AV Geeks Lunch 3-16

hello everybody i'm skip alzheimer and welcome to the av geeks lunchtime streaming show uh direct from santa paula downtown santa paula california in 1929 um not quite sure how i ended up with this film and i've been trying to do research to figure out when it showed up i have a feeling that it showed up with a batch of stuff that i got from uh a dumpster that somebody raided back in uh back in the day it was a film production company goal productions of which i've shown some films from uh including that amazing tire rigging demo but anyways i have a feeling that this well when i got this this was a print that was struck from the original 1929 print so the film itself was actually a dupe uh and so you saw some of the titles got cut off because the way they printed it um so my theory behind this because i've seen many films like this uh is that this was shot by an itinerant filmmaker uh or a company uh and basically what they would do is they would approach a town or city and say hey we want to film here and you can highlight for a certain amount of money what we'll do is we'll highlight uh you know your your town or city um and then they would approach the different uh retail places and say we would feature your drugstore your general store your tire shop your car shop dealership um for a certain amount of money then they would uh produce it film it then show it they would like book a theater or book of um you know some sort of community center and charge admission and everybody could see themselves on the screen especially you know those shots where they showed all the school kids coming out um so in north carolina there was an itinerant filmmaker named h lee waters who did this he did this all over north carolina and in virginia in georgia and south carolina um and so he would do this he would like go for a week he would shoot stuff go back to where he lived i believe in salisbury or kannapolis i can't remember exactly where it is it's in the middle of north carolina in the triad-ish area um and he would produce it uh cut it cut it up then he would take it back and um you know promote this show and what he did unintentionally while he was showing i mean he was making money basically during the depression because he was a wedding photographer and during the depression basically all that money dried up for wedding photography so he was basically doing this to make ends meet and uh what so besides the fact of people seeing themselves on the big screen um he also unintentionally documented parts of north carolina and these other rural areas these little towns that nobody else has documentation of so it's really quite phenomenal and we've digitized a bunch of stuff uh from that collection which is now at duke university and the state archives in north carolina um but yeah it's kind of interesting like he would set up his camera like outside of a school and like all the kids would parade past then he would set up outside of hosiery mills and all the people when they were going off shift they would see themselves and those would be all potential people that could um pay money admission to see themselves on the big screen and i think he realized that kids was the the most profitable because he could charge for kids he could charge for parents and he could charge with grandparents to all see themselves on the screen um so what a racket but it's pretty pretty cool to see all that stuff um this next film is uh because we watch films here we watch old 16 millimeter films um this next film is something i have on the the telecini over here you can see set up uh and this is part of a screen news digest which was hearst um would uh produce these kind of news reels for the classroom and so they would take a certain topic and uh they would basically to distribute it to the schools they would get sponsorship by different regional or local businesses and so you see a commercial beforehand we've seen this with the science uh news the science screen science news um which is by allegro they did the same model but it was all about science uh and it was skewed later like like probably 70s and this there's some i have some from the 50s i think up through the mid 60s as you'll see this next one is um so this is um man and the atom [Music] your local pet dairy producers of quality fresh homogenized milk ice cream and other fresh dairy foods brings you the screen news digest in plants like this pet dairy processes a complete line of fresh dairy products for your health and enjoyment strict laboratory controls by trained technicians assure the quality goodness of all fresh pet dairy products quick delivery on modern refrigerated trucks by your friendly pet salesman guarantees the freshness of its products from the dairy to you [Music] july 16 1945 the alamogordo desert in new mexico to this place on this date have come general leslie groves and j robert oppenheimer a military man and a scientist to witness the birth of an awesome new creation atop a steel tower stands history's first atomic bomb and under strict to secrecy a thousand observers have gathered at los alamos for the final fateful countdown later general groves will speak of the climactic moment when mankind entered the atomic age we feel words inadequate to describe the effects of this bomb it had to be witnessed to be realized and it is a universal hope of all present that no american citizen will ever witness it on united states soil again the light of many suns the tremendous ball of fire the shock and sound and the formation of boiling clouds were all beyond human experience three weeks later on a pacific isle an american b-29 takes on a single atomic bomb its code name fat man the crew is well briefed about their target and their cargo and on the morning of august 6th the aircraft takes off for its rendezvous with history [Music] the mission underscores dramatically the words of h.g wells human history is more and more a race between education and catastrophe target city is hiroshima population 310 000 under a clear summer sky hiroshima cannot know nor dream that its tragedy will mark the beginning of the end of world war ii 8 15 am the bombardier releases his deadly atomic device [Music] in the twinkling of an eye seventy thousand people are killed and the heart of the city is leveled to the ground [Music] weeks pass before the dazed survivors in the stricken city know what has happened to them [Music] asylum president truman announces the atomic attack a short time ago an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy that bomb has more power than 20 000 tons of tnt it is an atomic bomb it is the basic power of the universe the force from which the sun draws his power has been loosed against those who brought roar to the far east a second bomb is dropped on nagasaki and on august 14th japan surrenders after the war's end bernard baruch comes before the united nations with an american proposal for international atomic control this is a treaty that is meant to be kept this is to be a program from which for which the world has striven through all recorded history and even before for man in his soul is peaceful and life-loving deep inside of him he knows that he can live in security only by the force of love and never by the law of course the u.s treaty is based on strict enforcement international inspections and no veto andre grumiko speaking for the soviet union rejects the terms of the american proposal thus begins more than 18 years of debate and disagreement between the two great powers on the control of nuclear weapons the atomic dilemma becomes the challenge of our times and a ghost town in the nevada desert called survival city emphasizes the consequences of failure houses are populated with life-like models and stocked with real food civil defense officials have erected buildings of all types to learn of their capability to withstand an atomic blast troops are moved into trenches within a mile of the nuclear device closer than anyone has ever been to the site of an atomic explosion tension mounts as the gi's weight out the countdown [Music] sights and sounds of the atomic blast light up the sky and rumble across the desert [Music] spectacular motion pictures record firsthand for the first time the incredible destructive power of nuclear energy [Music] in soviet russia in the years after world war ii the challenge of the atomic age is the challenge to build as quickly as possible a successful nuclear device [Music] with the aid of german scientists captured during the war held as prisoners in russia with atomic secrets smuggled out of the free world by soviet spies the top priority project moves surely steadily toward fulfillment [Music] 1946 47 48 the years the months the days dwindle down [Music] 1949 russia becomes an atomic power america's monopoly is ended [Music] the next nuclear breakthrough takes place five years later on an obscure island named eluja lab in the far pacific u.s scientists place history's first hydrogen bomb nicknamed mike in a tar paper shack remote control cameras are set up to film the explosion of a device with a power of 20 million tons of tnt the closest ship is five miles away here is power strong enough to wipe the island of the luja lab from the face of the earth great enough to provide civilization with an abundant and undreamed of better life addressing the united nations president eisenhower makes america's position very clear my country wants to be constructive not destructive it wants agreements not wars among nations it wants itself to live in freedom and the confidence that the people of every other nation enjoy equally the right of choosing their own way of life so my country's purpose is to help us move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light to find a way by which the minds of men the hopes of men the souls of men everywhere can move forward toward peace and happiness and well-being the united states pledges before you and therefore before the world its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death but consecrated to his life the united states supports president eisenhower's words with deeds working through the united nations america makes available uranium and fissionable material for peaceful purposes dozens of countries are given the atomic keys that open the doors to dynamic advances in the fields of medicine and industry in countless ways the miracle and the might of nuclear energy touches and enriches the lives of growing numbers of people around the world atomic energy is harnessed to propel ships supply power advanced medical research but not all research is peaceful england enters the nuclear arms race and follows a familiar path in 1957 great britain becomes the world's third nuclear power the fourth is france which achieves its first nuclear explosion in 1960 [Music] her all for friends says charles de gaulle from this moment on she is stronger prouder a great nation in every respect [Music] and then thunder out of asia communist china takes its place among the nuclear nations of the world while the un struggles to find some effective formula for disarmament the atomic powers carry out more than 200 nuclear tests in four years finally in 1958 andre dromico representing russia and avril harriman the united states reach agreement on a moratorium in atomic tests it will last three years [Music] in 1961 russia breaks the moratorium and explodes a superbomb equal in power to 50 million tons of tnt hadley stevenson american ambassador to the united nations rebukes the soviet union for its action as he said he would mr khrushchev has exploded his giant bomb in cynical disregard of the united nations by this act the soviet union have added injury to insult they broke the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing they have raised atmospheric pollution to new heights they have started a new race for more deadly weapons and so a new round of testing begins an underground explosion reveals a dramatically different look at atomic power [Music] once again man and his world live in the ominous shadows of nuclear follow then suddenly in 1963 russia proposes negotiations on a partial nuclear test ban treaty and in one week premier nikita khrushchev accepts an agreement that his country has blocked for 18 years to treat outplays any nuclear explosion in the atmosphere outer space or underwater secretary of state dean rusk signs the historic document for the united states andre rumiko a veteran of disarmament negotiations represents russia and alex douglas hume england later more than 80 countries will sign the fact but france and communist china will not still the treaty is considered a step toward peace a step away from war in 1967 when alexey kosiken comes to the united states and travels to glassboro new jersey to meet president johnson the foundation is laid for a second step on the road to nuclear disarmament at the holly bush summit conference the leaders reached tentative agreement on a new treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weapons the proposal would seek to perpetuate the present nuclear weapons monopoly of the united states russia england france and communist china it is the one area of agreement between the president and the premier [Applause] the official proposal is submitted to the 17-nation disarmament conference at geneva it requires all nuclear powers to promise never to hand such weapons or weapons know-how to any other power and nations with no atomic weapons must promise never to manufacture or acquire them as negotiations proceed mankind watches and remembers perhaps the prophetic words of president kennedy never have the nations of the world had so much to lose or so much to gain together we shall save our planet or together we shall perish in its flames save it we can and save it must and shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and as peacemakers the eternal blessing of god [Applause] atoms for peace or atoms for war the challenge remains in the atomic age [Applause] [Music] the living history of the screen news digest has been brought to you by your local pet dairy [Music] so uh thanks pet dairy uh for uh sponsoring that um so the deal is that those are like i said they're like newsreels but they're not really current supercurrent although i do have some that deal with things like cuba the cuban missile crisis um president johnson some current stuff things like about vietnam or they do a focus on a certain year which those tend to be more contemporary when they were made but this one looks at you know a spanning uh 20 25 years uh looking at the atomic uh bomb basically not talking about um using uh it for energy production or things like that this is all about treaties and political maneuvering and all that stuff so it's kind of interesting uh but i very much love the assembly line footage from pet um and that's something i i think i i did one of these screen news digests um our screen news science news i'm just gonna have to get that guy i always confuse the two series but they're very different uh i showed one uh and then somebody commented like after i showed it basically saying like i remember seeing this but it was an earlier one it was sponsored by somebody totally different well the thing is like this was all regional so the advertising was different depending on where you saw it like what school you were in so i have a bunch of screen news digests uh from fayetteville and they're brought to us by the fine pepsi bottlers in fayetteville um and depending on and so this one i think was from south carolina uh i i know based on the can that i got it from um university of south carolina they were getting rid of a bunch of stuff that wasn't really applicable to their collections and and i noticed like on the little license plate on the pet milk truck it was a sc so this was the south carolina thing and it might have been different parts of south carolina had different uh advertisers so this is kind of a cool way to um get this kind of regional advertising and to see these these things in an unexpected way and this is why we have to watch these films is because we never know what's going to show up in them like you know if i look at the title man and the atom i'd say well this is all about atomic either research or atomic weapons or whatever and wouldn't realize that wow there's a pretty nifty pet dairy ad in there so this is why we watch the films this next film is uh i like this um because it is made for a very niche audience uh and i feel like this is people that work for atnt although i could be misremembering this but it's all about telephone directories remember those the phone books this is about them james weston miss barbara pierce madison smith and brown mrs james dixon just names but what's in a name well that all depends a name may be an organization this building is the home of one a name may be a member of that organization any one of us or a name may be one of our many customers names are accurate and priceless identifications of individuals and organizations our telephone directories are filled with such names the names of people who respect our reputation for prompt accurate courteous service these names are a major concern to all of us in fact they are the reason for the existence of our company and the many different kinds of work we do each name is important take the name sarly john b before this particular name got into the directory it caused a good deal of trouble to go back a bit mr sorley came to our city to look for a job and took a small furnished apartment with the hope of having his wife join him later his field is statistical research and he was interested in getting a job with one of the industrial trade associations in order to keep in personal touch with the contacts he was making and so that they could reach him he decided to have a telephone installed so he called the telephone company and was connected to one of our service representatives ferguson may i help you yes i'd like to have a telephone installed in my apartment yes i can arrange that may i have your name please the name is sarly s-a-r-l-e-y john b the address is 5623 north capitol street apartment 101. she recorded mr sarley's order but failed to verify his name the mistake in that one letter made a big difference to sarly and to us mr sarley got his telephone without delay his first call was long distance to his wife then a day or two later he ran into an old friend bill it was a lucky break for sarly because bill had heard of a new job under discussion in his organization a trade association bill made a note of charlie's telephone number on his newspaper and promised to contact him later bill told his boss about charlie's excellent qualifications his boss told bill he already had a man in mind but would hold off if sarly would come in and see him right away but bill had inadvertently thrown away his newspaper with charlie's number and couldn't find john b sarley in the directory so he called information and asked for sarly's number the information operator checked her listings i'm sorry i find nothing listed sir bill insisted but it wasn't there and that was that he had to tell his boss that he couldn't contact sarly you can guess what happened later when sarlee didn't hear from bill and finally decided to check with him he found that the job had been filled it just couldn't wait sarly was not very happy to say the least he called us immediately and was connected to another one of our service representatives she looked up the original records and there it was farley not sorry obviously the name had not been verified after making the correction she verified it using key names s as in sam a r l e as in edward y as in young j o h n and the initial b as in boy she then prepared a correction and it was sent to the service order force for action there a further check for accuracy had to be made by the directory compilation people but that was only the beginning the snowball of corrections and additional work had just begun to roll a correction had to be included in the work going to the printer the printer then made the necessary changes so that the new listing would appear in the directory and on information another directory clerk had to verify the listing in final form another verification card was mailed out the original one apparently had gone astray the accounting department had to destroy its incorrect record and make a new one for billing purposes and the plant department had to change its records but our customer had lost his chance for what might have been just the job he would have liked he also lost his confidence in us and we were put to unnecessary expense just because of one bit of inattention we were able to correct the listing just before the directory went to press the only good break we had but we won't need good breaks if we remember verify all listings spell back everyone even the so-called unmistakable ones there are many similar sounding letters b d p and v c and z f and s i and y m and n and so on the only way to be sure of them is to use key names such as boy david paul victory and so on always print the name using capital letters check all of this may give you some idea as to what's in a name poor mr sarly um his life was ruined and uh he no longer trusted uh the bell company so he went with a different uh telephone company in the future no wait that was impossible because they were a monopoly and you couldn't go with anybody else um i think early telephone uh etiquette and and things like this really kind of spell out uh the importance at the time and it's something that we've kind of forgotten because we have cell phones and we have different carriers we have different ways to communicate with each other and um you know how it was all under one roof before it was you know it was att and that was it or there were some smaller kind of regional companies across the country but you know they were in charge of you know giving you a phone giving you the equipment which you didn't own you actually leased um and you know also having you listed in this important document this uh phone directory which was you know if you remember the jerk how excited um the jerk was i can't remember his name when he found his name in the phone book he suddenly existed as a as a person uh and that's something that we kind of forget so it's kind of kind of fascinating all right uh so uh one of my favorite film companies is the moody institute of science because uh it's just barely science uh it's usually it's a platform for them to talk about god and how great god is and so they showed this beautiful science footage they talk about science to a point and then they veer off and talk about god so um here is one that's it's a it's not about science in particular uh but it is kind of it's there was a couple of films in the series called debt to the past one was about uh government history this one's about language and it's kind of a historical look at um language and how important it is and let's see if they hold up their end and somehow mention god or jesus or the scriptures or the bible so here's debt to the past language [Music] the power of language for evil or for good is the foundation for every other power that man possesses within language lie the magic forces of emotions habits of thought traditions of culture language is man's oldest and most priceless heirloom it gives him the power to imagine to reason to dream to create and to communicate all this to others [Applause] but what is language first there are the various tongues every spoken language is made up of sentences sentences are made up of words words are made up of syllables which in turn are made up of phonemes phonemes he wears chairs [Music] of course we also use unspoken language gestures actions signs and symbols many as precise and eloquent as the spoken equivalent much of our communication some say as much as 50 is in wordless language [Music] of course the idea of unspoken language and in fact many of its most useful expressions are deaths we owe to the past but even at best unspoken language is limited ideas can be better and more clearly expressed by spoken language languages are related like the branches of a tree new languages constantly grow out of old ones how many branches altogether a hundred two hundred no sir the people of the earth speak some three thousand separate and distinct tongues why so many partly because of isolation living apart from other people partly because uh people's language reflects its unique character its attitudes its ways of life consider for instance the indians of mexico for many of these tribes corn is the basic crop and the basic diet for this reason they have many names for corn depending on its stage of growth or state of preparation corn on the cob boiled corn on the cob roasted corn on the cob dried for storage the indians have many names for corn because their whole way of life is based on corn but with us other things are more important for this reason we have many names for such things as types of buildings [Music] and forms of transportation [Music] in this way each language meets the special needs of the people who speak it of course spoken language is common but in many places written language is rare it's a startling fact almost half the world's adult population can neither read nor write because of this men and women like notebooks and tape recorders into the far corners of the globe they are dedicated to the great task of bringing needy people the marvelous gift of reading and writing in their own language fine this is a foreign concept to them entirely the pruning of either trees or plants for man to go forward he must be able to communicate and to receive communication enables man to pass on to others what he has learned so that new learning may be built on the old scientists generally distinguish three stages in the history of writing pictographic idiographic and phonetic a pictographic sign is merely an agreed upon symbol for some object with the american indians a fish a tree a man these pictograms were chiseled into rocks traced on animal hides woven into blankets painted with colored sand but with pictograms man could write only about objects he wanted to go beyond this to write about ideas qualities and actions things that could not be portrayed with simple pictures so in many places pictographic writing became idiographic in ancient egypt for instance the pictograms for water and for man were put together to form the ideogram thirst you see an idiogram is a combination of two or more pictures intended not to represent simple objects but to represent ideas egyptian writing called hieroglyphics was both pictographic and ideographic but soon it became phonetic as well how did this happen let's look for the answer in a simple puzzle called the rebus in english for instance this picture and this picture make the word catalog here's another and one more used this way these are no longer pictures of objects they are pictures of sounds picture is a syllable a phonetic sign in egypt when over 600 pictures had become phonetic signs the egyptians could write any word they could speak they could write about feelings and emotions and ideas belief treason love hate fear beauty goodness and much more but when egypt crumbled the art of writing and reading hieroglyphics was forgotten centuries passed men studied the hieroglyphics wondered what they told of the religion the science the history of egypt but no one could unlock the secret then in 1799 a startling discovery near the mouth of the nile soldiers and workmen of napoleon bonaparte found a large black stone later called the rosetta stone it carried the same message in three kinds of writing the bottom section in ancient greek the middle section in simplified hieroglyphics and the top section in standard hieroglyphics by comparing the three sections the secret of reading hieroglyphics was rediscovered once ancient men learned that in place of writing with thousands of pictures he could write faster and better with only a few hundred syllable signs the invention of alphabetic writing became possible syllable writing spread quickly from the egyptians to the semites and the semites made a vital improvement they realized that spoken language has many more syllables than it has phonemes the basic sounds of speech so instead of using 600 or more syllable signs as the egyptians had done the semites found they could write even better with only 22 phoneme signs in other words they invented the alphabet at bibles in the semitic land of phoenicia proof of this has been found on the coffin of king hiram who ruled the city 12 centuries before christ on the lid is an epitaph in letters thought to be direct ancestors of our modern alphabet many of these people were sailors and merchants from phoenicia they developed a vast network of trade routes everywhere they went they carried alphabetic writing with them and it wasn't long before other people learned the secret by the year one thousand bc the greeks were using an alphabet based on semitic models the letter forms were changed perhaps to make them easier to write perhaps to make them look better the phoenician aleph and beth became the greek alpha and beta from which of course we derive the word alphabet the spread of writing to all parts of the civilized world was aided by the invention of paper from papyrus a reed that grows along the nile paper was easier to write on than stone or clay and much more portable the merchants of bibles imported paper from egypt and sold it to greece just as we call the kind of tableware which first came to us from china by the name china so the greeks called paper from bibles by the name biblus from this root we have the word bibliophile a lover of books bibliography a list of books when the hebrew scriptures were copied on paper the scrolls were known as the biblia or as we now say the bible so it is that in popularizing the use of alphabetic writing and paper the semites left us a heritage reflected in every book we read and the little town of bibles has lent its name to the most influential book in all human history the bible as for the greeks they now had tools to preserve for us their great works of literature science and philosophy the romans also learned the alphabet they carried it on their march to conquer the world and they spread it like the measles our debt is to the romans for the shape of capital letters we commonly use today what does the alphabet mean to us why you use it almost every waking moment of every day every time you write your name type a letter read a book or a newspaper or a street sign or a billboard or a menu you are using the alphabet we learn through language we express ourselves with language and we use language in our mind to explore our memories to recall our experiences to test our perceptions to develop new concepts and ideas yes the very act of thought itself depends in large part on the skillful handling of words learning the techniques of communication to read rapidly to write clearly to speak effectively is basic to everything we are or may become for each of us to improve himself to go forward and to make worthwhile contributions to our society we must learn to communicate and to receive communication from others only in this way may we claim and use our heritage from the past a heritage of knowledge and culture of dreams and hopes of history and experience expressed in language recorded in writing language is power power to build and power to destroy we have good reason to fear the destructive power of language it is for us to use the power of language wisely to wipe out illiteracy to spread the knowledge of freedom and righteousness to promote friendship and understanding among all peoples will we do this whether we do or not depends on what kind of individuals we are if we are personally committed to the highest moral and spiritual values these values will guide our use of language and we will have a share in making language a dynamic force for good in the world around us thank you moody institute of science for not letting me down [Music] i was for a while i was like huh we got hitler in there um hmm i don't see the the bible hasn't shown up yet and then at the end you know the little uh parting thing about maintaining a uh moral and spiritual life how that will affect your your language and how you use it there we go that's what we were looking for um yeah a big fan of moody institute of science and that was that narrator was not irwin dr erwin moon uh who shows up in a lot of the my beloved um moody's films uh the that was another narrator whose name i cannot remember but i found his his name in the research that i did i did a uh article with uh professor uh dr marcia gordon and we talked about moody institute of science and so um and found out the different phases and how it started and all that stuff so um yeah 1962. um thanks everybody for tuning in today uh thanks dan strebel who uh kind of peered in and um he's uh it was on facebook and he uh actually if you liked the um that santa paula film that i showed he put a link in here let me see if i can get the link um he put a link to the h lee waters and i'll put that in um uh oh what a nightmare um i'll put that in the youtube comments um as well so maybe this will get me to where i need to go yeah here we go um here's uh h lee waters uh but yeah uh join us tomorrow for more films as always uh if you like what you saw you can always buy us some uh delicious 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