AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 9-1-2022

so so so hi everybody i'm skip alzheimer welcome to the av geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films and that last film was yanks invade africa and it was part of a series of world war ii footage films that were released or distributed probably not shot by eugene castle and his company castle films and castle films would uh either they had a deal with a newsreel company maybe universal and they would repackage for home use um these films so you this one was silent uh occasionally there would be audio uh and also they would put it out on eight millimeter and uh super eight so um you know this was mostly sold at camera shops that sold um movie cameras and movie projectors and this was a way that you could show other things besides your um home movies um so castlefilms big fan uh alright so we watch old 16 um we've got a lot to watch so this uh let's learn about the responsibility of the american citizen and uh yeah enjoy [Music] when our founding fathers established this republic they created a political and economic system unique among nations a system which has led the united states to the very pinnacle in wealth and in world leadership this series of programs is being presented to help all of us understand better our advantages under our american way of life for today's topic let's join now a group of young people at the national education program workshop in cersei arkansas at the classroom lectern is dr clifton l gaines jr noted young historian we're discussing today one of the most precious gifts on earth american citizenship american citizenship is a combination of freedom and responsibilities the privileges of freedom come to us as a heritage from many generations of pioneering americans responsibilities must be developed by each new generation by each individual citizen some of you may be asking yourselves why should we be bothered with developing citizenship responsibilities well there are many reasons one of the primary reasons is that great principles do not live from generation to generation without being nurtured without being kept vigorously alive unless we understand and work effectively for the principles upon which our american way of life is founded the structure will crumble and our heritage of freedom will perish another primary reason for the development of citizenship responsibility is that we are living in an era marked by the growth of socialism to a substantial degree in one farm or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon our own liberty a third major reason for accepting our citizenship responsibilities and working at them is the presence within america of socialists and communist propagandists dedicated to the establishment of a new order the communist fifth columnist among us are working for a world dictatorship to accomplish this their strategy is to undermine the confidence of our people in the american system and the principles on which it stands the socialist among us seek to bring about a gradual change in our system by gradually destroying the principle of the private ownership of property and subset principle of government ownership now let's be practical for a moment is the american way of life worth bothering about that is with a viewpoint of self-interest well let's see we know that under the stars and stripes we have more freedom than do any other civilized people on earth our freedom stems from the fact that america is a republic founded on a constitution and dedicated to the principle of democracy and the worth of the individual the people rule but some philosophers tell us that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach in other words food the material things of life are dear to the heart let's look briefly at the material blessings of america our nation although containing only six percent of the land area and seven percent of the population of the world produces 42 percent of the world's wealth we know that the average american in all walks of life has a living standard twice as high as the best in europe where socialism is widespread and from five to ten times better than in the communist countries such as russia and china and if we remember our previous lessons we know that this economic abundance is possible in america because incentives for progress and the other factors built into our dynamic private enterprise system have enabled us to utilize our resources to the fullest extent so we do have good sound reasons both abstractly and in self-interest for developing citizenship responsibilities towards safeguarding the basic principles of our way of life but let's put the full challenge in a few words the world is caught in an era of socialist expansion most of the nations are affected and america is a target in fact the number one target of both the socialist and the communists if we permit our great system to crumble through the apathy of our citizenship we should lose not only our freedom but our prosperity and our still brighter future what then must we do as citizens what are our obligations of citizenship number one to understand the american way of life and what makes it tick for instance we should understand that our form of government is a republic not a pure democracy and we should clearly understand the difference who can tell us the difference in a few words a pure democracy establishes majority rule with a minority overrun yes it does on the other hand our republic is based on a constitution which protects minority rights in our republic we have representative government not sheer majority rule and isn't its authority divided into three branches the executive legislative and judicial yes it is and it's important too that in our republic authority is surrounded by an ingenious system of checks and balances that prevents autocratic or dictatorial rule that is if we maintain the constitution as our basic law well that briefly sums up our political structure what about our economic structure our economic system is based on three major principles private ownership of property the profit motive and the competitive open market yes those are the three great pillars private ownership diffuses the wealth and economic power over the very widest area over our whole population and makes our people independent masters of their own lives the profit motive as we have learned is active in all human behavior in our economic system the profit motive is the incentive for new development and constantly expanding production and the open competitive market is where the consumer is king it is this factor in our economy which brings about better goods and lower prices as one company after another tries to outdo its competitors and get the consumer's business these are some of the basic facts about our own system which every citizen should know but now let us go on to additional obligations of american citizenship number two to understand communism its basic godless philosophy its goal of world conquest its insidious tactics and its cunning strategy number three on our list of obligations is to understand socialism and all the cunning disguises in which it presents itself to the american people our fourth obligation is to understand propaganda techniques as used by both the communist and the socialist this is a very vitally important need thousands of good loyal americans have been duped into actually aiding the communists simply because they did not look carefully before they joined some high sounding venture or before they more or less blindly advocated some course of action number five in the list of american citizenship obligations is to take an interest in your public schools and in your private and public financed colleges to take an interest in what's being taught and how it's being taught and to take an interest in the welfare of the teachers who contribute so much to the development of america number six in addition to voting in all elections become active in government run for local state and national office r help select capable people of the highest integrity to serve be constantly vocal on all local and national political issues tell your representatives in congress or even the president himself what do you think is the best course on issues that come before the public number seven strive constantly for spiritual growth we as individuals can push the world along toward mankind's highest destiny if each of us will make the welfare of his fellow man his first concern and if each of us will apply the principles of god's truth to our political and economic affairs and lastly obligation number eight dedicate a part of your everyday life to the bringing of these requirements of american citizenship to the attention of fellow students fellow workers neighbors and friends is it too much to ask that we fulfill these obligations of citizenship if we think so we should read again the history of the founding of this nation and consider the hardships of the people who made possible our freedom they felt that no challenge was too great if freedom was at stake that spirit carried them on it created for us the foundation of our great heritage we have seen it flare up and burn brightly in every national emergency on the battlefields and at home the socialists the communists and their followers would like to see the american spirit extinguished if each of us will rise to the occasion if every citizen young and old will accept the challenge of his citizenship and the socialist and communists and their followers will not prevail and america will go on toward the fulfillment of her great world destiny this concludes the american adventure series our next series of classes in the american way of life will be announced soon for now class dismissed the american adventure series is a production of the national education program cersei arkansas dr george s benson director dr clifton alganes jr was our instructor this is a continuing series based on the unique political and economic system which has made america great watch for the next presentation of the american adventure [Music] if you are interested in the roots or the seeds sown uh for neo conservatism uh that is one of the sources uh fascinating series of films from a little college in arkansas that did this program and all these brochures and they got adopted by various folks it's definitely part of the red scare that was going on uh and in in particular the concern that teachers uh because traditionally teachers were not paid well um they were mostly young women who [Music] were living with their parents or were married and so they brought in a little bit of money towards the family but the the husband is who brought in the most of the money uh so teachers weren't paid well traditionally and so the concern i don't know if you notice that is like you know be concerned about the teachers welfare essentially getting them paid because they could potentially get paid by socialists communists and that pops up in another film that i have by the christopher's the um catholic organization uh that's you can change the world it basically says exactly the same thing but has a lot of celebrities in it uh all right anyways a little heavy but um it's interesting to watch those things you know when they were made um but in the meantime here's a film that i have no idea what it's about it's just called it just says family so let's watch it's on the scanner the scanner behind me enjoy ah [Applause] [Music] wow [Music] [Music] a man and a woman now drawn together upon the bed and there is a child and there are children first they are mouths then they become auxiliary instruments of labor later they are drawn away and become the fathers and mothers of children who shall become the fathers and mothers of children their father and their mother before them were in their time the children each of different parents who in their time were each children of parents this has been happening for a long while its beginnings before stars it will continue for a long while no one knows where it will end while they are still drawn together within one shelter around the center of their parents these children and their parents together compose a family this family must take care of itself it has no mother or father there is no other shelter nor resource nor any love interest sustaining strength or comfort so near nor can anything happy or sorrowful that comes to anyone in this family possibly mean to those outside it what it means to those within it such a family lasts for a while the children are held to a magnetic center then in time the magnetism weakens both of itself in its tiredness of aging and sorrow and against the strength of the growth of each child and against the strength of pulls from outside and one by one the children are drawn away of those that are drawn away each is drawn elsewhere toward another once more a man and a woman in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice are tightened together upon a bed and another family is begun moreover these flexions are taking place everywhere like a simultaneous motion of all the waves of the water of the world and these are the classic patterns and this is the weaving of human living [Music] dr robert can crow is professor of psychiatry at the university of connecticut what concerns him is how to keep our expectations for the family more realistic the family cannot work for everyone it never has it can work for a large portion of the population and it always has the probabilities of these statements will be true in the future too never before in society has there been such a high proportion of people living in families nearly 150 million of us in north america live within some kind of family structure it may be in a traditional extended family in a household which usually spans three generations grandparents parents and children but more likely it's in a nuclear family parents and children without the grandparents as the world of the 20th century shifted and flexed its industrialized mobilized and urbanized muscles the family began to grow more inward more isolated and now we're feeling results no one can deny that society has changed and that the family has been affected but to merely cite a declining birth rate or a rising divorce rate is no guide to the number of successful marriages and families in community surely no one would conclude that the sharp decline in divorces during the depression was an indication that more husbands and wives were happy together at that time than before part of the trouble with some families seems often to rise out of a difficulty in appreciating their own past everybody has happy times as well as disappointing times sometimes the unpleasant ones get in the way and remain so vivid as to blot out the good ones but the past is in fact how we use it in the present and it's important for a family to think back and remember there were times that were different times that were joyful today's parent was born roughly between 1920 and 1950 in his youth he witnessed the development of the electric light the telephone the automobile and the radio but his child has experienced the computer boom global tv man on the moon and a weapons system that could destroy it all in the process the parent has had to surrender something no longer can he say to his child i know what you're feeling because i've been through it myself because in fact he is not where did you go uh when mommy caught you on the top of the roof parents tend to raise their children on the basis of what they themselves learned as children so when there occurs such rapid technological change it becomes harder and harder to raise a family because a parent has less and less in the way of valid standards to go by but what's important in this situation is that parents must not be afraid or ashamed of falling back on what they were taught was right perhaps a parent won't be able to help his child with homework in the future but in this the experts are emphatic in the critical area of human relationships man's ability to feel and respond and love the child still needs a mother and father well come on and let apple have a run because perhaps the most important thing a parent can offer to a child is a glimpse of an adult human being with the inconsistencies of an adult human being with the contradictions with the maturities and immaturities at one moment you may be very thoughtful and in another moment you may be quite indifferent at one moment you may be extremely generous and loving and another moment totally selfish and unforgivable and part of what this prepares a child for is the real world since obviously if you are able to do an excellent imitation of the perfect human being you haven't prepared the child for planet earth you've prepared him to live with perfect human beings that don't exist allowing the child to see you as a complete human being with all of the contradictions and complexity i think can be very helpful to a child one writer put it this way by the time a parent has managed to forget that parents are imperfect his child will be old enough to remind him i think the the stresses on the family are much greater than they have been traditionally and that the family in a very real sense is in an unfair situation where we are asking too much of it and where many of the existential problems the problems of living in the world on a day-to-day basis the problems of satisfaction the problems of finding meaning and purpose and dignity in your life are increasingly difficult to to obtain satisfaction in these areas and you look to the family to give you all of the things that you're not getting any place else if you come home and meet your wife with a positive kind of feeling with a feeling of you know i did something today that was worthwhile and now i'm capping the day by being with you it's very different than if it's you know my god heal my wounds and especially if her feeling is but who's going to heal mine i feel just as bad as you do you cannot look to the home and to that aspect of living that's related to the family to give people everything that they should get from the experience of living it is a part of their life it is a source of certain kinds of satisfactions as soon as you expect it to give you things which are not built into it it must fail it must disappoint dr norman bell is head of family studies at the clark institute in toronto he knows how rare thing it is to observe the true inner workings of a family i'm sure we've all had the experience of friends neighbors even relatives who seem to be one way for instance very very calm and happy and all of a sudden you find out hey they're separating or hey one of their children is having difficulties and begins to see then that the inner life of that family we think we know well is very different from the impression we have perhaps we get a little sense of what it feels like to be inside a family and what it feels like to come in and engage a family by looking at some of the film of me interviewing the snyder family this is the snyder family they've been married for 13 years and they're meeting dr bell for the first time perhaps the snyders are not completely typical of the kinds of families involved in therapy they've come because they were asked not because they felt the need for professional assistance the snyders accepted our invitation to talk with dr bell because they said it should be a new and interesting experience what i'd like to do is get to try to get some idea of what you're like as a family can you tell me what what kind of a family you are who's going to go you three ladies have been kind of quiet relative to the men well you have to have a listener when do you get your say oh i have lots of well that sounds like something uh a little joke there between the two of you that i didn't catch on to well how should we explain that it is really a joke i think i have definite ideas about things and dawn has definitely ideas and so what happens when they meet on well just depends if we agree or disagree you know one of the great things we disagreed on was work yes um i found it very difficult your work or her works here it's just not enough of a challenge for me it's no reflection on my husband or my children [Music] do you ever think about uh what she's doing when you're not around i think we trust each other fairly well you get into you know a few little hassles about you know where have you been until this hour you know monday's my day at home the pots and pans and so i'm a great cloth watcher on mondays see what time she's leaving work and what time she's getting home other than that i don't have time to think about it so you you keep a pretty close eye on her wouldn't you well she's pretty attractive girl i don't i would too but i find that you know if you trust her so much why you have to keep an eye on her like that that's a good question that's the one one of the little hang-ups that i still haven't got over about working formal study of the family began less than a hundred years ago when dealing with something as essentially private and intimate as the family it should be no surprise how little is really known of it only lately for example have the experts been able to tell us that many of the things which were supposed to be characteristic of disturbed families actually go on in almost all families what makes one family a problem family and another one not is chiefly a matter of how they cope with things how they negotiate with one another rather than the kinds of stresses and difficulties they face the man who literally wrote the book on modern child development dr benjamin spock baby in child care was first published in 1946 today after 23 million copies and translation into 26 languages dr spock strongly disclaims the permissivist label so all this rebelliousness has to be suppressed obviously not everyone is suppressing these feelings of antagonism figures indicate there are over 3 000 communes in north america the commitment to communal living is far more real and overt than beads or beards it's also much more chancy but they're outside you know be that more of them are leaving home but i think more significant is the fact that they are more openly critical of their parents whole standards i think it's fine that young people want to experiment with comments and uh if they find that under certain circumstances with a certain kind of selection or with a certain admissions committee you can make uh communes work well i think that's fine this would be then one of the solutions i've talked to a number of people who've been in commons and i think that a majority that i've talked to found that it was harder to make an adjustment living with a lot of people than it is to live with a small number of people if the people can't make it together then you can't do it might as well go off your separate ways and find something else try again a study recently determined that the average life of a commune is seven months the new world family lasted only two and a half that idealistic search for political and personal utopia was hindered by one of the most basic challenges to living how to get along with others perhaps our divorce rate could have provided some clues each year in north america there are approximately 728 000 divorces it's difficult enough to get along with one person let alone 10 or 20. i can still remember back in my college years and my late high school years discussing with friends and sessions late into the night i never want to end up with the kind of boring dead life that my parents leave my father comes home from the office they eat their dinner in my mother and father and [ __ ] with chit chat and then he retires behind his paper or he's brought some work home and my mother reads a novel and i i remember saying uh what a dull deadening a life that is well after you get married and have a job and have a child and mother and father both enjoy being able to relax in the evening it takes more than just the rebelliousness of adolescence and youth and a rational impatience for the unsatisfactory aspects of marriage it takes more than that to do away with it i agree with the young people and the anthropologists and sociologists who say that our nuclear family is too ingrown i don't think that our species was designed to have a young man and a young woman go off into an isolated house and bring up one two three or four children in relative isolation from the rest of the neighborhood i think it's normal for people in any occupation whether they're professional people or whether they're parents to want to get together with others who are in the same situation and hash over their common problems it's great relief to find that other people have the same problems the other people have the same antagonisms to somebody that you're all having to deal with so that my own hunch is that the better way to solve that isolation of our nuclear family would be in the direction of shaping neighborhoods differently creating a different texture in the neighborhood i know that even in england at the present time there's a strong tendency of a young married couple starting to rear their family of living within a block or two of their parents this has disappeared in a great majority of families in the united states in fact we turn around and say about a family where one of the grandparents is living with a young family oh isn't it too bad the poor smiths have to have her mother living with them as if there was all disadvantage there are some disadvantages on the other hand i think throughout the world young parents have gotten a lot of their security and comfort and education from living near the grandparents who helped to ease them over from being inexperienced young parents into being comfortably secure ones it's a fact that many young marrieds are deciding not to have children the birth rate over the last 10 years has declined almost one-third some feel this trend signals more than anything else the ultimate death of the family i think just the fact that the percentage of people marrying having families goes down doesn't mean that that's going to go on and on until there's nobody having children i think they've always been plenty of people brought up in good enough families so that that ideal that they formed in childhood i want to have a wonderful family like my mother and father will impel them to go on and create good families the family is dying disappearing perhaps we've all been a little too quick to jump to that conclusion can we exist as individuals without it can we learn love responsibility self-confidence from a government department or an academic for most of us living in our own imperfect families the question need hardly be asked [Music] wow all right so that film's got 70s smeared all over it um and i have of course i think i have other films in that series um but i also have other films that are kind of in that same format where you know we talk to some experts then we have some sort of um talking with the average person and you know and it's kind of a like this is the state of whatever in the 70s and this is self-reflection and this looking back and this um optimism or uh anxiety about what the future is going to bring it's kind of interesting um but uh let's do something about the weather enjoy proudly brings you this issue of the science green report the nation's leading independent foundry has been a growing part of the lynchburg community since 1896 we manufacture quality engineered castings using 2800 degree molten iron and automated equipment to shape intricate parts chemical and physical analysis form the backbone of lynchburg's quality control program precision castings are used in a variety of industrial and consumer products [Music] experience technology quality and the foundry's greatest asset people have combined to make lynchburg foundry the leader in its field and now the science green report [Music] the science screen report bringing you each month the latest discoveries developments and applications of science engineering and medicine made to help solve the problems of modern life [Music] today growing arid and semi-arid regions cover one-third of the earth's land surface [Music] while even in vegetated areas water is in short supply this aircraft is helping to evaluate one answer to the growing global shortage of fresh water a new cloud seeding system for increasing local rainfall by 50 or more [Music] the weather briefing is first a rundown of current conditions which may influence the experiment [Music] meanwhile data from the test zone is fed to a computer which predicts cloud behavior in order to estimate the effects of the rain making efforts if the outlook is poor the flights will be canceled but today's outlook is excellent this is a go day [Music] meanwhile the two rainmaking aircraft are ready for flight the first successful scientific rainmaking experiment was carried out by nobel prize winner irving langmaier in 1946 these tests will be major scientific evidence after 30 years of research that a second technique called dynamic seeding can reliably increase rainfall the approach involves firing these silver iodide flares into carefully chosen cloud towers to stimulate precipitation [Music] within half an hour the two research planes are airborne [Music] at the laboratory radar images are used to guide the aircraft toward promising cloud [Music] configurations scientists know that a cloud has a kind of life cycle born when water in the air condenses growing and expanding sometimes producing rain and finally dissipating [Music] cloud seeding to stimulate rainfall uses the fact that the tops of cumulus clouds may hold supercooled water droplets liquid water at temperatures below freezing if the cloud tops are seeded with silver iodide these crystals serve as nuclei for formation of ice from the supercooled water heat is also released which gives buoyancy to the clouds leading to longer life the upwardly expanding cloud draws in still more air and moisture and so produces additional rainfall air and moisture continue to rise forming vigorous new cloud towers which in turn result in still more rain as neighboring clouds are seeded they too grow and may merge with the first further enhancing precipitation high over florida one of the research planes plunges toward a cloud to start its seeding run sensors aboard measure wind direction and wind speed ice crystal concentrations and cloud water content one sensor catches water droplets and ice crystal shape the release of silver iodide players begins [Music] for 25 years united states electrical power companies have used dr langmere's discovery to multiply west coast snowfalls in order to obtain more water to run their hydroelectric generators in the last 10 years southwestern farmers have similarly increased local rainfall in selected areas radar measurements of the test clouds are recorded on magnetic tape for later analysis [Music] to determine any effects of seeding beyond the test zone studies were also undertaken of satellite images of cloud cover [Music] one research aircraft approaches still another cloud tower neighboring towers are selected in the hope of inducing merging [Music] at the same time cloud physics data is recorded for later analysis wind temperature humidity both instrument and visual checks suggest the clouds are responding to the seating effort [Music] come over here research on increasing precipitation is underway in many lands the national research council of canada for example is seeking ways to use cloud seeding to produce rain in order to put out forest fires [Music] the test zone has become a place of rain and darkness the radars continue to track the clouds different colors indicate reseeding and approaching cloud movements the screen also shows wind motions within seated and unseated cloud complexes three-dimensional pictures which reveal how well the test subjects develop and organize [Music] if these experiments prove its reliability this second basic cloud seeding approach will in years to come be added to man scientific techniques for drawing more rain from the sky when and where he needs it [Music] lynchburg foundry has been proud to bring you this issue of the science screen report to further your understanding of science engineering medicine and technology [Applause] i love it so the science screen digest was basically very similar to the screen news digest screen news digest um was hearst hearst news agency packaging newsreels for school distribution and then they would find a regional or local sponsor who would pay for it to be distributed it just happened i got a bunch from fayetteville schools and they were all sponsored by the local uh pepsi bottler uh but this different company allegro films did the same thing where they would prepare these science uh things that talk about conte uh concepts in science and also what's happening now as far as technology and then they would approach regional companies that had a science bend or an industrial bend and that was the lynchburg foundry but we've also seen siba geygi uh a power company a variety of different places that are trying to get the information out there to get kids interested in science so that they get engineering degrees and then come back home and work at their company i think that's one of their motivations for that so anyways some great 70s music there and uh but uh thanks for tuning in today very much appreciate it uh welcome september um we will be back tomorrow and we will watch some more films as always avoid the rewind devil and just please rewind and love each other and we will see you tomorrow take care bye you