AV Geeks Lunch 1-29

hello everybody welcome uh this is skip alzheimer and this is the av geeks lunchtime streaming show and we just watched some sock footage from cornet films um which was silent beautiful kodachrome and we haven't a lick of an idea where any of this takes place there's no documentation on the can beyond the three-letter code ato uh at some point i hope to open a box and suddenly find a bunch of uh lists of what's on what reel cetera etc etc but i haven't found it yet so there you go maybe at one point i'll discover it anyways we watch old 16 millimeter films and that was something that we scanned on another machine but i've got this machine set up right now tell us any to show you a film um there's a couple of films in the health or health-wise series uh some nutty ones from the 70s including toothache of a clown and dirt witch cleans up and so i'm always finding these uh films um and trying to uh see if they're part of that seri that 70 series and unfortunately some are from the 80s and this is ames versus encyclopedia britannica hopefully this doesn't have puppets on it so here we go here's health our picture of ourselves all of us have feelings about ourselves ideas of what kind of person we are we may not think about it very often but each one of us has a picture of himself in his own mind [Music] if we think we're a good person we like ourselves but if we don't think we're a good person we usually feel unhappy all right if you would like to solve this problem let's see melissa [Music] lots of different things can affect the picture we have of ourselves one of those things is what other people think about us when people tell us we've done a good job it pleases us we like to be complimented and we feel good about ourselves when we are but when someone tells us we're not doing very well we feel bad we often don't even want to go on with what we're doing when we feel good about ourselves we're eager to keep doing things life seems very nice [Music] but when someone tells us we're not doing well we may not have such a good picture of ourselves life may not seem to be much fun anymore if we feel unhappy or discouraged it may be hard to get back into the swing of things and act the way we usually do we have to remember that most of our problems will go away in a little while [Music] soon something nice happens to us and we begin to feel better about ourselves [Music] the picture we have of ourselves always has both good and bad things in it when melissa did well at school today she felt good about herself but tonight she had an accident at the dinner table little unpleasant things like this happen to all of us and for a while they can make us feel bad here melissa felt just as bad as lance did when his friend yelled at him for missing the ball she knows that even though she always tries to do her best sometimes things go wrong if we always try to do our best it will help us to have a better picture of ourselves it's okay [Music] [Music] denise walter's father promised to take her on a trip to visit her grandparents on saturday she's been looking forward to it all week long while mr walters was away on a business trip friday afternoon denise got out all the things she needed for the trip and spread them out so she could pack [Music] denise oh which shirt shall i wear daddy just phoned denise he's had some car trouble he won't be home till tomorrow so he won't be able to take you after all maybe we can't go on the trip i'm afraid not honey daddy's awfully sorry honey any promises he'll take you on another trip just as soon as he can denise was very disappointed a minute or two earlier she'd been happy but now all the fun seem to have gone out of her life denise has had disappointments before and other things and she'll have them again [Music] that's true for all of us we have to learn how to handle disappointments even though they're not our fault it often takes time to get over them we can help ourselves feel better by finding something else to do denise remembered that her paints were always fun to play with she thought painting might make her feel [Music] better it wasn't quite as much fun as a trip but it was a lot better than just lying around feeling unhappy [Music] it was the dress rehearsal of the school play everything had to be just right for the big show the next day and sharon you should be a little happier to see him when he comes in okay so far it was going very well the teacher mr russo was quite pleased hi ma'am that's a mighty pretty dress you have on thank you my mother made it but then sharon forgot her lines what's your name um sharon was very embarrassed she'd known her lines perfectly before everyone else but this time she forgot she was so upset she almost cried all of us get embarrassed now and then we have to think about our good points to keep a happy picture of at you just ourselves you made a little mistake sharon knew she was smart and she made up her mind to get everything right the next time i think i'm ready now okay let's try it again all right thank you my mother made it where do you live right up that hill what's your name mckenzie what's yours [Music] paul doesn't really expect he'll ever be able to dive that well but he still wants to learn how to dive [Music] he knows how to swim of course and he likes the water but diving in head first is a lot different from jumping in feet first [Music] this is something new it's a little scary even though he's afraid he's willing to try in the past when he's made mistakes doing something he learned from his mistakes he feels good about himself he's sure that sooner or later he'll learn to dive pretty well when we have a good picture of ourselves we usually feel confident enough to try new things and even if we're not perfect at first we want to keep on trying the way we feel about ourselves affects just about everything we do we do things better when we have a good picture of ourselves do you know how to keep a good picture of yourself well for one thing don't believe everything people say about you what's the [Music] when you feel unhappy try to think about nice pleasant things that have happened to you you'll feel better most unhappy times don't last very long anyway if you're disappointed in some way get busy and do something else you'll find your disappointment will soon go away [Music] when something embarrasses you have confidence in yourself and if you're not afraid to try again you'll find the embarrassment bothers you a lot less i think i'm ready now remember everybody feels unhappy now and then and everybody feels disappointed or embarrassed once in a while too melissa but if you keep a good picture of yourself you'll get over these feelings faster [Music] when you feel sure of yourself you're willing to try new things new adventures if you have a good picture of yourself the future has no limits [Music] [Music] so it's all about self-image and self-esteem that's an interesting film um i think others in this series talk about diet and brushing your teeth and stuff like that and that one is uh it's interesting all right that's why we watch these films i have not seen that one before so there you go uh this next film i have seen before and it's really good but i should caution that um when i posted it on on youtube a lot of people were really depressed when they watched the film um or just really had a narrow view of it wow what an amazing setup that is uh so this is called communicating with deaf blind people and we've shown other films about how to uh work with people who are uh deaf or blind um in normal everyday situations a great film was what to do when you see a blind person and this one is great because it really so we're talking about people that are similar to what helen keller had where she was not she didn't have sight she couldn't hear and uh if you saw the miracle worker or read it you'd know that she eventually had a breakthrough and so this film is kind of talks about the techniques of like how do you talk with someone how do you communicate with somebody who is deaf and blind because they certainly can communicate um using touch so this film is great in that way and the other thing that makes this film great is it's narrated by alexander scorby and if you don't know who that is um when you listen to it you'll go like i know that voice so here it is communicating with deaf [Music] specialist in services for the deaf blind american foundation for the blind have you ever known a person who is deaf as well as blind my work has brought me into contact with many of them contacts which have been extremely enjoyable i travel all over the country as a resource person to counselors caseworkers and teachers whose responsibility it is to serve deafblind people in the total population of blind persons the proportion of those who are deaf-blind is fortunately low they are widely scattered geographically and for this very reason professional workers as well as the family friends and people in the community must learn how to help a deaf-blind person and above all must learn how to talk directly to him this is the first step and the most important step in offering service to him communication you and i take ordinary conversation for granted someone who is both deaf and blind cannot do this but he can learn to understand you by using one or more of various methods of communication and it is possible for him to take his rightful place among his family friends and other associates even strangers in this film you will see five different methods of communication and you will meet six deaf blind people you will see them conversing one using printing in the palm one the alphabet glove two will be talking together with the one hand manual alphabet and another will be using a special device the teletouch the last shown will be the vibration method these are the most commonly used methods in this country there are others which we have not included here thank you miss dinsmore larry lost his sight and hearing in his early teens but he still has a memory of print letters therefore you can talk to him by printing in the palm of his hand this method can be used almost universally because most people know how to print using your index finger as if it were a pencil print capital letters in his hand with simple strokes such as a l s and e make each letter as large as the size of his palm allows with a little practice he will be able to follow your conversation easily if he misunderstands a letter take his finger as if it were a pencil and print the letter on the table in front of him when he gets it right repeat it in the palm of his hand sometimes larry will anticipate a word or a whole sentence when this happens you can save a lot of time by giving him a quick signal for yes and then going on with the following sentence the other hand if he's wrong in a word or sentence he anticipates give him a signal for no and spell it out carefully in other words this is yes and this is no sometimes you may make a mistake yourself and then you can rub it out this always brings a smile would you like coffee ears thank you how do you take it i like it good almost everyone uses gloves of one sort or another for various useful or decorative purposes but the glove which may be new to you in its purpose and appearance is the alphabet glove the alphabet glove must be carefully marked while it is on the hand of the user so that the letters fall exactly on the ends of the fingers the joints and the palm the numbers are marked on the back of the glove on the nails and at the first knuckles marion has worn one of these gloves for years she was blind from early childhood at 20 when she lost her hearing too she preferred the glove for communication she had to memorize these letter positions but they soon became second nature to her now she can carry on a rapid conversation with anyone who can see provided they can spell words and sentences are spelled out by touching the letters in succession h e l l o and you can develop with practice a touch as if playing the piano just as with printing in the palm a quick signal for yes or for no can save time and make it unnecessary to spell out words when marion anticipates them is music music ah what that is what is my hobby yes i have several my favorite stars social dancing but not the twist and clay modeling did did you did i make this yes yes i did oh [Music] yes well bob i started to make it all by myself but i made the mistake of taking it out to the park you know to work on the fresh air as i was working on the cage many people sat on the bench beside me and each had a different idea as to how a fish should look so when i reached home i had a whale with long ears thank goodness the ears fell off too many cabinets right [Laughter] this is the one hand manual alphabet it has been used for years by deaf people in this country and parts of europe ben and alice are having an animated conversation no one can tell what they're talking about because neither utters a sound they've never learned speech each was born deaf and lost sight in adult life we suspect that ben is telling alice a joke of some sort for deafblind people the one hand manual alphabet is a rapid method of communication they must of course learn to read it by touch since they cannot see the position of the fingers of the five different methods of communication shown in this film this one hand manual alphabet is the only one which requires learning on the part of the speaker if you want to use this alphabet you must learn the position of the fingers in making each letter a b c d etcetera in spelling words move your fingers smoothly from one letter to the next without extraneous movements the and cat dog wiggly fingers make fuzzy letters for example the letter i with the thumb up turns into why the deaf-blind person places his hand over yours and reads the words by following the movements of your fingers miss dinsmore must read ben's and alice's spelling by touch too because she is blind also ben has a light touch on miss dinsmore's hand and so does alice she can say the same thing to both of them at once for example what do you want for lunch but she cannot read their answers back at the same time or she will get mixed up and now after lunch the teletouch is a device developed by the american foundation for the blind with which you can talk to a deaf-blind person by means of braille even though you yourself know nothing about braille john lost his sight when he had just finished school and his hearing a few years later he has learned to read the teller touch rapidly for better viewing we are removing the cover the teletouch is a small portable machine with a typewriter keyboard on one side and a single braille cell on the other a plate with six holes through which metal dots are raised in various combinations when you press a letter on the keyboard the corresponding braille character appears in the cell a g l w john places his finger on the cell to read the braille letters use a legato touch pressing each letter rather than striking it holding on to each letter in a given word until you press the following letter such as the word snow s n o w a slight pause between words makes it possible for john to understand you rapidly can you use the teletouch with anyone yes even with a child but the individual must familiarize himself with the sender's touch and the keyboard this differs our penmanship does and as soon as he becomes familiar with it the deafblind person can read more quickly and easily oh i see everyone is different on each side of the space bar are three blank keys these six keys can be used by anyone who knows braille to make many more characters than the 26 letters these save time and increase speed sensitive fingertips highly trained can understand the speech of others through touch the thumb rests on the lips while the four fingers spread out across the cheek and jaw to catch every movement and vibration carol recognizes a friend by a familiar bracelet and ring and shows delight in the contact she quickly looks a visitor over to check earrings hairdo dress carol lost her sight and hearing when she was not quite two years old just about the same age helen keller was when she became both deaf and blind when carol was old enough she entered a department for deaf blind children in a school for the blind there she was taught to speak to understand the meaning of words and to understand the world around her gradually she mastered the language of this world and was able to speak it and also to read it and write it in braille as her vocab she increased her skill in reading the spoken word by touch so that when she finished school she was well prepared to take her place in her family and social group a genuine interest in others is contagious and she is accepted warmly by all who know her now let's tune into the conversation did you have a nice birthday party dude [Music] [Music] a new yellow dress and green shoes that sounds very pretty [Music] you have seen five of the most commonly used means of communication in the united states to use several methods and this enables them to converse with a variety of people and to develop broader and more effective relationships the number of persons in our population who are both deaf and blind is relatively small and they are widely scattered they urgently need your understanding and communication is the key when you have the opportunity talk directly with a deaf-blind person you will find that this experience will give both of you real satisfaction and pleasure he used hoskins marion geraldine lawhorn alice mary gilmore ben enio strutzi john sam chermak carol carmella otero consultant in education american foundation for the blind robert a bowers cinematographer john r mccrory jr producer and director clarence schmidt american foundation for the blind 15 west 16th street new york new york the end a spot film production so alexander scorby was reading the uh credits and this is because uh this film would be for blind people as well to watch to learn um a fascinating film um you know like i said most of the comments on youtube when i posted this we're like i don't know i i don't if i was in that situation i'd kill myself blah blah blah blah you know and so it's a lot of knee jerk responses and it's also probably a bunch of uh 12 year olds who are posting that so uh people who have not really thought through um situations so um yeah i think it's a fascinating film i'd like to learn a lot about uh how people with these disabilities are what we consider to be disabilities how they work how they live in a world where people with people who have sight and with people who can hear uh just because there's ways to do it and certainly you have the the two uh people communicating without making any sounds and uh that's a world that and in scorpios like i think she's telling her a joke um so it's a it's a wonderful world uh when i worked at the national aids hotline for a couple of years there was a tty deathline that was specifically for uh people who uh used tty to communicate so deaf people uh and it was staffed by deaf people because that community had its own language for the most part even though they would type out words they would say things in ways that if someone spoke you wouldn't say it the same way so very similar to how text texting goes where people come up with shortcuts and ways to communicate with texting tty was the same thing so really kind of fascinating all right so this film is i have not seen this this is an encyclopedia britannica film about light science says light science you can do it so i don't know this is probably a lot of experiments for kids so i always like that i like watching experiments for kids especially if they go into the realm of fun tricks you can play on your friends using science concepts so here it is [Music] [Music] magic this girl's head seems to have come loose from her body how can this be looking behind the scene we can see that it's a very simple trick the magician can make us see what he wants us to see by using a mirror and his knowledge of the properties of light one of the properties of light is that it always travels in a straight line unless something makes it change direction it's easy to see light coming directly from a source to your eye but trying to bend light around the corner doesn't work too well can we prove that light usually travels in a straight line try this experiment with a ruler make a straight line along the light beam as long as the holes are lined up the light passes through with no problem if we move the holes away from the straight line the light won't bend itself through the holes but are there ways to change the direction of light let's pretend that these three balls are part of a light beam as the balls travel down the board they meet a smooth straight surface notice that they all change direction the same way no matter how many times we repeat this experiment the balls bounce off in the same predictable direction now let's try the balls on a rough uneven surface they seem to go off in all directions every time we do the experiment they behave differently will light behave the same way the balls did let's try bouncing a light beam off this straight surfaced glass the pattern of the light beam bounces off the glass and onto the wall in a regular predictable way if we substitute a crumpled irregular surface for the smooth one something different seems to happen all we see is a fuzzy glow of light on the wall not a predictable pattern in general we can say that smooth surfaces like this glass are good reflectors and that irregular surfaces are poor reflectors there is something else that is very predictable about reflected light a mirror and a protractor will help us see what it is by measuring the angle between the mirror and the light beam striking it we notice a curious fact this angle is identical to the angle between the mirror and the reflected light beam no matter how we change the first angle the second will always equal it [Music] but there are other predictable properties of light a mirror is normally what we think of when speaking of reflected surfaces we can observe that our image seems to be standing behind the mirror the reflecting rays of light are all coming back to us as if they were from the same size person behind the mirror in fact it appears to be the same distance from the mirror to the image as from us to the mirror there is one thing different about our image in the mirror however everything seems to be backwards this is a very handy property of reflecting light if we work it right this secret code writing system will allow us to send messages that most people can't decode [Music] but not all reflective surfaces create normal sizes and shapes the two sides of this spoon seem to create completely different images why is this a curved shape to a mirror seems to create this strange image if we bend the mirror outwards the image becomes very small the curved surface makes it appear that the rays of light are coming from a smaller person we call this kind of mirror a convex mirror on the other hand bending the mirror inward creates a different image this concave mirror is concentrating the rays of light in front of the mirror at some point these rays meet in one spot we call this spot the focal point when the rays pass the focal point the image is formed upside down there is another way that light can change direction if we shine a strong beam of light through this milky water we can make a very interesting observation where the beam of light leaves the air and enters the water it bends very noticeably think of the light beam as having a certain width as the beam hits the water at an angle one side slows down sooner this causes the beam of light to bend toward the surface of the water the opposite effect happens when the beam leaves the water and speeds up in the air the side leaving first speeds up sooner and bends the light away from the surface of the water this type of bending is called refraction even a very small drop of water can cause strange bendings of light the refraction or bending of light through this water drop focuses the light into the center of the white spot notice that the area where the rays of light are no longer striking has gone black light passing back through our water drop also does a very unique thing very small print can suddenly become very large pieces of glass that refract light and change the size of images are called lenses lenses not only make things bigger and smaller but they also make things clear or fuzzy using a lens a light and a screen we can change the focus of a projected image move the lens closer to the light now move the screen so that the image is sharp again measure the distance between the light and lens and the lens and screen try this several times you will notice that as the lens gets closer to the light you have to move the screen further away to keep the image focused this property of lenses is very important to many people for example some of you may have had trouble seeing things close up [Music] but you can see things far away this means you are far-sighted for the normal eye images are sharply focused on the retina however if you are far-sighted your retina is too close to your natural lens and you'll have trouble focusing an image glasses or contacts made of convex lenses help concentrate the light and move the image forward so it focuses on the retina other people can see things close up while things at a distance won't focus these people are nearsighted again the shape of the eye is the problem nearsighted people have retinas that are too far from their natural lenses and images are hard to focus concave lenses that spread the light out will help focus the image onto the retina magic many magicians can still play tricks on us but now that we understand reflection and refraction lenses and mirrors now that we understand the properties of light maybe things will be just a little bit clearer [Music] [Music] it's so weird to uh see a film that's made in the 80s like after i went to college it just it feels different to me i think uh i have a friend mentor who's uh rick treilinger and he doesn't like films from the 70s and 80s because i don't think he grew up with them and i think i feel the same way like films after i left high school when i was in college don't feel right they don't they just don't resonate so and i don't have a nostalgia for them because i didn't experience being in school during that time um whereas i know that some younger folks definitely have a nostalgia for that so i have to be aware of that um magnifying glasses i am sure that i have burnt little things in my eyes having used magnifying glasses to concentrate light to burn things uh unfortunately ants but also paper somebody's shoe my hand a variety of things so magnifying glasses are great but they're also problematic speaking of problematic oh yeah let me just say thank you william for the coffee uh and johan for the coffee one way you can say that you like av geeks is by buying us coffee another ways you can hit like subscribe notifications there's a bell i don't know there's lots of different things i've been watching a lot of uh podcasts on youtube and there's this spiel that they say at the end and i'm assuming that you do too so maybe you know what that spiel is so you can just go ahead and do whatever it is that they say you want to do you can also go to av geeks.com we have thousands of other films and videos online uh and also shows all i think almost all the shows that we've done since mid march 2020 are on there uh and then also you can buy dvds there so uh this next film i've been wanting to show this for a long time but i'm it has copyrighted music in it popular copywriting music in it so this is what we're gonna do i'm gonna play it and i'm gonna try to mute it appropriately but if i get kicked off then i get kicked off and we'll just it's so great uh so it's called pop show it was made in the 60s uh it features someone who was before they were celebrity in it um it also features some rolling stones music that i'm going to try to mute out because it's not throughout the entire film so we'll see how this goes this is almost like a challenge and uh so if i use i lose you on facebook or youtube um you can always go to twitch but uh if i don't see you uh everybody have a good weekend and um but i'm sure i'll come back i don't know we'll see what happens all right are we ready we're ready to try this alright here we go here goes nothing all right [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's try [Music] foreign shut up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] yay we did it um i mean i'm sure that the hammer is going to come down later as the files get processed but we did it you guys watched it yay and um some eagle eyes out there spotted that the uh woman who was drinking all the products is gloria steinem this is before gloria uh she was a young journalist and this is before she did a stint as a playboy bunny for an article this is before uh her women's lib um and women's movement um stuff and i think she was friends with the filmmaker and uh i remember when i was watching this the first time i was like huh it looks like gloria steinem and then i did some research and sure enough there it was so um i had a friend who was i gloria spoke locally in raleigh and i had a friend who was going to go see her speak and i was like oh here give her this dvd but i don't think it ever worked out i think that the line was too long to speak with her so anyways happy friday everybody have a good uh rest of your weekend um we'll be back uh next week i should say tomorrow actually on youtube found footage festival they do something called the saturday morning cartoons and i'm going to be on there i think it's premieres at 10 or 11 and i'll be uh talking about sugar crisp cereal in the history of sugar bear which kind of tells the history of pre-sweetened sugar cereals in american culture and um yeah they're they're funny guys you've seen them so um you can certainly see them tomorrow or they put it on they premiere it tomorrow on youtube but then they keep it up so you're more than welcome to check it out otherwise i'll see you on monday uh everybody have a good rest of your day what am i doing as always please rewind and love each other and take care and i will see you soon bye you