AV Geeks Lunch 2-8

hello welcome everybody i'm skip alzheimer and this is our lunchtime streaming show we just watched some stock footage from cornet films technology calvin thanks for the coffee obviously i need it you can buy his coffee at that link that i just pointed to right there um so anyways uh we just watched some stock footage silent and so it's basically uh raw footage that was shot maybe for a specific coronet film but these are the outtakes or these are the leftovers so they put them on cans and use them in future productions so um in scanning a bunch of the coronet stuff i run across these cans and they're pretty awesome um hope everybody had a good weekend um i had a great weekend it's nice sunny outside might have to take a walk in the meantime here's a film about a dealer in death john dillinger [Music] hey john dillinger began his career of crime in mooresville a quiet indiana town southwest of indianapolis bred on a farm nearby he spent his youth idling about pool rooms with other boys one of whom at least had as little moral backbone as dillinger had that boy's name was ed singleton in 1924 dillinger was 22 years old and wanted money in this grocery store owned by frank morgan then 65 years old dillinger and singleton assaulted the old proprietor and stole his wallet but morgan had recognized his assailants and singleton turned state's evidence dillinger was given 10 to 20 years in the indiana reformatory at pendleton conflicting stories are told of dillinger here the probably true one is that his conduct in the reformatory was so outrageous that the authorities were compelled to send him to a place where discipline was more rigorous and where prison severities might teach him the folly and futility of crime as a career what he learned in this new place of detention were the vicious secrets and habits of hardened criminals this was in the penitentiary at michigan city where he remained until paroled in june 1933. let us see where this arch full of society sprang from while his father ran this grocery store in indianapolis in 1902 john dillinger was born the little house seems to give promise a better thing here three years later dillinger's mother considering the gorilla her son turned out to be john dillinger's father was and is a respected citizen of morgan county everyone liked him and today everyone sympathizes with him there's nothing but sorrow ahead for the old man his son has taken the road to doom from the homeless shelter of this little farm john dillinger left to become the menace any officer would be justified in killing like a mad dog a criminal and a fool for john dillinger is not smart only a fool thinks that crime pays crime never pays john should have learned that simple truth in the friend's church where he went as a boy but he was too dumb and so nine years after his first crime he came out of jail just to get back in again at lima oh in his four months of liberty dillinger had identified himself as the leader in bank robberies in new carlisle ohio feral pennsylvania indianapolis and bluffton ohio in lima he was to stand trial for the bluffton robbery this was in september 1933 but two days before dillinger landed in the lima jail ten men jail friends of dillingers shot their way out of michigan city penitentiary dillinger had engineered this break from the outside and had caused guns to be thrown over the walls to be picked up by the plotting desperados among the jailbreakers were four men of whom we'll hear later pierpont mackley clark and hamilton these men seized a passing motor car forced the occupants out and sped away no one knows their exact route but michigan city and its prison lay behind them and the devil's dance was about to begin and they were going to start they arrived at the lima jail five days later representing themselves as indiana officers the quartet demanded dillinger failing to get him they murdered sheriff sarber whose son the present sheriff sits on the steps of in this picture they secured the keys and calmly released their pal the five escaped through this side door ran down the sidewalk screened from the street by bushes leaked into an automobile at the curb and fled the wild game was on prime's hyenas were loose scene shifts to tucson arizona 11 days later in this house billinger was found and arrested again four months had passed since dillinger had left jail these officers had him safe enough however and his arsenal as well arrested also were pierpont mackley and cluck due to their own stupidity the three bandits were living at the congress hotel when it caught fire mackley and clark offered a fireman twelve dollars to carry out their trunks in their rooms the firemen saw their guns scrutinized the thugs recognized them and tipped off the police congratulations poured in on police court formalities were soon over and dillinger was flown by plane toward the cell yawning for him at crown point indiana where he was to face the charge of murder in the slaying of o'malley in east chicago the long arm of the law had reached john dillinger and he took his first ride in an airplane chained to it in talking to reporters in tucson dillinger admitted that he helped fix the jailbreak at michigan city and tried to justify it because they were friends i stick to my friends he said and they stick to me but sticking to that sort of friends landed dullinger back in chicago on january thirtieth with the electric chair already casting its grisly shadow over him rushed to crown point dillinger was put in the custody of sheriff lillian holly she boasted that she could keep him and he boasted she couldn't this didn't prevent the amazing happy family picture in which prosecutor is still who said he was confident that dillinger would get the chair and the sheriff posed with delander in apparently affectionate intimacy now there's to be a new prosecutor and a new sheriff but there's no prisoner but for the moment dillinger was safely guarded by deputies armed with machine guns rifles and revolvers steel bars which looked okay and it certainly looked mighty tough for the boastful loudmouth mr john dillinger the third person to be made the goat by dillinger at crown point beside still and mrs holly was judge william murray who refused to transfer dillinger from crown point to michigan city penitentiary meanwhile the three bashful thugs arrested with dillinger in arizona were being returned by the more prosaic method of train travel to ohio but behind the brick walls dillinger was whittling out a piece of wooden washboard and making plans on march 3rd at 8 30 in the morning armed with his wooden toy pistol dillinger over awed his guards armed himself and a negro fellow prisoner herbert youngblood with machine guns and revolvers from the sheriff's office and walked out forcing guard ernest blunt to accompany them through this kitchen and off the side entrance unmolested and unhurried the trio went with blanc always a bit ahead of dillinger's machine gun muzzle spider lake is near the town of mercer during the summer months a popular resort it has little or no patronage earlier in the year it was to this point that dillinger came with three other men and three women to little bohemia and spent two days emel wanatka the proprietor was forced to serve the gang federal officers surrounded the place to surprise dillinger but mrs wanatka's two dogs gave the alarm and a blast of machine gun fire opened a battle royal body of w carter bomb killed by the bandits baum makes the 14th death directly traceable to dillinger in columbus dillinger's number one friend harry pierpont awaits the day of his tragic march to the electric chair for his friendship friend number two charles napoli awaits the same day and fate through the same cause the dillinger curse trend number three russell clark is faced with prison for life for the same sinister association outside their cells they can hear the shuffle of sullen men marching to other cells in which their soured and unhappy lives are spent in payment of their crimes hopelessness broods here that or the searing death of hot bullets fired from eager guns that or the knife of some friend turned assassin prime never paid the electric chair was again cheated when dillinger was lured to this north side chicago theater by the woman in red to see manhattan melodrama a then very popular gangster picture imagine dillinger watching the screen gangster as he began to walk the last mile like dillinger gable in his role was a swaggering fellow what thoughts must have passed through the mind of the woman sitting by dillinger's side it was past these stores that he and his girlfriend walked as they left the theater dillinger's sixth sense told him all was not well his girlfriend dropped back dillinger scraped to a halt the full significance of those grim approaching men was not lost to him suddenly he went into action for the last time he ran for this alley reaching for his guns bullets halted his mad rush the guns of his assailants shot through dillinger was dead he lay in a pool of his own blood in the filth of an alley his body was rushed to the morgue at police headquarters dillinger's hair had been dyed jet black and cut very short his eyebrows had been plucked to a fine line and he had grown a small black mustache he was definitely identified as the former public enemy number one his bone sent home to his eight father for burial can you picture the sorrow of this poor old man to have his son back home again even though he was still in death must have been a great load off of his aging shoulders just three months to the day after the killing of dillinger melvin purvis and his gang of officers killed pretty boy floyd in a running gun battle near the small village of wellsville ohio here he is seen with his body riddled with bullets shortly before it was sent home to his aged mother thus sorrow fell again on another humble home 1934 was a banner year for the department of justice under the leadership of j edgar hoover in chicago babyface nelson was shot in a running ball with g-men fred barker and his mother ma barker died in their florida bungalow their bodies riddled with machine gun bullets the year 1935 found the g-men working at top speed many kidnappers were rounded up among whom was bruno richard hoffman who died in the electric chair for the kidnapping of the lindbergh baby alvin karpas who more than two years ago shot his way out of an atlantic city hotel was captured in an apartment in new orleans on may 1 1936 by j edgar hoover and his g-man quickly following his capture harry campbell one of carpa's henchmen was captured in toledo ohio before the papers could get onto the street with this announcement g-men reported the capture of william mahon wanted in the wirehouse or kidnapping climaxing a sensational 10-day roundup of the nation's public enemies on may 11 1936 the federal agents captured the last of the problems thomas h robin effort of mrs alice stoll the alertness of this obscured clerk lynn allen led to robinson's capture who wanted as a woman it was all up to the drugstore where allen was employed and whose suspicions were so aroused by robinson's actions that he notified the pasadena authority the g-men were called in and he was soon traced to this modest little home in glendale california where he was taken without a struggle the deadliest are vanishing from our nation crime can and will be put down in america the department of justice is leading the way and deserves a vote of thanks from every right-thinking person in america [Music] wow that film was nuts um so that's from a collection of uh another collector who i i do work for uh actually it's a husband and wife it's paul and elizabeth nelson based in houston texas and uh they've sent me a bunch of films to digitize so that we can put them online and sell some stock footage but that one is nuts the uh the first narrator i don't even know why they have two narrators that's what's crazy too but the uh the rabid dislike of john dillinger he's stupid you know we feel bad for his dad it's it's really it's kind of insane um that was really awesome though all right um we've learned against about our battle against gangsters so let's learn about uh the battle against disease today doctors know many ways of keeping us healthy partly because of the work of five important men of science we call health heroes nearly 300 years ago anthony von lavenhook a dutch merchant made a hobby of building microscopes in 1675 with a simple microscope only hook saw whole living things that were invisible to the naked eye they were tiny moving objects which he called little animals from his drawings we know that von lavinhook probably was the first man to see bacteria he described the basic shapes by which bacteria are classified today the sphere the rod and the spiral but leaven hook studies marked the beginning of our knowledge of the tiny living things we call microorganisms and of our understanding of how they affect our health edward jenner an english doctor in 1796 found a way to prevent smallpox a disease which had killed thousands of people jenner observed that people who worked around cows usually did not get smallpox but they did get a much milder disease called cowpox in a famous experiment a milkmaid named sarah nelms helped jenner test his idea that having cowpox might prevent a person from getting smallpox jenner took liquid from a cow park soar on sarah nelms and then he injected this liquid into the arm of a boy named jimmy phipps in a few days the boy had developed cow pox sewers jenner knew this meant he had cowpox after the boy had recovered from cowpox jenner injected him with the liquid he had taken from a smallpox this should have given him smallpox but jimmy phipps did not get smallpox today we would say that he had been vaccinated jenner had discovered a means of preventing diseases a way of making a person immune to them today we understand why vaccination and other forms of immunization work when weak organisms of a disease are injected into us antibodies are produced which can resist that disease or a similar disease means of immunization against many diseases have now been developed because of jenner's first experiments louis pasteur a french scientist made many important health discoveries in the late 1800s one discovery came about as a result of his studies on the spoiling of wines and beers pasteur hoped to learn why some wines and beers turn sour examining sour liquids through a microscope pasteur saw bacteria the little animals von lavinhook first saw it seemed to pasteur that it was these bacteria that caused souring but where did they come from pasteur believed that bacteria came from the air that bacteria are all about us and he set out to prove his theory in a flask he boiled a broth to destroy the bacteria that were in the broth and in the air inside the flask while the boiling continued pasteur sealed the curved neck of the flask so no outside air could enter it many days passed but the broth without bacteria did not spoil then pasteur opened the flask to the outside air within a few days the broth had spoiled now pasteur was certain his theory had been correct bacteria and other microorganisms are in the air all about us if a broth can become infected he reasoned so can people pasteur was the first to show that diseases are caused by microorganisms in other experiments pasteur found that temperatures lower than boiling could destroy bacteria this knowledge was put to use many years later for destroying harmful bacteria in milk in honor of pasteur the process was called pasteurization robert koch a german doctor continued the study of bacteria that pasteur's important work had begun many cattle and sheep in europe in the late 1800s were dying from a disease called anthrax in his experiments coke hoped to find the organism that caused anthrax in the blood of a sick animal through a microscope coke observed in the blood of sheep certain organisms that he suspected caused anthrax now he had to prove his beliefs his plan was to nourish the organisms so they would multiply outside the body of a sheep when new organisms had been produced from the original ones coke injected them into a healthy sheep soon the animal became ill and died of what seemed to be anthrax now coke extracted blood from the dead animal so he could examine it through a microscope the organisms he saw were of the same type as those he had grown and injected into the sheep in finding the organism that caused anthrax coke had also shown it was possible to produce a growth or colony of microorganisms outside a living body now scientists had a means of studying disease producing organisms and of finding ways to destroy them the work of joseph lister an english surgeon helped protect our health in another way in the eighteen fifties operations were usually dangerous for people often died from infections that occurred after surgery lister believed if people were not exposed to microorganisms while they were being operated on they might have a better chance of surviving and so in 1864 dr lister experimented by spraying the air of his operating room with carbolic acid which he knew had the power to destroy microorganisms then to the part of each patient's body that was to be operated on he applied a solution of carbolic acid destroying the microorganisms there before he operated he soaked the instruments he would use in carbolic acid and washed his hands in the acid too he insisted on complete cleanliness in the operating room lister found as he had suspected that bacterial infections occurred less frequently in patients who were operated on under sanitary conditions this was the beginning of modern antiseptic surgery surgery performed with sterilized instruments under completely sanitary conditions an antiseptic procedure to safeguard our health during operations we have seen the important contributions made by five health heroes when leeuwenhoek developed a microscope through which he saw bacteria and began the study of them jenner was the first to develop a means of preventing disease by immunization pasteur proved that disease is caused by microorganisms and that they can be killed with heat cork developed a way of isolating microorganisms and growing them outside a living body so that microorganisms could be studied and ways could be found of destroying them lister showed the importance of keeping disease producing organisms out of wounds during operations though these five health heroes have contributed much to our health their work is only a small part of the work of many thousands of unknown scientists helping us to understand the nature of disease and learn how to prevent it because of the work of these many men and women we can all look forward to happier healthier lives science um yeah so i got a film set up on the telecini here and it's one that i haven't seen it's uh what are they called not without sight and like many of the films that i've shown um they all come from the same place and it's uh for describing decided people how blind people um cope and deal with um everyday life so this is not without sight [Music] what you're now seeing is what many of you think blind people see a blackness or at best even a grayness this doesn't approximate what the totally blind person sees it is a condition impossible to film but the totally blind person is only a small part of the blind population the majority of those called blind are not totally without sight but they are often without a part of their sight a vital part [Music] this is how we all would like to see clear sharp everything in focus unfortunately not all of us do see that well now the older man might have difficulty in making out those horses while his grandson might see them clearly or it could be the reverse look around you chances are that someone is wearing glasses in order to see this film clearly [Music] if so the american foundation for the blind estimates that he is just one of the 99 million who have a visual malfunction fortunately most of these people can see better with glasses in a sense they are limited in their vision but not seriously so since their site problems can easily be corrected [Music] however the foundation estimates that there are 6.4 million people who have some visual impairment by definition they have moderate trouble seeing even with the usual corrective lenses finally there are almost 2 million people who have severe visual impairment two million people the population of philadelphia or more than live in detroit of those one quarter have no useful vision they are the totally blind persons but the remaining who have severe visual impairments are the ones we're dealing with in this film to define a severe visual impairment we must first define vision sight like the rest of your senses is subjective taste varies from person to person can you describe the smell of a dandelion or express the touch of a child or how his voice sounds describing vision is equally as impossible since so-called normal sight is dependent on many factors and depicting it in a film is difficult normally you have binocular vision two eyes it's three-dimensional and covers a field of approximately 180 degrees our camera lens is monocular one eye as it were and it is limited in scope we can only approximate both normal and impaired vision severe visual impairments fall into three general categories one where the edges or part of site are obscured two where overall site is obscured sometimes completely and three where the center of sight is obscured we'll begin our descriptions at the center of vision if this ever happened to you you probably discovered that the image of the flash bulb remained and clouded a spot in the center of your vision that's an example of macular degeneration as we go through the lens of the eye we pass into the vitreous and into the eye itself the optic nerve is visible on the left the retina behind the lens acts as a sort of photographic film and transmits the picture it sees to the brain the macula is at the center of the retina and it sees the sharpest detail in macular degeneration for many reasons age and other causes a scar may form on the macula destroying its ability to evaluate and transmit to the brain the light that falls on it the result is a blurred spot in the center or other parts of vision here's how macular degeneration affects one person i have two blind spots and they're right in the middle of the retina which makes it very difficult for me to see things without being magnified this is how it would look to someone with normal vision the blind spots blank out especially small things so that i have to read around everything and in order to do it it has to be magnified to a great degree and this is the way my eyes are and i don't see things at a distance at all because when they're at a distance they're small until they get very close to me so people's faces are blanked out too this is very common to macular degeneration some older people who have it say they often regret that they can't see their grandchildren's faces crossing the street is dangerous because a car at a distance could be blanked out by my blind spots macular degeneration a common impairment another example of the overall site being obscured is cataracts another common impairment affecting older people [Music] trying to see through a dirty windshield is how many cataract patients described their site or some say it's similar to looking through a waterfall the lens of the eye is made up of cells which are primarily protein like the white of an egg the protein is transparent but in cataracts for some reason the protein slowly coagulates and the lens is clouded if the cataract is at the edge of the lens the center might be clear 2020 but if the cataract is at the center of the lens the vision would be much more obscured here's how cataracts affect one person this grave it's like a grave film i'd say a curtain gall's curtain in front where furniture it will look like a blob this is how it would appear to a person without cataracts mind you i think pictures are not distinct but i see the frames on them but i can't pick out what is on the picture although most cataracts are generally caused by age there are some forms which are hereditary or that can be caused by accidents some cataract patients often see better in a dimly lit room when their pupils open up but outdoors the pupils constrict and they don't see well at all it's like when the sun hits that dirty windshield and makes it almost opaque so you may notice many older people prefer to wear hats outdoors it shields the sun from their eyes she had her cataracts removed and now with the eight of glasses she functions as close to normal as possible she can read and write and travels outdoors without any difficulty however circumstances like age physical conditions other eye diseases can make it less satisfactory to remove cataracts then the person has to function with the clouding effect of cataracts cataracts another impairment affecting a large part of the visually impaired population children love doing this looking through a tube and pretending it's a telescope actually they're seeing without their side vision their peripheral vision and they soon find out they don't like moving around without it this is something like tunnel vision a severe and common visual impairment they tire of the game quickly they soon drop it to play something else this shows the area a person with normal vision sees the outer objects are on the sides of his sight and he knows they are there however with tunnel vision they disappear for him although the center vision can be normal this is a severe impairment that occurs in two eye diseases the first of these is called retinitis [Music] pigmentosa retinitis pigmentosa scattered breakdowns of light reflecting cells in the pigment layer causes clumps of pigment deposits to form a degeneration and atrophy of the retina follows the damaged portion of the retina loses its ability to transmit a visual picture to the brain night vision is lost first usually the macular area is left intact however there may be such a small island of visual transmission left that it is of little practical use [Music] normal person sees 175 degrees and i see 10 degrees it's not dark or anything like that it's just that if i'm if i'm not looking directly at an object i don't see it it's just not there this is what you were just looking at an automobile engine as he sees it with tunnel vision of course this representation of his impairment cannot illustrate the complicated factors which determine how well people use their remaining site when he works he has to move his head constantly in order to get objects into his field of vision he can't drive a car although he loves working on them my wife gets up same time i do she drives me into work and then she goes on home takes care of the kids whatever and then comes back and gets me the second disease that results in tunnel vision is glaucoma [Music] glaucoma is caused by too much pressure in the eye pressure caused by normal eye fluid which doesn't drain at a normal rate the increasing pressure may cause damage to the optic nerve if the disease is undetected and untreated [Music] fortunately glaucoma can be diagnosed and detected by a simple painless eye test given by your eye specialist if caught untreated early by an ophthalmologist the outlook is good usually glaucoma advances slowly the first sign might be with a person frequently replacing glasses mostly people will notice that things are slightly out of focus like a bad home movie and then they'll go back into focus again or they'll see a slight halo around lights like this these are warning signs of possible glaucoma if you've ever tried to see something or someone through a rippled glass you're close to the problems facing the person with diabetic retinopathy a serious prevalent eye disorder caused by diabetes [Music] the impairment can be brought on in two ways [Music] [Applause] [Music] the retina consists of many light-activated cells which serve a seeing function many small hemorrhages in the retina create scar tissue which replaces those seeing cells the patient then has blurred and distorted vision all over the second a hemorrhage from the diseased blood vessel flows into the vitreous or clear jelly-like medium which fills the center of the eye this hemorrhaging causes the vision to be covered with a deep reddish tint the degree of clouding can vary from time to time and from patient to patient depending on the blood pressure and degree of hemorrhaging diabetic retinopathy which can result in a person having no useful vision is the leading cause of blindness in this country i see enough light to distinguish whether it's night or day it isn't utilized as far as surroundings it doesn't give me the help me to distinguish you know a person or a tree but at least the light is there this is what she's doing generally persons with diabetic retinopathy have to use what vision they have to the best of their ability she's learning how to work in her garden of course we can only symbolize her impairment we can't duplicate how things look to her nor can we say that all people with diabetic retinopathy see what she sees since the degree of impairment varies from person to person and from time to time diabetic retinopathy a severe visual impairment nearly 2 million people who cover the spectrum from total blindness to severe visual impairment there are many other visual impairments besides the ones we've illustrated however we've tried to represent the common types of severe visual impairment with a few individuals of course much more is involved youth age attitudes intelligence physical condition motivation psychological makeup these and thousands of other factors make us the individuals we are within the general population these same factors apply to the visually impaired population since they are indeed part of the general population but other factors contribute to how they function within the general population the optical aids and devices available to them the amount of help they need and receive and always the degree duration and severity of their visual impairments these factors make it impossible to categorize them as simply being blind and blind people those with no useful vision are a small part of the population and generally function well within it [Music] the general population on the other hand often categorizes all those with severe visual impairments as having no useful vision and think of them as if they are surrounded by a solid wall and are helpless the opposite is true the severely visually impaired person lives within a wall with openings some small some obscured sometimes totally and sometimes partially these openings are used differently by each individual to a lesser or greater degree [Music] the nearly 2 million people are not limited to a dark restricted world with counseling and help they can function well in the general population that world without visual impairments [Music] [Music] that film was fascinating um i mean basically to educate people to what types of uh things can cause uh visual impairment or blindness i kind of looked it up to see what was the cause of legal blindness in the united states thanks to the american academy of ophthalmology and um age-related macular degeneration uh at least in uh whites in african-americans it's other it's 43 hispanics 39 and diabetic uh written up retinopathy is actually much lower so there you go something about public health i love it um so i'm gonna because i have to run an errand that's time sensitive i'm going to say thank you so much today and i will come back tomorrow and show you a bunch more films this was pretty great because i shared a bunch of films that i've never seen before um and i appreciate you being there with us to watch them um as always please rewind and love each other and we will see you again tomorrow um you