AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 9-2-2022

so so so so hi everybody i'm skip welcome to the av geeks lunchtime streaming show where sometimes we get the date wrong and we have to restart the show um and that's what happened earlier uh we got the date wrong so um we watch old 16 millimeter like i said and so we watch part seven the exciting conclusion of shower of roses which looks to be a religious epic about some nuns some beautiful roman catholic iconography in there um it's pretty great uh even if you're not roman catholic it's visually it's just fascinating um here's a question we get a lot here at av geeks and that is can i sit on a cloud and the answer is well i'm just gonna let this film answer it for you [Music] i wonder i wonder what do you wonder wonder cat i wonder can i sit on a cloud can you sit on a cloud well you can answer that question if you know what clouds are made of what are clouds made of if you're curious enough you can find out i'd need an airplane for that clouds are too high clouds are high all right but sometimes mountains are even higher let's go to the mountains hey that's a cloud if we could get there i could find out what it's made of and then i could find out if i can sit on it here's your cloud and it's like a fog right a fog is just a cloud that's close to the ground and the fog feels wet doesn't it so the cloud or the fog must be made of water yes that's right well if a cloud is just like a fog then i guess i can't sit on it but if a cloud is made of water like a lake is could i float on it boats float on water so do people so can i so can i float on a cloud well the water that's in a lake is different from the water that's in a cloud water in a lake can spray up into the air and separate into drops that fall back into the lake water in a cloud is always in drops but not nearly as big as the drops in the spray water drops in a cloud are so tiny and way so little that the moving air can hold them up they seem to float in the air does that mean that i can't float in a cloud that's right but i wonder where does cloud water come from most cloud water comes from the oceans [Music] it does how well look on the rocks over there at those puddles that the waves made yes what do you think will happen if no more ocean water falls into them well i guess after a while they'll dry up sort of disappear that's right if we could speed up what happens it would look like this where does the water go it goes into the air the water changes into invisible water vapor it evaporates but not just the water from the puddles evaporates into the air water from the ocean and lakes and rivers and everything that's wet does this all the time including me that's right you'll get dry because the water will evaporate from you the warm sun helps to make the water evaporate i think i understand the warm sun helps water evaporate into the air it changes into invisible water vapor very good but how does that water vapor change back to water and get into the clouds well water doesn't get into the clouds the clouds are water then how does the water vapor we can't see become a cloud we can see why you've made it happen many times i have when on cold days with the warm moist air you breathe out of your body hey i made a cloud when the water vapor in your warm breath is cooled some of it changes into a cloud of tiny water droplets so that's what must happen with clouds that's right you see high up where the clouds are the air is cooler than it is near the ground when moist air gets cool enough the invisible water vapor in it changes to tiny droplets that make clouds but i wonder why are there different kinds of clouds some clouds are fluffy and white and some are dark gray almost black well it all has to do with those tiny droplets that clouds are made of the clouds that first form when the droplets come out of the air are white clouds like the clouds your breath makes the white clouds are fair weather clouds but if more and more of the tiny water drops come out of the air and the cloud gets bigger the drops bump together and get bigger too now the clouds get darker and darker these are rain clouds and finally when the drops are much bigger and much heavier than they were when the cloud first formed the drops of water are heavy enough to fall to the ground and do you know what you get rain exactly right but i was just wondering if a cloud is water how can it snow i know snow is frozen water but how do we get snowflakes well if the temperature of the air is below freezing the water vapor doesn't change into tiny water droplets instead the water vapor changes into tiny crystals of ice these ice crystals make snow clouds the crystals are the beginnings of snowflakes [Music] they get bigger in the cloud and after a while if they get heavy enough they gently fall to the ground but if the air that they fall through is warm enough the snowflakes may melt on the way down and change to rain rain and snow are just different forms of water falling from the clouds then why are there still clouds after it rains for the same reason there are clouds before it rains the water drops in the clouds aren't heavy enough to fall but clouds are changing all the time whether it rains or not and if we could speed up how they change it would look like this their shapes change the wind blows them from one place to another place they bump together and break apart the clouds are always changing but what they are doesn't change i know they're all made of some kind of water and i can't sit on a cloud but i can sit on what used to be a cloud when it's frozen and on the ground and made into a snowman like this but not for very long it's cold [Music] okay i get it wonder cat is really annoying maybe i didn't hear it before like when i was showing a couple of wonder cats in a row but uh yeah we're gonna have to ration those out um those are uh fascinating but oh that cap won't shut up will not shut up uh you know we talked a little bit about the earth here's a film about the face of the earth enjoy [Music] millions and millions of years ago proud of cosmic dust a fiery earth was born [Music] [Applause] there were violent explosions on the earth gases and vapors rose out of its body and hot lava flowed over its own skin [Music] fully the earth began to cool millions of years past while the outer part thickened and hardened into solid but still very hot rock [Music] [Music] the gases and vapors formed the earth's atmosphere they made a heavy blanket of clouds beneath which the earth continued to cool [Music] [Music] then the rains fell and it rained for a long long time the water ran into the hollows and the first seas were formed finally the clouds parted [Music] [Applause] [Music] the face of the earth changes because of a conflict between two groups of geologic forces the first group like the waves crashing on the land attack the earth from the outside little by little they wear the earth down because it takes a long time for these wearing down forces to change the earth we cannot always see them doing it nevertheless they are at work everywhere in polar regions and in the highest mountains glaciers form and underneath the slow-moving tongues of glacial ice are great forces at work breaking up the rocks gouging and scarring the face of the earth [Music] in the desert the sun's heat is at work baking the rocks and drying out the mud flats in dust storms the force of wind is at work sweeping up and shifting the dry top soil and sand rocks split by freezing water and growing roots rolled down by the force of gravity [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with the race running water goes to work washing away the land of all the wearing down forces running water is the most important [Music] the force of running water in streams slowly gnaws away the rocks cuts into the face of the earth and carves out gullies in thousands of years it may deepen and widen these gullies into huge steep-walled canyons [Music] if there were only these wearing down forces at work long before now the land would have been worn away completely and covered entirely with water [Music] but there is a group of building up forces also at work they draw their energy from deep inside the earth and they are slowly building the land up from with the even ray land out of the sea [Music] the highest mountain ranges now stand where once there were shallow seas [Music] we know this is true because when we dig into some of the rock layers we find seashell fossils buried there [Music] sometimes these buildings up forces break the rock layers and push them out of line [Music] and sometimes the pressure from these building up forces squeezes the layers into great up and down folds [Applause] many minerals formed in hidden crevices down inside the earth are raised from the depths by the building up forces high rise [Music] there is site [Music] group right [Music] neptunite [Music] dioptase [Music] malachite and many others [Music] volcanic explosions build up the earth in another way they blast holes through weak places in the crust and pour out hot lava this lava eventually cools hardens and becomes new land at such volcanic explosions geologists have an opportunity to examine directly some of the forces at work inside the earth just as we cannot see this waterfall actually cutting into the rock so we cannot always see the conflict between the building up and the wearing down forces the conflict however is going on all the time let's see some of the results of this conflict here in the painted desert while the building up forces within the earth were slowly raising the land up the force of running water was wearing it down and fashioning the hills we can see the forms cut by rain and streams [Music] in the petrified forest the wearing down forces have uncovered giant trees that were buried for a long time under the earth while they were buried the trees were changed to rock by the work of underground water rich in minerals the high plateaus and deep canyons of the southwestern united states are in a region that was raised many times over millions of years by the building up forces [Music] in grand canyon the force of down cutting streams has carved a trench 10 miles across and one mile deep into the face of the earth and has laid bare some of the oldest rocks in north america in zion canyon the wearing down forces have cut through these ancient sand dunes that are piled one on top of another [Music] after desert winds had heaped up and buried the loose grains mineral cement changed the sand into hard layers of sandstone [Music] in bryce canyon younger rocks are being worn away by rain and wind because of their weakness they take on these strange up and down shapes though bryce canyon looks quiet and still here as everywhere the struggle is going on between the building up forces and the wearing down forces in this conflict lies the story of the earth's changing face [Music] there's a great metaphor for life there's the building up forces and the wearing down forces and uh here at av geeks we try to maintain a balance of that and hopefully a little bit more of the building up and less of the wearing down but you know some days it's all about wearing down so some of you might say that i am wearing your patients down with uh these series of films that i'm showing um some days are like that trying to get you ready for uh an extended weekend maybe uh we've shown other films on this topic but this is uh bailey's film's interpretation of silk makers of japan enjoy [Music] one of nature's wonder products is silk the work of caterpillars is transformed by the hands of man into beautiful fabrics like satin and velvet like taffeta and brocade these are only a few of the fine fabrics made of silk the first silk fabric was woven in china about five thousand years ago much later the silk industry was carried to europe on the same road that was to be traveled by marco polo in about the year 200 a.d silk production was introduced in korea and then japan today more than half of the world silk is produced in japan the hachioji district is one of the many silk producing areas in japan here the shimatsu family like many other farm families makes part of its livelihood from silk the shimatsu's grow many mulberry trees on their farm because the leaves are needed to feed silk caterpillars mulberry leaves are the only food that silk caterpillars will eat and the better the leaves the better the silk the shimazus have three fields of mulberry bushes one for harvesting in the spring one for summer and one for autumn this way they can raise caterpillars and sell the cocoons three times a year when the leaves are large and tender tiny black kegos are hatched from eggs the keigo is the larva stage of the silk moth actually the kegos are very tiny these pictures are greatly enlarged so we can see them better in the next few weeks mr shimatsu will gather many baskets full of leaves the mulberry leaves are cut into small pieces to feed the kegos as the caterpillars grow larger they take larger pieces of leaves which are chopped in a simple machine soon the caterpillars will be so large that the leaves will not be chopped at all during the first 24 hours of their lives the young caterpillars eat several times their own weight in a few days they will turn from black to white they have begun an amazing growth period in just four weeks they grow to be about ten thousand times larger than when they were first hatched that's why they must have large quantities of leaves to eat it is also why their skins just can't grow fast enough to keep up with them so every three or four days the caterpillars will stop eating sleep for one day and shed their skins this happens four times during this period of growth although they are often called silk worms they are really silk caterpillars their appetites are enormous but soon these caterpillars will lose all interest in food they will move around nervously but won't eat a thing this means that their silk glands are full of liquid silk and they are looking for a suitable place to spin their cocoons at this stage some farmers still use the old method of placing the caterpillars on newspapers on the floor and covering them with a mat made of rice straw but the shimatsu family has a better method they have wooden racks with holes just the right size for spinning cocoons each caterpillar finds a vacancy and moves in it begins to anchor itself in place with a sticky substance which comes from a tiny hole near the mouth the substance is an extremely thin thread of liquid silk which quickly hardens in the air the silk is covered with a natural glue called saracen saracen is very important in every step of silk making because it holds the threads together the caterpillar continues to spin until it is completely enclosed in a ball of silk called a cocoon it takes about three days to complete a cocoon during this period caterpillars are especially sensitive to loud noises so everyone is careful to speak softly any loud noises would cause them to stop spinning several days later the cocoons are removed from the racks if we look inside one of them we will see that the caterpillar has become much smaller and has turned into a pupa if it were left alone the pupa would turn into a moth and work its way out of the cocoon of course this ruins the cocoon the female moth mates with a male and lays about 500 eggs this completes the life cycle so the moth soon dies however only certain people who are licensed by the government allow the moths to come out of the cocoons mrs shimatsu keeps some of her cocoons until winter when she will have time to reel off the silk thread and weave it into beautiful cloth weaving is very slow on a hand loom most of the cocoons are sold to a factory called a steam filleture here they are given a heat treatment to kill the pupas inside them they are carefully inspected the ones that are damaged or discolored are taken out boiling water softens the saracen or glue so that the threads can be unwound easily the agitator works back and forth until the end of each strand is loose as the end is found it's fed into this machine and is wound onto a reel each cocoon will give a single strand about a half mile long the strand is so small that seven are wound together to make a larger thread the natural saracen holds the strands together the newest machines do more of these steps automatically so that each worker can produce many times more raw silk the threads are rewound onto larger frames and are then twisted into skeins almost all of this work is done by girls most of them are farm girls who have come to the factory to earn more money living in the dormitory is quite different from life on the farm their rooms and food are furnished by the company after a few years the girls usually get married or return home when there is work to do the girls are on the job thirty skeins of raw silk are packed into a bundle called a book and 29 books make up a bale before they are sold the bales of raw silk must go to a government testing bureau this is necessary to keep japan silk the finest in the world samples from every 10th bale are removed they are tested for moisture for size for strength and finally for weight some of the approved silk is shipped to other countries so it is packed very carefully the bail is first covered with a cloth bag then a stiff paper bag and finally a heavy matting this shipment will go through the panama canal to new york city it is loaded into special my apartments on the ship because each bale is worth several hundred dollars most of japan's silk is not exported however in kyoto and other cities the raw silk is woven into cloth the threads are doubled and twisted the saracen is removed although much of the weaving is done automatically it still takes people to thread the looms and the shuttles this loom is sending two shuttles back and forth the finished cloth is carefully inspected for flaws before it is washed in a river some rivers in japan have just the right chemicals for fixing the dyes silk making in japan is a wonderful combination of old methods and new methods the work of nature and the work of man silk was once as valuable as gold because it was the world's first truly fine material its beauty and usefulness have kept pace with the changing times so that today as for centuries past silk is still known as the queen of fabrics [Music] uh so that suffered from what we call a wow in audio so basically they uh when they scan this film um i got this off of internet archive the optical head was ingesting the audio but there was a slow there was a change in the speed and it's fine for uh when it's getting the images because it's getting single frame at a time but for audio it's you know it's like it's like spinning a record with your finger it's like oh i got it pretty consistent but you're then you're like nope not quite so that's kind of where that wow comes from so there you go okay we're going to do this behind me i have uh sintel and um i have a bunch of tv commercials that we tried to watch last week week before last i can't remember but it has mr belvedere in it but uh we're gonna watch the rest of them um and i i'm gonna use that technique that i used last time so um we're just gonna soldier through them there's lots of great commercials here there i think there's some duplicates in here too there's some beer commercials there are some delicious sara lee commercials there's a wide variety of different things here so um enjoy and i should say if you like what you saw today or you like in general hit the thumbs up button the like button and subscribe uh if this is not floating your boat today you can go to avgeeks.com and we have a 24 7 channel there that you can go to and watch other shows that we've done or other things we've digitized you can go to patreon.comgeeks to donate or just buy some coffee at ko-fi.com av geeks we're gonna do a show on monday even though it's a holiday and i'm gonna try to figure something out it might work might not work we'll see um but uh yeah anyways uh this is probably gonna run long so um enjoy uh tv commercials this cannot be it must be incredibly light it's incredibly light one must taste oily real cream cheese and the strawberries they are succulent sara lee strawberry french cheesecake it's an international delight sadly i kill myself but first one more bite who ate the cereal who ate the peace that i saved for me who just couldn't resist who ate the saturday sara lee all butter pound cake nobody can resist that flavor because we use fresh country eggs and whole milk and pure sugar and butter and butter and butter [Music] introducing birdseye new england style vegetables are they good enough to please even new englanders listen yeah tasty all right let's taste my good new england cooking that is good with the string beans and the corn and broccoli those croutons put the final touch to it try bird's eye new england style vegetables one of five americana recipes only from bird's eye bird's eye really has a winner here i'll work on that since i've been adding clorox too my colors look cleaner and brighter thanks to you i've made a bright discovery i'm gonna add clorox to more often discover brightness with clorox ii so you think this is going to be your average tuesday night casserole right wrong look i added b and b mushrooms mushrooms and mushrooms these are special they're b and b fresh-picked delicious and tender broiled in butter and packed in butter broth no other mushroom gives you the b and b flavor they are fantastic yeah so are you yeah bnb the butter mushroom for better meals [Music] where there is hair let there be light new alberto light and fresh balsam conditioner where it is limp light gives hair body where it is coarse light gives hair softness where it is unruly light gives hair control new alberto light and fresh balsam conditioner where there is hair let there be light oh that was hard to take these days i prefer things that are easy to take like dry sack on the rocks the hearty alternative this is frank gifford to tell you that unlike some drinks dry sac has a flavor you can really enjoy a hearty nutty taste that doesn't get lost on ice so try the sherry in the sack dry sack on the rocks it's the hearty alternative imported from spain by julius wild sons oh i wish we had an alternative for that play these days i do when it comes to what i drink dry sac on the rocks the hearty alternative this is frank gifford to tell you that unlike some drinks dry sac is a flavor you can really enjoy a hearty nutty taste that doesn't get lost on ice so try the sherry in the sack dry sack on the rocks it's the hearty alternative imported from spain by julius wild sons oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and that's good [Applause] hey i thought you restocked with little fish there you go that's the last stop you're working and you're building up a thirst hey you missed all the work you're thinking about the beer that lots of people reach for first [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's running good holiday greetings from budweiser [Music] ah [Music] the people who bring you budweiser wish you and yours the very best of everything this holiday season hey i thought you restocked with little fish there you go that's the last stop you're working and you're building off a thirst hey you missed all the work you're thinking about the beer that lots of people reach for first come [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's on about the good that lots of people reach firsthand [Music] [Music] hey look who's here you're thinking about the beer that lots of people reach for first i bought a beer reach the hamster sky blue water beer it's running good and that's good reach for a house it's running good [Music] come on you guys let's clear this trail before it starts raining working and you're building up a thirst hey look who's coming you're thinking about the fear that lots of people reach board first elements beats the sky blue water fears [Applause] [Music] hey did you see that yeah let's pull in you're working and you're building up the first and here comes his buddy [Music] guess what we got [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hey i thought you restocked with little fish there you go that's the last stop you're working and you're building off a thirst hey you missed all the work you're thinking about the beer that lots of people reach first [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's running good wow this must have been some fire well we'll get it planted back in about a month working and you're building up a thirst hey how you doing you're thinking about the beer that lots of people reach for questions [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh i wish we had an alternative for that play these days i do when it comes to what i drink dry sac on the rocks the hearty alternative this is frank gifford to tell you that unlike some drinks dry sac is a flavor you can really enjoy a hearty nutty taste that doesn't get lost on ice so try the sherry in the sack dry sack on the rocks it's the hearty alternative imported from spain by julius wild sons that was hard to take these days i prefer things that are easy to take like dry sack on the rocks the hearty alternative this is frank gifford to tell you that unlike some drinks dry sac has a flavor you can really enjoy a hearty nutty taste that doesn't get lost on ice so try the sherry in the sack dry sack on the rocks it's the hearty alternative imported from spain by julius wild sons a lot of hams a lot of hams in there um so there was some people noticed that the with the hams thing that they would put the tab in their shirt pocket my guess is because normally people would pull the tab and just throw it put it in the can and then they would drink and then there'd be an occasional choking hazard there that's my guess um but it's running good um of course the hams bear is a beloved animated character ham's i think was northwest uh area beer and some of them made it i feel like made it to north carolina as one of the cheap beers at my house we were partial to black label in olympia so yeah that's before rolling rock and um yingling kind of made made the scene but uh thanks for tuning in today very much appreciate your eyeballs again if you like what you saw just hit the like button or the thumbs up button or the subscribe and tell people about what we're doing you can see us at avgeeks.com uh we have other things going on there i have a 24 hour seven day a week show which is made up of previous lunchtime shows you can donate at patreon.comavgeeks or buy us coffee at ko-fi.com av geeks um that dry sack line man what is the deal with that uh ooh gross anyways thanks again for tuning in uh join us on monday if you got the day off uh it might be an interesting experiment or it might blow up in my face there's only one way to find out so uh take care everybody and we will see you soon bye you