AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 9-25-2024

e e is is is for where am I oh my God hello where am I uh this is very frustrating you can't see me I don't know what's going on this computer cracked just before I was getting started so I am not visible for some reason um which is really [Music] weird let's try one more time I don't know what's happening anyways uh I'm skip Alzheimer of the a Geeks and we watch old 16 mm films and there was a tension issue with the uh film that I just got uh which was donated by Bucky Grim thank you bucky bucky has contributed some films to us in the past and he is a longtime uh academic friend I kind of met him because he did a paper about one of my films that he had um found on the internet archive so um we have continued talking and stuff uh this is a bummer I'll try to figure this out but uh here's in the meantime here's chemistry and a changing [Music] world for centuries men have tried to combine known substances to make new substances The Alchemist HED to make gold from baser [Music] Metals later when magic incantations gave way to a genuine Scientific Method Man learned to create new substances from known ones which were far more valuable than [Music] gold the marvels of chemistry today are far beyond the dreams of the Alchemist of the past today through the science of chemistry man can make sugar from sawdust cheese from peanuts hoser from coal or Plastics from [Music] soybeans no matter where we live or what we do every day some phase of chemistry affects each one of us directly the purity of our drinking water is assured by chemical analysis the pharmacist who fills our prescriptions is applying chemical principles chemistry has given us better soaps better paints better petroleum [Music] products synthetic rubber Plastics Motion Picture film nylon explosives and a hundred other things we use in our everyday [Music] life discovering and bringing to the world the wonders of History requires teamwork among many types of C all with different jobs and in different Departments of aany this teamwork can best be observed in the development of a widely used chemical product here a chemical company is planning to manufacture Elemental phosphorus the management asks the research Department to develop a process that is commercially practical research is usually conducted by a group of several men who work under the supervision of a leader after explaining the problems involved in making phosphoric acid from phosphate Rock the project leader makes specific assignments two of the assistants are instructed to read all available literature related to the subject reading technical literature which deals with similar experiments conducted by others in the past is an important part of research another member of the research team will start on analytical methods often it takes many months even years of very careful work with numerous failures until the group finally develops a practical process in the laboratory here during the pre-pilot stage chemists work out a practical method of obtaining the concentrated phosphoric acid at this point the idea is taken over by the plant Development Department its job is to devise methods for commercial production at this stage a research chemical engineer builds a pilot plant a miniature which duplicates the parts and materials to be used in the final plant while operating a pilot plant the Specialists face production problems on the spot and solve them before the commercial production starts next the design chemical engineer takes over and starts plans for the building of the actual commercial plant he must choose a location with due consideration to the proximity of power the availability of raw materials and the conditions for economical distribution once a location is decided upon the design chemical engineer prepares a flow sheet showing how materials will pass through the plant next a flow sheet of Machinery to handle the raw materials and then an architectural blueprint of the plant once the plant is built and in operation the chemical engineer remains in charge until the Personnel becomes experienced enough to operate it themselves with production started there is Need for another kind of chemist the analytical chemist it is the job of the standards department and its analytical chemists to maintain a constant vigilance over materials and products in every stage of production to make sure that proper quality is maintained part of their job is analyzing representative samples taken at Key production points the first control of the standards department is evident in the selection of raw materials here f fate rock is mined and hauled to the plant then it is washed and graded according to sides next the phosphate Matrix is waved and mixed with Coke and sand then the mixture goes through a centering machine which ignites it fusing the mixture into larger particles these are broken up and screamed for size after Coke is added the mixture goes to a giant furnace where electrodes heat it to a very high temperature the heat causes the phosphorous vapor to pass off continuously these Vapors are condensed and led to storage tanks from the storage tanks the elemental phosphorus is loaded into tank cars that go to other Factories at these factories the elemental phosphorus is converted into a series of phosphate compounds the phosphates are used as fertilizers in refining sugar in detergents and in denises and other uses meanwhile in the research laboratory of the phosphorus plant chemists have devised uses for byproducts of the process at regular intervals the residue from the furnace is removed part of this residue calcium silicate is used as a roaded material it is run off into a pool where it solidifies and cracks [Music] up another byproduct ferof phosphorus is run into molds and cooled it is used to improve the properties of steel the story of the production of Elemental phosphorus is an example of only one of a great number of Industries in which chemicals play a vital part through the constant work of chemists more and more of the Earth's raw materials are transformed into useful products products that fill needs raise our living standard and change our pattern of [Music] Life As for the future it is almost beyond the imagination to conceive what other wonders will be unveiled as the advancing strides of chemistry meet the needs of a changing [Music] World here I am oh boy um technology man I guess the more stuff you have the uh the more likely things will go wrong and uh more likely things will go wrong at the same time oh look this is what I just [Music] got maybe that's what was causing the problem I don't know all right uh let's see uh let's look at erosion and weathering did we watch this one do we watch look I'm gonna look and see if we if we watch this one I don't see it in the list but uh H yeah I'm going to skip ahead uh all right uh this one we definitely haven't seen this is uh Captain John Smith founder of Virginia enjoy [Music] John Smith sometime governor of Virginia was born in Lincolnshire England in the year 1579 the son of a well-to-do tenant farmer he attended the free school in the nearby Village of ol but the Latin lessons inherited from a dark past must have seemed unbearably dull for We Know by his own account that at the age of 13 he sold his Satchel books and all he had intending secretly to get to see secretly to get to see this was the dream of of many an English yman son the age of colonization was Dawning France had vast claims in the new world Canada the Great Lakes Country the Mississippi Valley Spain was exploiting the incredible wealth of Peru and Mexico but England had little to show for her efforts in the new world although many an expedition had dropped down the temps from London in 163 15 years after the defeat of the Spanish Armada there was still no permanent English colony in America but in spite of failures England's Colonial fever had in no wise abated and London was at the very center of the latest scheme to plant a colony in Virginia to London in 16003 Came John Smith now Captain John Smith and cheerfully at se success you still entice to get the Pearl and gold the Pearl and gold gentlemen Untold riches lie before us and Untold hard work I warrant that none of us doubt Captain Newport but rest content on this score we have able men you are Mariner to transport us to fruitful Virginia Master goold here whose dream it was to plant this colon and if I may say so myself gentlemen I have no little experience as an administrator here here ah and we have gentleman our redoutable soldier Captain John Smith so young very young in years has already covered himself with Glory fighting The infal Turk I believe you know everyone here Captain SM Captain yourport how are you sir Master gel but I do not know this gentleman this is Master Gabriel Archer a worthy gentleman who just joined our ranks I see and I suppose you've told Master Archer of the other worthy gentlemen in our ranks the wails the soft-handed Superfluous sons of small Squires and the like you consider them unfit for this undertaking Captain many of them I suppose you consider a lawyer unfit Captain myself for example I trust that you are fit Master Archer for there will be no taverns where we are going and no friendly inke Keepers and a Savage Arrow can kill just as readily as any musket ball here here Captain but Come Away with this Melancholia gentlemen a toast as to home Earth only Paradise Virginia Virginia Virginia gentlemen I know not how to address you on this momentous occasion Morrow you set all sail for the new world would I were going with you but un fortunately some must stay behind to care for matters in this quarter so you know well your purposes in this Venture I need not rehearse them now however two there are which you must not slight in Your brave efforts to establish the plantation and to seek treasure they be these firstly to search for the Lost colonist sent out by S water rally more than 100 English Souls who disappeared into that Wilderness leaving not a rack behind and secondly to search out that lucid passage to the Indies this above all to search out the Northwest Passage and lastly uh have I covered all metals the Box my Lord oh yes course the Box this box gentlemen contains the names of the eight men we have selected to be the ruling members of The Colony this box gentleman this box is not to be opened until Virginia is reached it is not a work for everyone to plant a colony but there is a great difference between saying and doing thus wrote John Smith sometime later but he must have voiced equally unpopular opinions early in the voyage but it is certain that from the day of sailing he made many enemies enemies who as the Expedition left the Canary Islands for the West Indies plotted not only to deprive him of his reputation but of his life in as much as by his devious plottings and intrigues he hath intended from the first to user the government murder the leaders of the expedition and make himself King of the new world sentence hath been duly passed upon Captain John Smith that he shall be hanged by the neck until dead has the prisoner anything to say before this sentence is carried out the prisoner must have had much to say indeed but history has left us only Smith's very brief account of the incident here on the island of nevas a pair of gallows was made but Captain Smith for whom they were intended could not be persuaded to use [Music] them April 26th 167 the coast of Virginia was cited gentlemen the members of of the council Master Edward Maria Wingfield Captain bolu goo Captain John RTI Master George Kendall Captain John Martin and uh Captain John Smith May 13 167 a site for the colony was selected 40 m up the James River Esty and called Jamestown soon thereafter crude shelters were thrown up but the council president had strict orders against building fortifications remember men there shall be no exercise at Arms nor any fortifications built it's not the Savages by shows of hostility Yes master Wingfield [Music] the 6th of August 167 died George FL of a wound given by the savages the ninth day there died John asby of the bloody flicks our men are being destroyed with cruel diseases as swellings flick es burning fevers and by Wars but for the most part they're dying of mere famine [Music] what is the meaning of this Captain TR the meaning is quite clear to me president Wingfield these these Provisions came from my private store others who brought private Provisions from England have long since turned them over to the common Storehouse that does not concern me very well Master Wingfield From This Moment forward you're relieved of such vexations what mean you by that Captain Smith I mean Master Archer that by unanimous vote of the council we have deposed Master Wingfield as president you cannot do that to me I think we can and what is more when the Susan Constant arrives from England we mean to send you back Captain Smith months you refused to allow fortifications we paid dearly for your folies I was under orders from the council in London the council in London knows nothing about our problems in Virginia you wasted our energies in searching for gold and Pearls I had my orders you should never have followed those orders by doing so you so reduced this Colony but those of us still left alive are scarce able to bury the dead very well very well I I I agree I think we should abandon this colonizing attempt abandon no master Wingfield James Town shall not be abandoned now Captain Smith in that desperate extremity went to search the country for trade for nothing could persuade him to starve either himself or his men Smith seldom returned empty-handed from his many trading Expeditions and even his worst enemies agreed that the corn which he brought back saved the colonists from starvation with the storehouses at Jamestown now well stock Smith set the colonists to work for he was determined that each Man in The Colony must abide by one law he that will not work shall not eat the winter departed and spring come Smith left the fort to perform his Discovery Smith and his companions made many discoveries in unknown Virginia and though he was never to find that elusive passage to the Indies he was to travel thousands of miles carefully mapping the surrounding territories but on one of these Expeditions traveling Inland for some considerable distance with only his Indian guide what [Music] is [Music] and so having been ready with their clubs to beat out his brains Pocahontas The King's dearest daughter got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death now in jamest town they were all in combustion some no better than they should be had plotted against him plots had gone forward against Smith in his absence but upon his return He took Swift action against the chief plotter his old enemy Gabriel Archer and laid him by the heels till he sent him prisoner for England but the same ship which was to take Archer back had brought impossible orders from the council in London come in Captain Newport I've prepared my answer for the fine gentleman of the London company you can tell them that I'll carry out their Fantastical orders to find gold to find Raleigh's lost colonists to make pitch and tar and glass and soap tell them I'll carry these out once I've made this Colony self-supporting and to do that I need workmen Carpenters Masons Farmers diggers up of trees honest Workman not lazy gentlemen and wals the reply from the London company was not long in reaching Virginia Fair Winds had borne the Susan Constant back and with it the council's reply to Smith's rude answer Captain Smith Archer my dear Captain Smith it seems it has fallen to my lot to inform you that you are deposed it seems the London company has at long last been reorganized Lord Delaware is on his way at this very moment with nine ships 500 colonists and you Captain Smith are hereby deposed you have letters to this effect letters will arrive with my Lord Delaware then we shall await my Lord Delaware there are some 30 Old colonists Left Alive Master Archer and they've been through much burning fevers and starvation the terror of Indian attacks and the deaths of their dearest friends they're afraid of nothing and they behind me to a man and until Delaware arrives with official orders I am still president of this colony and if you try any of your scandalous tricks I'll have you hanged by the heels just as you once tried to hang me by the neck but Mark me well Archer I will not [Music] fail but soon thereafter returning from an expedition up the James River to discover a new site for the colony Smith was grievously wounded by a gunpowder explosion did AR you see us yes Captain he's out there now with his Jackal let's hang him now and get it over with he SE command Delware will arrive soon he'll take command and I must I must go back to England England I need a surgeon now to men this this excavation or I'm done for my work is finished now in Virginia and so in October of 16009 after more than 2 years in the Virginia Wilderness Captain John Smith returned to England but his work had counted he had explored and mapped the Virginia Wilderness he had held the colony together setting an example for those to follow for without his leadership the winter after he left became the starving time and the greatest tribute to John Smith was written by one of the pitifully few survivors what shall I say but that we lost him that in all his proceedings made Justice his first guide experience his second that upon no danger would send us where he wouldn't lead us himself that would never see us want what he either had or could by any means get us whose Adventures were our lives and whose loss our [Music] deaths everybody's so catty just really um a couple of those meetings with all those uh those Nobles they are all so catty um it's like kind of like real housewives of of 17 or 1600 England uh all right so behind me I have another film set up on the scanner this was a film was donated uh by someone Jeff Watkins is that his name uh yeah I think that's right I could be wrong uh anyways uh this is was made for the bicentennial uh 1976 uh enjoy behind the scenes and out in front engineered products to increase industrial efficiency and increase output engineering and construction of modern steel making facilities for the leading industrial Nations coppers are part of your community with goods and services for the world here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shotard round the world we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal [Music] give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe [Music] free and the Star Spangled Banner in Triumph shall wave for the land of the free and the home of the brave that government of the People by the people for the people shall not perish from the [Music] earth and these honored dead shall not have died in vain [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] Concord massach etts the Morning Mist shrouds the countryside the British are coming the Minute Men wait by that rude bridge that arched the flood their flag to April's Breeze unfurled here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot her round the world the de coats break ranks and Retreat leaving behind their dead who came 3,000 mil and died to keep the pass upon the [Music] throne a call to Freedom has been sent out and thousands of colonial Patriots will answer marking not only a day on a calendar but a turning point in the life of a continent [Music] an old order dies on the 19th of April 1775 but 15 months will pass before the representatives of the 13 colonies declare their independence there are discussions debates sharp disagreements as Representatives North and South reconcile their Regional differences here is born an ideal that Thomas Jefferson will call the Spirit of 76 when at last agreement is reached the delegates vote as one defying the most powerful Nation on Earth and pledging to each other their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor the Declaration of Independence has been drafted by Thomas Jefferson with help from Benjamin Franklin John Adams Roger Sherman robbert [Music] Livingston John Hancock is first to sign the historic document that proclaims the rights of man to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness America's declar ation of Independence writes John Adams to his beloved Abigail should be commemorated as a day of Deliverance and celebrated from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever [Music] [Music] more for McHenry September 13th 1814 Independence one in the revolution must be defended in the War of 1812 the British have captured and burned Washington now Baltimore comes under attack major George armastad is in command of Fort McHenry which guards the river approach to the city for 25 hours armastad and his Garrison of 1,000 men are battered by a constant barrage of bombs rockets and [Music] shells Francis Scott Key watches through the night at dawn Old Glory still flies and he writes the words that capture the moment and become our national anthem [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] the American character also is being forged on the [Music] froner nine out of 10 Americans live on farms making their own clothes growing their own [Music] food life is tough dangerous [Music] self-sufficient the living history farms near De Mo Iowa recreate a time when the countryside is uncrowded and the W still waits to be one there is a growing feeling of security and self-confidence both as a people and a [Music] nation the work is backbreaking the hour is long but on the frontier most every man is his own boss with with each shingle that is split and every new building that goes up the pioneer farmers are laying the foundation for an industry that will flourish and grow until one day America becomes the greatest agricultural country in the world here is woven the fabric of life in the United States in the first half of the 19th century many historians will call these years the best of American [Music] times but there is a shadow over the country and soon it will threaten the very existence and preservation of the union we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground the brave men who fought and died here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract General Robert E Lee Seminary Ridge pickets charge Gettysburg July 1863 the decisive battle of the Civil War [Music] [Applause] for 3 Days the Pennsylvania Countryside throbs and Echoes to the shouts of men the crack of muskets the Roar of Cannon [Music] [Applause] where when at last the guns fall silent and the fighting ends Gettysburg becomes a final resting place for thousands of nameless men North and South who gave the last full measure of their Devotion to the cause in which they believed the union is preserved the nation lives to press on and move forward [Music] I lift my lamp beside the golden door Ellis Island in New York Harbor is the gateway to America for many immigrants in all 42 million men women and children come to the United States the greatest migration of people in world history [Music] America offers much to her immigrants and they give back much in return earning a living raising a family living with new neighbors the immigrants are helping to build a [Music] nation as the years go by the imprint of the immigrants is found all across the United States here right Walt Witman is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of [Music] [Music] Nations to ref of [Applause] youring [Music] the to [Music] [Applause] [Music] not every newcomer finds the better life he seeks but parents believe that their dreams can still come true in the lives of their [Music] children all across America the immigrants bring their skills to farms and factories rural areas and City centers out of the 19th century and into the 20th the fruit of their labors is the greatest industrial society that the world has ever known wherever they live or work many of the newcomers are victims of disc disc crimination and Prejudice and yet their children become Business Leaders professional men lawmakers [Music] presidents and in 1917 they crossed the Atlantic to make the world safe for democracy more than 2 million American Doughboys Journey over there to fight in the trenches and on the battlefields of Europe [Music] [Music] [Applause] cheering crowds and Marshal music do not greet all who come home from the war to end all wars the Tomb of the unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery reminds Americans that freedom is not [Music] free Hawaii the paradise of the Pacific on a Sunday morning in the 166th year of Independence the United States is plunged into the gravest crisis in its history beneath the USS Arizona Memorial inomed in the sunken Battleship are more than 1,000 American servicemen who go down with their ship on that Sunday morning yes I regret to tell with the the inevitable PR the army with no fire [Music] for but you won't have it there [Music] anymore people of Western Europe a landing was made to morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied expeditionary Force this Landing is part of a concerted United Nation's plan for the liberation of Europe I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now together we shall achieve Victory the Japanese have accepted our terms fully that's the word we've just received from the White House in Washington this ladies and gentlemen is the end of the second World War oh [Applause] July 1969 the flight of Apollo 11 America answers the challenge of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy I believe we should go to the Moon I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth and therefore as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and Greatest Adventure on which man has ever invoked lights on 4 ft down two and a half picking up some dust four forward four forward drif to the right a little contact light okay engine stop tality base here the eagle has landed I'm at the foot of the ladder and now step off the L now that's one small step for man one Le for man from the shot herd round the world to Neil arm Armstrong's walk on the moon America has been promises not all of these promises have been realized not all of our dreams have come true there has been hope and heartbreak peace and War good times and bad but as the United States passes out of its second and into its third centur Cy the Spirit of 76 still lives and America continues to strive to seek to find and to fulfill her promises and her destiny [Music] the screen News Digest has been brought yeah so uh ran out of leader um and then this came in handy all right um yeah they played fast and loose with American history um yeah skipped over some pretty significant things that led to some of the things that they portrayed um but you know edited for time I guess was a deal uh thank you Jeff Watson uh for that film he donated uh several films and supposedly it has another box coming my way which is very exciting you think I'd be sick of this by now more than 30 years of collecting films but every time a box shows up it's like Christmas for me I'm like oh what is this oh uh much to the Chagrin it's it's kind of like dude you have a closet full of toys a whole basement full of toys and yet you immediately turn to whatever the new shiny thing is um and in this case it's usually Rusty and dusty but oh what's this film oh what's this film so I have to keep kind of going back and calling back to uh older films that I've gotten that I just haven't seen um so yeah uh thank you for tuning in today very much appreciate it uh thank you Jeremy for $5 via super thanks button uh when I was was in the dark uh you use it as a way to kind of beckon me out uh and I got to say man this iMac I keep saying it but this iMac is garbage uh I'm going to try to update the OS on it to see if I can get things to work better but man like just really foul behavior on it and if it doesn't work then I'm probably going to have to figure out a new way another thing to do uh in the meantime if you like what you saw hit the thumbs up hit the like button you can also go to ko-fi.com avgeeks or patreon.com avgeeks those are great ways to support us and that money won't be spent on a new Mac but it will be spent on uh storage units uh rentals of which we have $1,200 at the moment that we're spending each month for seven units uh so your ways that you can help us one way is to donate via the super thanks button or via the ways that I've mentioned here um but another way is I have a lot of stuff that's uh has been monetized which means there's annoying ads uh but 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always I had said this for a while please rewind and love each other this was a magical thing we found inside of a can one of the film cans uh that was obviously uh written by someone who was bored so God bless them all right we will see you tomorrow everybody take care goodbye