword puzzle in. Well, I think you are. Listen, stop pestering me, will you, honey? Will you just stop pastoring me? [Music] Hey, look here. What's going on? What are they trying to do? This picture's been censored. What are they doing to the movie? What's this condemn business? Where do they get off telling me what I concede? This isn't what I came to see. Do you agree with what they're doing? They have no right to do this. Are you just going to stand up? All right, buddy. Break it up. Right. You heard me. Come on. Break it up. Come on, buddy. Clam up. That's a boy. Just clam up and keep moving. He's got a right to speak, hasn't he? I guess. Sure. Well, why didn't you say so? Well, because he was uh he was talking nonsense and uh I didn't agree with him. [Music] Okay, let's go. Break it up. Members of this church can attend the approved church next week. What's going on here? I've never heard of any. Come on. Come on. Break it up. Excuse me. What are you? Some kind of smart alec. I don't want any approved church. Thank you. Just my plain old Marvin C. Marvin. What do you want to know for? You'll find out. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Now [Music] listen there. That'll show him. [Music] Hey, why? Hey. Okay. Okay, I'm coming. You don't have to bust in [Music] the Hey, what do you think you're doing here? Hey, listen. This is my house. Private property. Get out of here. Nobody gave you permission to Hey, cut that out. I mean, you're you're getting the floor kind of messed up. Hey, watch it. [Music] Tell us, why did you do it when you didn't want? Why? I'm sorry. I didn't catch that. Have you ever known her, Mr. Morrison? What? Now, why don't you make it easy on yourself and come clean? Oh, what' I do? Look, Mac, you're in real trouble. I know, but what did I do? And we're trying to help you right now. You can help us. Just check in. What church do you go to? Well, gee, uh, that's kind of personal, you know. How did you vote in the last election? Listen, you uh uh you can't ask me those kinds of questions. We can't. Huh? No, no, no, nope. It's not allowed. Constitution. Uh Bill of Rights. What's he talking about? Bill of what? Rights. Never heard of it. How's it go? Uh uh Bill of Rights. Bill of Rights. Uh Bill of Rights. Um in 1492, Columbus crossed the ocean blue. uh four score and seven years ago our father uh give me liberty or tip a canoe and Tyler 2 I I don't remember. Come on, confess. You did it. Did what? Come on, admit it. We got a witness. Witness a witness that I did it. Who? You. Oh, no. No, no, no, no. Not allowed. You You can't force me to incriminate myself. What do you want me to say? Order in the court. How do you plead? Guilty. Who's that? Prosecutor. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. I want a lawyer. Denied. Listen, I didn't do it. I didn't do anything. I'm innocent. I can prove it. I want to call witnesses. Denied. Now then, no, no, no, sir. I want a jury. Call the jury. Call the jury. Have you reached a verdict? We have, your honor. We find the accused. How can you reach a verdict without hearing the We find the accused. Proceed with the verdict. We find the accused. What about my rights? Denied. Daddy. Daddy. Freedom of speech. Freedom of speech. Bill of Rights. Sixth Amendment. Bill of Rights. Sixth Amendment. The right to know charges. The right to know the charges against me. The right to an impartial jury. The right to counsel. The right to call witnesses. Come on, confess. You did it. We got a witness. Who? You. Hey, not allowed. Bill of Rights. Fifth Amendment. No person shall be compelled to be a witness against himself. Bill of Rights, Fourth Amendment, right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure. [Music] First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceibly to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [Applause] Let it never be said that this great and glorious heritage of ours, this noble document handed down by our forefathers whose cry was, "Give me liberty or give me disappear. Disappear. Come on. [Music] It's there. I was trying to tell you. Hey, look. Us. We're part of it. Yeah, that's what I was trying to do. It's there as long as we believe in it, value it, and use it. Right. So, you take a good look, young lady, and remember what it's all about. Tip a canoe and Tyler, too. No, honey. The right to a fair trial and an impartial jury. The right to know the charges against you and be defended by counsel. The right not to be forced to bear witness against yourself. The right to be secure in your person and house and possessions from unreasonable search and seizure. The right to assemble peaceibly and petition the government for redress of grievances. The right to freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech. The Bill of Rights spelling out for every race and faith and creed the promise of the Constitution, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [Applause] [Music] Bill of Rights. Learn them, live them, love them. If you see something uh that violates the Bill of Rights, say something. be a be a pain about it. Be a nuisance about that. I think it's very important. Um because Squeaky Wheel gets the grease. That's all I'm going to say. Um that's an amazing film. Um required viewing, I think. Plus June for Daw Butler. Man, that's like all your cartoons uh from the the 60s7s or 50s, 60s, and 70s. All right. Uh, so this next film is um this is from the National Archives. That previous film is from my collection and it was on my Patriot Patriotism DVD. Uh, but uh this next film is kind of interesting. It's about summer camp and this is this interesting kind of uh foreign exchange summer camp to where it's American kids but it's uh counselors from somewhere I believe in Africa. But uh it's got such a great 70s vibe to it. Um, you know, kind of before meatballs, um, before Camp Crystal Lake. Uh, so this is American Summer because it's hot out and it makes me feel like I want to watch this film. All right, enjoy. [Music] working on the railroad. [Music] Every summer, millions of American children go off to summer camp. Bus load after bus load of youngsters are hauled from their homes and into the countryside where they spend their vacation in a lakeside cluster of cabins and tents playing with children their own age. For the last few years, a unique experience in international living has been taking place. Groups of university students from all parts of the world have come to the United States to work as guides or counselors to American children in the camps. This film is about the summer experience of 30 students from the University of Abjan. [Applause] [Applause] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] On arriving in the United States, each visiting counselor is sent to a camp for the entire summer. There he is assigned to watch over a cabin full of children. It's an intimate contact, not unlike parent and child. And from this contact comes the underlying purpose of the international summer camp program. The interchange of cultural [Music] experiences, put your what is it? Laundry bag. Okay. Put the business out. You make something. I wish I was with you having a good time. We all miss you very much. Love you. Okay. That's very nice. Here at a camp in upper New York State, Robert Alisani from the Ivory Coast teaches the children in his cabin a song from his West African tribe while he learns the famous American camp game, the scavenger hunt. We just have now a scavenger hunt. Uh it consist on uh getting on a collection of things 10 dead flies, one live frog, one live fish. And anyway, this game is really exciting. You see them, you know, running everywhere, you know, and trying to collect the most possible things they want they they can collect and it's really funny you bring for instance 10 flowers but the same kind of flowers and they have to go again and sometimes they bring some frogs already dead and this this uh it's useless. Hey guys, I found a frog here. Here I found a frog. Take it to Robert quick. Come on. It means that all of your American kids are very lively, you know, full of life and energy. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] It means we are happy to be together. We are having a great deal of fun being together. [Music] Hey, let's go early. Oh, no. It's too hot. [Music] 200 miles away at another camp in the farmlands of New Jersey. Ivarian Mahilelet Narcissis learns an American two-step jazz dance in exchange for a lesson on how to build a traditional African animal trap. [Music] If you [Music] You are man, not not girl. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] One day I took my group of campers into the woods to show them how we trap animals in Africa. They were particularly interested in the traditional Africa things like customs and dances and that kind of thing and we had quite a bit of discussion about it. Okay. Do we got Yeah. But this particular day as we were working they started asking me questions about modern Africa too. Do any like this in Africa or are they thicker the wood? Are they thicker? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In my country itself I mean in Africles we we have a big forest like this. What kind of um animals did you have in there? Um many kinds. There are beavers. Yeah. Tears, lions, many kinds. We don't catch food like you do in Africa. Said there's a grocery store where we go and buy store you can buy. There's always so many stores where you can buy stuff that you need like clothes, food. Yeah. How do how do you think you live in Africa? You have to catch your food. You have to make your clothes. No, you know, uh the same way just wait a minute. You have a a bad idea of Africa. Africa is not like uh Africa is not something I mean something like a bush jungle. The jungle. No, Africa. Africa is something like United States cities. We have cities. We have them. We have our food. We get our food from from market as you you do here. There are places where you see what I mean? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That I hope will lead us in a in an African [Music] club. [Music] Fore to me. [Music] More than a thousand miles away at another camp on a farm in northern Illinois, three students from the University of Abby Jehan join a group of American children in the traditional barn dance. There is so much variety in American music. There's blues, rock and folk music. And there's that one foot music called the band dance in which you dance in a group and change partners while you are still dancing. It's a lot of fun. It looks like some of our dancers in West Africa. [Music] [Applause] At the same camp, sitting inside an empty corn storage silo, Elaine Baki explains the significance of the panther as a token object to his tribe. My tribe, the animal is the panther. One day uh a warrior of the tribe lost in the forest and he spent a long time searching for his way and he was starving to die. It was necessary for him to find a a river or a well something else, you know, where he could drink and get food. So he saw a panther He just he just tried to to follow the panther follow him a long way and the panther led him to a river. So he got water to drink. He just walked along the river and he got to this village. Since that day he told to his people uh not to to eat panther meat. No one eats panther. No one in my tribe. Because of this animal. Yes. Because of this animal. And that's what we've got in Africa. A totem. Our totem is a bad Is it Is it ever a combination of like a man like half a man's body and half an animal's body or something like this? No. Not Not in your track. Uh, it's just the the right panther, the right animal. Yeah. Can I ask you when you have children, will you tell your children the story of the panther? Yeah. I have to maintain the tradition. Can you feel the spirit? Oh yeah. Can you feel the spirit? Oh yeah. Can you feel the spirit? Oh yeah. Let's get it on the hands now. Can you feel the spirit? Oh yeah. Can you feel the spirit? Oh yeah. Can you feel the spirit? Oh yeah. In the heart of New York City, Ivoarian Sarata Tore learns a popular children's chant from her group of YMCA day campers. And in exchange teaches an African dance from the heart of Abjan. go [Music] down. Down. [Music] On the other side of the American continent in the mountains of the California Pacific coast, Emmanuel Naji Naji takes his first ride on a trail horse with widebrimmed hat and spurs like an American cowboy. and teaches an African children's game from his Ivarian tribe, the Aalu Yalule. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] For Sangalles Shikasar, the summer was one continuous exchange of games, stories and songs. [Applause] after eating uh every everybody is very uh very great and so we sing we love somebody for example me or another one and everybody think we love you chica oh yes we do and they say keep around the room frog around a room or something like that they ask you to do something around the room and you have to do it. Everybody give you a hand and that's very very nice. That's very funny, you know. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] We are going to talk about Africa. I think you and you want to ask me some questions. [Applause] Where do you live? Yeah, I live here. Sagal is my country and my friend live here in coast and I'm studying. Do they have do they have oceans in here? Sure. We have o kind of animals we have. We have ost kind of animals you have here except this one and more. You have canoes. No, this is Africa. This part only like this thing. This Madagascar is from the African country. Yeah. What kind of food? Oh, we eat. You have mashed potatoes. Huh? have mashed potatoes. Lime. Well, we have mashed potatoes, but that's not typically African. You know, in Sagal, the typical plate is rice with fish. The name is made with now. He eat that. What What do you use to hunt with? They use bunaros. Yeah. Oh, spear. For spear. Where is that? That's Ivor Coast. This is a post office. Post office. Yeah, that's a big one. Yeah. In West Africa. Wow. This is another another picture of a in some part. I I don't live in in this kind of house. But in the village, the little village, they live in this kind of village. For me, I'm Muslim and I had to live in a legal camp. At the beginning, I thought that must be very hard to live with as with a person who don't have the same religion. But I and I I had to see that's not very hard. You know when you even you are Muslim or another religion when people are praying are making something for God you can participate because uh we believe in the same god I think that so it's not too hard to participate in this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] program glory of the [Music] In this Christian camp, it is a tradition to celebrate Christmas in July as well as in December. A reminder to the children that the spirit of Christmas is not confined to one day or one season. For Shikasar, a Muslim 4,000 m from his home in Sagal, this was an experience he would long remember. [Music] At the end of the camp period, The African students gather once again, this time to tour the United States as guests of American families in over 20 cities. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Where are you from? I'm from Ivory Coast, West Africa. Africa. You ever been to Africa? Nope. What do you think is What do you think you'd find if you went to Africa? What kind of things? I don't know. Well, I found a horse. A horse. That's [Music] good. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] What uh what things do you grow primarily at home? Um, we go rice. Yeah. Uh, potato. Uh, sizes. Um, sesame. Sesame. Sesame. Sesame. Yeah. Sesame. And in Africa, our way of frying is a little different. You you use this part this year and another year you use it for another another thing. you leave. Do you have machines like this in Africa? Maybe in um in public um farms maybe. Yeah. Sometimes the government has farms and they can make milk for to buy. So they have the machine like that. Yeah. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] experience that is [Music] important. Concerning my most important experience here, I found out many things about American life. And I must confess before coming to the United States, I had some prejudices about segregation. According to what I had read there, there was supposed to be a big difference between the colors in the states. But I can assure you that in the group of people I lived with, it was completely different. The Americans don't really worry about color differences. That was the impression I got. I must say that it is in the newspapers where we get most of our information about what is happening between black and white. I know there is a problem. I know it is true and there is a lot of defects in solving the problem. I also know that in the newspapers, especially the sensational newspapers, we often see only the bright side of things, but there are some whites that are really marvelous and some blacks that are marvelous. I know that the problem of racism exists, but it isn't all bad. And I think it is wonderful that they are really concerned people who try to understand the problem. Some could say that I was placed only in selected groups but I saw many people on my own and understand and appreciate them. Coming here I got some standard ideas about American people. I think uh I imagine them just like kind of machines robots but I think that I I found people like me like people at home and in the that camp where I worked as camp counselor. I just felt like home. It was a great experience. I was I was expecting to find it worse here. I thought after all I've read in the newspapers and seen in the film, but it was a real open war going on between whites and blacks. But I was satisfied, agreeably satisfied to find whites and blacks working together. I was really happy to have good white friends here and I believe that the future is very good for the two races and one day we can all get together on good terms as real human beings. There is certainly prejudices to be gotten rid of but I believe it will happen in due time. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] The last night in America, the 30 students perform a farewell dance to their American hosts. A farewell to an odyssey that neither the Americans nor the Africans will ever forget. The summer was over. [Applause] [Music] from now [Applause] and [Applause] Of course, it was the United States Information Agency. 1973 is when that uh was produced or at least released. uh and that was not allowed to be shown in the United States for a period of time 20 15 years 20 years uh because they did not want it to influence uh politics in the United States. So um what a great film to show and to watch. Uh it, you know, it's not a perfect world in 1973, but there's hope and there's aspiration towards a better place. And that's what I'm striving for. Uh aspiring to something better, not worse, better. And you folks out there can make that happen uh at least in your world, your immediate sphere uh by reaching out, supporting people in your family, in your friends, in your community, and supporting them, helping them. We're all struggling, so we can do it together. Let's do it. Um, I'm not on cold meds right now, but I have this weird uh energy, which might be because I'm not on cold meds for the first time this week. But, um, yeah, I think that energy comes from uh showing films that I like to people that I like, and that's the big deal. Um, so if you're in Durham tomorrow, come by the fruit. I think I'll be there from 5 to 9, 5:' I'll be manning a booth where maybe I will have a zen or at the very least I'll just be stapling pieces of paper. Uh and I'll have DVDs and I'll have t-shirts and stuff merch. Uh and then at 7 o'clock I'll show films about films and uh maybe a film strip about a film strip. Uh be very meta. Um but uh thanks for tuning in today. very much appreciate your eyeballs and your comments and appreciate you for being there. Um make it it makes a big difference. I think it really does. And so thank you for that. All right. So uh have a great weekend. Maybe I'll see you in person, maybe I won't. But uh otherwise um if you like what you saw, hit the thumbs up, hit the subscribe button, go to ko-fi.com/avgeeks or patreon.com/avgeeks. Uh you can also donate via the superthanks button and all that money is going to go towards rent on uh storage units. Um I have there's an article that just came out on the independent uh website and I think it'll come out in print next week maybe. Uh, and it's about physical media and they interview me and they show me in one of the storage units surrounded by films that if they fell they would kill me. On that note, uh, love you guys. We will see you very soon. Bye.