AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 9-16-2024

e e is oh man sorry about that everybody uh I was ordering some uh lunch from kaan my assistant um some Bojangles and uh lost track of time anyhow hi I'm skip alimer welcome to the a Geeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16mm film and that was part of the Cornet stock can Library collection ATL they would put a a three-letter code and sometimes a two-letter code I think they started off with the two-letter codes and so this is all the outakes and the raw materials that were shot and they just kept uh because they would reuse it in other Productions um so behind me I have a film scanner and let's watch horses how they live enjoy [Music] w [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a we [Music] he [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] h [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh oh [Music] a ah [Music] [Music] spe [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] oh all right yeah that's kind of nice it was non it's what we call a non-narrative lots of uh sounds there and I guarantee you those sounds were added later uh and um some of them were not captured while the film was being made that they were added from uh sound libraries uh here's ancient world inheritance uh cornette film enjoy [Music] [Music] when most of us think of the ancient world or its civilization we think of the age-old p pyramids of Egypt the tombs of the early Egyptian kings we may also think of such things as the Great Sphinx a portrait carved in stone of the Egyptian king cafre it is one of the largest and finest portraits ever made we may think too of how small the ancient world was compared to our own the Civilized world of the Ancients consisted of a territory less than half the size of the United States perhaps we may think the people of those times didn't know much look at some of the tools they had to work with axe blades like these and hammers like this they weren't much like our big modern machinery today the hammering or forging of metals into any desired shape is done by huge powerful machines which exert tons of pressure but Ancient Man worked entirely by hand to produce copper and bronze objects which are comparable to the finest hand metal work of our time metal especially gold was also used for jewelry it was combined with various stones and rough into bracelets earrings and other decorative items some metals were also used as materials for coins ancient coins were of different shapes and sizes and were used to purchase services or Goods just as coins are used today we also use a great deal of metal in our modern machinery such as farm machinery but the steel plows used Now to turn the Earth before we plant our crops had their crude Beginnings in wooden plows invented centuries ago we often forget that from ancient world peoples Romans Greeks Hittites Phoenicians and Hebrews Egyptians Assyrians Babylonians Persians came the beginnings of most of the things we use in present everyday life for example hand looms used by some American Indians today are much the same as those developed by ancient peoples as long as 6,000 years ago some of the linen cloth woven in ancient times has survived many centuries around their mummies the ancient Egyptians wrapped layers of linen cloth this helped preserve the mummies this piece of ancient cloth is as finely woven as machine-made cloth today just as Ancient Man wo cloth with his hands in early times he fashioned jars and bowls using only his hands some of these examples of early Pottery are more than 5,000 years old and were formed in much the same manner as this clay jar is being formed by a hopy Indian woman this method of pottery making is crude and slow so to improve his Pottery Ancient Man developed the potter's wheel which was widely used in ancient Egypt Greece and other lands of the ancient world modern kills or ovens in which Pottery is baked have changed very little in principle from those used centuries ago another material worked by some ancient peoples was glass the Romans as much as 2,000 years ago developed glass blowing to a high art as we can see in these iridescent fragile vases paper is probably one of the most common things we have inherited from the ancient world we all use paper every day in fact it's hard to imagine how we could get along with without it in early times the Egyptians made paper by beating into sheets thin strips of a kind of river weed called Papyrus we use wood to make paper wood like Papyrus is a vegetable fiber in large machines the wood is ground and shredded to a pulp which is then bleached and pressed into sheets we haven't added too much to the Egyptians original and basic idea of paper making early peoples wrote and painted on their paper just as we do in this Papyrus painting is pictured the Egyptian belief of what happened to a person when he died here the god Osiris sits in judgment as a soul is weighed against a feather the of Truth other ancient peoples used clay tablets such as this for writing material they wrote all kinds of things on these tablets letters translated this reads to obaya from shamash Gamal told me he will do as you ask if you give the orders agricultural records 85 acres are dry 210 Acres Li f 320 acres are ripe with grain orders for Provisions three loaves of bread four quarts of Ale three measures of oil some salt these words are an early form of written communication our own alphabet the Roman alphabet had its beginning in ancient times too here we have the first a which was the picture of an ox head and the first B which was the floor plan of a house the a the ox head was called Alf meaning Ox in early Phoenician it developed to this figure and finally to our a the B the floor plan was called bait meaning house it developed to this figure and finally to our be the Learned ancients priests and officials who developed their alphabets often lived in great and grand houses the domestic architecture of the early peoples as reconstructed in this model was comparable to some of the finest buildings of our modern times this estate of a high Egyptian official had a private Chapel where he worshiped bedrooms and reception halls and large bins for the storage of grain all the things he needed for for living were contained within the walls of his estate but ancient people sometimes traveled from their homes about 2,000 years ago the Romans developed the art of road building these roads connected some of the important centers of the Roman Empire they were paved with large flat stones and were about as well built for their time as our modern highways are today Roose building is part of the science of engineering another of our inheritances from the ancient world Another Science we have inherited is astronomy today we use giant telescopes and radio telescopes to further our study of the stars planets and distant galaxies in ancient times astronomers who were usually priests had no telescopes but from their observations of the heavens the astronomers developed our present day calendar discovered the rotation of the earth and mapped the world as they knew it in each of these ancient lands there was government and law laws were first made by the early Kings or Emperors one of the oldest codes of law known to us was carved on a stone shaft these were the laws of a king called hamurabi here at the top of the shaft we see the king receiving the laws from the Sun God his laws insisted on justice for all the people in the Empire now we elect groups of our own citizens who meet discuss problems of our communities and proceed from these discussions to make our laws meetings of citizens such as these are the foundations of our democracy all these things then as well as a host of others were passed down to us by the peoples of the ancient world they contributed to the early beginnings of civilization and so from the small area that we call the ancient world has come much of our cultural and science scientific [Music] inheritance uh so I'm trying to thread this uh this next film up see if this is going to work [Music] more tap hope everybody had a good weekend let see if this works all right let's so in case you didn't know this uh we when we use the scanner we're actually uh besides uh watching it we're also scanning it um and making a file so we're probably the only people that do that on this channel or on the on YouTube uh this film I have no idea what it is it's the title says after image and I'm hoping that it is appropriate um for a lunch time show we're going to see all right after image enjoy for [Music] [Music] [Music] one morning in May of 1959 when I woke I discovered uh to my uh shock that I had almost no sight in one eye and um the following day I consulted an opthalmologist and then later in the week another one and I was told that I had a detached retina with a hemorrhage and this is what had uh uh destroyed the vision I was hospitalized I had two unsuccessful operations on the eye uh lost sight completely and um had a frightening experience post-operatively uh I was flat on my back for 24 days both my eyes were bandaged I had to be fed by someone else but the frightening thing was uh the fact that all voices and all sounds converged on me even the traffic from Outdoors people talking and uh sometimes I felt as though my bed was tilted with my head we down and my feet up I had become disoriented through the loss of the sight about 6 months after the first two mons of successful operations on my left eye I developed glaucoma in my right eye and U and about a year and a half after that also another Hemorrhage in my right eye and uh many tears a very badly detached retina I had three operations for that and this left me with um uh just about legally blind which is having 10% or less of vision within the year I was declared legally blind I had a um a fear at night of uh the possibility of waking up in the morning without sight and I slept all the time and I still do with a light on all night I rest much better if I waken it reassures me that I can still see [Music] [Music] it's a little painful but um well first of all I had an accident in 1950 which caused the sight of [Music] my which I was it can't remember my right eye yeah and then in 1958 I had another accident which cost me the sight of my left eye in both cases it was due to detached retinas which due to my having had a number of operations uh site couldn't be restored in 1963 I had my eyes nucleated that is uh my original original eyes were replaced by plastic eyes which is what I have now uh when I became totally blind in 58 I uh had already completed 3 and 1/2 years of work at the Tyler School of Fine Arts Temple [Music] University and thought I was all washed up and so far as never being able again to U do any kind of what work whatsoever by coincidence I got a job at a factory for the blind which at that time was in the Germantown section of Philadelphia employment there was off again on again in other words there were frequent layoffs with no chance for workman's compensation during the periods of uh my being laid off or others being laid off this is true of all of them some people spend their entire lives working in such places and there were times when this is almost funny now my dog Porsche and I had to share uh her dog food which was Alpo dog food as I remember didn't taste bad but uh in my search for possible causes of um what happened to my eyes I uh can't help but tie it in with the depression uh during that time we were raising two small children uh there was not enough food to go around uh the nourishing things that we were able to get of course went to the children and I felt that the malnutrition that I suffered from at that time was definitely a factor in the deterioration of my retinas I soon realized that uh my life activities would be probably quite different uh with loss of sight you lose the freedom of mobility and become somewhat dependent for certainly very dependent for transportation and somewhat dependent sometimes for other things um so I was and my family my two sons were married and had families of their own and uh I was reaching out for something of interest that would um be worth doing I heard just about this time fortunately of a class at a local artart Center uh where I could study the class was organized specifically for the visually handicapped and the the class was in the sculpture I think that if I hadn't had a sight problem I might never have gotten I probably would never have gotten into sculpture work and it it's been the most rewarding thing about having a sight problem it became a real Lifesaver I I don't have much tendency to get depressed but I was slipping into it [Music] I try to get him back re-enrolling in Tyler about the leading Agency for the blind in Philadelphia at that time the state agency didn't see any sense in my wanting to uh become a blind artist they had never heard of that kind of thing before and did not choose to give me any financial assistance so my mother who was alive at that time cashed in some insurance policies which had enough money to fully cover me it is a memory in my mind's eye of these images that uh can stimulate me to use uh sculpture uh or some other medium recalling um how things looked and U sculpting them in clay so that uh those who have never seen can uh get a good idea of what the certain things and certain scenes look like you see there are two guys seated outside the bar playing checkers and I've seen this kind of thing quite often both um when I was cited as well as after I became blind and so got this idea of um showing doing a sculpture showing two guys playing checkers with a third man kneeling and watching and uh four figure that of a young woman standing and watching [Music] after 9 years my doctor decided to um uh risk removing the Cataract I had I was running into things I was falling over the dog and uh he was afraid that I would have a bad accident and perhaps destroy my retina completely and uh it had held for 11 years so he decided to operate on it I had all my life been very myopic and uh removing a cataract makes you extremely farsighted my Opia is nearsighted this with a successful cataract operation a sight uh to an undamaged eye can be restored uh almost completely of course my eye had already had so much surgery done that this couldn't be expected following the surgery uh the doctor doctor came in took the bandage off and stood close to the bed he said can you see me and and uh I could see very at a close range every hair and his mustache I hadn't even seen a face for 6 years I hadn't seen any colors for 5 or six years and all of a sudden I see color and at close range detail and uh it was a probably the most exciting thing that ever happened to me in my life it wasn't until I guess uh the beginning in 1976 of the national exhibits by blind artists that I uh began to get widespread recognition through magazines newspapers television radio and allthough the the income isn't any greater it uh still this the recognition factor means so much that it's worth right now as I look back on those years all the pain and struggle that uh I endured again this is in this blue checkered dress with the veil okay and then the groom has this black velvet with um an ascot and I this is his head a velvet top red velvet top and a very lovely lovely colored dress um it's a mixture it's a Calico type mixture of um white background with green and red okay then this one this figure blonde hair okay she's got a black coat on and a quilted quilted lovely soft [Music] purple e [Music] [Music] I must say at this point that my self-image for many years was pretty poor but nonetheless there was enough strength gained from my family to allow me to continue uh pressing forward and proving to myself that uh I could still do artwork just as well as anyone else and I think that gave rise to the attitude I have now about my being blind uh which is namely in two words so what [Music] all [Music] all right I get it I didn't read it specifically in the comments but I read between the lines um you know sometimes we show a serious film and it's hard to crack on it and Riff on it and tear into it so so I'm going to make up for it right now you can tear into this film next film without any regards or feeling guilty or being insensitive here we go what is in a seed [Music] I wonder I wonder what do you wonder wondercat I wonder what's inside a seed what's inside a seed well if you're Cur curious enough you can find out well I know that when you plant seeds you get Plants people plant seeds in their Gardens to get vegetables and flowers Farmers plant seeds to get all the plants that give us food so I guess I know that plants grow from seeds but how does that happen what's inside a seed Why not start by looking you could look inside this Lima beam a liab bean is really the seed of the liab bean plant now the seed is cut in half and opened up do you see anything there something's inside but it's awfully small wait I've got something that'll help a magnifying glass now I can [Music] see it looks like a teeny tiny plant inside the seed is that really a plant there yes it is a baby plant are those really leaves on it yes they are and it has a stem and a root too but the baby plant inside the seed hasn't started growing yet and there's another important difference between this baby plant and plants that are growing the difference is in the leaves look at the leaves of this baby plant and compare them with the leaves of this plant can you see what the difference is well let's see this plant's leaves are a lot bigger and and they're green and inside the seed the leaves on the baby plant aren't green is that really an important difference yes you see the green material in a leaf which is called chlorophyll helps the plant make its own food plants need food yes all living things need food animals need food to grow and plants do too even a baby be plant inside a seed but it doesn't have chlorophyll so it can't make its own food like other plants then where does its food come from look at the baby plant in the seed again what else is in the seed well there's stuff around the baby plant what's that that's the food you're looking for then that must be food in the other half of the seed so the baby plant does have food but if the baby plant has food right there in the seed with with it why doesn't it start growing even before it's planted maybe what these children are going to do next will help you discover the answer they're watering the ground where the seeds were planted do seeds need water before the little plants inside them will start growing yes but that's not all the seeds need the weather has to be warm enough so that's why I couldn't plant my seed Outdoors when it was very cold but then what happens how do baby plants get bigger well that's something we can watch with special motion pictures that make plants seem to grow fast what we're seeing in a few seconds really takes several days to happen look at the lima bean seed you planted it's growing nicely look at that root coming out of the seed it's growing down and dividing into different parts the stam is growing up into the light and it's carrying the seed with it that's right that's the way a bean plant grows and now look at those leaves coming out of the seed they're green that means it can make its own food and just in time too yes all the plants that are green have started making their own food what do they make their food out of several materials one is a gas that's in the air carbon dioxide carbon dioxide that's right carbon dioxide comes into the plant through its leaves the other material a green plant needs for making food is water I know where a plant gets that people water plants and it rains too yes that's right the water soaks into the soil so it goes down to where the plant's roots are then the water and certain minerals that are in the soil travel up through the plant's stem and all along its branches to the leaves and there the green plant makes its own food the plant uses this food and the minerals it gets from the soil to grow and in that way a young plant grows into a grownup plant your plant's been growing for about a month now I wish it grew as fast as those special movies you showed me but it's been growing well because it's been getting what it needs like the other plants here plants don't grow well if they don't get enough of what they need you mean if they don't get enough water for instance they'll grow slowly that's right but if plants get more of what they need they'll grow faster you mean more water yes but not too much and more sunlight and warmth yes but not too much and more carbon dioxide from the air and more minerals from the soil but not too much I know look at these plants they've really grown they must be getting just the right amount of the things they need they are and mine is too oh look some of them have flowers yes but some flowers don't look the way we expect them to look these are actually flowers too the flowers of the oak tree trees have flowers Yes trees are plants and like many plants trees have flowers too those flowers are so small and they aren't colored very brightly you hardly notice them but some trees have flowers that look more like the flowers you're used to these flowers are on an apple tree apple blossoms are beautiful and so are orange blossoms many of the plants in the garden you and your friends planted have pretty flowers my little bean plant has flowers too they're small but they're pretty flowers are pretty but they also do an important job for plants what's that stay curious and you'll find out changes are going to take place in the flowers but you'll have to wait a little while for them to happen I see the flowers are starting to change the flower petals look look like they're drying up some are falling off yes they are but something else seems to be happening at the bottom of the flowers too that part is changing into something different yes it is apple blossoms are becoming apples and orange blossoms have started to become oranges flowers are changing into fruits that's right it's happening on the oak tree too the flowers are turning into acorns but acorns are not nuts are nuts really fruits yes acorns are the fruits of the oak tree and on your plant the flowers are turning into bean pods but those are vegetables that's right you see some of the fruits of plants are what we call vegetables it will take a little time before all these fruits are ripe and then you will see what's special about the fruits of plants and now Weeks Later the app apple tree is filled with ripe red apples let's look inside one of these [Music] apples seeds seeds are inside the apple and inside one of these oranges seeds are inside the orange and the acorns and inside the acorn is that the seed of the oak tree yes it is and can you guess what will be inside the fruit of your bean plant plant bean seeds just like the one I planted I understand fruits come from flowers and seeds come from fruits and now I know what's inside each of those seeds a baby plant that will grow up and make its own seeds that have baby plants inside then they'll grow up to make wow that could go on forever I certainly hope it does me two [Music] I get it it's cloyingly bad so the wondercat episode that I would like to air is why hasn't curiosity killed that cat because it is non-stop questions it's like God wondercat get with it man um but yes I understand uh sometimes it's nice just to have a punching bag just to put up there just to take it all out on and uh wondercat thankfully is there for us um thank you Kevin for the uh pill reference and uh thank you all for watching today um it's gross outside but it doesn't feel gross inside because we're watching 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