AV Geeks Lunch 7-15-2022

this is not a vacation i'm asking for a week off right now is it yes or no the last time the answer is no all right if that's how you feel about it i quit get yourself another boy miss perry get me sam brooking personnel [Music] most of our knowledge of the world we live in is gained through words spoken or written words which are symbols for things people ideas events some of the most crucial events in our lives involve words our understanding of people and events therefore depends upon the successful transmission or communication of these words from one person to another yet strangely enough many of us handle this important and complex process incorrectly the film you are seeing is a dramatization of three major factors in person-to-person communication take that scene in the office has that ever happened to you or someone you know what you caught was the last round of a fight that never should have taken place why was there a fight because mr lewis the boss and bob wheeler the employee carried on a conversation without even listening to each other we spend much of our business life in conversation which normally should be a kind of person-to-person communication but sometimes things go wrong let's turn back the clock and see what led to the disagreement between mr lewis and bob wheeler come in uh could i see you for a minute mr lewis oh sure bob come on in uh everything all right downstairs oh everything's fine we just shipped that order to south bend how about the woodson or did you get that out yes sir we shipped that out express this morning oh fine what's on your mind bob well mr lewis had like a week off now i know who's talking oh barney yeah yeah i called you but i'm tied up okay go ahead yes yes of course i want the payroll out early on account of the holiday well put your people on overtime don't worry i'll take the responsibility i'm sorry bob now what were you saying uh something about your vacation no i said i wanted to take a week off oh well you see it's an emergency and and i've got to get up north right away i've got a wire from my brother's attorney and how can i give him i got to be in court next week he knows we've got a backlog i guess it's true no matter how long a man works for you all he thinks about is himself never occurs to him that we're running a business here he's okay maybe i can use some of my vacation time and still settle the details of the family estate well what do you say mr lewis can i take off a quitting time i don't know jack harmon is away on his vacation there are all those new parts to be packaged and routed you know how important it is to get those orders out on time and that there be someone there all the time to leave now you also know does he understand this is an emergency not a pleasure trip but this is an emergency um if it were just an ordinary vacation trip i'd understand but it isn't i've got to stay with that vacation schedule we'll never get through the summer wheeler thinks he can move things around to suit himself well he'll find out it's not solved now everything seemed yesterday she called me and said that he'd taken a turn for the worse i've just got to go uh-huh what was that i've just got to go i'm sorry i can't change that vacation schedule without tying up the whole plant but this is very important to me and my family important he's no more important than anybody else around here there's gonna be no favoritism and he'll learn that before he leaves this office i've got to leave right away i'm sorry but i can't juggle that schedule at this late date besides next week we need you for that special shipment that's all this joker thinks of i'll show him he can't show me order from this tight schedule that's the way it has to be i've worked here for 10 years and if you can't hire some extra help for just one week now wait a minute you know i can't put the company to that expense for just one person you'll have to wait for your regular vacation i don't mean to be so that's a treatment i get around here well i can always get a job with frank evans when i get back from up north i'll call him i'll give louise just one more chance but we worked out this vacation schedule perfectly and nobody in it won't only be two or three weeks surely i can wait that long this is not a vacation i'm asking for a week off right now is it yes or no for the last time the answer is no all right if that's the way you feel about it i quit get yourself another boy miss perry get me some broken personnel and the company loses another good man why was it necessary for bob wheeler to change jobs after so many years and was there no way for the company to avoid having to hire and train a new man i think there was but first let's analyze what really happened we know that each man was so involved with his own thoughts he didn't even hear everything the other man had to say this alone would have caused misunderstanding but both men were guilty of more than just not listening they each started to talk with a wrong picture of the other instead of listening directly to bob wheeler lewis tuned in on a private channel of his imagination and pictured something like this change the schedule who cares you'll get the work done somehow my problems are more important than the companies this happens every day and may be considered normal but during a crucial conversation it can lead to disaster bob wheeler too has a distorted image this is what he assumed the boss was saying as far as i'm concerned you're nothing but a cog and a machine you'll do things my way or you'll get out there plenty of men waiting in line to take your job so don't give me any of your lip ridiculous weren't they but all of us have somewhat false ideas of other people which we must clear up if we are to reach an understanding with them we can do this and make good communication possible by tuning in on some things that are not actually voiced i mean as we listen we can ask ourselves these three questions first what is being taken for granted have either of us assume things which are not true in other words what preconceptions do we have that might get in the way of understanding an agreement second what other points of view how does he see things do they look different to him than they do to me are we seeing only those points which help our own position and are we blind to facts which might hurt it are we burying our heads in the sand what feelings are coloring our thinking to get a clear understanding of the situation you must make an estimate of the other fellows needs and desires as well as your own [Applause] are these feelings keeping us from thinking straight have either of us an unconscious fear or dislike of the other which is blocking and understanding now let's imagine what might have happened if mr lewis and bob wheeler had been good listeners let's just see if the mere process of listening with understanding makes any difference in our daily conversations the scene is the office of the manager the time 10 minutes ago man could i see you for a minute mr lewis well sure bob come on in everything all right downstairs oh everything's fine we uh just finished that order to south bend and there was an order yes sir shipped it this morning good fine sit down thank you miss perry hold on calls for a few minutes will you please thank you now bob what's on your mind mr lewis i'd like to have a week off it's an emergency and i have to go back to my old hometown how can i give him time off with all that work to be done next week that's my problem i wonder what his trouble is my brother just passed away and i've got a telegram from his attorney telling me that there's going to be a reading of the will and i'll be needed in court yes people's problems are all the same this reminds me of the time dad died i'm terribly sorry bob is there anything i can do thank you nothing except give me a week off well i don't know jack's still on his vacation all those new parts to package and ship i thought he was gonna say okay even tell me to leave right away but maybe you really can't spare me now after all after 10 years the company does get to rely on you yes i know i was hoping we could work something out let's see if he's thought about the company's problem the spotty be putting us in if he leaves today any ideas bob well richards has his vacation coming up on wednesday why don't you see if you could change dates with him if he would then you could leave tuesday night you could wire the attorney and have him ask for a postponement that sounds like good sense and i guess i do have to consider this part i'd be putting mr lewis into if i just took off i'll do that mr lewis and i think it'll work well thanks a lot for being so helpful that's all right let me know if i can do anything okay takes even less time doesn't it just a few minutes to listen to the other person maybe a few questions to find out what's on his mind we spend so much of our time in person-to-person communication why not learn to do it well remember listening is more than just hearing the words it means we must constantly be seeking to answer these three questions first what is being taken for granted by him and by me second what are the points of view how does he see things as against the way i see them and third what feelings are affecting our thinking and are they getting in the way but of all these factors feelings stand as the major barriers to good person-to-person communication feelings when out of control cause us to say and do things we later regret they blind us to careful observation of a situation feelings may force us to be stuck with a bad idea they tend to make us rigid and inflexible in controlling our reactions to what we see in here in seeking to answer these three questions as we listen we will improve our understanding of the other fellow our person-to-person communication is only as good as our ability to listen with understanding [Applause] [Music] [Music] hi everybody welcome um i'm skip alzheimer and this is the av geeks lunchtime streaming show and i'm joined by nate hello i'm back he's back um he's been working with us uh for a couple of weeks this summer before he heads back to college and it's been great he's been helping us with some database stuff um and we kind of i kind of wanted him to tell me what theme to go with and you were you were kind of like language yeah yeah and then i was like well we could do language but we could also do communication and also information so i have films that are related to those things because certainly communication is something that um we seem to be having problems with nowadays and um also the amount of information that we're uh exposed to is outrageous but in the meantime i did want to kind of give a shout out to language um with uh this film which is uh a film on how to conjugate the verb banana hola today we're going to discuss a very interesting verb the verb denier banier b-a-n-a-r with a tilde over the end beneath two banana we conjugate a verb grossly like any other verb we have discussed previously hi banana you banana formal your banana informal we banana they banana formula info now the verb has very many possibilities because it may seem limited in that it just deals with bananas but it has many different varieties we have here the banya banitas the little banana banitas banitos female and males oh and we've discussed there previously and then you can see here a mixed bunch we have in the back some little bananas like these but in the program we have the bigger varieties the full-grown bananas bananas or banana now when we talk about gender we're not necessarily talking about male and female banana because look you can't tell the difference but so what we're talking about is general just practicality sense gender now when okay let's say let's give an example is the best way to learn anything two bunch of bananas walking down the street you tell me what this situation is started what was wrong with that statement what was wrong with it is that the big bananas said big bananas don't have to treat little bananas with respect little bananas have to treat big bananas with respect so yes the informal that's the difference and we see that the banana peels there's really no word in the mexican language for peels as far as bananas go because mexicans revere the banana they cannot eat the banana they will import it but they will not eat it they will talk to it but a banana cannot answer that's the thing to remember bananas can talk to themselves because of the gender but they can't talk to each other so if we have two bananas working dentistry the situation should be hola big little grande pequeno muy bien gracias eu this could be a group of children we don't say group we call them bunch a bunch of bananas this is a bunch of bananas and they were walking down the street but it's very unusual to see this because they only come out at nighttime and if if you're walking down the street and you see the bananas walking down the street you've got to remember the important things that the banana it breaks off the bunch and then it's a singular verb this is a plural verb you see the difference one one of those three is kind of single j but i might have counted it twice but either or less there are two bunch of bananas here one is one one is a lot and so you have to use the plural or the in plural now if you're talking about a bunch of bananas we don't really need these stickers when we're discussing them when you're talking about a bunch of bananas you've got to remember that they would would flow like this they come apart i don't want to break this bunch apart because it's a nice bunch but they they're big ones and there's little ones i think i might have said that already but i cannot overstress their point because it's the gender we're speaking of here you know what i mean when i say gender and that is what's most important in the whole discussion of danielle let's go over the conjugation once more benier two bananas by banana bananas are formed informal by nemos we banana banyan day banana and bananas informal and now it's very important that you don't overreact to the banana that you treat them with respect and that you don't let it get carried away with you either because you could go on and you could you can you can think about what you're going to say but you can't overthink parabolico la banana in english when we speak to a banana in english it's worthless because they do not understand it is predominantly a mexican fruit we're sure some grow in america but these are not worth speaking of because they will not understand the language they will not understand the verb that they're discussing about so that's the way that's the most important thing to remember about the verb and that's the thing i want you to remember when you see banana you talk to it formally informally that's all we have time for now adios amigos so people in the comments some of them really really really hated this film yeah i can see why he's just saying a lot of nonsense yeah i mean it's kind of hilarious and it's short come on not everything we show when somebody uh said in the comments this was a complete waste of uh film i mean i have certainly shown some films that are complete wasted film that one is a goof yeah definitely a student film uh nathan thank you for the coffee maybe that was a reward for showing this film yeah um so when you took language did you take foreign language in high school or did you take it in college i took it in high school so that i wouldn't have to take it in college oh okay so and you took what what language i took spanish for four years wow and so do you still retain some of that knowledge yeah but that's because i still kind of look into it and also have a lot of friends who speak it so i still oh okay yeah that's good yeah use it or lose it yeah i took two years of french in high school and then poof it disappeared that's common yeah it was uh that was the only thing they offered at my high schools was was french and the only thing i remembered in french was the first the first day uh and so when i was in montreal i did a show and um in front of it was easily 500 people and um somebody read the film strip that i had shown in french instead of english they translated it and then i kind of used very poor french to try to communicate with uh some of them anyways uh so speaking of uh difficulties in communication this next film is actually fascinating um it's called communication with the deaf-blind person so deaf-blind person do you know what that what that means so basically like helen keller she can't see she can't hear uh so how do folks in that situation communicate and this is i think this film was made in the late 40s or early 50s maybe even 60s um and it's fascinating uh the different ways that folks uh with that situation communicate it's it's actually kind of kind of cool so here's communication with deafblind people narrated by alexander scorby script and demonstration by annette b dinsmore program specialist in services for the deaf blind american foundation for the blind have you ever known a person who is deaf as well as blind my work has brought me into contact with many of them contacts which have been extremely enjoyable i travel all over the country as a resource person to counselors caseworkers and teachers whose responsibility it is to serve deaf-blind people in the total population of blind persons the proportion of those who are deaf-blind is fortunately low they are widely scattered geographically and for this very reason professional workers as well as the family friends and people in the community must learn how to help a deaf-blind person and above all must learn how to talk directly to him this is the first step and the most important step in offering service to him communication you and i take ordinary conversation for granted someone who is both deaf and blind cannot do this but he can learn to understand you by using one or more of various methods of communication and it is possible for him to take his rightful place among his family friends and other associates even strangers in this film you will see five different methods of communication and you will meet six deafblind people you will see them conversing one using printing in the palm one the alphabet glove two will be talking together with the one hand manual alphabet and another will be using a special device the teletouch the last shown will be the vibration method these are the most commonly used methods in this country there are others which we have not included here thank you miss dinsmore larry lost his sight and hearing in his early teens but he still has a memory of print letters therefore you can talk to him by printing in the palm of his hand this method can be used almost universally because most people know how to print using your index finger as if it were a pencil print capital letters in his hand with simple strokes such as a l s and e make each letter as large as the size of his palm allows with a little practice he will be able to follow your conversation easily if he misunderstands a letter take his finger as if it were a pencil and print the letter on the table in front of him when he gets it right repeat it in the palm of his hand sometimes larry will anticipate a word or a whole sentence when this happens you can save a lot of time by giving him a quick signal for yes and then going on with the following sentence on the other hand if he's wrong in a word or sentence he anticipates give him a signal for no and spell it out carefully in other words this is yes and this is no sometimes you may make a mistake yourself and then you can rub it out this always brings a smile would you like coffee yes thank you how do you take it i like it [ __ ] good almost everyone uses gloves of one sort or another for various useful or decorative purposes but the glove which may be new to you in its purpose and appearance is the alphabet glove the alphabet glove must be carefully marked while it is on the hand of the user so that the letters fall exactly on the ends of the fingers the joints and the palm the numbers are marked on the back of the glove on the nails and at the first knuckles marion has worn one of these gloves for years she was blind from early childhood at 20 when she lost her hearing too she preferred the glove for communication she had to memorize these letter positions but they soon became second nature to her now she can carry on a rapid conversation with anyone who can see provided they can spell words and sentences are spelled out by touching the letters in succession h e l l o and you can develop with practice a touch as if playing the piano just as with printing in the palm a quick signal for yes or for no can save time and make it unnecessary to spell out words when marion anticipates them music music ah what that is what is my hobby yes i have several my favorite stars social dancing but not a twist and clay modeling did did you did i make this yes yes i did [Music] yes well bob i started to make it all by myself but i made the mistake of taking it out to the park you know to work on the fish air as i was working on the cage many people sat on the bench beside me and each had a different idea as to how a fish should look so when i reached home i had a whale with long ears thank goodness the ears fell off too many cabinets right this is the one hand manual alphabet it has been used for years by deaf people in this country and parts of europe ben and alice are having an animated conversation no one can tell what they're talking about because neither utters a sound they've never learned speech each was born deaf and lost sight in adult life we suspect that ben is telling alice a joke of some sort for deafblind people the one hand manual alphabet is a rapid method of communication they must of course learn to read it by touch since they cannot see the position of the fingers of the five different methods of communication shown in this film this one hand manual alphabet is the only one which requires learning on the part of the speaker if you want to use this alphabet you must learn the position of the fingers in making each letter a b c d etcetera in spelling words move your finger smoothly from one letter to the next without extraneous movements the and cat dog wiggly fingers make fuzzy letters for example the letter i with the thumb up turns into y the deaf-blind person places his hand over yours and reads the words by following the movements of your fingers miss dinsmore must read ben's and alice's spelling by touch too because she is blind also ben has a light touch on miss dinsmore's hand and so does alice she can say the same thing to both of them at once for example what do you want for lunch but she cannot read their answers back at the same time or she will get mixed up and now after lunch the teletouch is a device developed by the american foundation for the blind with which you can talk to a deaf-blind person by means of braille even though you yourself know nothing about braille john lost his sight when he had just finished school and his hearing a few years later he has learned to read the teller touch rapidly for better viewing we are removing the cover the teletouch is a small portable machine with a typewriter keyboard on one side and a single braille cell on the other a plate with six holes through which metal dots are raised in various combinations when you press a letter on the keyboard the corresponding braille character appears in the cell a g l w john places his finger on the cell to read the braille letters use a legato touch pressing each letter rather than striking it holding on to each letter in a given word until you press the following letter such as the word snow s n o w a slight pause between words makes it possible for john to understand you rapidly can you use the teletouch with anyone yes even with a child but the individual must familiarize himself with the center of touch and the keyboard this differs our penmanship does and as soon as he becomes familiar with it the deafblind person can read more quickly and easily oh i see everyone is different on each side of the space bar are three blank keys these six keys can be used by anyone who knows braille to make many more characters than the 26 letters these save time and increase speed sensitive fingertips highly trained can understand the speech of others through touch the thumb rests on the lips while the four fingers spread out across the cheek and jaw to catch every movement and vibration carol recognizes a friend by a familiar bracelet and ring and shows delight in the contact she quickly looks a visitor over to check earrings hairdo dress carol lost her sight and hearing when she was not quite two years old just about the same age helen keller was when she became both deaf and blind when carol was old enough she entered a department for deaf blind children in a school for the blind there she was taught to speak to understand the meaning of words and to understand the world around her gradually she mastered the language of this world and was able to speak it and also to read it and write it in braille as her vocab she increased her skill in reading the spoken word by touch so that when she finished school she was well prepared to take her place in her family and social group a genuine interest in others is contagious and she is accepted warmly by all who know her now let's tune into the conversation did you have a nice birthday party dude good how many people came how many people two people a new yellow dress and green shoes that sounds very pretty you're welcome indeed you have seen five of the most commonly used means of communication in the united states to use several methods and this enables them to converse with a variety of people and to develop broader and more effective relationships the number of persons in our population who are both deaf and blind is relatively small and they are widely scattered they urgently need your understanding and communication is the key when you have the opportunity talk directly with a deaf-blind person you will find that this experience will give both of you real satisfaction and pleasure he used hoskins marion geraldine lawhorn alice mary gilmore ben amio strutzy john sam chermak carol carmela otero consultant in education american foundation for the blind robert a bowers cinematographer john r mccrory jr producer and director clarence schmidt american foundation for the blind 15 west 16th street new york new york the end a spot film production that's weird oh that camera the camera slipped um i was like what's going on all right we were looking at the 80 geek ceiling yeah which wasn't very interesting um so fascinating um to be able to communicate uh with the alphabet gloves so they had a glove that had letters on it and to be able to touch um somebody pointed out in the comments is similar to texting and so i wonder you know it'd be great to see uh how technology common technology that's in all of our pockets and um now how that has helped uh the deafblind like is there a way for them to communicate because now there's haptic you know when you touch the screen you feel movement so maybe there's a way to to change that and i'm interested to know more about that because it's really really really fascinating and the fact that uh um alexander scorby red who's the narrator he read all of the uh credits at the end yeah um you know as a nod to people who are uh blind um is fascinating so i feel like i have a couple of other films uh from that series um made by the same folks um and it's it's just really really great all right so uh the next film i have is about information and we have it on the the film scanner behind me um which is right there uh this is called today information explosion tomorrow and uh potentially uh this is at least 30 maybe 40 years old and uh let's see um what they come up with all right enjoy uh from the earliest known time in history information was passed on singularly the song was repeated from one person to the next or a single book copied by hand in 1440 a man by the name of gutenberg invented printing from movable type a faster way of disseminating information had come about because a page could now be set in type and multiple copies printed it proved to be one of history's most important of here that our story really begins for hundreds of years following gutenberg the availability of information expanded gradually though multiple copies of books did exist they had to be carried from one place to another so the expansion was primarily limited by the ability to move about but in 1836 the control of electricity led to the invention and development of the telegraph suddenly the spread of information was no longer limited by how fast a person could travel almost instantly a message could be transmitted from one city to another hundreds of miles away the invention of new information media followed rapidly telephone photographs wireless radio movies sound recording television speedier printing computers satellites the list goes on and on an incredible array of devices that bombard us with sounds and images with each new invention the amount of available information grew the rapid expansion had become an information explosion the information explosion has not only fostered great changes in our way of life it has helped to accelerate the rate at which those changes occur the result is many positive benefits and new and exciting possibilities but also sociological and even psychological problems this film then is about the sources and the technologies of the information explosion some of its effects and some individual responses to it the modern technologies of type setting and printing would have stunned gutenberg as opposed to the gathering of metal letters one by one type can be set today by computer driven photographic typesetting equipment working at speeds of up to hundreds of words per second the development of color printing especially the printing of photographs in magazines and books has also been a major component of the information explosion by printing from continuous rolls of paper the modern web presses like those which print magazines or newspapers are capable of turning out enormous quantities of printed matter the new york times alone publishes 74 million words per year or about two average length books per day and that's just one newspaper in the united states over 30 000 new books are published each year imagine it 30 000 different titles [Music] from the early experiments by alexander graham bell a vast telephone network has grown which crisscrosses our cities and extends around the world today we can pick up the phones in our homes and talk to others on the next block or in the next country good morning i have a collect call from mr burns will you accept the charge thank you go ahead it is from long distance switching centers like this that the flow of calls is controlled and monitored as the calls go out by cable or by microwave transmission to points around the world new information is being instantly and continuously gathered processed and disseminated and through the use of television computers data processing equipment and broadcasting techniques all forms of information oral written photographic whether on paper film or tv can be processed stored or transmitted anywhere in the world in less than a fifteenth of a second in other words almost instantly not only is the speed with which information is disseminated astronomical so is the technology for gathering communication satellites mini cams transcontinental telephones and a myriad of other electronic devices have accelerated the gathering of information as well television is one of the main components of the information explosion there are over 100 million television sets in america at least one in 99 of the homes perhaps nowhere is the process of both gathering and dissemination more relevant to our individual lives than in the operation of a major tv news department for most people in america the tv news is the main source of information about the world scarcely an hour had passed from the time of the closing of the polls when dennis block appeared at his loop headquarters to concede candidates rise and fall by the image they portray on tv and some have tried to manipulate the news for they realize it's tremendous influence on our lives just too overwhelming today mainly because of the low turnout there's a built-in vote that they have i'm not making any excuses i lost he beat me fear and square but this is the building effort we got a great ticket going in 78 and i'm sure that you'll see a great change in the city of chicago and county at that time although i'm the news director here at the station the news actually directs itself we get information from newspapers wire services hundreds of public relations people books that we read magazines that we read sources that we talk to the associated press wire the united press wire the city newswire the state wire picking out and sorting out among all those inputs every day is what is the job of the people who work here and they they thumb through those and look through those they try to decide what's most important and what's most significant and what's most interesting we can't present reality as it actually is because we'd have to be on 24 hours a day with 15 or 20 or 30 different channels just to get all the information that's available to us so we have to edit it down and create a view and present actually a view of the world that's as close to reality in the short amount of time we have as possible [Music] [Music] i think objectivity is a myth a myth that uh people in the news business have been trying to perpetuate now since the time the news business began i think we better at one point get down to the reality of the situation which is that no reporter if any human being can ever be totally completely objective about something we all bring our personal prejudices to stories that we cover and the explosion has caused so many different stories to be so available to us in so many different ways that we can't be thoroughly backgrounded and experienced on every kind of story that we cover we have to find a way to differentiate between what is news and what is not that's a very difficult assignment because anything can be news to me to you to an another person to the assignment desk to the producer to the anchorman whatever whatever seems to be news to someone doesn't necessarily mean that it's news to someone else if something happens we can be there in an instant literally in an instant if it's right around the corner in minutes if it's halfway down down the block and we can bring to the viewer live something that is actually happening and the viewer can make up his own mind draw his own conclusions get his own information in his own way by just watching it all unravel right before his eyes that impact is indescribable walter jacobson john coughlin johnny morris channel 2 the 10 o'clock news our top story of the night began 10 days ago when gunshots rocked humboldt park and violence ripped the surrounding community today a police report concludes that a police officer fired the shot that triggered the outbreak killing at least one of the two victims of that june 4 disturbance on puerto rican independence day today the parents took to the picket lines adding their voices to the protest over desegregation but the protest went beyond the schools many parents said that the changing racial makeup of the schools would trigger changes in the neighborhoods as well tickets also spread today to two other schools in the same neighborhood the hubbard high school and the dawes elementary school coming up we'll find out that the stork has fallen upon hard times and will get some good times weather from irene rodriguez silently great so i'm losing last night the twins lost california 12 to 9 white sox dropped the game to boston influence on the changing american lifestyle it has brought great changes in our way of life and has increased the rate of speed at which that lifestyle changes so bound up in it are we that it is often hard to measure all the ways we are affected the expansion of information media has a profit and that profit is marshall mcluhan mcluhan has said that the medium is the message that is it is the means by which society communicates that determines how society thinks and how it will change it is not what you see on television according to mcluhan but the very fact of television that is significant it is certainly safe however to say that we are becoming more rapidly influenced by ideas events and styles from around the world imagine for instance that it took the waltz nearly three decades to catch on in the late 19th century but now a popular new dance or hairstyle or clothing fad can spread in just a few weeks and become obsolete just as fast in ancient times a classroom may have consisted of a scholar and a few disciples gathered around with the advent of printing each student now had a book from which to learn the book was the first learning machine but imagine the modern classroom today with learning kits games film strips films and television to show you what is happening all over the world the information explosion has revolutionized and accelerated the learning process right in the schools and if you don't find what you need in the classroom there is a library filled with thousands of books and magazines and that's not only true in school but in every profession as well technological developments have also enabled each of us to become part of the sending process the cb radio for instance has created a vast information network without any central studio okay maybe after they're through i'll take a look at some of those slides you can see how they look to you well they made a change in our graphics station too dorothy they as far as the other systems are growing all the time in one large company with offices around the us executives can carry on face-to-face conferences with each other without ever leaving their buildings the signals are carried via long-distance phone lines our cake type of slight presentation to a video camera and in the rocky mountains many schools in remote areas are connected to each other via a television network with signals bounced off communication satellites again direct two-way television without any central studio modern technology has enabled us to instantly communicate with each other around the world the earth has become a global village and all of us neighbors we are bombarded by information about everyone and everything knowledge is supposed to be power but is too much information producing a feeling of powerlessness and anxiety are there simply too many choices we are constantly being bombarded with information of all kinds particularly nowadays particularly in modern times that probably is one of the major characteristics of modern times the availability of information we we are we must somehow deal with all this information there is information that we get of which we're not even conscious but somehow or another we have to deal with the information one of the major devices that is available to us to deal with the information is a process called selective inattention which is mediated by the brain stem or by the reticular activating system in the brain stem this device this mechanism allows us to assign weight to the information in a discriminating way why can a mother sleep through a sun a thunderstorm but awaken at the slightest whimper of her baby the reason she can do that is because she can selectively in attend that device allows her to go on sleeping it's a very protective device she can assign weight even while asleep to information so that she can discriminate between the various kinds of information and make make choices as to what what information is important and what information is not if we're not able to selectively and attend we disintegrate we simple we simply can't handle all that information we become disorganized our anxiety level goes up and we become psychotic possibly schizophrenic that may be the mechanism of schizophrenia a failure of selective inattention we are all exposed in one way or another to an ever increasing quantity of information and the communications media have allowed almost all of us like it or not to achieve a kind of global consciousness the question is can we deal with it how will it affect us will we become so bombarded by information so over fatigued by the media that we become numb and insensitive to even suffering and disaster or will we become more tolerant and understanding more concerned with the problems of the billions of others who share our global village [Applause] [Music] oh all right that uh it's very telling um they talk about information as far as information uh like news and television and newspapers and um where is information coming from nowadays uh mostly social media right so the the idea that you had someone you had a news reporter saying um oh well we can get to a new spot usually within five to ten minutes to capture the news is now different because who's oftentimes providing that footage i don't know people with cell phone cameras people with cell phone cameras are there capturing the footage and reporting it uh and so because of that there's not a filter there's not an editorial eye there's not a critical eye that is aware of the responsibilities of reporting that data and so i think that that's that's problematic um and so this is a problem that you get to deal with i mean i'm dealing we're dealing with it all of us yeah i mean there's gonna be a lot of problems hopefully hopefully there's a problem you get to fix you'll figure out a way you guys you're what are you considered now are you a gen zer yeah all right maybe gen z will fix it uh gen x we tried we really gave it a shot but uh those baby boomers man and then the millennials they just smooshed us um all right so i got one last thing to show you uh this might be of interest to at least one of the people watching uh old radios uh this is called the talking machine made by atnt and it talks about the technology to reproduce and distribute sound um how do you listen to music nowadays oh spotify or all right so you're listening to some sort of online way that music is distributed yeah have you ever bought and bought bottom have you ever bought a physical yeah my music my roommates have a record player right so have you bought music like records or vinyl or i mean whenever i like grew up whenever i was younger cds were still a thing right so technically yes but not in a long time well you know i guess the thing is like have you ever go to a record store yeah okay but i usually i don't buy it because i don't have a record player oh okay so um wow all right so when in buying stuff online do you ever buy music online or is it no it's just streaming with ads and stuff okay well there you go there's generation z um good luck to musicians trying to make money off of off of anything when you have people who don't who aren't buying you have a whole generation potentially yeah i'm pinning an entire generation but um you know that's not a hundred percent there's people making cassette mixed tapes now there's vinyl that still exists um some people are still making cds so yeah vinyls are expensive now yeah like they're being sold for like 150 dollars for some of them yeah if not more yeah that's unfortunate um but it's kind of the nature of it so anyways here is talking machine enjoy [Music] how you do ladies and gentlemen my name is floyd magg my pleasure to welcome you to this presentation of the bell telephone hour which we will try to show you in much the same way as it's broadcast each week on a nationwide network first of all i'd like to have you meet the conductor of the bell telephone hour orchestra donald voorhees there he is over there oh don the gentleman there absorbed in the script is tom shirley tom is familiar to millions of radio listeners as the voice of the bell system behind the studio engineer stand the unseen unheard men the guardian tom our guest for this performance of the telephone hour is the distinguished pianist joseph hoffmann who is making his appearance at the left of the stage last but not least are the members of the orchestra itself and the control room staff including wallace mcgill the director of the program in just 30 seconds we'll be going on the air over our usual network while we're on the air we'd like to take you behind the scenes to show you what makes a network pick 15 seconds now [Music] it's the telephone hour presenting joseph hoffman [Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome again to the telephone hour our guest soloist this evening who appears with donald voorhees and the bell telephone orchestra is the distinguished pianist joseph hoffman mr hoffman is known to all as one of the great masters of the keyboard and we'll have ample proof of his mastery when we hear him later on in pieces by rachmaninoff and beethoven right now we hear from the orchestra the stirring overture to gomez opera il guarani [Music] mmm so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] behind the studio engineer standing unheard men the guardians of radio's music news comedy and drama these are the hundreds of transmission specialists for the bell telephone system all over the country technicians switchmen monitor men and telegraphers whose job it is to guard the vast radio networks of the country to link with split second precision all the separate broadcasting stations into constantly shifting networks of radio communication [Music] theirs is the skill that guides invisible waves over a labyrinth of wires they check and balance [Music] they speed the music along a hundred thousand miles and more of telephone wires wires that thread their way through the same cables and on the same poles that carry your long-distance telephone calls across the country overhead and underground through the towns across the prairies over the mountains over the streams [Music] these bell system men are the masters of thousands of miles of telephone lines a vast and intricate system especially designed for radio it's equal an actual money value to about one half of all the equipment owned by the broadcasting companies they serve [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] television is an exciting idea it's got a lot of people talking and thinking these days asking questions too questions like can television stations be linked together by bell system telephone lines the way radio stations are connected well that's one question we can answer right now but first let's look back to the beginning of cross-country telephoning in those days there were a few wires strung on slander poles but as the demand for cross-country calls grew more and more wires were added to the poles in some of the larger cities this led to overcrowding of poles something had to be done so bell system engineers began looking for ways to make the wires smaller and to pack them into lead covered cables today these cross-country cables carry hundreds of wires sometimes overhead and sometimes buried under the ground as time went on and people found they could talk farther and hear better more and more telephone calls were made telephone research men then had to find ways to make these wire pathways carry heavier traffic ways to place more calls on each wire yet keep the calls separate this was done with what came to be known as carrier systems it was first used on open wires then on the pairs of wires inside the cable as the need for still more calls developed a wider electric highway was needed a new type of line structure was found it was given the name coaxial now a coaxial is really a copper wire strung through the center of a copper tube but a single pair of these coaxials will carry hundreds of telephone conversations at once put six coaxials into a cable and you have a small compact unit that'll carry as many telephone calls as these cables used to today telephone engineers know that this broad communications highway called coaxial developed to handle hundreds of telephone calls can also be used to carry television programs from city to city several hundred miles of coaxial cable already form a part of america's long-distance telephone system soon coaxials will stretch across thousands of miles carrying millions of telephone calls and ready to form a television network whenever called upon well that's one way to hook up a television network one we've been trying out for quite some time we're trying still another using microwaves sent out from radio relay stations let's see about that back in 1920 the first radio telephone service in history was established from catalina island to the california mainland bell telephone engineers continued their research into radio for telephone use this brought to the public such things as overseas telephone service ship to shore calls and many other applications of radio before world war ii we started using very short waves for telephone use between such places as norfolk and cape charles boston and provincetown during the war even shorter waves have come into use now we of the bell system are establishing a multi-link microwave system over a 220 mile route here's the way the plan works microwaves shoot out like searchlight beams between transmitters set on high places from new york the beam is trained on jackie jones mountain then it's picked up and relayed station by station to boston these microwave radio beams may do about the same job in the air as the coaxials do underground carry a lot of telephone calls at once both ways or carry the sight and sound waves of television well there you have them two different ways by which television networks may be set up coaxial cable and radio relay television networks may well wind up as a combination of the two or there may be some other method or combination of methods time alone will tell now mr hoffmann joins with donald voorhees and the bell telephone orchestra to play the last movement of beethoven's concerto number five in e flat the so-called emperor concerto how the work got its nickname is not known although the majestic title seems to fit the last movement a rondo of noble proportions and splendid vigor we now hear the final movement of beethoven's emperor concerto [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] thank you joseph hoffman on succeeding weeks at this time our solarists will be hazyopindra helen travel fritz chrysler and robert casadezos so until you join us again for music you like with these and other great artists with donald voorhees and the bell telephone orchestra we remain sincerely yours the bell telephone [Music] all right that wasn't quite what the title said it was supposed to be i thought it was going to be more about general audio technologies but it was kind of skewed towards bell companies wire and long distance and audio carriage types of stuff but i don't know you know it was an opportunity to also show off the uh bell system orchestra or bell telephone orchestra um which there's other films that show off that stuff there's one called music in motion uh and there's other opportunities that att would use to show off their orchestra um nate thanks for joining us man thank you for having me um i appreciate you guys uh thank you kevin for the coffee thank you uh nathan for the coffee um i hope you guys have a great weekend um we'll be back on monday and so everybody take care and we will see you soon bye you