AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 8-16-2023

thank you is it the end though is it really the end hi everybody I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the AV geek 16 millimeter lunch where we watch old 16 millimeter films and we think about them we think about what we're watching and what we're seeing and uh wow I mean in the comments I guess two people are getting uh going for dental appointments um within this week uh good luck to you kudos uh to you for that uh I have a pretty big collection of dental hygiene films um I didn't meet I didn't mean to go out and collect them they just show up I even have one that's Russian um that is really fascinating and I don't know if I've I feel like I've shown it on the on here but maybe I haven't uh but yeah this is why we watch films is because we still are going to the dentist now we still think about dental hygiene now mostly because of advertising and so to see the comparables this is what this is why I like watching old films is we get to see how we were or how we wanted to be back in the day versus how we are now and what we're doing now um and you know dental hygiene is it what is it about is it about appearance is it about whitening your teeth is it about you know fixing getting crowns you know um like uh those Invisalign Braces or whatever like is that what it's about or is it about uh you know the teeth falling out of your head uh eventually due to neglect and decay all right uh somebody mentioned hippos there might be hippos in this big animals of Africa enjoy oh thank you today when we go hunting for animals in Africa we can travel by Jeep and hunt with cameras instead of guns [Music] but for a long time Africa was thought of as a land of mystery because most of it is separated from the rest of the World by the vast Sahara Desert a desert almost as big as the whole United States a large part of Africa is made up of high flat lands called plateaus there are large forests mostly hot and dense and there are large areas of rolling grasslands with Pleasant temperatures the grasslands are home for some of Africa's most interesting animals they live in herds and eat the grass and the leaves of other plants their main protection is their ability to run fast here's a large herd of zebras members of the horse family they look very much like small striped horses they have hoofs much like those of horses do while these zebras all seem to be striped the same way actually everyone is as different as one fingerprint is from another it's behind the bush the zebras run away at first but it's only a baby giraffe now you can see how stripes and spots help to hide an animal in the forest this is a good example of protective coloring giraffes and zebras are often found in the same places this baby giraffe has a hard time reaching the ground this grown giraffe has the same trouble a full-grown giraffe May stand eight or nine feet to the shoulder with another seven feet of head and neck the largest weigh more than a ton the giraffe is the world's tallest animal almost as high as a two-story building a favorite food of the giraffe is the leaf of a certain kind of tree the acacia tree it has tiny leaves and big thorns but the giraffe can nip off each tiny Leaf without hurting itself on the thorns see how its remarkable long tongue helps it do this giraffes live in herds like some other animals of the grasslands this is a herd of wildebeests that's a Dutch word for wild beast isn't it an odd looking creature it's a member of the Antelope family Africa is the home of many different kinds of antelope like this Eland its stripes look almost like sunlight coming through the trees another example of protective coloring this beautiful Antelope is called a Thompson's gazelle there are more than 60 different members of the Antelope family in Africa Antelope are of many sizes and some look quite different from the others but all live on grass and leaves and though many have sharp horns they usually depend on their protective coloring and their fast legs for protection an enemy of the antelope is the cheetah which can outrun even the antelope in a short burst of speed the cheetah is a meat eater but it doesn't kill unless it's hungry the leopard which spends much of its time in trees is another meat eater it is at home on the ground as well as in the trees and is a skillful Hunter lions are meat eaters too these young ones are not yet able to attack a large antelope but the antelope doesn't come too close for lions live in families and the adult lions are almost sure to be nearby notice the Mane on the male lion the Lioness doesn't have a Mane mediators like lions leopards and cheetahs feed on some of the leaf-eating animals like zebras and Antelope notice how these Antelope keep a safe distance but they won't run away unless the Lioness starts after them Lions have sharp teeth and tear off pieces of meat which they swallow whole whatever meat is left is cleaned up by the vultures and Marabou storks they might be called the garbage collectors of Africa but not all leaf-eating animals are hunted by the lions leopards and cheetahs the rhinoceros is protected by a very thick hide its front horn is several feet long and while the Rhino doesn't usually fight he can be dangerous and can move very fast on his heavy feet this is a hook-lipped rhino notice how the pointed lip is used for holding rhinos usually live in families a baby rhino nurses for about two years here's a creature that isn't as gentle as it looks it's a cape buffalo and when full grown it's a dangerous enemy of the Lion can you guess what this is yes what you saw was the nose of a hippopotamus which means River horse the hippopotamus is another thick-skinned animal safe from most meat eaters it eats grasses and Reeds along the Riverbanks and in the water it can stay underwater for many minutes The Majestic elephant is another animal seldom if ever attacked by the meat eaters elephants are grass and leaf eaters and make good use of their trunks for searching out Choice morsels a large elephant May weigh as much as six tons a lot of weight for his sturdy legs to carry look at the size of the ears on this baby elephant African elephants have much bigger ears than their Indian cousins elephants are the biggest land animals in the world Africa is the home of the world's largest Birds too The Familiar ostrich they used to be killed for their feathers but now they're protected by law some are raised on ostrich Farms they have powerful legs well suited to running on the grasslands since they can't fly they rest by squatting on their legs here in the waters of this wide Shallow Lake in Eastern Africa called lake nakuru is the home of another large bird a flamingo it feeds on Tiny plants and animals floating in the water so small that they can't be seen by the eye alone the beak of the flamingo is shaped so that water can be strained through it leaving the food behind it was estimated that when these pictures were taken there were several million flamingos living along this one small Lake of course there are many many other animals in Africa like this baboon and her baby and other members of the monkey family like this little bush baby with its huge eyes and there are many reptiles like this monitor lizard which may grow to be five or six feet long and this vicious looking crocodile the Caped dogs of Africa are wild dogs who roam the grasslands in packs they are skillful and untiring Hunters of larger animals perhaps one of Africa's most interesting animals is this one whose name starts with two A's the aardvark which means Earth Pig it eats ants and termites one of the world's fastest diggers just watch it go after a meal aardvarks like many other interesting animals of Africa are found nowhere else in the world so today many animals are protected in game preserves where photographers may go to bring back pictures like the ones you have just seen to show us how African animals look and live [Music] the quaint and sweet behind me I have a film scanner and we have a film set up to watch so let's watch uh try to watch um not night of the squid that's what we watched yesterday film about weaving I don't know if it's about uh you know being in a car and weaving or if it's about weaving or I don't know or hair weaving let's see enjoy [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] weaving is a process of making Fabrics by interlocking two sets of threads or fibers [Music] foreign stretch threads are called The Warp the interlocking threads make up the weft [Music] stretching the warp threads in this manner makes what is called a back strap Loom oh this is the weft yarn which will be interwoven [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] here lengths of soda straws are being put on each of the warp threads this prevents the warp threads from being drawn too close together during the weaving process [Music] foreign [Music] the ends of the Warped threads holds the weft in place relax [Music] foreign [Music] the Warped threads are tied at each end to a wooden rod [Music] this makes it possible to weave a wider fabric [Music] thank you [Music] heavy cardboard makes another kind of simple Loom oh thank you to make a firm even fabric the weft threads must be brushed tightly into place this box Loom has a row of nails at each end around which the warp is wrapped [Music] thank you a smooth stick separates the warp threads so that the weft can be passed through more easily foreign [Music] e is made by tying short lengths of yarn to the warp foreign [Music] foreign sections of the warp gives the variety of an open area foreign [Music] the wooden headle is another device for separating the warp threads [Music] a heddle can be made with four strips of wood and a number of tongue depressors [Music] thank you each tongue depressor has a hole drilled in its Center [Music] foreign [Music] Yarns can be interwoven in a variety of patterns this simple Under and Over pattern is called the Tabby weave over two and under two makes a basket weave fill weave gives a diagonal pattern using different patterns is one way to achieve Variety in weaving [Music] thank you [Music] but the greatest excitement in weaving comes from combining different materials around us [Music] even with the simple looms that have been shown here you can find many new ways to combine the patterns and the materials of weaving [Music] thank you what is that doing why is it stop hold on that was weird all right little Peter Thomas um you know I'm talking about weaving and not about blood spatters or uh bloated bodies um and lacerations um I think like two girlfriends in a row were used to watch Forensic Files a lot and uh so Peter Thomas's voice is in my head a lot because of that uh speaking disc of discovering things bloated bodies in the forest uh here's a film about discovering the forest enjoy foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] perfect [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so uh Thomas Smith the guy who made that film uh made a lot of films for Encyclopedia Britannica and also I feel like he might have done work on Star Wars could be wrong um let me I'm gonna look him up real quick I know that's really exciting for me to look up um Tom Smith special effects guy let's see uh yeah so he made stuff he made the solar system he made food from the Sun chess uh and so he kind of did stuff for Encyclopedia Britannica but also for other folks as well uh in 1979 George Lucas hired Tom to run his visual effects unit ilm um then he also did Raiders of Lost Ark E.T uh returning the Jedi apologize Star Trek films Etc um he also helped with Captain EO and also produced Honey I Shrunk the Audience um yeah something he did yeah and he did quite a few so I was looking at the academic film Archive of North America site which is run by Jeff Alexander and who we've done a bunch of scanning work for um so anyways that's how I knew about Tom Smith all right we're just gonna keep in the forest uh with the duck stamp story let's let's go for it enjoy just 50 years ago the ponds and marshes of the Midwest that had once carried huge flocks of geese and Ducks were but parched Wasteland years of Relentless land punishing farming years of ditching and draining for yet more acres to plow had sucked the land dry and when the drought came in the 30s there wasn't anything left to hold the soil together and it just blew away [Music] it was tragic for the farmer for the nation but for the Wildlife it was disaster among those concerned about the Staggering loss of wildlife habitat was a midwesterner Jay Norwood darling best known as ding a conservationist and a sportsman ding fondly remembered the duck-filled ponds of his youth as the influential political cartoonist for the Des Moines Register ding used his cartoons to focus public attention on what was happening to his beloved Iowa Countryside ding's conservation cartoons lobbied hard for a federal program that would buy and restore the lands that had once been waterfowl habitat his efforts were successful in 1934 the migratory bird hunting stab Act was passed which required every waterfowl Hunter to buy a federal duck stand the money from the stamps was to be used to conserve waterfowl habitat the first duck stamp of two Mallards was made from one of ding's drawings today the duck stamp program is alive and well in the annual open competition to select a design for the stamp now called the migratory bird hunting and Conservation Stamp is intense entries by the hundreds pour in from across the country from fledgling artists to seasoned Wildlife illustrators the judges art professionals and Wildlife experts carefully examine the entries not only for biological accuracy but also to gauge the feeling that the design evokes tension slowly built during the final round as each judge assigns a point value to the entry the design with the highest total will be next year's duck stand Bill Morse is from Mobile Alabama and he got that number one with the Widgeon beautiful pear widgets [Applause] to some the new duck stamp will mean a handsome valuable addition to their collection but to America's Wildlife the stamp will mean much more as Autumn chills the Northland the great flocks set out on their long migration South [Music] out from the nesting prairies by the tens of millions they fly Southward along the Pacific through the Central States down the Mississippi down the Atlantic coast along these four major flyaways lie nearly 200 National Wildlife refuges and hundreds of smaller waterfowl nesting areas that have been bought with duck stamp dollars our National Wildlife Refuge system Embraces a variety of wet environments wetlands each crucial in its own way to the needs of different species of migratory waterfowl in the prairie pothole country of the Upper Midwest seven million ducks nest around sloughs and ponds Coastal marshes shelter geese by the millions during the winters bottomland hardwood swamps in the Lower Mississippi Valley are wintering grounds for mallards and wood ducks duck stamp monies are used to purchase this waterfowl habitat the decision on which Wetlands to buy is made by the migratory bird Conservation Commission composed of cabinet officials Congressional and state representatives since the program began more than three and a half million Acres have been bought for wildlife [Music] once purchased these lands are managed by the U.S fish and wildlife service to provide the particular nesting and feeding requirements that waterfowl need water the most essential habitat ingredient for all species of ducks and geese hundreds of water impoundments have been constructed on refuges to restore water to Once drained lakes and marshes water levels are carefully controlled so that nourishing food plants will grow and safe nesting areas created on some refuges farming ensures that grain will be left standing for food there are many ways to manipulate Habitat to benefit wildlife here fire is used as a management technique to rid the marsh of dead matted grasses From the Ashes Wildlife food plants will grow and flourish managing Refuge lands effectively requires sound biological information [Music] spring and fall surveys monitor waterfowl population levels over lower Chesapeake Bay we've got 8 000 snow geese thousand Mallards 500 black ducks thousands of geese and Ducks are briefly captured and banded each year to provide information about migration and survival rates probably whatever anytime a lightweight radio transmitter will reveal Vital Information on this mallard's daily movement data from all these activities adds a wealth of information on waterfowl migrations populations and health but the National Wildlife Refuge system is for people too there's no better place where we can experience and appreciate Wildlife on its own terms they're usually average about three this Outdoor Classroom allows teachers and students to explore nature firsthand for many it's the first time they'll see wildlife outside of the zoo or away from a TV set [Music] and the grayish blue body there yeah I guess we have about 500 or so and we have a few bald eagles here on the Refuge the visitors don't seems bother them at all they'll just sit on the side there all day pose for pictures and wow the visitors couldn't be happier you know they come back to the center all excited and visitors come to the refuges by the millions to see and enjoy the magnificence of wildlife in its natural Center foreign [Music] 100 [Music] . on some refuges hunting is permitted and is carefully controlled to provide a safe high quality Outdoor Experience thank you [Music] and the fishing can be great too [Music] wildlife and people are thriving on America's refuges but the refugees Encompass only a small fraction of the wetlands that waterfowl use and need and therein lies a major problem [Music] half of the wetlands that existed when the pilgrims landed have been lost an area larger than the state of California and the destruction continues at the rate of nearly half a million Acres a year land for farming is still being rung out of wetlands by the hundreds of square miles each year Wildlife is still being forced from the few remaining Coastal marshes to make room for roads and houses migratory waterfowl or an international resource the responsibility for their conservation is shared by Nations States provinces private organizations such as Ducks Unlimited and also by individuals through their purchase of duck stands accent anything else eight nine and ten thank you bye-bye Refuge manager Denny Holland fish and wildlife service just bought this 500 Acres of Marshland through proceeds from the duck stamp and we bought it for the black duck the black duck is a species of special concern to the fish and wildlife service due to loss of habitat development occurring along the edge of their range their nesting range we're losing the population slowly we think that through habitat purchases nesting areas such as this Marsh that we can reverse the downward Trend but of course bike ducks are not the only thing here we have snow geese and a number of other species that use these particular marshes well the money from duck stamp sales is used to buy Wetlands for migratory waterfowl hundreds of other Wildlife species benefit [Music] those that are plentiful and those that are endangered like the whooping crane foreign [Music] who enjoys Wildlife bird watchers fishermen photographers Refuge visitors together with Sportsmen can ensure a future for America's Wildlife by buying a duck stand it's the most direct way you can help wildlife thank you I have heard the biggies honking in the gray September Sky I have seen the Dark Wings flashing by the thousands as they fly heard the Westland wings of swans in Flight watch pentails turn as one and each fall I stand in Wonder as the journey is begun your flights they are long stretching thousands of miles so stop in your refuge and rest for a while then on Southern Wetlands where Winters are warm where flocks settle down till Spring's on the dawn [Music] see you through [Music] one spring morning in The Cattails I saw Mallard return on that bright blue day the snow geese arrived ten thousand strong Northbound on the flyways their right wings beat back the Sun and each spring I stand in Wonder as their new lives are begun among the north Wetlands where nesting is done your according in and rear ends begun Sand Lake Great Meadows sun to Union slew these Refuge Lifeline to help see you through White River Sacramento the Greek like a sea your wetlands are lifelines [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thanks to Paul Ott for that song that just kept going on and on they could have made that a little bit punchier I think uh wow I don't know I well I could I'll list it as a toe Tapper how about that a candidate but I think that would be Joe Pickett would love that song because it just goes on and on and on um but yeah it ought to be shorter and you guys are hilarious uh so uh James Chavez are you still on here if so please email me your address uh I owe you some stickers uh and I also had to reorder some stickers which is why nobody's gotten stickers for me um from the 900th episode um so hopefully those will show up next week and I'll be able to ship stuff out to people um thank you for your patience all right also thank you for donating I believe Jeremy and Kevin donated because of ducks it's good to know that ducks and cats are two animals that I can exploit to make money not money that we spend we spend on things like uh artist tape to tape down the ends of things we also spend we just bought 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