AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 6-24-2025

Hello everybody. I'm Skip Alzheimer. Welcome to the AV Geeks Lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films. And sorry for starting a little late. This is scooch late. Um, I was working with a film scanner behind me and um, lost track of time. Lost track of time. That's usually what happens. Um, yeah. So, we watch old 16 mm films here and we have been going through and scanning a bunch of stuff uh, as we are beginning to move films from all the storage units back into the kind of nice climate controlled film vault which is nice and cool. Uh it is very very hot here today and so we are trying to stay in air conditioned spaces which coincidentally is also very good for films. All right so this first film is a cornet film and I I don't know if we've shown it but uh this is learn to argue effectively and it's got a punch and Judy show in it and a 16 mm projector. So enjoy. [Music] This is the story of an arguer. Jeff loved to argue about anything and everything. After all, the Vikings were here before Columbus, and so were the Indians, and we don't know how many others. So, how can you say Columbus discovered America? And you say Jonesville won the tournament last year? Oh, they couldn't have. Oh, Liver Worst, you must be crazy to eat that stuff. That's the silliest opinion I've ever heard. There are 10 cars that'll hold the road better. We don't need to enter a new conference. That's just the coach's idea. He wants a better job next year. That's If you like to argue so much, Jeff Field, why don't you go out for debate and learn something about it? Look, all the stupid. Now, what's a puppet theater have to do with debating? Okay, Mr. Evans. Thank you, Alice. We have an interesting gadget here. You'll see why in a moment. Now, we're here today to find out how to argue. Is that so difficult? Well, it isn't easy to become skilled in argumentation. Okay, Alice. Now, first of all, what subjects are worth arguing about? Now, let's see how many of us can recognize suitable subjects for arguments. Alice. Oh, Judy. Judy. Where are you, Judy? My love. Oh, I'm tying my shoes, silly. Well, now you're here. Listen, I went out to the farm yesterday. You did? And what for? Oh, look at the animals. And I saw a purple cow and I purple cow. Yes. And I went up to her and I said, "How did you talk to her?" "Why, with my mouth, silly." Answer my question. I know you talk with your mouth, but that's not what I mean. Well, then say what you mean. Well, how could you talk to a cow? Now, who said anything about talking to a cow? Why don't you listen? You interrupt all the time. Now, look at here. You take that and that and that. Well, was that a good subject for argument? What was the argument about? Yes. I I guess it was whether Punch talked to a cow. But Judy wasn't there. How would she know? If there's no evidence available on your subject, why argue? What would be a better subject for them to argue? Well, Judy might try to convince Punch that there is no such thing as a purple cow. Or that he might be more observant. She might write. What is a good subject for argument? Jeff thought about that one. He remembered some arguments he'd had. You say Jonesville won the tournament last year. Pointless to argue about a fact. That's easily checked, isn't it? Oh, Liver worst. You must be crazy to eat that stuff. Pointless, too, to argue about matters of personal taste. They are seldom changed by argument. That's the silliest opinion I've ever heard. Why, there are 10 cars that'll hold the road better. Arguments about opinions can be purposeful for argument often does change opinions. We don't need to enter a new conference. And arguments about proposed actions can be purposeful if they make their points. Yes, Jeff thought about these things. Well, all right. If it's a subject on which we can influence what others believe, argument has purpose. If not, why argue? Agree? Fine. Now, let's go on to another question. Assuming that we have a good subject for argument, how should we argue? Oh, well, where do you think you're going? Well, I'm going to Garden City next year with the team. We're going to join the new athletic conference, you know. Huh? Just because everybody wants to take a trip, we have to join a new athletic conference. Well, this is our big chance. We'll put our school on the map. Garden City. Garden City. Go to Garden City. Do you think we're going to Everybody know you're going to take a nice long trip at school and get beat. Beat. Well, anyway, you'll agree we should try to put our school on the map if we can. Sure, if we can. Okay, right away. Now, there's Let's not have the same kind of argument that they had. This is a hot issue. We chose it because it is a real issue here in our school right now. It's a good subject for argument. Agreed. The question is, how can we make that argument profitable? How can we argue so as to change opinions? Now, let's repeat this punch and duty argument. Whenever you see anything that keeps it from being profitable, we'll stop the show. All right, Alice. Oh, well, where do you think you're going? Oh, I'm going to Garden City next year as a team. We're going to join the new conference. You know, wait a minute. There's something wrong. We haven't decided whether to join the new conference or not. Punch doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. And you feel you have to know what you're talking about to argue profitably. I'll say. All right. One, be informed. Know your subject. That's the first essential of how to argue profitably. All right, Alice. Just because everybody wants to take a trip, we have to join a new athletic conference. Well, this is our big chance. We'll put our school on the map. Garden City. Garden City. Go to Garden City. What do you think we're doing? Punch and Judy aren't listening to each other. How can Punch convince Judy if he doesn't know what Judy thinks and vice versa? Good point. That's step two. Listen. And understand, you can't argue profitably until you know what your opponent believes. All right, Alice. Well, anyway, you'll agree we should try to put our school on a map if we can. Oh, sure. If we can. Well, isn't there something there? I mean, well, sometimes when you're arguing, you waste time over points you really agree on. At least Punch was trying there. Good point. I wondered whether anyone would catch that. Find common ground. Two people in an argument usually agree on something. They have to or else the argument won't convince anyone of anything. And if you know where you agree, you can see more clearly where you disagree. Isn't that important in arguments? Ah, find the issues. Once you know exactly where you disagree, then you know exactly where to apply your information and reasoning. So find the issues and work on them. Work on them. Oh, I'll work on you. I'll work on you. After that, Jeff thought about subjects for argument, about methods of argument. He watched himself, too. Well, that's silly. The rehearsal couldn't be at 7:00. Miss Alquist can't Miss Alqu can't get there by 7. She likes to eat at Hansen's restaurant. Punch and Judy are what' you say? Oh, never mind. If Miss Alqua said 7:00, I suppose we better be there then. He tried to save his arguing for topics worth argument, opinions, proposed actions where his argument might make a difference. He tried to be informed, getting knowledge that would be useful to make his arguments profitable. He tried to listen to understand his opponents and their positions. He tried to find common ground from which better understanding could be reached. And he tried to find the issues and attack them directly in his arguments. It took time to learn to argue effectively. But one day, not long ago, listen games, ticket sales are going swell, so I guess we'll have to reserve the gym for our party. Wait a minute. Why the gym? We want to use the lodge at Langden Park. That's rather expensive, isn't it? No, it isn't. Besides, think of all the Do you know how much they charge for the lodge? Well, no. Well, we want our party to be informal, don't we? That's right. We could have a good informal time at the lodge. We could decorate there. And they have a big fireplace where we could roast weenies and marshmallows. That's a wonderful idea. So, don't you think we should first find out the cost for the lodge and then decide? Yes, Jeff is still an arguer, but he is learning to make his arguments purposeful and profitable. How well do you argue? [Music] I think all debate teams should uh do it as Punch and Judy puppet shows. I mean, that is just so good. Um, yeah. So that 16 mm projector just hanging out there and I was like, is that part of the cuz I kind of scrubbed through it uh when I was scanning just to make sure it was complete and uh yeah, there was no mention of it. Uh there's another one uh which is about something about facts, gathering facts and it is about um kind of the AV club versus the jocks as far as school funding competing for school funding and um the AV club of course wanting more projectors and films and the jocks just want whatever jocks want. Okay, so this next film is uh MTI. MTI was a Motorola Tel Programs Incorporated, which was a splinter off of Motorola, who made police radios. And I think they realized that they needed to do training for all this uh telecommunications equipment that they were making and selling to um police departments and uh ambulances and etc. And so they started making films related to that. But then they started making films related to law enforcement. And then later in the 80s started making films for general audiences specifically kids related to uh drugs, alcohol, tobacco, um sexual abuse. And I was first concerned when I scanned this film that I was like, "Oh no, is this about sexual abuse?" I don't think it is. It's predominantly, I think, about drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. This is called How Do You Tell? Enjoy. [Music] How do you tell? How do you tell someone you really like that you think they're doing something dumb? Something that's liable to hurt her. How do you tell? Like if your friend has just discovered a faster way to get across town. Unless someone tells her to stop to be careful, it could be whap flat friend. Sad, huh? Especially for your friend. Now look at this one. This is a really dangerous situation because before he knows it, whamo. No more best friend. Just history. Sad, huh? especially for your old buddy. Or more realistically, what if a really good friend was getting too fat from eating junk food all the time? Daddy. The other kids were starting to tease him a lot. And he knows it's not good for his body. Knows it will hurt him in many different ways. But oh, does he want that cake. thinks it will make him feel good, even if it's only for a couple of minutes. So, what do you do? How do you tell someone you really like that they're going to do something that could hurt them? Is it even any of your business? Sure it is. What are friends for? Just tell them that's what. Tell them the truth. Tell them what you think. Hey, don't do that, Red, said Wilbur, holding his head. Stop it. You're playing with death, said Wilbur, holding his breath. Hold it, Wilma said, if not a little dread. Wouldn't it be better if you had that orange instead? See, it works. If you don't want to see your friends get hurt, then say so. And if you can suggest something else to do instead, it works even better. Especially if it's something like this. What if a good friend has just discovered what she thinks is a surefire way to be cool, grown up, instant adult? Yep, that's right. Cigarettes. Tobacco. Boo. Yuck. Sicko. So, what would you tell her about cigarette smoking? I would just say, "I'm really sorry that you're doing that and I don't think you should do it anymore cuz you're going to get really sick. Sometimes you can can even die from it." You know, stop cuz you know, I saw this picture that lungs get black and then lung cancer and your lungs are not as good anymore. Plus, you know, it just really hurts your health. I tell her it gives you lung cancer and a lot of people die from it. It's just a terrible smell when you talk to a person that has a bad breath like a smoke. It's not right for people to do that and they should never had really made made it to back up. That's so true. Crew smoking is awful. It took many scientists many years to prove it and the surgeon general of the United States to tell everybody. But finally, we all know how bad it is. That's why over 30 million people have quit smoking so far. And that's really tough to do. Why is that? They get hooked on it. Cuz you get attracted to the nicotine and then you really can't stop and it's hard. That's right, Dwight. It's really hard. And for that many people to quit smoking, they had to have a little help from their friends. So, how do you tell her? If she were your friend, what would you say? I'll tell her that smoking cigarettes is bad for you and I I sort I really care for you cuz you're a good friend of mine and I just wouldn't like you to do that cuz I don't want to see you get hurt. Hey, this is heavy stuff. I like you too much to see you hurt yourself. So I just got to say don't smoke dope. Very good, Wila. Don't smoke dope. Because that brings up another big problem. Smoking dope marijuana. Why do some kids want to smoke pot? Probably people around them are smoking and you know they feel left out. My I think the reason like most people smoke marijuana is like if their friends do it and they want to really hang around with their friends and they don't and they can't they don't smoke marijuana. So when that they want to hang around with their friends, they start smoking it so they can hang around with their friends. And also um you know like their friends say, "Oh, come on. You know, it's nothing bad." And they just kind of pull them into it. they start doing it and they think it's fun and sometimes they get so attracted to it they can't stop and well some kids like when they don't feel good they think it just brings their joy up. It's something that makes them feel good and sometimes they're not aware of what it the damage it can do to their bodies and their minds and so on. Teenagers also smoke it, you know, to get rid of their problems. You're absolutely right. You got it. And it's avoiding these problems that eventually can get so scary. Because like cigarettes, marijuana can have long-term effects. What's the dark side of pot all about? Do we know? Scientists are really worried about what they call scrawny ptheads because they have found that smoking pot decreases the sex and growth hormones causing a loss of energy and strength. So the growth process in kids slows down physically and mentally. They're concerned too that marijuana smoke has more cancer producing stuff in it than even tobacco smoke. And they're trying to find out what kind of damage pot may cause in brain cells. Because many dope smokers have suffered a kind of brain burnout. Their muscle coordination has become dull and slowm moving. Trying to do things like drive, skateboard, or play sports well is really tough and dangerous. So, the scientists want to find out why. Yeah, smoking pot is pretty heavy stuff, huh guys? Especially when your body is still going through chemical changes as it grows along with your mind. So, what do you think can happen when another kind of drug, another chemical is added? Alcohol. Whoa. Auto city. Wiped out. Yep. You guessed her, Chester. When you combine dope and alcohol, it can really do some awful things to a body. Anybody. Because it isn't as simple as just taking one drug with another and creating twice the change. No way, Rey. [Music] So, what if you think a friend of yours is in this kind of trouble and doesn't know it yet? How can you tell? What do you look for? Well, when kids smoke marijuana, you can tell by their eyes really get red and watery. And when they walk or, you know, it's not really straight. When they talk, it's sort of not s, you know, it doesn't make sense. You can also tell by the smell. the smell goes on the clothes and the breath. Like when they walk, they start stagling and stuff and um they talk crazy and you can tell by the way they talk cuz um they don't really talk talk normal. And and when they smoke marijuana, you can tell cuz like say like they were kind, they won't be kind anymore and they'll just be mean to you and say I don't care and everything like that. They just if they don't care, then how is being stoned going to affect a kid's daily life? Like what's going to happen to his schoolwork? It uh dulls your thinking. It's hard for you to think and uh it makes your reflexes slower. Marijuana will destroy the brain cells and the brain cells can't reproduce and it will just bring you down. grades just drop. No, like you could be a A student and you go down to D's. You don't do your homework or anything and that that gets you in trouble or else you forget to do your homework and then you make up lies for it and it gets you even more trouble than you already are. And then I also heard that marijuana is an addiction that people get an addict and it costs a lot and then you know you crave for it and then you steal for it if you don't have any money. My brother's a teenager. He's 18 and he's he's been smoking marijuana marijuana and stuff. He has a truck and he keeps driving it really strangely and he goes around and it's like his mind is totally blasted off into another world. He's not like he used to be. He used to be really nice and sometimes he's just going crazy. He really gets in he gets into fights with people and he doesn't go to school and he's getting in pretty big trouble. There it is, folks. The real stuff. That's what can happen with drugs and alcohol. So, what can you do for your friends? How can you help them? What can you do if a friend offers you some? Actually, I'd say no to my friend because or whoever and say that it's not my plan to ruin my life because if I do start it, then that means I will mess up my career or I will be messing up my school and I would like to finish my school and go on with my career and pursue the right thing in what I do. I would tell them no and I would tell them they should stop because there are better things in in life to do besides smoke marijuana and smoke cigarettes and mess up your life like that. Because once you get hooked on, it's very hard to stop. So, it's better things in life to do. If he wants me to try it, uh I tell him no because and I don't I don't want to take it and mess me up. Uh tell him to stop because it's going to mess him up too. Just tell him that I don't really feel for it, that I don't really need it, that I could do something else. Well, if someone, like she said, a close friend asked me to, I'd say, "No, I really do not want to smoke it cuz I don't want to get hooked on it and I want to stay the way I am cuz I like myself and I don't want to make any changes in myself." And I said, "Cuz I learned to love myself and I like the person that I am and for who I am. And you shouldn't smoke it either. If you don't like yourself, you can make the changes you need, but you don't have to smoke. You don't have to smoke, and that's no joke. So, telling your friends what you know is the best way to go. And if you're still worried about him, don't give up. Keep trying. Find things to do. Here's our old friend Harold. Do you think we could help him now? Let's try it. Come with us, said Gus. You don't need a toe, said Do. Getting wasted nowhere, said Claire. See what we mean, said Dean. Well, I'm beginning to, said Harold to his shoe. I want to be bold as I learn to be old. Harold told. We're all the same, said Jane. Then there's one more thing we need to say, said Jay. What's that? said Pat. Don't smoke. They said with hope and all rode happily away. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Wow. Got some self-righteous kids there. It's It's kind of a kind of a trope. um late '7s, early 80s films talking to kids about things that they might not know anything about. And so they just kind of make up uh what they're what the answer is and uh some of it is uh wildly inaccurate and uh just kind of a little hilarious. Um yeah. Uh so this next film is uh it's have a wonderful evening. It's made for babysitters and it's uh I'm presenting it as it was scanned which at the beginning there's a snippet of film that was I guess broke and then somebody repaired it and then they found the snippet they just put at the beginning of the the reel in the hopes that somebody would put it back. Um I'm not going to do it. So um here's have a wonderful evening. It's by film communicators. It's in uh it's actually uh technicolor and you can see at the beginning during the countdown you'll see the four color uh technicolor process. Uh I have a couple of films that are in technicolor. Um and so the colors quite quite stunning. So this is uh have a wonderful evening. Enjoy. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hi, sweetheart. Well, we overflow St. Louis and I'm back in tonight. You still want to go to the party at the club? Okay. Get Betty Joe lined up to sit with the kids and I'll be there in a flash. Okay. Love you. Bye-bye. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Hi, hun. Oh, hun. We can't get Betty Joe tonight. Well, we told her it was off and she's tied up with some church group, but her sister Evelyn's agreed to sub. Okay. Well, Evelyn's 19 or 20, isn't she? Well, that's even better then. You tell her we appreciate it. I'll give her a call back and you'd better double check with the club. Okay. Okay, then we're all set. Thank you. [Applause] Oh, hi, Mr. Baker. Did you get those screens fixed yet? Yep, Cam. All fixed. I was wondering who I should give the bill to. Well, I think Mrs. Barl has a check already made out. Now, if you [Music] Oh, I don't think I'll have any trouble. I'm sure you won't, but in any case, you're all set. Have a wonderful evening and don't worry. Thank you. I'm sure you'll do fine. And the boys are ready for bed. Okay. Fine. Yeah. Good night. Good night. Thank you. Here's one. Once upon a time. Oh, I've heard that one. No, this is once upon a different time. Oh, once upon a different time, there was a funny little mouse who was specially quiet, even for a mouse. [Music] [Applause] one color and the top is another. Can you open that? Plan two escape routes from every room. I think we better be getting back. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Well, [Music] Bless. [Music] Yeah. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Just got in. Am I disturbing you? Not a bit. Captain Walk and I just got back from the moon's house. Pretty awful, aren't they? But tell me about your Lee. They're not going away again. Dawn paying a call on that scoundrel of it. Got to wander some sort of a truce out of it. Oh, John. The job will work. I feel like this, but I just don't want you to leave. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Let's stop by the barrels place if it's all right with you. My sister is babysitting for them. She's not used to it and I want to see how she's getting along. It was really a lot of fun tonight. [Music] Look, it it's a fire. Hey, the Browns are still up across the street. You go call the fire department. I'm going to go around to the back of the house. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh, I was just going to bed when I saw the smoke. Sarah's calling the fire department. The boy's room is up there on this side, isn't it? Yeah. Let me go, Mr. Black. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] s get down. The smoke isn't as thick as the floor. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Great climb. [Music] The children are asleep in the back room, Mrs. Barl. They'll be all right. Well, I I guess you got two calls. I sent my girlfriend to the Browns, and Mrs. Black here phoned as well. But in the babysitter orientation course, you said not to go into a burning building or wait in a burning building to call the fire department. Right. You go to the nearest outside phone or street alarm box. Seems to me you did a good job of instructing the boys. Billy tells me you told him to go out on the roof of the porch with his brother in case of fire and not to try to run through a burning house. From what you said a few minutes ago, Chief, we should all have escape routes figured out around our homes. You're 100% correct. That's one of the most important things we can do. I was sure we'd never have anything like a fire. You never think it can happen to you. In the babysitter orientation course, we're told there are hundreds of home fires every day. You're supposed to close the bedroom door to keep smoke and hot gas out. If you smell smoke or think there is a fire on the other side of the door, don't try to open it until you have felt the door. If it's hot to the touch, don't try to open it at all. If it's not hot, open it carefully. In case there is heavy smoke out there, shut the door and take some other escape route. Where there is smoke, crawl on your hands and knees. Heat and smoke rise. Air is nearly always pure and cooler near the floor. More people are suffocated by smoke and hot gases than are ever burned. And of course, you don't ever leave small children home alone. And don't go to sleep. If there is a fire, get them out first and fast. Don't wait to dress them. Just wrap them in blankets and get them all in one trip. Also, if you think you smell smoke like you did, Evelyn, it's safest to get the kids ready to go or take them to a neighbors so the smoke can be investigated. It's really training for life or death situations when you think of it. We all ought to have it. Basic we've missed is planning escape routes. How do you get out a second story room safely, Chief? Well, Captain, your children's room is ideal with windows opening on a low roof, but where there's no porch or the like, one solution may be a folding escape ladder. Folding ladders have limitations, of course. You must be agile to use one. And if there's smoke or flame coming from a lower window you must pass, the ladder may not be usable. But lacking a ladder, you can hold the children at arms length and drop in the ground or into shrubbery and there's very little chance of them being hurt. After all, it's only a drop of six or eight feet, actually. Then, when the children are safely taken care of, you can hang by your hands, and you'll find that that drop isn't nearly as bad as it looked when you were standing up. I never knew there was so much to babysitting. I think we can all begin to realize how important it is to have an accredited babysitter. A girl like Evelyn's in a pretty tough spot under these circumstances. We're developing a citywide and community babysitter program, and anybody who takes care of small children should attend it. I want to do it. There are a number of times when I'm called on to sit with children. I believe they mentioned something about this out at the base. Yes, a good many military bases have programs like this. and fire departments across the country have babysitting orientation programs. Well, I think the next thing on our program is to get these girls home so they can get some sleep. Oh, thank goodness everybody is all right. [Music] Oh, I forgot there was like a a really good um leader lady in there. Let me let me see if I can get back to that. Hold on one sec. Um, see if I can find her. There. There we go. Yeah, it's different than uh our normal leader ladies, but uh great nonetheless. And of course, those are there at the either the head or the tail or both. And they're meant for uh when people are processing uh and duplicating film. That's a way to make sure that uh the um chemicals are right and that the skin tones look okay and some of the the basic colors are okay. Um, and with uh technicolor technicolor um there's also a printing uh of multiple colors on top of each other. Um because it's a usually a three strip uh process where there's yellow, cyan, magenta. Um and you want to make sure they're all aligned and look okay. So that's could also be what that's for. All right. Um, this film is one of the films we've been scanning and unfortunately we had to toss it after it was done because it was incredibly vinegared and shrunk. So, you'll see it kind of like go and it's missing the title, but we got a good 4K scan of it. Um, and so unfortunately now it's in the trash. Uh, that's what happens. film eventually uh most films uh succumb to some sort of deterioration and this one lived a very long life. So here's from trees to lumber. Enjoy. The character of a nation trees provided and the raw material for their first business of life. Ever growing ever producing forests are America's greatest renewable natural resource. Today, our forests are growing more timber than ever before. All across the country, forests still ring with the stirring cry of timber. [Music] The epic story of lumber finds rhythm and sound in 60,000 sawmills. Whining saws sing a song of progress and permanence. Carpenters pick up the rhythm as they cut and shape the boards and nail them together. Walls are raised into place. [Music] Roofs are added. Soon, a house is ready to become a home. Construction scenes like these are repeated time and again across America as we build a million new homes a year. Lumber is essential in building all of them. Lumber finds many uses. It builds our churches. It builds our schools. Farmers use lumber to build their houses, barns, sheds, and fences. Now, back to the forest for a closer look at the source of this allimportant harvest. Here, a farmer finds profitable winter work on his own woodland. His wood harvest provides posts, poles, and fuel for use on the farm. He sells logs to a nearby mill for cash. First step in a timber harvest is the selection of trees for cutting. Young, vigorous trees are left to grow. Foresters use paint guns to mark mature trees for harvest. Behind the forester come the fallers. Here they make the undercut that determines direction the tree will fall. This or with motor-driven chainsaws, trees are cut close to the ground to save extra inches of wood for lumber. Today's lumber harvest is fast, efficient. Loggers chop away the limbs and cut the tree trunk into saw logs, which powerful tractors skid to loading decks. These logs are hoisted aboard trucks for transport to the mill. In many mills, the ride ends with a plunge in the pond. There, sure boom men separate the logs for different uses and with long pike poles guide them to the bullchain. On the bullchain gets a stinging shower to wash away grit and dirt that might damage saws. The sawing process begins at the head rig. Small mills use circular head saws. Larger mills use band saws like this. Each time the log move position for the next cut [Applause] on this carriage, the log rides piston-like back and forth past the singing saws. Slabs, boards, and timbers severed from the log move away on power rollers. Each piece is further refined. [Music] [Applause] With hand signals, the sawyer directs every movement of the log and determines the size and position of each cut. The sawing process continues here. Freshly cut boards move through the edger. Twin saws rip off uneven surfaces on each side and reduce boards to desired widths. At the trimmer table, a skilled operator moves regularly spaced circular saws up and down to cut out defects in individual boards and square their ends at desired lengths. From the trimmer, lumber moves on down the production line. Here on the green chain, a lumber expert grades each board. Other men sort the graded lumber for storage and future use. All boards leave the mill as green lumber. Lumber may be seasoned in oven-like dry kils where moisture and temperature are controlled by precision instruments or in open air drying yards. Sometimes a combination of both seasoning methods is used. Some rough lumber goes into construction work. The rest is processed for specialized markets. Here, a planer cuts and smooths rough lumber into finished lumber. Some boards are specially grooved and shaped for flooring, siding, molding, and many other dimension materials that supply the thousand1 needs of America's builders. Some becomes framing for windows or siding for houses or flooring. All are essential items in the building of most American homes. Modern Americans, like their colonial forebears, look to wood and products made from wood for their welfare and comfort. Skilled craftsmen fashion fine hardwoods into chairs, tables, and many other pieces of durable furniture that grace our homes. Wood is used for paneling, and wood transformed by the magic of chemistry serves us in the form of plastics, paper, and rayon. Small blocks of hardwood become heels for women's shoes. These pieces of wood are fitted together to make a bucket. Sometimes pieces of wood are fitted and glued together to form laminated timbers tough strong as steel. Wood has many uses. It's made into baseball bats, broom handles, barrels, and packing boxes. The steel rails that support America's trains rest on wood. For safety, comfort, and economy, there is no satisfactory substitute for the wooden cross tie. Plywood is another wood product essential to modern living. It is made of thin layers of wood called veneer, held together by glue. Veneer is peeled from logs like this. Razor-sharp knives slice an endless sheet of wood from the turning log. desired are dried and glued together in crisscross pattern to form plywood. Plywood finds many construction uses. Here it provides forms for cement. Smooth plywood panels are easy to handle and durable. Plywood helps build our homes. Its strength and flexibility and convenient size make ideal for even the most difficult jobs. Plywood is used for interior finishing and for cabinets and cups. Fast, easy to handle and seaorthy. Like lumber, plywood is an all-purpose product. Behind all this stand our forests, vast, vigorous, green, growing. But these forests need man's help. They must be managed wisely, protected from insects, disease, and fire. Symbol of America's woodland protection system is the fire tower. High above surrounding forest areas, lookouts keep constant vigil. At the first sign of smoke, an alarm goes out. Oh, firefighters speed to the scene. Every second counts. If spotted in time, a small fire can be brought under control in a few minutes. Unchecked, the same fire may race across a great expanse of forest, killing all in its path. This is the mark fire leaves on the land. Devastation, destruction. Most of this waste can be prevented. Most forest fires are man-caused. Some progress is being with fire in the woods. [Music] In nurseries like this, little trees grow from seed under the careful care of experts. When old enough, the seedlings are lifted from their nursery beds and replanted in open areas. Sometimes little trees are planted by hand and sometimes by tractordrawn machines. [Music] Forest land owners in the United States plant 500 million trees a year. These planted trees are 6 years old and growing fast. These are about 30 years old. However, most trees in America grow from seed dropped by parent trees. Scattered across the forest floor by wind and water. These tree seeds sprout and mature. Today's tree farming practices produce the forest products we need even as we grow trees for tomorrow's harvest. This then is the story of lumber and its allied products. It is also the story of the green forests that produce them. It's interesting. uh Keep America Green by the American Forest Products uh Institute um which is routinely uh cutting down trees. Fascinating. Um thanks for tuning in today. Very much appreciate you watching and your comments. 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