AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 6-5-2026

Hello everybody. This is Skip Elsummer. Welcome to the AV Geeks Lunchtime streaming show where we are live today um from Sag Harbor and hopefully my battery won't die. Um, I might have to charge it while we're uh watching some films. But, um, yeah. Hope everybody had a great day so far. It is National Doughut Day, and unfortunately, I couldn't find any extra doughut films. Uh, I've I've got the one um about the uh the doughnut machine, but um I've already shown those many times, so I was trying to figure out what I would show. And today is uh we're in Zaga Harbor, North Carolina. I mean, sort of New York and um on Long Island. So, we have some films about Long Island. Some we've seen before and some of them we haven't. But uh we'll start off with this first one which I showed a couple years ago. It's made by the Army. It's called Sag Harbor, USA. Enjoy. Hold up. Something Something went wacky. One second, please. >> Let's try that again. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] >> When most Japanese think about industry in the United States, pictures like these come to their minds. Vast factory cities [music] with plants extending as far as the eye can see. Thousands upon thousands of men, whole armies of workers clogging the streets, going to and from [music] work in shifts, three shifts a day around the clock. [music] So many needed to man the machines that it takes other machines to keep track [music] of them. Vast [music] cavernous plants echoing with the earsplitting roar of machinery at work. But this is only one side of the industrial picture in the United States. There is another [music] side of the picture. this. It's only a small factory, light, airy, quiet, employing a handful of workers. The whole factory is hardly larger than a big house. It is not in the middle of a vast smoke-logged industrial [music] metropolis, but in the treelined outskirts of a small American town, a seapport [music] community named Sag Harbor in the state of New York. Like that of so many communities in Japan, the history of Sag Harbor, USA has been tied to the sea. A century ago, its name was known on almost all of the seven seas. For Sag Harbor was home port to some of the most famous of America's whailing fleet. Ships that scoured the world for the most precious and largest of the oceans creatures. [music] The citizens of Sag Harbor today still worship in the church their whailing captain forefathers built. And when they die, they are buried in its graveyard. [music] Gazing at the monuments to the wailing captains. Monuments like this, a broken [music] ship's mast, preserving the memory of brave men dead at sea. What dreams of heroism and glory must the growing generation dream? As he walks home, his head filled with the names of the whalers of a century ago. Today's Sag Harbor youngster like Jan Harboy here passes other monuments the Whalers left behind. For the very town, its houses built with individual [music] initiative and enterprise to last hundreds of years is also a monument to the Whalers. [music] >> [music] >> The sea is still written on the faces of the people of Sag Harbor. The sea was good to Sag Harbor. For nearly a hundred years, the whalers prospered. [music] Then in 1871, the last whailing brig left port. Oil from the ground replaced oil from the sea. But the town did not perish with its industry for reasons we shall see. One look at its homes, well-kept, brightly painted. One look at its growing generation, young, [music] vital, healthy, vouches for that. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Today, no [music] one strolls on the captain's walk, the rooftop porch high above the whalers's houses, scanning the horizon for ships that will never return again. For today, the town looks elsewhere for its salvation. The days of whailing, the days of living off the sea, are gone forever. Gone, but not forgotten. The home to which young Jan Harboy walks, for instance, a whaler's carpenter built it. [music] >> [music] >> Inside mmentotos of the whailing days like whale oil lamps still grace its rooms. And a little boy may be forgiven if he forgets and puts his feet upon a treasured couch that a great great grandfather bought with money earned on a whailing trip halfway around the world. A little boy may be excused but not approved. [music] >> [music] >> Yes, the days of whailing are gone, but not forgotten. Jan's father whittleles new models of the old ships [music] his forebears sailed. [music] The whailing days provide more [music] than recreation for Jan's father. His skill with his hands helps him [music] in his work. But it's not the sea. It's small industry that provides his livelihood. Jan's [music] father works at a simple machine in the far corner of a small plant in a [music] small town. Small industry is as typical of American business as is large industry. But SAG Harbors is unique. an experiment in work incentive patterns, profit sharing, [music] and other innovations. This is no branch factory of some great industrial concern. It is one of several small units established in Sag Harbor as a laboratory in human relations. This one manufactures the regulating mechanisms for [music] clocks. Here with healthful working and living conditions, with homes nearby, with a pace of work happy and relaxed, employees can work more efficiently and happily than in the great metropolitan centers [music] where rent and food all come at premium prices and noise and smoke come free. Here, each employee can do any [music] job. When one worker gets ahead of her fellows on any given job, [music] she shifts to another to help her co-workers out. The management relies on the individual initiative of [music] each employee. The finished product here tested to [music] ensure the perfection of its construction is the joint work of the combined individual initiative of all the employees. >> [music] >> And when the work is done, all employees share in the rewards. The foreman blocks in the production on a graph. This everinccreasing production is graphic evidence of what it means to have employees [music] who aren't just numbers on a time clock. Employees whose working and living [music] conditions are healthy and happy. And equally important, the wages and bonuses earned mean business for the town. On Saturdays, Jan Harboy's father can take his family shopping for the things they want and need. [music] As they stroll through the streets the Whalers trod, the citizens of Sag Harbor today know that they are keeping alive the traditions of free enterprise their forefathers handed them. for small industry. Small associations of [music] friendly employees working happily together in the American tradition of group initiative within a system of free enterprise is the lifeblood of small [music] communities all over the United States today. [music] Not that the sea has been forgotten. The har boys often visit the whailing museum with its authentic whaleboat now proudly riding a sea of carefully tended lawn. [music] [music] No, the sea has not been forgotten, but it no longer controls the destiny of the town. [music] And who will say looking at this happy family life that its calling is any less proud than that of its wailing ancestors? Or that small industry has not brought a rich [music] and happy life to Sag Harbor, USA. [music] >> [music] >> All right. [laughter] So, look who it is. It's my good friend Gigi. >> Back again. >> Um, we're staying at her house. >> Welcome. >> Yes. So, I uh Have you been to the Whailing Museum? >> Have I? I practically live at that place. [laughter] Bullet shows there. It's a Masonic temple. >> Oh, yeah. True story. >> Wow. That's so like does rock shows >> or music shows? >> The slower shows that I got. That would be pretty epic. >> Yeah. And you said that they do uh the reading Moby Dick. >> Yes, it's about that time they do Moby Dick reading. >> So, is it like a 24-hour non-stop event? >> I don't know about 24hour, but it is non-stop. I think they do it in different locations in Sag Harbor because the book is meant or Sag Harbor is mentioned in Moby Deck. >> There you go. >> Yes. Yes. >> There you go. Um all right. So yeah, we're watching films about Long Island uh because that's where we are and uh we just happen to have one uh courtesy of the National Archives about Sag Harbor. Uh so this next one is a little bit longer. Uh well, it's a lot longer. It's 28 minutes, but this is about uh it's called Dline Long Island, and it's about a newspaper and its impact in the area. Circa 1950s. Do you still read the newspaper? >> Once in a blue moon >> when I can get my hands on one. >> Yes, exactly. That's that's the deal. Um, so anyways, here's Dine, Long Island. Enjoy. >> Yay. All right, I got the same problem. I have to move this file over real quick and it'll be great once it's working. Here we go. Almost there. >> No, not there. Not yet. Hold on. OBS is awesome. Mostly because it's free, but also it is a pain. So, here we go. >> Best of both. >> Enjoy. [music] Long Island, New York, America's fastest growing community. Home, place of business, playground for the millions who live in Nassau and [music] Suffach counties. But Long Island wasn't always like this. Not many years [music] ago, it was a quiet, semi-ural community, just a place where things were going to happen. >> [music] >> And this is our story. [music] [bell] Maybe it's because the sun seems to hit that place a little more often. Or maybe it's a spot of fertile land that coaxes a farmer to it with promises of fulfillment. Maybe that's what brings men to a place. Men who make things happen. Men who take the promise of a place and make it grow. And if it's an exceptional place, [music] it's likely to attract exceptional men. Men to write poems. When lilacs [music] last in the dooryard bloomed, and the great star early drooped, men [music] to build castles, [music] men to lead the strenuous life and to lead the nation. [music] men to do things for the first time. Great deeds like Lindberg's solo flight across the Atlantic. This is [music] Long Island, a place where things have happened, are happening, are going to happen. Just as gold brought settlers to California, [music] something is bringing people to Long Island. >> If you ever lived in the city, you'd know what attracts people to Long Island. [music] They all come for the same reasons. Out here, there's room to breathe. You can afford your own home with a yard. There's room for the boys to grow among the trees in open spaces the way I did, not surrounded by gas asphalt and concrete. And there's plenty of room for their father to relax in. Beautiful parks and recreational areas. And our fine parkways make it easy to get there. You [music] couldn't drag me back to the crowded city. I've got everything I ever wanted right [music] here. The best stores and shops. Excellent [music] schools for the children from elementary through high school, [music] even colleges. [music] We're modern out here, but we haven't forgotten our heritage. We have a knack of preserving the traditional [music] alongside the new. >> [music] >> Most of us work right here on the island. Back in [music] 1940, it was one out of three. Most of us were commuters then. But now the situation [music] is reversed. And more than two out of three work here where we live. We've got a lot of jobs to do on [music] the island, from building planes and missiles to cameras and transistor radios. Big business and small. We've got a lot of farmland here, [music] too. And the ocean has been important to us from the beginning for business. For pleasure, along a thousand miles of waterfront. Seems there are a lot of reasons people [music] come to Long Island, and they've been coming since as far back as the early 1600s. But the real population explosion is comparatively [music] recent. More new homes built in 9 years of Long Island growth than [music] in the whole history of Boston. The [music] old estates, once so typical of the island, are disappearing or being broken into smaller developments. Where once a single mansion stood, [music] now 20 people own their own small castles. Long Island is a place of contrasts, of diversity, of both people and places. [music] From the Queens County line [music] to Montalk Point, that's 100 miles and it's filled with the greatest variety [music] of things and people you're likely to find anywhere. Suppose you wanted to shop in your [music] favorite stores were miles away. Or suppose you wanted to deliver a political idea [music] to all the people on the island when they don't even have one government, just separate counties, townships, and [music] villages. What's needed is a communications medium that not only reports the news of the [music] nation and the world, but one that reports and interprets and takes part in local happenings with the [music] interest of a leading citizen. It's the kind of communication that wells hundreds of different communities [music] into the nation's fourth largest city. I remember when I first saw that garage where we were supposed to put out a newspaper, a daily newspaper, but Alicia Patterson, our first editor and [music] publisher, said it could be done. That was way back in 1940. A lot's happened since then. >> [music] >> It wasn't a very big operation and some of us didn't know too much about putting out a newspaper, but we had our share of pros on the team. Miss Patterson set [music] our objectives. >> Our first, second, and final objective is to present the news. If we present the news honestly, we know we will have readers. News Day will be an independent newspaper. [music] News Day will be a liberal newspaper. and we grew in Nassau and [music] in Suffuk. Today, News [music] Day staff numbers more than a thousand and its circulation is approaching 400,000. World War II changed the face of Long [music] Island. It had brought over 100,000 defense workers to the area and the end of the fighting overseas released millions of GIS to fight at home for some place to [music] live. On Long Island, an imaginative building concern, Levit and Sons had an idea about this problem. >> A new kind of Long Island home was designed, a quality house, but one that [music] could be rented for $60 a month. The key was assembly line construction of homes without sellers built on radiant heated [music] concrete slabs. This was not a sales promotion gimmick. It was a guarantee of 2,000 rental homes to return [music] servicemen. There was nothing to rent in those days. The veterans were doubled up in [music] attics and sellers. Most of them couldn't afford to buy homes, so rental homes were a necessity. Unfortunately, other [music] people had different ideas. Our sources told us that the Hemstead Town Board might block the project because of an archaic building code [music] requiring basement. So, News Day jumped into the fight on the side of the veterans. Our job was to campaign for changing the local building code so the Levid homes could be constructed. We dug into the facts. We found there was nothing technically wrong with this new type of construction. >> The main battle was to be fought on May 27th, [music] the day the town board met to decide whether to change the code. >> None of us will ever forget that meeting. Thousands of veterans answered [music] News Day's call. They jammed the town hall, ready to stay until they got the decision they [music] wanted. >> The long- awaited battle was over in 20 minutes. The code was revised, clearing the way to build Levittown. [music] Levittown set off the explosive post-war growth of Long Island. It was the beginning of the island's tremendous building boom. Homes ranging from 10,000 to $100,000. Getting those building restrictions changed brought a great influx of people. More business came to the island and this in turn brought more people. [music] Thus began a cycle that never has ended. The managing editor of News Day at the time of the Levittown battle and many other big stories was Alan Hathaway, now executive editor. He joined the paper in 1942. We got into the Levittown fight because we believed in it and in the things it would do for Long Island. It would have been easier to sit back and report events as they happen. But we also happen to believe that a newspaper should take a leading part in civic affairs. A good example of this is the Doning story. This labor racketeer had placed himself above the law and his power was threatening to strangle Long Island's growth. To news day, it became more than a story. It was a crusade. Our investigation took several years, but the effort paid off. When we had uncovered all the facts, the colleague's corrupt empire toppled. News Day was awarded the 1953 Puliter Prize for that campaign. And we've earned the Poke Award for distinguished achievement in journalism three times. Whether it's exposing a greedy dog pound operator or fighting against medieval nursing homes or campaigning for lower taxes and better government, News Day's approach to journalism is to spotlight these stories, dig deeper into them than anyone else, and to fight the battles for our readers that our readers cannot fight for themselves. A good newspaper [music] is a good team. It takes a lot of people working together to do what News Day must do every day. It means reporters and rewrite men and men in [music] the composing room and at the presses. It means [music] correspondence in far away places as well as coverage of women's activities [music] here at home. It means editorial writers who pinpoint the significance of the news and help readers to [music] form constructive opinions and editorial cartoonists who drive these points home. [music] It means photographers, columnists and sports [music] writers, librarians and it means carrier boys who bring [music] the paper to your door. Newsday's teamwork might be most graphically illustrated in the production department, one of the finest in the country. Floyd Maine, the production manager, is the man in charge. Our objective is the highest quality typography and press work, but we have to keep our eye on the clock, too. The story might have taken months to develop, but once it's ready to go, there can't be any delay. >> [music] >> The story comes to us from the city room. [music] [music] The story set into type on the line machine. Here [music] metal molds of the story are assembled and the lines [music] of type are cast. These lines make up the columns. [music] [music] Galley proofs are made of the columns of type. [music] These galley proofs are checked for accuracy by proof readers. [music] At the direction of the makeup editor, the printer places [music] the type in the page form, also known as the chase. There are two pages in each chase. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Then to the stereotype machine where a papermâché matrix or map is made. This cardboard map is a mold of the type pages. >> [music] [music] [music] >> The mat is formed into a curved shape. [music] It is then sent by conveyor to the foundry. [music] The metal press plates are cast from the stereotype map for use in the printing operation. [music] The curved plate is cast >> [music] >> trimmed, cooled, [music] and sent to [music] the press room. The plates are locked onto the press. One plate for each two [music] pages in the paper. The presses gather speed, printing, [music] folding, and turning out papers at the rate of 1500 per minute. From press to mail room [music] to >> [music] [music] >> That's right. All that in just 20 minutes. Less time than it takes you to watch this entire film. It's an operation of speed and of great size. Newsday uses 200 tons of paper a day and 800 gallons of ink. But with the size and speed, it's a quality operation. [music] On six different occasions, we've received the AR award for topographical excellence. Newsuesday, [music] in order to meet the heavy and increasing costs of publication, must be a successful business [music] enterprise. The man who sets the papers policies and [music] plans and directs all operations is Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, president and publisher of News Day. He presides over quarterly and special meetings of [music] the board of directors and over weekly meetings of the executive staff where operations are reported and [music] policy decisions are made. He established the policy under which sound employee [music] compensation and benefit plans with fine working conditions make News Day a good place to work. Business assistant to the president and the man responsible for control of all funds and financial records [music] is Harold Ferguson, business manager and controller. He directs activities of the accounting department, preparation of financial [music] statements, budgets and tax returns. He directs building maintenance and service, [music] alterations and expansions of plant facilities. The business manager buys newsprint and equipment, conducts [music] labor negotiations, and is responsible for operation of the employees retirement plan. A major source of any newspaper's income is from the sale of advertising space. Newsday's advertising department [music] sells linage. In charge here is Ernest Levy, the advertising director. You know, actually News Day is Long Island. It pulls all our towns and villages and unincorporated areas together into one huge community comprising America's fourth city. Diversity and distance create special problems for our business people. So do they have to do a special kind of selling job and we on News Day help them to do that in a special way. Today Long Island is America's new major market with the highest spendable income per household in the nation. The best market in the country for people with something to sell. News Day is Long Island's marketplace. That's why we carry more advertising than any New York City daily. [music] Long Island doesn't have an uptown or downtown. There is no other side of the tracks here. We've got hundreds of modern retail districts that combined to make Long Island one of America's top metropolitan shopping areas. Long Island is a community and market on wheels. This gives the Long [music] Island shopper and shopping a unique character. [music] Once it was all a problem of distance, but News Day solved that through its great volume of advertising. News Day became the shop window of Long Island and the force that pulls Long Island's business community together, saving our readers time, money, and effort. [music] But being a member of a community means more than just doing your job and going home. News Day has found some unique ways to serve Long Island. Instance, there's the annual adopt a family program. We had our first appeal just before Christmas [music] 1951. Charitable and welfare agencies supplied us with the names of 28 needy families. Without revealing their identities, we told our readers about their misfortunes. Today, we handle nearly 200 cases every year, and our readers response has [music] been overwhelming. We have more donors than recipients. The main purpose of Newsday's public service department is to broaden the paper's role as a good citizen. Our activities run from providing helpful public service booklets for Long Islanders on a variety of subjects to campaigning for the preservation [music] of historic landmarks. >> Newsuesday's annual Eastern bowling tournament is one of the largest in the country. Each week, thousands of Long Island High School students [music] study free copies of News Day's weekly review in their current events classes. And every year, hundreds of Long Island High School boys and girls compete in News Day's high honors competition [music] for the Alicia Patterson Memorial Scholarships. Within 3 hours after the tragic death of [music] President Kennedy, News Day published and distributed a special 8-page extra on the assassination free as a public service to its subscribers. [music] Awards for public service are among the many journalistic honors won by News Day over [music] the years. Every department of News Day works to [music] make the paper a good citizen. from editorial right on through to the circulation department. [music] Jack Mullins, the circulation manager. >> Just in case you're wondering how the circulation department helps to build Long Island, remember we have over 6,000 of the best carrier boys in the country. Our well-rounded carrier advancement program is preparing these boys to be the leaders of tomorrow. With the delivery of a news day route comes the responsibility, business experience and self-expression which will serve them well in their adult lives. This is the crucial final link in News Day's communication [music] job. This is where Long Island's great distances are conquered. To show our appreciation, we have established Camp News Day, a camp where our honor carriers spend a great week each summer. The News Day carrier program is considered a model for the rest of the nation. News Day is essentially a home delivered paper so that everything that comes before does not mean a thing without the News Day carrier boy. News Day has a strong publisher in Harry Guggenheim, [music] who sets and directs the papers policy in his daily editorial conference with Mark Ethridge, [music] News Day's distinguished editor. Captain Guggenheim and his wife, Alicia Patterson, felt from the beginning that there was more to Long Island than Village Lines. So News Day did what it could to help Long Island grow [music] and the paper itself grew with the island. Today it is as diverse as the area it serves. From the New York City line to Montalk [music] point before her death in July 1963, Miss Patterson told how News Day had grown. We are faced with the added responsibility that comes from growing up. To meet these new responsibilities, we have expanded our coverage in news and public service and in the interpretive stories of the problems that face us here and abroad. For News Day is many things to many people. To some people, [music] our newspaper is a quick summary of what's been happening in the world. To some, it's a [music] way of passing the time pleasantly. To others, it's a disappointment in the third race. To still others, it's a sharp window with a 100 miles of shops. But most [music] of all, we are the town forum where men and women can exchange [music] ideas, >> distance and diversity. From an elegant restaurant on the northshore of Nassau to Main Street [music] in Sag Harbor. From Manhasset Bay to Jones Beach, preserving the old and building [music] the new. The New Long Island, America's fastest growing city. >> Since its first issue in 1940, News Day has been an independent, alert, and hard-hitting newspaper. It has grown in influence and in readers. Much of the credit for News Day's success must go to the energy, ability, and personality of my late wife, Alicia Patterson. Working together, we built a staff able to produce a good newspaper. I intend to continue to publish the same kind of paper. To be successful today, a newspaper must contain all the elements of the best journalism to fill the needs of modern newspaper readers. But beyond that, it must inspire complete confidence in its integrity. The publisher must be above the reach of individuals and political parties, and his personal ambition must be directed solely to honest journalism. The publishers's responsibility is to keep his entire newspaper fair as well as forceful, gay, interesting, educational, and helpful to its readers. He must expose wrong and endlessly fight the abuse of power in whatever high or low place it lurks. That will continue to be the aim of the publisher of News Day. And that's how the news gets [music] to Long Island. >> [music] [music] >> Newsuesday. I think it still exists. Um, I have not had a chance to look for it, but yeah, I think uh it's still in print. Okay. Uh, what do we got for you? Okay. Um, one of the cool things about Long Island is Coney Island, a place I've been to a couple of times. Um, I took my nephew Nate, and some of you might remember Nate, when he was 15, and I think he rode the Cyclone and we went on the Wonderhe, which was really awesome and really scary cuz they have these carts that kind of are loose and they kind of as the wheel goes around, they move on the, uh, the tracks of the wheel. Um, so, uh, big fan of Coney Island, uh, in general. I mean, it's certainly a shadow of its former self, but it is still pretty great. Anyways, so here's a film. Coney Island Coney Island, USA. Enjoy. >> [music] [music] >> Hello. Hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> This is the world famous skyline of New [music] York City. Well, a part of it. A part that nobody ever sees. Coney Island is actually in the city of New York. But nobody who's been to Coney Island has ever seen [music] nobody at Coney Island. Because this clean, so clean, empty beach [music] with the trash baskets lined up at attention in perfect rows looks like this only once a day when the big [music] city still in bed. The beach and this painted village lying quiet in the early morning sun is Coney Island. New York swelters in the summer. And as the sun [music] rises higher in the hot sky, millions of people leave the baking streets and go down to the seaside. [music] Down to Coney Island, USA. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> People come to Coney Island just for fun and all the odd pieces of equipment and the peculiar rides which go round and round to nowhere have to be tested and oiled every day. You see, a lot of the fun is machine-made [music] fun. [music] Morning. [music] [music] [music] [music] Morning. Morning. [music] [music] [music] Wow. [music] >> [music] [music] >> The big show is almost ready. Pull back the curtain. And now [music] they're coming. A few by car, but mostly by subway. from Brooklyn and the Bronx, from Manhattan, [music] from Kansas City, from Paris, all coming to Stillwell Avenue, the station for Coney Island. And now they're here. Welcome to Coney Island Playground of the World. Hey, hey, hey. Folks, it's the nickel. Let's play the Coney Island star game. Come in and win a LIVE CANARY DIAL A NICKEL. You got TO ROLL THEM DOWN to win them a nickel. What are you waiting for? Stand low. Come on. Take a ride. Time to laugh. Right. There it is. Ride all the way. Come on. All up. No ups. No downs. All right. Five minute ride. You must come out with a smile. Laugh ride. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> You pays your money and you takes your choice. You can be spun, banged, turned upside down or half killed. You pays your money and you takes your choice. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] You and I, the ocean and the sun, you and [music] I alone. >> [music] [music] [music] >> 6.0. Here they go again. You don't have to wait. You don't have to wait. Incredible. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Now ladies and gentlemen, at this time I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that you're standing in front of one of the fastest stepping girl shows on the Abu Barton I make that statement without fear of contradiction. Now, I can stand out here and tell you that on the inside we have shake dances, oriental dances, exotic dances. The little lady that does the dance of Temptation. You boys that have been to the Hudson Theater in New Jersey, you know what I'm talking about. [music] 96 [music] [music] bubble. Let's go there. Come on. You bubble your bubble bounc [music] up here. Let's go. Hey, getting ready to cry here. Let's go. Hey, come on. Start your ride out here. Hey, wait. Yeah, [music] bounce. >> It's getting to be about time for the sun worshippers to go home. Baby's tired. Mommy's worn out. Daddy's exhausted. [music] Some of the ladies and gentlemen are stepping into their evening clothes. Time to go home. [music] >> [music] [music] >> evening and now this becomes a magic island. Tell me what of the night. Will I be happy? Will I meet a tall, dark, handsome? These are the secrets of the night. [music] [music] >> [music] >> One of the leading attractions of Coney Island, as many people know, is that it's one place where girl meets boy. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> a large automobile pump that is going to face the other end of the pump of his mouth down to the pit of his stomach. And then they stop pumping that young man up until his stomach inflates to about 10 or 15 times his normal size. [music] Hey Right over here. [music] How many? How many right over here? Hey, we have it. How many? >> Yes. Right over here. >> Hey fried food. One thing about our island is that not all of the pretty girls are single. >> [music] [music] >> Stupida. [laughter] [groaning and screaming] And every mother, father, sister, and brother should see how it's a mighty good time to go and all so realistic [music] in life. Now this is a show for ladies, gentlemen as well as children going on all the time. Stay as long as you like. Come out when you like. Our greatest exhibit man, woman or child has ever set eyes on since they're born. SO LET'S [laughter] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> NOW, ladies and gentlemen, right now you happen to be standing in front of Tears's famous Swine Bath review. You're not going to come out of here satisfied if you get a peek. You want a darn good look, and I don't blame you. That's what you're going to get. Now, that doesn't mean that the ladies can't go. Ladies can go as well as the men. But we don't want you ladies to feel for one moment that you're going to a Sunday school picnic. We don't want any trouble. And furthermore, we don't give anybody their money back. We don't want to have you ladies buy a ticket. Go inside, run all the way up front to the first draw, the ballheaded [music] section, look at one, maybe two numbers at the most, then come out here, tap me on the shoulder, get all excited, say, "Hey, mister, give me my money back. You shocked my modesty. I didn't expect that kind of a show." [music] Yand look a looker. Watch the pretty lights. [music] Look, look. See the funny mirrors. Watch the world twist and bend and slide out of shape. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Grab a star by the tail. Take a trip to the moon. Look, look. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> You got money. [music] >> [music] >> and that's the way it looks when a day at Coney Island comes to [music] the end. Man, I love that film. That's so good. Um, yeah, that is uh a wonderful visit to Coney Island and it certainly Coney Island is very different now, but um just the intensity of it and the grotesqueness of it and just it's just really great. Um, in my, like I said, I've been to Coney Island a couple of times and one time, the first time I went, we went on a carousel mirror and I saw they actually had the brass ring like you could go up and reach for it. And I was like, "Oh, this is amazing." So, I like I glass ring and I thought, "This is it. This means I get a free No, it everybody could grab a brass ring. they basically just had it available. But it was still I got to do that thing about reaching for the the brass ring. Um and also there was what they call disco bumper cars where um they play disco music and then you would just ride bumper cars around and I found that you could hit the the area where the CD player was cuz this is back when there were CD players and it would make the CD skip. [laughter] So, I kept like hitting it and then they made me stop. Um, anyways, uh, thanks for watching today and watching this week. Um, we've got lots of things we're doing here in Sag Harbor with friends and then we're going to make our way back to North Carolina on Monday. So, excuse me. Monday is going to be another a day of commercials, a pre-recorded show that I will make to where you can comment on. And again, I apologize for not doing that last time, but um if you like what you saw or at least like the idea of what we're doing here, hit the thumbs up and or the like button uh and subscribe. You can also support us via the super thanks button. You can go to KO [cough] I got a bug. ko ko.com ko-fi.comeks or patreon.com/abgeeks. Um, those are great ways to support us. And I'm going to have to drink some uh seltzer. Um, I hope everybody has a uh wonderful National Donut Day for those of you who celebrate. [cough] Excuse me. And if you're in the Sag Harbor area, [snorts] I'm going to the silent disco disco at um Guild Hall. So see me there. Everybody take care. We'll see you soon.