AV Geeks Lunch 11 4 2022

hi everybody I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the AV Geeks lunchtime streaming show where uh I'm not live today because I'm actually doing a presentation to a bunch of community colleges about uh audio visual archiving um so um yeah I'm not in the archive but I still want to share some films that we haven't seen because I got so many and new ones are showing up all the time so we're going to start off today with a film um called addendum to a college Bulletin which is a very odd film I got it with a bunch of films from Queen's College in New York and um this one is kind of an ad for Queen's College and it's kind of quirky it starts off with some amazing electronic music and then kind of shows how great Queens College is a Circa mid 70s I think um so enjoy foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] workers in America used to get their education in what they call the School of Hard Knocks the students in those opening scenes you just saw are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those workers the Millions for whom labor was the only learning believe it or not they were shown in Queen's College classrooms studying underwater mapping electronic music and mass communications they're getting an education not only in conventional classroom settings but like their grandparents in the infinite laboratory of the city and the country itself my name is Ralph Hague and I graduated from Queens College in 1950. back in those days the Queen's College bulletin was one slender volume today there are many Queens College catalogs they reflect not only the fact that enrollment has more than doubled and that graduate and specialized programs have been added but also an exciting variety flexibility and quality of choice in the undergraduate curriculum for those of you who are students here the owls and Jefferson Hall must seem familiar but the owls look out on a campus where growth and change startled a traditionalist and worry campus conservationists trying to hold on to some Vestige of space and Greenery [Music] college and its students are much a part of the city that supports and sustains the giant City University of New York foreign the red roofed spanish-style buildings will give way as a 200 million dollar building program implements the college's master plan [Music] come on campus often parochial unreflective uncritical and here they reflect and argue and open their minds they meet foreign students older students students from American minority groups and from many areas of the Caribbean and Latin America like all New Yorkers ingeniously they find ways to be alone in a crowded and abrasive environment like all college students they find fun love friends and they play [Music] beautiful like all youth they explore and Sample and are drawn by the unique and by the Primitive sensuality of ritual and music [Music] in the past year or so students have assumed mature responsibility in voting for their own representatives to the chief legislative body of the college the academic Senate here in the Senate students young faculty and Senior professors painstakingly write the laws that govern almost every phase of the college's life and curriculum in this chamber has been hammered out a curricular Freedom that for example lifted college-wide although not departmental requirements for the bachelor's degree at Queen's College a freedom that has made it possible for some 2 000 out of 17 000 full-time undergraduates to enroll in some kind of specialized program in honors or interdisciplinary or tutorial studies queens has matured from its Beginnings in 1937 as a small somewhat provincial teaching school into a major university-related institution with a national reputation yet Queens puts heavy emphasis on teaching still requiring all its faculty to teach even its young President Joseph Murphy remains Professor Murphy a political philosopher who meets a class every week after hours in his office the full-time faculty numbering about 1300 has attracted some leading academic figures economists abalerna and Michael Harrington physicist and oceanographer Taro Takahashi mathematician Edwin Moise critic Eric Bentley Joseph Brodsky the Soviet poet in Exile sociologist Ed gerborgata political scientist Andrew hacker and Boris goldovsky founder and director of many opera theater groups at Queens the faculty from the most recent lecturer to the academic star teaches here in the classroom is daily evidence of the faculty's concern with what happens inside the student's head with their growing awareness of their own attitudes and understanding of other realities of the effect these have on their decisions and their morality in small classrooms in lecture Halls in groups and alone teaching and learning is the reason for Queen's college and this end is clear but often is not clear for the student is which of the dozens of roots to that end he or she should choose thank you in an institution catapulted within a decade into several schools and graduate divisions and now founding the city University's first school of law selecting courses and programs becomes a test in itself of a student's ability to accumulate data and draw conclusions [Music] registering thirty thousand students takes a lot of computer terminals but for the individual those punched out program cards represent hours of Agony and decision [Music] registration formally was a matter of skillfully fitting a group of required courses into a time schedule that was fairly civilized that avoided such problems as the 7 A.M bus and a four-hour Hiatus between Friday afternoon classes and those pitfalls still exist but now students May select within departmental requirements among a list of courses numbering into the thousands besides this honors and interdisciplinary programs make it possible to construct a major for example in biology art or in chemistry anthropology individual honors work has always been part of the curriculum students like this sophomore do research under faculty guidance but because she could begin such research long before her senior year and because students need not major in a discipline for honors work the effect is a curricular variation that is distinctly different the subject of this particular project is attention span and primates Susie a rhesus monkey watches a TV monitor and as a reward for paying attention it's a drink of orange Kool-Aid [Music] some monkeys are raised from infancy in the psychology Labs at Queens making it possible to study their tactile reactions and development [Music] these undergraduates are constructing organic Crystal models from crystals which they grow themselves in the physics labs the class of research which is unusual as in the past most research has been on inorganic crystals in the low temperature Laboratory students study various Quantum effects in solids here filling a chamber with liquid nitrogen and then with liquid helium which produces a temperature of minus 455 degrees just right for experiments that demand cold clear reasoning up in the attic of one of the college's original 1910 buildings students assist a member of The Faculty who is constructing a microwave lab foreign [Music] physical education is associated with sports but at Queens today student researchers explore such areas as the response of the heart to stress during a running exercise and measuring the amount of oxygen used by the muscles during a workout on an exerciser thus it's critical to physiologists and cardiologists visualized ba is an extension and a controversial one of the traditional honors project for the IBA as it is known students write their own course outline for a single semester or an entire year one of the IBA students is a musicologist doing research on manuscripts in the college's special collection after approval by a three-member faculty committee an IBA project can generate up to 32 credits for a Year's work take an on or off campus undergraduates come in all ages and this junior is part of a research project in speech therapy working with puppets in order to help Young stutterers sometimes objections to this kind of independent work stem from varying concepts of academic standards sometimes the objection evolves from the nature of the project itself for example a student whose interests lie in the area of American Labor Relations spent a year with the United Farm Workers Union observing and participating in their organizing activities concept of Permitting students freedom to explore on their own under faculty guidance is not a totally new one hardware and instructional resource equipment however lately introduced into the humanities and social sciences have altered both the look and style of these disciplines foremost among the catalysts has been the computer Queens Sigma 7 capable of doing up to 500 000 additions per second speeds through student research queries such as when and how it will be possible to put computer terminals in everyone's home and how to analyze word permutations in poetry music is a way of life at Queens which has one of the country's outstanding music departments both in the Performing Arts and in musicology the skill of this undergraduate quintet practicing at a faculty member's home comes as no surprise [Music] but student performers using an electronic music laboratory do look and sound different from what you might expect the Moog synthesizer used here was developed by Charles move a queen's college graduate [Music] students in the field of communications or drama still study argumentation and Shakespeare now the Flesh and fell here they shall make us weak we'll see him Star first curriculum and communication Arts and Sciences also puts undergraduates into an equipment-filled Workshop as television Crews and directives you're wrong much research and study at the college focuses on that remarkable laboratory the city in the spare quarters of an off-campus facility an oral history class listens to taped interviews made by students of local residents who tell about their life experiences in middle class and ghetto neighborhoods education major trains on the job in a school in Manhattan that is experimenting with open classroom teaching techniques [Music] in a borrowed Loft on 4th Street students turn a printmaker Studio into a neighborhood Arts Center for children and adults [Music] this related field work through programs such as action for the college-sponsored community classroom sends well over a thousand students each semester into public and private agencies hospitals prisons storefronts [Music] they serve but they also question and seek to transform [Music] foreign Justice here every Saturday they open a world of shapes and colors where the self however young or poor and find and Trace the endless patterns of its own visions [Music] foreign also on a Saturday near Co-op City in the Bronx other Queen students make Orchard Beach their Laboratory for a methods course in geological mapping determining the structures of the rocks and with an alidade the compass orientation of lines and fractures such techniques are required for a summer field course given in Eastern Pennsylvania foreign [Music] about 60 students each Summer live on their own resources on an isolated beach near cinnamon Bay in the Virgin Islands to take a course called general science of the ocean not many years ago students in a public City University would have had little hope of studying abroad or of spending a summer in Europe or the Caribbean but private and governmental scholarship Aid and growing substantial aid from Queen's College alumni to help students pay their way on these important field trips they become skilled divers and sailors [Music] the divers working in teams learn to map sediment Distribution on the ocean bottom [Music] foreign [Music] a British vessel sunk in a hurricane in 1868 yields up some artifacts which the students collect and later will catalog [Music] student divers also visit a research apparatus called a tectite which is under the control of the Caribbean Research Institute and in which scientists live for lengths of time to monitor the migrations of lobster and rare fish [Music] undergraduates on campus get set for a weekend field trip for a course in geology that will take place off the coastline of Long Island formed some 12 000 years ago by streams depositing sand and gravel as they came off melting ice sheets they board City University's research vessel the Atlantic twin pulling away from The Dock of the New York ocean science laboratory at Montauk Point mate and a queen's Professor chart the best course for the classes study of Trace elements and metals in sediments which will indicate pollution [Music] hahaha [Music] this far off the island is one of the few places on the East Coast where the water is relatively free from pollution therefore these sediment tests will give a good base map of the effects of encroaching pollution students on the trip only half of whom major in geology collect samples from a van being dredge and place them in special bags [Music] the samples are taken back to campus Laboratories and separated into different proportions [Music] later the whole sample is placed in a nest of sieves and agitated in a Road Tap the results of these analyzes are plotted on maps and the variations between Samples used to determine the sedimentary processes suddenly those four rare years of college are over simulating the parades of medieval monks and Scholars centuries ago The Faculty procession [Music] followed by the students winds brilliantly around the campus [Music] in college history begins each year over again the end and the beginning merge the experiment becomes tradition Restless a college searches for truth both inside and outside itself the search brings forth courage and fear skepticism and dogmatism ideologies inventions discoveries Beauty add to the Queen's College Bulletin Adventure change add to America another and perhaps different generation [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign foreign [Music] yeah I love it because it's of a certain time it's for a certain Niche audience um I'm happy to have shared that with you all right so this next film is one of my probably top five favorite films of all time and I have yet to show it to you um I've been waiting for an opportunity to do it and it seemed like now is the time this is from the national film Board of Canada and I don't think this is available online from them but it is awesome it is called the game it is about these teenage boys of which one is kind of a lady killer and um and about the emotions associated with having sex in high school um it is so hip the kids in this film are so amazingly cool I like it it just blows me away I always say that this is like a Goddard film like if Goddard did a after school special because it is just the kids are just so hip and I found out that the girl in this is actually in uh cannibal girls uh she shows up in it and I cannot remember her name but she is stunning so here it is the game enjoy foreign gonna move on tan hey man your old man a cop three and five nine two what's coming oh yeah what's the matter you don't like them sure but I don't go around acting like an idiot how do you act Mr Casanova you want some action let's go over and tell them we need some girls Sharpie sure that's great and uh what happens if they say now when they say no they mean yes you know that okay who's gonna go over hey how about a vote okay killer you win yeah Morris let's go come on hey boys okay guys thank you make a move uh no he's not making it he's not uh didn't think so those two are worse than what's her name you know the Nikki they said we were kids well we do need some girls yeah what about Nikki she's your type yeah what about her Peter okay you come thank you with her big boy anytime I want yeah come on yeah let's see yeah you wouldn't want to hurt her now would you I'm fed up doing favors oh your conscience is probably caught up with you come on let's see a little action spawn her up are you chicken look at him lover boy lying in the sun just waiting for the girls to come floating by yeah I'll tease him he is chicken so your friends we concerned right knock it off will ya oh he's just too scared I'll talk and no action man everybody's gonna know you're just a big chicken we want you to know we're ashamed of you he stays in his room and reads books he's just a big wide zero think you can take her out for more than a week this time I do what I do when I feel like doing it the only difference is I enjoy myself tell us another story oh foreign speak to Nikki please oh hello this is uh this is Peter who Peter me hear me that's pretty good you're very funny Joe now would I joke with you thank you yeah you're right I'm sorry uh this is Peter Miller no you hello yeah well I don't make up the schedule but I wish I did listen I've got a lot of things to do so if you just tell me what you want I've seen you around the school and I thought you might like to go to a movie with me tonight just like that just call me up and ask me out I don't even know you and you're asking me to a movie well if you let me take you out you'll find out who I am right well I don't know I'll probably have to think about it look it's not a big deal what's there to think over we'll go to the same school we'll go to the same movie but I don't know you how do I know what kind of a boy you are oh I'm a nice guy you can see that tonight when I pick you up if you don't like the way you ring the doorbell you don't have to answer it tonight on such short notice why not how many kidnappers do you think go to our lovely School well it's not bad it's just that we should meet in daylight first foreign [Music] wow hi I'm Peter Miller oh so you're Peter I'm sorry about the other night it's all right it doesn't matter Peter this is Carol and Linda yes we've met before how come you're waiting for me well it's daylight isn't it so so uh are you going home now Parkway I was wondering if you could go to a movie Saturday night Maybe [Music] but what was so fabulous besides it takes your mind out of things what problems do you have problems no you are too young hold up I'm 21. and I see your ID I must have lost their phone too bad see those other girls he looks even younger than me hold up if you want to get in all I have to do is make it through phone call forget it I don't want to get into any trouble you would why don't we go over to your place listen to records or something my parents friends are over we could avoid them your room is exactly the way I imagined it thinking about sure looks cute like you type out of the compliment well if a guy takes a girl to a movie he's supposed to like her you know but why would an Insight you've got my head shrinker in Disguise oh what have you found out about me so far your molecules are working too fast you've got small hands there's a cold what are you smiling at your compliments I thought you were laughing at me foreign foreign [Music] foreign what are you doing I suppose you're watching TV no I just stepped out of the bathtub I hope you properly dressed or what wouldn't frighten me Me by that reminder I figured if you weren't I'd Rush right over I'm sorry foreign it's a stupid subject dissecting sentences besides have always had crumb English teachers and I'm scientifically inclined anyway a lot of work that's the trouble I just disagree with it work the minimum get the maximum that's what I say [Music] [Music] hey what's this what's this I get out of my life we uh hey do you like the Virgie there hey she's good looking man 38 23 36. that's not everything boy what's inside a bra look at his face he has that look he's gonna look she'll be okay for a night you sadistic fiend did you say seductic ah you can't win them all you finally found them with style I bet you're sure you'll be stuck with her and also wanted the chocolate milkshake with whipped cream in it cherry on top why don't you guys stop worrying about this hey are you taking her to the beach party tomorrow yeah but uh where are you guys getting cars eh I can get my own man sure sure that's great but we're gonna need something large on a Volkswagen a Cadillac's okay hey let's say we run a Hurst guys [Music] some spare time talk to you oh come on it's the truth what did you expect girls are you coming to the party Saturday I'll have to have to what time would I be getting home oh about five o'clock in the morning I suppose five o'clock are you serious the latest that's okay we can get home by then well I better let you go now good morning bye okay bye bye you're wrong foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] let's get away from here it's too noisy [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign we better go all the way down oh it's playing anyway hey hey how's your game go Peter hey you about [Music] foreign no girl foreign [Music] foreign school today I feel right if I can see that [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] okay good warrior how many one once you got you guys lose so so hey did you get nicked very funny man you got a memory lapse of course spill it man oh they sat around the water playing tiddlywinks all night oh yeah hey what you like Peter she's all right yeah hey you're a success boy got the next one all lined up good idea for you man how about Carol why don't you guys just shut up for a change eh yeah hey look at him he's getting emotional yeah man that's not your style are you nervous or something why don't you just cut me out for Wiley you're letting us down boy yeah how's that new song coming along look he's changing the subject something's on his mind eh how about that I'll see you guys tomorrow foreign yes [Music] uh [Music] foreign [Music] wow I wish I was that cool I mean really really insane it's such a great film um and uh yeah I hope at some point that Nashville film Board of Canada does like a restoration of it and then they do a reunion and bring all the the actors back I would love to see that um but anyways thanks so much for joining us today if you like what you saw you can uh hit the like button the thumbs up button you can also um donate at uh patreon.com avgeeks or at Ko Dash fi.com avgeeks those are great ways to reward us and caffeinate us um we will be back on Monday and uh everybody have a great rest of your day um and a great weekend and uh vote if you haven't done it yet please vote um I think we're gonna do it this weekend but um if you can early vote go ahead just knock it out do it um but everybody have a great weekend and we will see you soon take care