AV Geeks Lunch 4-28-2020

[Music] [Music] Often in school we talk about the golden rule. You know the words, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You have also heard the golden rule at home where you may have heard the words from the Bible this way. As you would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. Or another way, as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner, but they mean the same thing. At church school, too, we often talk about the golden rule. Do you know how to say the golden rule? Do you? My father says it this way though as you would be doing by. Wherever we hear the golden rule, however it is worded, we know that it means the right way to live. Wise and good men all over the world have taught ideas similar to the golden rule. In China many centuries ago, a wise man named Confucious said, "What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others." And in many parts of Asia today, people remember what Confucious taught and try to live by his rule. In another part of the world, the holy land of Palestine, Jesus lived. He said, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." Today people the whole world over remember what Jesus said and how he lived and they try to live by the golden rule. There is an easy way to say the rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But just what does that mean? Let's look at the words and figure them out. Do unto others. That means simply do for others. What do we mean by others? We mean other people. Our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters. We mean our friends and our neighbors. We mean everybody everywhere. Do for others really means do for everyone as you would have them. That means what you would like them them everyone to do for you. Do for everyone what you would like everyone to do for you. But wait, what you would like? How do you know what you would like? That calls for thinking. Pretty soon we'll want to see what someone is thinking. And this is the way we'll do it. Listen. [Music] We'll call this thought land. And here we can see what someone is thinking. Nancy seems to be thinking that Thoughtland is a strange and wonderful place. We'll come back to Thoughtland, but right now the chimes carry us back again into our real story. That's the way we're going to think together about the golden rule. Do for everyone what you would like everyone to do for you. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Now, let's think about how we can use the golden rule every day. Sally has a brand new jump rope. A jump rope is something you can have fun with all by yourself. But look, here comes Sally's friend, Jane. Now, what should Sally do? Should she hide the rope so Jane won't see it? What about showing Jane the rope and making her jealous? But no, Sally thinks about the golden rule and she thinks, "What would I want?" [Music] Here we are in thought land. What if Jane had a new jump rope? Sally thinks, "What would I like? What would I want her to do? Why, I'd want her to share it with me. We could take turns or have fun jumping together. Now, Sally knows what to do. She'll do for Jane what she would like Jane to do for her. Do you see how Sally has used the golden rule to decide what she should do? Let's try using the golden rule another time. Look, what are Chuck and Sharon doing? Is this a race? Who's going to win? Uh-oh. Be careful, Sharon. Sharon, look out. Sharon isn't hurt, but she can't get up. For a moment, Chuck wants to laugh at her, but then he thinks, "What would I want if this happened to me?" [Music] Let's think with Chuck. If you fell down and had your feet caught so you couldn't get up, what would you like? Wouldn't you want someone to help you? [Music] So, what should Chuck do? The golden rule tells him to do for Sharon what he would like Sharon to do for him. Do you see how you can use the golden rule to help you decide what to do? Try it again. Hopscotch is a game these girls enjoy. But look at Jimmy. Is he too little to play with them? Gail seems to think so. She thinks he would just get in the way. But what about the golden rule? [Music] Gail thinks, "What would I want if I were the littlest one and some older children were playing?" Think about it. What would you like? Is this what you would like? Is this what Gail should do for Jimmy? Do you see how thinking what you would like helps you to follow the golden rule? Now with Andy, let's try one more time to think how the golden rule helps us decide what is the right thing to do. Look what's happening. Do you see the puppy? Now Andy has wanted a puppy for some time, and he thinks this one is mighty cute. In fact, he would like to take the puppy home with him. But Andy is thinking of the golden rule, and so are we. Let's all say it together. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. What do you think Andy should do if you had a puppy and it got out of the yard? What would you want? Wouldn't you want someone to bring it back to you? When we use the golden rule to help us find to do, we make other people happy and at the same timeselves happy too. I don't know which hand I'm using. This is all so discombobulating and I still won't get used to it. Hi, I'm Skip Alzheimer of AV Geeks. Uh, thank you for joining us for lunch. Uh, and I apologize if you've seen that film before. Um, some films I I remember showing over the last I don't know, are we on week seven, six? I It's all just this kind of gooey blur. Um, so I apologize if you have seen that before. It's so great. Um, thought land is uh really quite something. Um, anyways, so I collect old 16 millimeter films and show them to folks like you. Uh, I used to do it in person. Um, in fact, I was doing that back in uh, February in March, but now I'm doing it from the safety and comfort of my basement. Uh, I've digitized a bunch of these films over the years and so we have them. Um, normally I would show them live. I would actually transfer them live as we watch them, but I can't move all that heavy equipment to my home. So that's at the archive. Um, anyways, I offer this up as a as a way to uh spend your lunch watching something that's not current. Um yesterday I showed or over the last couple of weeks I've been showing films uh where adults go up to um or strange adults go up to kids and people immediately go to the stranger danger. Uh so this film is say no to strangers uh from the 50s. Enjoy. [Music] The boys and girls in this schoolyard are waiting for the first bell. This is Wendy Web. This is her twin brother, Jamie. There's the bell. Let's go with them to their classroom. Good morning, Miss Jones. Good morning. Miss Jones is the teacher. The children are very fond of her, and Miss Jones likes each of the pupils. This is a day like any other day in class. Spelling [Music] [Applause] [Music] arithmetic. [Music] Reading [Music] music. [Music] And finally, it is almost time for the dismissal bell. Before the children are dismissed for the day, Miss Jones suggests that they review the safety rules they discussed yesterday. The four rules are don't accept gifts from strangers. How many of you can tell us why the children know how important it is to remember these safety rules? Don't accept rides from strangers. Do you remember the important reasons for this? [Music] Don't walk through dark or lonely streets. Who can tell us why? The children realize that safe behavior is just as important as spelling and arithmetic. Remember, the policeman is always your friend. What are some of the ways in which he can help you? [Music] And so this school day comes to a close. Some children remain after school to play. Others are picked up by their parents or car pools. There are those who ride their bikes home. And some walk home. Wendy and Jamie live just a few blocks from the school. Unless the weather is bad, they walk to and from school every day. Sometimes there are interesting things to do or see on the way home from school. All children love puppies. Grown-ups know this and will usually let them pet or play with a puppy. They may even offer to give it to the children as a gift. Don't accept gifts from strangers. It is the next day. Wendy and Jamie are on their way to school and they have occasion to remember another one of the safety rules. A lady in a beautiful car says she is going past the school and will be glad to give them a ride. [Music] Don't accept rides from strangers. [Music] Today is Saturday. Wendy and Jamie help their mother with the household chores. After lunch, they're free to go to the park for the afternoon. Their mother reminds them to be sure to be home before dark. [Music] Parks and playgrounds are fun. [Music] There is so much to do. [Music] [Music] And because there is so much to do, we sometimes forget how quickly the time passes. Yes. Wendy and Jamie realize they have been gone longer than they should have. They know their mother will worry if they're not home on time. And Wendy and Jaime do not want to upset their mother. Wait a minute. Jamie knows a shortcut. If they go down this street, they can save time. Don't walk through dark or lonely streets. That's right, children. Stay on the main street. Remember, the policeman is always your friend. Yes, the policeman is your friend. Always feel free to call on him for help. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Wendy and Jamie have learned the safety rules. We hope you have, too. [Music] Um, so that film is glorious. Um, and it's interesting because it does kind of fall into that um, Sid Davis category. Sid Davis I talked about u over the last couple of weeks. He's was this filmmaker who made all the Stranger Danger films. Um, starting with uh, Dangerous Stranger, which he remade a couple of times, and Boys Beware, which he remade a couple of times, and Girls Beware, Strange Ones. Um, lots and lots and lots of films, but this is not him. Um, the And I I'm not 100% sure of this title. It's either Say No to Strangers or Saying No to Strangers. I really should go back and and look at it real quick. But this is definitely not it it's got some similarities especially to Rosco's rules which um has a little mechanical bear and it goes think every time there is a a rule that's being uh reinforced. But um I don't know if you noticed the music just is the background music is just per pervasive. It's all through the entire film. it doesn't really reflect what is happening in the action. Um, so and the the production I think is a little bit higher than your normal Sid Davis film. Uh, the colors are just stunning. Uh, and I don't know if Sid would have paid for Kodakchrome. Uh, so um, those are some reasons that I don't think this is a Sid Davis film, but certainly, you know, it's in that that vein. It says it repeats a lot of things that show up in my Stranger Danger films, including Cautious Twins, which at some point I will show you. It's a wonderful animated film. Um, but uh, yeah, you know, most educational films don't play music throughout the entire film, and that's what I get when I see parodies. Parodies are using that same they're playing the background music throughout the entire film, and it's a little pet peeve of mine. Um, most educational films play an intro and an outro, and they might have some little um kind of uh musical phrases throughout, but it's it's not consistently throughout the entire thing. So, I'm wondering if these people didn't make a whole lot of educational films. All right, this uh next film is by uh a friend, a friend, a favorite of mine, which is the Moody Institute of Science. Moody Institute of Science was run by the Moody Bible Institute and features uh Dr. Irwin Moon who is a admitted hobby scientist who loved uh photography and he loved science and he would often use science experiments as a way to talk about the gospels. And so he would have these things called sermons from science uh that he did in the uh 40s50s. And um when the National Defense Education Act came into play where uh we were concerned that we were lagging behind the Soviet students in math and science, a bunch of money was funneled into schools and money was spent on educational films for science and math. uh Moody Science Institute edited their science films, their sermons from science which showed beautiful footage of different natural phenomenon and different aspects of of science um and different experiments that they did. They edited them down to shorter classrooms length films. Took out most of the mentions of Jesus but still kind of kept some references to God. um and also about morality and also really did not like evolution. So, let's see how they talk about carnivorous plants and then still kind of poke a jab at evolution at the end. Enjoy. A pleasant memory is all that remains of a world with one or two horsepower. Old Dobin would find himself quite out of place on a fast and crowded highway. The iron horse was a modern marvel when grandmother was a girl, but now [Music] [Music] Today, cameras and rockets a 100 miles above the Earth are giving us a glimpse of what the passenger of tomorrow may consider common place. [Music] Well, this certainly is an age of progress, isn't it? There's been more of scientific discovery, more of technical advancement and material progress in your lifetime and mine than in all the ages of history. Invention has become the symbol of the age. And the mouse could well be the symbol of invention. What father hasn't said to his offspring, "Son, build a better mousetrap and the world will be the pathway to your door." And the sons have been busy doing just that, thinking, planning, working, and they've built their better mousetraps. For man has discovered a lot of things. And yet perhaps the most embarrassing discovery is the fact that regardless of what man may invent or devise, nature had it first. Traps. Why, there are literally millions of them. Far more wonderful and complex than anything man has ever thought of. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] The similarity between a Venus fly trap and a bear trap is quite remarkable, isn't it? the general appearance, the teeth, the action. Now, the bear trap has a trigger right uh there. And if that trigger is pushed, now the Venus fly trap has a trigger also. In fact, it has six of them, three on each side. But there's a difference. The bear trap doesn't know a bear from a piece of wood. But the Venus fly trap does. You see, to touch the trigger hair just once is not enough. Nothing happens. But if we touch the trigger hairs more than once and at just the right intervals, the trap is sprung. You see, no energy is wasted on a twig or a leaf that might fall into the trap. But even more amazing is how those trigger hairs work. There is actually a flow of electrical current from those tiny trigger hairs to the apex of the plant. And when anything touches them, the flow of current is interrupted. A correct number of these negative impulses will cause the trap to spring. If the insect struggles to get away, more pulses cause the trap to close even tighter. Man may have thought he built a better mouse trap, but he's never built one like this. by the trap is also a stomach. The animal will soon be digested by the plant and in a few days the Venus fly trap will be open for business again. Now that action of the jaws snapping shut, it can take place in a 25th of a second. It can even catch flies. And yet the plant is completely devoid of muscle tissue. That flow of electric current, we know it's there. And yet the plant has no nervous system. How does it happen? Someday we'll know. The plant life of North America's bogs and swamps reveals that a master craftsman has laid out with intricate design a variety of traps to serve the needs of nature. Some of the traps are passive. The trumpet plant, for example, is a type of pitfall. It's composed of a long slender tube which will average from 18 to 24 in in length. Down inside the tube are tiny glands that produce a nectar and the nectar serves to attract the insects. The cobra plant is another type of pitfall. And like all the others, it may be passive, but it's very effective. [Music] The hood of the plant is a maze of tiny windows. These appear to the trapped insects to be a way of escape. In a frustrated attempt for freedom, a false step usually occurs and the insect adds to the daily mineral requirements of a carnivorous plant. Yet another type of pitfall is the pitcher plant. The shape of the leaves is responsible for its name. The leaves actually grow in such a manner that they form pitchers. Pitchers that are 6 to 8 in deep and as much as 1 to 2 in wide. Most of the pitfalls simply allow the prey to follow the line of least resistance. Getting out, however, is an entirely different matter. The tiny hairs on the welcome mat suddenly become spears that surround a prison. When an insect topples in, a pool of death awaits below. The liquid will put him to sleep and then digest him. The traps always eat what they catch. Beautiful, isn't it? But these are not flowers. They're leaves of the sundue plant, nature's own brand of fly paper. And they're covered with bright red hairs. The glands that manufacture the sticky secretion are located at the ends of these hairs. And it is through these same glands that the food is assimilated by the body of the plant. Talk about your traps. This is a working model of one of the most fantastic traps ever built. Now the prey approaches, triggers the mechanism This trap even resets itself. Now, can you imagine building all of this complicated mechanism into a trap the size of the head of this pin? God did it. The plant itself, the utricular area, lives beneath the surface of the water. Each of the small globular objects is a trap, much more complicated than our working model. The trap itself is so tiny that it will take a microscope to see it work. But if we're fortunate, we can actually see the plant trap tiny animals. Notice the guide hairs and the three small trigger hairs. Now, don't blink your eyes. You're liable to miss the catch. This little animal doesn't know which way to go, and he's just the kind of a fellow utricularia likes to have around. Did you see it? I told you not to blink. You see, the catch is actually made in a 50th of a second. Now, watch closely. This time, [Music] when the trigger hairs are bent, the trap is sprung. And when an animal gets sucked inside, eventually he succumbs and is digested. Even the utricular area sometimes overeats. When we see such a complex mechanism as this, and remember it's no larger than the head of a pin, man's best traps look strangely cold and ineffective by comparison. Man's progress has not been due to discovery of new things, but merely to the uncovering of principles and devices that God ordained in nature. Sorry about that. Uh, I was having a a conversation with somebody who um wanted to know whether or not we had Venus fly traps where I'm located. And in Raleigh, no. But if you go to the coast, there's a certain area, I think, uh maybe it's around Wilmington, which is about two and a half hours, three hours away. I think to get actually get to where the the um Venanish fly traps are, it's it's a little difficult, but um yes. Uh so that's Dr. Irwin Moon. Uh Dr. Moon has his uh doctorate in religious studies, not science, not um medical, it's religious studies. Um and his stuff is so great. Um I mean there's always that, like I said, that little jab about evolution. Uh but um really beautiful photography and interesting ideas and I think it inspired a whole generation of scientists. Uh I at some point in my life I will write a book or do a documentary about the three men of science that got people excited about being scientists. It's Dr. Moon um Dr. uh Frank Baxter from the Bell Science series and Mr. Wizard who did a TV show. And none of those men were scientists at all. They all just liked science or liked they were tapped to talk about science but they influenced a lot of people to think about science because their stuff was shown on television and shown in schools and shown in other places in church things like that. Anyhow um I one of the things I love about collecting 16 millimeter films. Oh before I started about that I just wanted to say I got some shoutouts. I really appreciate that. the the fine film folks at Mulma, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, uh listed AV Geeks, this streaming event on their list of movies that you've never seen. Uh and so thank you so much for that mention. Uh if you guys are tuning in, um also, uh local television, uh they did a little piece on me. um we did it remotely uh and they talked about uh what we were doing and uh so that was really great to get those kind of nods. Uh especially MoMA man's awesome. Um anyways uh so one of the reasons I like collecting 60 millimeter films is because I find little niche films. Um, most of the stuff I got from schools or from government agencies that were dumping their collections, but occasionally I would get something on eBay. And uh, this was something I got on eBay and it's a industrial film promoting the company that makes industrial films. So, um, this is a glorious film that has lots of interesting footage. It's called, uh, Movie Makers Movie. Enjoy. Industrial and commercial motion pictures were in their infancy readily accepted by the average viewer. The magic contained was a new dimension. Motion quality was not an issue. Then came the television bonanza. Viewers were too intrigued by the miracle of television itself to be concerned with quality. Increased exposure resulted in more opportunities for comparison. Taste became increasingly sophisticated and critical. The demand for improved quality was not limited to television alone. Indirectly, television viewing was serving as a training ground for countless buyers, users, and audiences of industrial and commercial motion pictures. And as a result, quality standards for industrial film production were finally being recognized. [Music] Movie Makers Incorporated of Cleveland, Ohio, producers of industrial, commercial, and medical motion pictures are presenting this sample film in support of their quality oriented philosophy. The intent is to demonstrate professional quality motion pictures filmed under extremely varied conditions. [Music] The abbreviated scenes represent more than 40 motion pictures. Some are scenes from television commercials. Most are from industrial and commercial presentations. Projection time of the original presentations from which these clips were taken range from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. [Music] Most of the original films were complemented by on camera talent or voiceover narration, many with music or sound effects. A few silent films utilizing various methods of titling were employed. Each presentation was tailored and directed to a specific audience with a definite communication purpose. [Music] The principles who form the nucleus of movie makers have spent a combined total of more than 40 years associated with the motion picture industry. The knowledge gained from this association has been exciting and rewarding. rewarding in the experience logged with years of production services, coordination, set design, cinematography, lighting, editorial, whatever. No less important have been the years spent with laboratories and sound recording studios, working with meaningful terms of densitometry and quality control. Terms as common as strips, wedges, gamma, and curves. Add the mechanics of timing, processing and printing, dubbing, transfers, mixing, scoring, multitrack recording, optical transfers, and you have a good foundation. What does it all add up to? What does it all mean? Simply this. Movie makers have the background, the experience and the understanding to produce professional motion pictures with a total quality concept. [Music] Movie makers have purposely elected to remain small and flexible, unencumbered with high overhead of staff and facilities. This fact alone has enabled movie makers to remain extremely competitive on all budgets submitted to all size companies, large and small, and still retain quality. [Music] Movie [Music] makers maintain an 18,800 square f foot sound studio for a controlled filming environment when needed. These facilities are utilized for set construction, product displays, artwork, title photography, and limited animation. Movie makers have designed and built several mechanical aids for title presentations. These effects include spins, crawls, wipes, and zooms, or a combination of any two utilizing both front and rear illumination. Set construction of any reasonable size is available. [Music] Movie makers are proud of the reputation they have earned in the industrial field and equally proud of the progressive companies they serve. Because of a close working relationship with these companies, movie makers have learned firsthand that there are many advantages to be gained by the use of motion pictures. One of these advantages is control. Your message will be told time after time exactly as you know it should be told, just as you have carefully arranged it and checked it in advance. It will be told accurately with uniform efficiency for the sound motion picture never tires, never gets off the track, never overlooks a single point. [Music] No method of telling a story, your story, so compels attention as the projected lighted picture. to this motion picture. Add voices, music, sound effects, and scientific tests have proven that this double appeal to eye and ear to be five times as effective as either appeal singly. [Music] Your message can be dramatized to any desired degree, making for a story which is more interesting, more convincing. [Music] Because of the sound motion pictures innate appeal and because distracting elements are removed, your entire message receives the undivided attention of the audience. Your idea is multiplied as often as necessary. The message can be delivered simultaneously in one or 100 places as desired. [Music] With Sound Motion Pictures, anyone can present your message anywhere, at any time of the day or night, simply and with uniformly effective results. They can work for you anywhere in the world for the cost of mailing a film. [Music] In addition to the many other advantages, the sound motion picture enables you to transmit your ideas at a lower cost per message. [Music] Contrary to many opinions, movie makers have repeatedly proven that the use of motion pictures need not be expensive. Advanced projection systems, both silent or sound, enable modern progressive industries to use motion pictures for individual concepts, product or machinery demonstration, single ideas, unit training. Yes, endless possibilities at a surprisingly low cost. [Music] Movies don't just communicate. They're an environment. They have an impact that can make it through all the barriers and get your message to that inside man. [Music] Added to your present media mix, movies give new depth to your communications resources. They enhance your problem-solving ability. They let you get more out of your media dollars by letting you allocate each tool to the job it does best. Used as part of a comprehensive communications program, movies can help ensure that your message is noticed, heard, and acted on. [Music] Honey. [Music] Movie [Music] makers wish to express their appreciation for this opportunity to tell their story. Sooner or later, possibly next week, next month, or even next year, whenever the time comes for you to consider the use of motion pictures in any area, whether it be sales, product demonstration, marketing, process simplification, training, or public relations. In short, a need to communicate. Movie makers would like to make only one request. Don't make a move or a movie without us. [Music] Such a great film. Uh, somebody commented that obviously I love this film because of all the assembly line footage. Um, there's a term that I don't know if I came up with it or it was some of us collectors. We called it assembly line porn. Uh, it's not actual pornography. It is actually um gratuitous close-up shots of manufacturing processes uh with um weird music. Uh so it is very porn-like in that it's not really concerned about the product and more about the manufacturing process of that product. Um I used to watch as an adult a bunch of uh reruns of Mr. Rogers neighborhood and once a week at least they would visit uh a factory in north in United States and they would show how something was being made. Uh really fascinating. Um all right so um this next film is also about manufacturing and it's also about food you know like I always try to show something that's food related because it is lunch for some of us um although it might be dinner for some people tuning in. Uh this film is about uh manufacturing dog food and just regular people food. um and is about quality control and about being aware of the manufacturing process and how things can get introduced into them uh causing harm to your customers. Um and it's uh super dramatic, super melodramatic. So here's purely coincidental The characters, places, and events portrayed in this motion picture are fictional. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Alison, don't forget to drink your juice. Now you heard me. Bye-bye, everybody. I'm on my way. Bye, honey. Bye. Bye, sweetheart. Oh, honey. Don't forget to buy some charcoal for tonight. Okay. Okay. Bye, Daddy. Bye. How was your weekend? Not bad. Went to the Packers game. They pulled it out in the last minute. How about you? Kind of quiet. I did some work around the house Saturday and uh uh Sunday, Marcia and I took Allison to the park. You know, that kid is really something else. She brought this uh sculpture home from school. You know, one of those clay things, and uh it was really terrific. So I said, "Honey, that is a great looking dog." She says, "No, Daddy, it's an elephant." Hey, sounds like your kid's got a lot of talent. Oh, yeah. Hey, I want to stop by Sorenson's on the way home tonight. I got to pick up some charcoal. I want to take a look at that 12 gauge he's got. I'd love to have that with me on our hunting trip. Yeah. Only two more weeks to go and we'll be on our way. Boy, I can hardly wait. [Music] Hey, nice going, Jimmy. Beautiful. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and that Duke Ammani went right to it. So, I knew we were in the money. Then this guy Richard's dog, he goes out. You know, he's he's the guy's always blown off about this dog. Well, he about 50 yards out, he spots a rabbit. He takes right off. Oh jeez, was he mad? Thought he was going to have a stroke. Hey, what's the rush? You're going to get picked up. Yeah, that's all I'd need. I got a call about 4:00 this morning from the plant. Packaging machine is down. Oh, I hope they got it gone by now. Yeah, well, it's all right with me. I wouldn't know what to do with the stuff if I if I had it. I haven't got any cars to ship it in. I had to reject 10 of them Friday. Oh, they were all beat up, filthy. Looks like it's going to be a long day for all of us, including the Bears. Did you see him give that game away to the Packers yesterday? Hi, Frank. Morning, John. Sure. Had a rough night. Number three packaging machine still down. Oh, no. I was afraid of that. How much longer? Well, they say it'll only be a little while. What happened? Broken cam. Broken cam. That's twice this year. I wonder what would cause that. I told them to give me a call when they're ready. The last time this happened, we lost over a thousand cases. I got some more bad news for you. H. Smitty called, said he'd be 2 hours late. I'm way ahead of you, though. I got one of my guys to stay until Smitty gets here. Hey, thanks, Frank. I owe you one. I think I'll take a look. I'll see you in the morning. See you, John. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I will. We just got line number three going again. Do you want to send one of your guys down to take a look? Okay, we'll do that right now. Here, Duke. Come on. Come on. There you go. That's good stuff. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Duke, do nuke [Music] Come on. Get off. Joke. John, come over the door. Mix number one. Come on. Quick. Oh, you know better than that. Get that mess cleaned up. What do you say? [Music] [Music] Yes, Mrs. Phelps. I know she was perfectly normal this morning, but but right now she's running a fever. She's got cramps now. I think you should come and get her and put her right to bed. No. Well, I I really think you should call your doctor. I don't really know what it is, but she's pretty sick. Harry Phillips telephone. Harry Phelps telephone. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah, that's Harry Pelp. Yeah. Hey. Hi, honey. Harry Allison is very sick. We are at the hospital now and um are asleep. They're pumping her stomach. I'll be right there. Hi, honey. Where is she? Is she going to be all right? No. What's happening? They said that um it was something that she ate and that it was that it was food poisoning. Food poison. Food? What the hell does that mean? Food poison. What can we do? Well, there's they're in there with her now and and they're they're pumping her stomach. Honey, take it easy. They said that we could just wait. Take it easy. She's such a baby. She's so little. I don't know what to It should be all right. I'm so glad you're here, Harry. Hi, sweetheart. Hi, Alison. What are you doing? I got here as quick as I could. Everything's going to be fine. Don't worry, sweetheart. You're going to be all right. Sure, she is. Please, God. I'm sorry. You'll have to stop here. I'll call you. I will wait for you. Easy. She's going to be all right. Don't worry. Don't worry. She's going to be fine. She's going to be fine. God, who did this to our little girl? This vet looks terrible. Come on, George. What you want your kids to eat out of that? [Music] John, you better take a look at this. Oh, no. It's It's almost quitting, Tom. I'll get it tomorrow. [Music] Boy, am I glad today's over. Yeah, me too. I'm getting out of here before anything else goes wrong. John Miller, come to the office. John Miller. I left 5 minutes ago. [Music] Duke, Duke, Duke, where's Duke? I don't know how to tell you this. Tell me what I I tried to call you, but uh Tell me what? Well, it's about Duke. Well, what about Duke? Well, after you went to work this morning, I fed him like I usually do. And Judy, what's the matter with Duke? Duke's gone. What? He's dead. Oh no. I'm sorry, John. I'm sorry. You don't know. Please. How? What happened? I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? The vet said it was It was probably something in his food. Something in his food? What'd you do? Give him some new kind of garbage? No, I bet him the same thing we've always met him. I went off about an hour and and when when I came back, he was he he was just lying there. Just just lying there. I don't believe it. It just isn't possible. I called the vet and he said to bring him over. jump. I I could I couldn't even lift him. So, I called the vet back and he was here in 20 minutes. Well, what did he say? Huh? What could kill him? Yeah. Hello. Yeah, Doc. We were just trying to figure out You found what? How uh how would he get something like that in his food? You you mean to tell me that he he could swallow something like that? Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Uhhuh. Well, I'll tell you one thing. Somebody's going to pay for this. Yeah, that's what the doc said. Food poison. Is that unreal? Some companies just don't care what goes on in their plants. I wonder how those guys would like it if one of their kids got sick. They probably don't let their own product in the house. We take more care with this stuff than some guys do with food. I've heard some stories. I've heard some stories you wouldn't believe. You wouldn't believe it. What they found in his stomach. Now, the vet said it was something he swallowed in his food. What a way to go. We better get going. You want to check that dough mixer? We've been having trouble with it. Sure thing. Right after I wash up. See you later. You know, even Allison's doctor didn't know where she got it. Food poison. Could have been anything she ate. Some guy not being careful. They really don't. They just don't understand how important the little things really are. I understand the FDA is really starting to put the heat on these food companies and I'm all for it. They really come down hard on those clowns. You know, we had to shut down one of our lines for an hour yesterday because the stuff didn't look like it was supposed to. And this is dog food. Oh. Uh, you take a right here. Boy, I can't wait to try out this new 12 gauge. See how it feels. Probably not too good the way you shoot. My shooting is going to be all right. It's this dog of yours I'm worried about. Don't worry about the dog. He'll be just fine. Why don't you take him in and get us a couple of beers and I'll get us a good blind for tomorrow. That's quite a dog you got there. Yeah, belongs to a friend of mine. Hey bartender, when you get a chance, can I have a couple of beers, please? Coming up. Yeah, it makes me feel kind of sad. I I had a lab just like that big guy. He was killed a couple of weeks ago. He died. You should have seen what they found in his stomach. You know, it's funny. Uh my little girl is just getting over a case of food poisoning. Thank God nothing went wrong. She's coming along pretty good. You know, I don't understand it. With all the money they can spend out of research, you think they'd find a way. Yeah. Yeah. Some guys just don't give a damn. Give a damn. Give a damn. Give a damn. Give a damn. Give a damn. Give a damn. Boy, ain't that the truth. The truth. The truth. The truth. The truth. The truth. The truth. The bartender. This one's on me. Hey, Mike. Come on in. I want you to meet a friend of mine. The characters, places, and events portrayed in this motion picture were fictional. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, was purely coincidental. Maybe. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Um, there is a line, an invisible line, and that film crossed it. Um, for a couple of reasons. Uh, so I apologize. Um, I do not think that dog was dead. Um, God, I hope not. That's that would be horrible. Anyways, um, yeah, I apologize. Also, someone said that they felt like I had shown this recently. I don't think I did, but if I did, I apologize for that, too. But given the amount of hackles raised by showing that film, I think I would have remembered. Um, anyways, I I love the film for many reasons. And what's interesting is for a long time, anytime there was some sort of uh e coli or salmonella breakout in the food industry, people would order copies of that film on disc. people who worked at factories uh would bring this in as a way to kind of send the message that it was important to be clean and to keep the uh the line of food, whether it was for people or animals, to keep it clean and uh free of metal debris. All right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Anyways, um I should say that uh I'm going to be on a podcast tonight with the Fifty Street Studio. Uh it's at 7 o'clock Eastern Standard Time and I'll put a link in the um comments. Uh the person who does it is a longtime fan and actually interviewed me in my space. So that's an opportunity to see where me and my natural element. Um all right, I can't leave you. I feel so bad about purely coincidental. I kind of not really, but no, I do. Um I think it's a really great film, but yes, it is super provocative. Um I'm going to leave you with some Jonathan Wyinners Selling You Carpet. Um if you like what you saw, go to abeks.com. You can watch more of the films here. Uh also you can see all the back uh archived uh streaming events that we've done. Um, if you also can buy DVDs there. Also, Patreon is a place you can donate. Uh, and we will spend that money on um, I don't know, I might start buying stuff on eBay again. We'll see how I'm feeling. Um, thanks again for tuning in. I very much enjoy showing these films to you and your comments and putting eyeballs on it. Uh, we did some experimenting today. We actually broadcast on Periscope. Um, and I think one person looked at it. So, we're slowly expanding uh what we're uh doing, too. So, anyways, here's Jonathan Winners. Enjoy. [Music] [Applause] [Music] On behalf of the Allied Chemical Corporation, I welcome you. We're here to talk about carpets of Kapperland nylon. the product, the customers, and you, the people who sell. How you sell determines how much you sell. A man who sat where you're sitting once got that message, went back to his showroom, applied what he had learned, and now he's rich. As rich as a capri color, as secure as a capri fiber. But why not let him tell you about it? Hi guys, won't you come into my parlor? Why, we'll be as snug as a bug in a rug. Kaplan, of course. That's a little carpet funny. How do you like my kitty, guys? Isn't he precious? How still he lies? I got him all the way from India. He came in a little tiny box. Then I let him out and he got out of hand. I stepped on him and crushed him and made a kind of a throw mat out of him. You wouldn't think it to look at me. But I used to be a $97 weakling. I was a lost, lonely salesman, searching for the right product. Always disappointed. You know how those things are. Oh, they all look good at first, but you never really know a carpet until you live with it. Then one day, I saw her. It was chemistry. Allied, of course. There she was, right there. What color? What strength? The way she sprang back after people had walked all over her. I knew this was a carpet that a man could raise a family on. I started to work for Kaplan. And then it happened. Orders, orders, orders. I never saw so many. I'm not kidding. And she worked right along with me, side by side, share and share alike, in sickness and in health, for richer or poor. But as you can see, with your own envious salesman eyes, listen guys, they're too much. I can see you. Can you see me? It's very little poor and oodles of rich. After 6 months, I retired at the age of 22, believe it or not. From rugs to riches, I call it. And listen, you silly savages. If you've paid attention and listen to me, you can have the same wonderful goodies that I had. And this delightful girl. Isn't she too much? Cappy. Caprian. She's beautiful. And how about my kitty? Isn't he sweet? Growl, you little devil. Say something. Don't just lie there flatty like I've got to retire and catch some Z's. Now, [Music] the story of the success of a Kapperland salesman begins with a product, a carpet of Kapperland nylon. It carries the gold label and it's made only by the finest carpet mills. The rest of the success story of a Kapperland salesman can be summed up this way. Know show grow. Know your product. Show it off to good advantage. Watch your profits grow. Now, as in every other business, Kaplan customers fall into two basic groups, men and women. Let's meet some of them. Come on, Henry. Now, here's the Kaplan showroom. Now come on, Henry. You're going to prank me for this. Wait, did you see how we look like a man? No kidding. Yes, ma'am. We have cap lion carpets for every purpose. Beautiful deep dyed color, luxurious texture, unusual designs. A welcome addition to any home. See, Henry, don't Margaret kidding. I'm a little puzzled. Aren't you the same couple that was in here last week and bought Kaprian for every room in your home? Why you even bought them for the front and back walks? Is anything wrong? Oh, no. We love every square yard of it, don't we, Henry? Well, we certainly did. And Margaret, I've told you to keep your hand off my arm. But I don't understand. Are you buying Kaprian carpets to put on your carpets to protect them? As beautiful as they are, we want you to walk on them. Kaprian is made for heavy use. I know that's silly. Tell them, Henry. We know. Henry, tell them. Well, I am. Very well said, Henry. Now, can you help us, young man? Yes, of course, ma'am. We can help you. Do what? Well, I want you to make a suit of Kaparan for Henry. A suit? Yes. I think every woman's husband should look as nice as her floor. Don't you agree, Henry? Huh? Oh, Margaret, please. Last year it was double breasted satin draperies. Hey, uh, buddy, do I get the extra pairs of pants? Yes. The sales keep rolling in for Kaperland and for good reason. Kaperland delivers what the customers want. Kaprian and the Kapperland gold label stand for excellence. And Kapperland's performance, its unsurpassed wearability and cleanability make you look good after the sale is made, too. Returning now to our salesman, we find him still proud of this sale he just made. Another happy customer. Another triumph for effective, tasteful, poised salesmanship. Vicky Bixford's the name and promotion's my game. You want bigger sales, I'll give you bigger sales. Well, thank you, Mr. Bixford. But Kaplan has given much thought to its sales campaign, and we think uh think big. We think rug. This is a country of rugged individualists, my friend. And if they're going to be rugged by anybody, it might as well be you. Well, thank you, Mr. for Bixford. But I don't think there you said it. Why man? When I think about wallto-wall carpeting, I think wallto-wall, the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China. Now that's an order. And how about United States Highway number one laying out there all uncovered, getting scuffed and scratched. Ride Caprian all the way. Baby, you've been overlooking some great bets. What are you fellas doing at those planning boards anyway? Now listen, how about this? Carpeting on the underside of every airplane wing. Get it? Look up to Kaplan and we'll cover Lake Erie so people can walk to Canada without a wet toe in the crowd. And how about the infield at Yankee Stadium? No bad bounces on Kaplan. And I've been saving this one for you, sweetheart. The boardwalk at Atlantic City and the beach and all the beaches from Maine to Florida. Get it? Get a tan on Capri Land. You hear me, Big Daddy? Binky Bixford's playing you the money tune on the Golden Horn. Now get with it, buddy boy. Put a feather in your capri land. We're ready to move. You just say the word. Okay, I'll say the word. Out. Out. He's definitely not a fun guy, is he? You no doubt have found that you have to start setting up a sale by talking about color. A survey by the American Carpet Institute shows that 85% of women choosing carpet are more influenced by color than by any other factor. And here's where selling deep dyed carpets by Kaprian nylon becomes easier than selling any other carpet. Kaprian fibers start out whiter than other fibers and they dye deeper. Most other fibers are just coated with dye. But with Kaprian, colored goes deep down into the fiber itself, which is why we call Kaprian the more colorful nylon. Deep dyed for extra beauty. But there are other offbeat questions that are more difficult. We conducted a survey in local showrooms to find the puzzling questions and situations which arise most frequently and then we invited one of our senior salesmen to answer them. Hi, this is Gabe Tonkler, your Capriland survey reporter. We're here in a Caprian showroom and we're going to talk to one of the grand old men of Carpetum, Dennis D. Hi, Mr. Doo. Hi, Gabe. Mr. D, I wonder if you'd mind answering a few ticklish problems that come up in selling carpets. Anything you want to say? Shoot. All right, Gabe, here's the first question. No, that's my name, isn't it, Gabe? I'm sorry about that. Uh, Dennis, is there any difference between men and women as customers? I'd say, buddy, if you don't know the difference between men and women, you're in trouble regardless of the customer jazz. I see. Well, you have a good point there. Where did you get your training as a rug salesman, Dennis? Oh, I just hung around the carpet guys and I love to kind of roll on the carpets and talk with them. I love the designs, lovely colors of Capri Land. Man, oh man. Mr. Capri land. Mr. Tri, just hold yourself. Don't touch me. I'm sorry. Unless you love me. Do you believe in premarital carpet buying? What? Premarital carpet buying? I certainly do. If it's confined to the wreck room where they can just play and jump and act silly and you know. How do you handle dogs that track up a carpet? I nail their paws to the floor. Should a newly married couple get carpets or furniture first? I don't know. It's a fun game either way you look at it. It's more fun with taper land. You lie there and kind of roll around and giggle and then slip a little ring on her finger. I wed and now to bed. When you're bothered by competitive salesmen, what do you do to them? How do you handle them? Drop them like a bad habit. Sink one right in them and then go to the church of my choice. What do you do with the money you earn here? Well, I think that is a little personal. I date Margaret Sepheran. She's in China. Not in China, but in the China department. Oh, I see. I put my Caprian rug on the floor and then she puts her dishes and we have some tea and then we kiss hard. That's what you do with the money. Yeah, I see. Well, one last question, sir. How long will a carpet of Caprian nylon last? A lot longer than you will. Well, thank you, Dennis. Thank you very much. Have a handshake like a wet armadillo. Thank you, Dennis. Due, senior salesman. Grand old man of Carpetum, thank you for advancing each Kapperland salesman a few more steps towards the knowledge and knowhow that is our goal. Well, once more, let's move to the local showroom and watch a new man, a real freshman, take his first firm steps toward that goal. I love you. I love you. Now, I've got to remember what they taught me. A big cheerful hello. Competent air, sincere interest, save customer time and money. No promises you can't keep. It's the Kapperland way. Well, I'm ready. [Music] Hello. [Music] Sorry she has to circle the field, folks, but we're a little stacked up today. I was told you could help me. Well, I I'll do what I can. I don't know anything, so you'll have to show me everything. Well, uh, ask me anything. I I'm an expert. I need carpet. Lots of carpet. You see, I have a a friend, a very close friend, who likes to run around the house barefoot. Oh, well, Kaplan has any number of fast colors. Good, because he's a fast runner. Well, any particular color in mind? Match my eyes. Oh. [Music] You're writing without your pad and pencil. Oh, sorry. And I want the texture to feel like this. Oh, [Music] I'd like a carpet like that myself. [Music] Well, I guess that's all. Oh, wait, wait. Uh, what about your bird cage? Oh, thank you. I never would have thought of that. What about your bathtub? Oh, good. Make it be. I love to bathe in beige. You know, you're a you're a lady that had carpeting everywhere in the living room. bedroom, a bathtub, and ceiling, the walls, the garage, outside in the lawn, even in the swimming pool. More, more, more. There's one thing I must ask you. What I want to ask you, baby, is am I getting these wholesale? Will I [Music] to think that I haven't been with Gaproan for for a month now? Huh? I think you get the idea. You can have fun selling Kapperland this season and we're going to have fun helping you in every way. We top the field in what we know, how we show, and so we grow. So get out there and meet your customers. Well, that's right, Byron. Thank you, John. Thank you. But seriously, for a moment, a great market deserves a great product. America is the greatest market, and we know that Kaprian is a great product. So come on, guys. Let's roll out that carpet and make sure it's capitalized. [Music] [Applause] [Music] So the end there was uh evidence of film damage. Uh, basically the film was beginning to curl. The color is what they call was breathing. So that you saw that weird going from red to orang-ish to greenish to um and it began to roll a little bit. And so the the little towards the the hub uh is when the film began to deteriorate. But we got some good Jonathan Wyinners in there. Um the uh this film was definitely not made for the general public to watch. This film was made for salesmen. This was to introduce uh the product. Um I mean you can the title is from rugs to riches is the idea is that here's the product that you're going to make a large commission off of uh or make a lot of money off of selling. Uh and so the and the reason I know that also is that the humor is a little racy, a little controversial. Um, and that's what you you wanted to get very sexy, of course. Um, salesmen, you know, they want salesmen to keep their attention and get them excited about the product. And one way to do that is to make it sexy and make it um, funny. And Jonathan Winter's certainly a talent. Uh, the the thing when he plays the old the old salesman is probably my favorite part. It's just ludicrous. Anyways, thanks so much for coming out uh enjoying um what we're showing and uh join us again tomorrow 1 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. Uh again, I am doing a interview on a podcast that I posted. I think I posted it. Um I'll make sure that it's on both YouTube and Facebook. Uh and that actually has an interview with me at the archive. So, you get to see the archive a little bit and get a sense of where I'm not right now. put um where I was. So hopefully we'll see you again soon. Take care.