AV Geeks Lunch 9-7-2020

[Music] [Applause] so sky stretching as far as the eye can see and under that sky a sea of grass sweeping to the mountains and on beyond these are the grazing lands the rangelands of this country nearly 900 million acres of them over a third of the united states devoted for generations to the raising of livestock [Music] that's a lot of land and a lot of grass but it takes a lot to raise the meat supply for a whole nation and it takes time too [Music] time for grazing the grass through the warm months and for eating it as hay down near the ranch buildings when the snow sets in to most people time and grass probably don't seem too important but on the range and pasture lands they are here time and grass at their own pace which the livestock follow as they graze along slowly consuming the sea of grass to produce a harvest of meat to the herdsmen camped out the pace is as familiar as the voices around him so too for the cowboy but finally a day comes when the pace of the range is over the decision has been made to sell and the livestock are on the move in numbers that reflect the true vastness of the grasslands every year about 22 million lands and 34 million cattle move out some are already at market weight while others require further feeding most cattle leave the range today as calves in yearlings and are shipped to centers that specialize in feeding them to add further weight and quality a big commercial feed yard may handle 75 to 100 000 head of cattle a year and it is a highly scientific beef factory providing high energy rations balanced with proteins vitamins and minerals on this diet calves and yearlings can gain three pounds a day or better and soon reach market weight around one thousand pounds such specialized feeder operations are not only efficient they also produce meat of more uniform quality and better finish which is in growing demand today this increasing demand for better finished beef has also led individual farms to specialize in livestock feeding often growing their own grain adding supplements and feeding a few to several hundred head a year specialization and feeding has brought a need for scientifically mixed feeds and new mills to supply them for livestock today consume over 133 million tons of grain a year such mills provide mixed feeds by the sac load and by the truckload if feed by the truckload means anything it means hogs for they are raised almost entirely on grain nearly 100 million of them a year furnishing almost 40 percent of the nation's meat supply here too the trend is towards scientific feeding on a large scale and producing a leaner meat type on production is generally concentrated in the big corn raising areas of the country lambs can be brought to top finish on grass alone but even here commercial feeding is used to bring them to market weight more quickly whatever the livestock the day comes when the producer decides to sell he may sell directly to a buyer for a meatpacking company or he may sell to a packing company buying station where prices are posted daily one advantage of the buying station is that the producer can sell his livestock nearby thus minimizing weight loss and shipping long distances he can also respond quickly to market changes he knows too that the prices offered here are in line with what the packer is getting for the type of meet the producer has to sell another local outlet where the producer knows he will find ready buyers is the livestock auction market all right boys boy we got a good bunch of hogs coming in here a lot of hugs this morning a lot of real good hogs let's go here [Applause] there are over 2400 auction markets in the country and they handle about a third of all livestock sold but the producer still has other choices choices that are sometimes difficult to eleven make pound stairs and nine hundred pound heifers prices generally work strong to fifty cents higher george that heifer market sounds pretty good maybe we should sort up a load of heifers and have them on the market tomorrow well it might be okay the farmers are in the field planting corn now and they're not thinking of sending any cattle in what do you think or call our commission man and ask him what he thinks about it that'd probably be okay thus the marketing choice is made on each of the three million farms and ranches that produce livestock in this country there are many factors which determine that choice farm papers and newsletters the radio department of agriculture and his own experience and preference all suggest to the producer which is the best place sell if he chooses one of the country's central livestock markets it may be sioux city or indianapolis ogden or saint paul kansas city omaha or one of over 50 other such markets every day around the clock railroad cars and trucks roll up to the unloading docks of this great terminal market the trucks may carry a couple of animals a couple dozen or they may be huge double deckers that can hold 200 lambs or 40 steers majestically the big trailers move in [Music] [Applause] [Music] at the docks each shipment is checked in and counted and then the animals are moved off to the pens of the commission firms to which they have been consigned where professional salesmen will do the job of selling the livestock for the producer [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this terminal market is big the biggest livestock hotel in the world its facilities are owned and operated by an independent private company which assigns pens to commission firms that use them hundreds of people staff this hotel attending to the needs of some eighteen thousand cattle twelve thousand hogs and several thousand lambs that can be expected to check in on a busy day once livestock reached the pens the commission firm orders from the terminal the fee they need to put on their best appearance for the day's buyers in this hotel the service is excellent trouble about reservations never at the livestock exchange information is posted on receipts of livestock and selling prices around the nation the department of agriculture furnishes this information to all markets so that both buyers and sellers will be fully informed as they set out to bargain with one another meanwhile buyers for one of the many meat packing companies that will be competing today are estimating what they can bid in the light of what the company is getting for meat and byproducts you've all seen the receipts around the terminal markets this morning we've got a good supply and we've got a good run of cattle here if we can buy cattle in line with our last week's costs i think when the day is over we'd ought to own a relatively good number of cattle well how about these hotel and restaurant uh type stairs newt too we've got a pretty fair supply of them in their receipts today i realized that tommy however our costs were out of line on hotel type cattle at the end of the week and unless we can bring our costs into line i think we should be light on that grade okay okay let's go to work keep me posted on the other side of the fence members of a commission firm are deciding what they should get for livestock and they may have an entirely different idea of the market and what it can bring the producers they represent on everything with exception maybe some plain cattle weighing over 1300 pounds what does omaha say well my omaha thinks they'll have no difficulty getting quarter higher on everything except maybe a few plain heavy cattle looks to me that with the information that we have locally as the receipts in the 12 markets compared to a year ago and the market the information we have from these other points that we should expect fully a quarter higher here with buying and selling plans made bargaining begins johnson home raised cattle i'd like to sell these cattle 50 higher yesterday well ray is every indication our beef trade is going to be steady uh we're going to try to buy cattle steady well this is a very desirable weight instead of cattle i'll tell you what i'll do i'll switch with you sell them what are you asking for these walls i'll take the same as yesterday well these cattle dumped me last week just didn't quite cut the mustard well i think that uh boys over the plant must have made a mistake because we're gonna have to doing just about the right job i get that from you fellas i think we'd ought to send you over to grade them instead of selling them all when you grade them and me buying them we'd make a ton of some of those cattle carry down the wrong the price is all right walt but i i'm afraid we're going to have to take four cattle out yeah four is too big a trim on this lot of cattle i'd lose my job i'd take four kelvin i'll tell you what i'll do though i'll settle this though together with two cattle out look at that thing here well they can't be all pretty you know they don't belong to some beauty contest but they're all for eating this is look at the dressing up look at the conditioner these are a little bit on the clown order aren't you well you can call them there but they're dressy and they're good figuring cattle and they're dressy and the weights are just what you always told me you wanted there they are wait 11 a quarter 11 and a half now don't tell me that's what you want because i know it is why now here you are making fun of my cattle and i got just what you want i know you're trying to bear down on me and trying to do something to make me sell them cheap or something like that but you're not going to get it done today go ahead tommy i just saw a load of light handy white heifers but they're going to cost us a quarter more what do you think all right if that's the best we can do let's go ahead on them and so a day's bargaining ends a sale is closed and the livestock are driven off to be weighed hard but friendly bargaining for just a few pennies but the pennies are important because that's just about all the meat packer gets out of the whole transaction for the earnings of meatpackers are among the lowest of any major industry about a cent on the dollar because the packers profit has virtually no effect on the price producers get for livestock or the price consumers pay for meat the competitive nature of the business creates this situation for thousands of meatpackers are competing to sell meat but they are also competing to buy livestock and the livestock producer will sell wherever he can get the best price thus when a packer buys he has to consider what he can get for every last part of an animal and so weighing the livestock becomes an important matter once a deal is closed for buyer and seller have been bargaining over pennies and accurate scales are needed to register such small margins the skilled hand of the weigh master and carefully inspected scales assure such [Music] accuracy once the livestock leave the scales they become finally the property of the buyer and move on to the meat plant in the meat plant beef is dressed and hung in the cooler for 12 to 48 hours its temperature is gradually reduced to just a few degrees above freezing until it reaches a market the temperature must be maintained there though the meat will probably travel hundreds of miles before a consumer sees it throughout processing inspectors of the united states department of agriculture examine the caucuses for cleanliness and wholesomeness and their final stamp of approval on any meat assures the public that these standards have been maintained then the meat is graded for quality and carcasses that meet the packers own specifications receive his own brand applied with a roller stamp now the meat is selected and tagged for shipment here the final grading takes place and the carcass is often ribbed between the 12th and 13th ribs so that the meat can be examined for quality color and texture veal is handled in a similar way except that the hide is usually left on until just before shipping to preserve its delicate color and flavor lamb is left whole but sometimes shipped in primal cuts shipping carcasses and primal cuts is a traditional part of the meatpackers job but in recent years with a quarter of the nation's meals consumed away from home preparing portion cuts has become a part of his business too cuts for restaurants and railroads airlines and steamship companies unlike any other meat pork is sold almost entirely on the basis of cuts and separating them from the carcass is a highly skilled operation there are hands of course and spare ribs loins and bacon but in all there are actually over a hundred cuts including chitterlings pig knuckles and ham hocks for of all livestock hogs have the highest yield in meat and meat products about 70 percent as compared to some 60 for beef and 50 for land preparing all these cuts is not a matter of skill alone for skill implies the proper tools to work with in the case of pork this means razor sharp blades curved and shaped to remove each specific cut it means cleanliness too as cut after cut is lifted from the dwindling caucus [Applause] many port cuts are cured like bacon which is automatically infused with the curing solution curing also means smoke 18 to 24 hours over hardwood fires to bring out the real flavor of bacon and even longer for hands and still the cutting continues as bacon is sliced and separated into one pound portions most operations in the meatpacking business require a skillful hand for like people no two animals are really the same even so there are some operations that machines can perform efficiently modern machines provide an efficient way to make frankfurters since we eat them by the yard anyway over 150 million yards a year in fact and this assures uniform packing weight and length similarly high precision machinery in the meatpacking industry yields table ready meats of uniform quality and doing this has become an important part of the packers business producing smoked meats and prepared meats and sausages of all shapes and sizes there are canned meats and specialty meats and meat dishes of many kinds and their frozen dishes too in growing numbers all broadening the market for meat and just as important are the byproducts of the meat industry here research has discovered a wide variety of useful products that give added value to livestock lard and shortening find their way into bread cakes and pastries and animal oils are the basis of many cosmetics hides are carefully saved and sold to tanners and animal fats find use in soaps and detergents animal fibers string musical instruments and provide ever-changing adornment in the changeless form of wool which always looks good in the light of tallow candles still other by-products form the basis of many industrial products like adhesives that find increasing use in laminated structures more far-reaching still are the medical aids which byproducts provide but the packers basic business businesses buying livestock all across the country and processing it is a big job but that job is easy compared to moving the meat and selling it this is where the race with time begins and where the temple really picks up for perishability sets the pace in this industry and from this point on the meat must be sold and delivered within a few days getting the right quality and weights and types to meet specific demands of thousands of wholesale and retail outlets all over the country quickly is one of the great tasks of this industry a refrigerator car is closed and the car slowly moves off along a spur to become part of a mainline train but where is it headed for and who wants what it's got a truck pulls out from a packing plant with 15 tons of meat but who wants it a salesman somewhere knows the answer every week over fifteen thousand refrigerator cars and trucks move meat from packers to consumers average trip one thousand miles average haulage half a billion pounds of meat a week that's a lot of meat and it takes a lot of selling to sell it close to the best bargaining like it was at the terminal market it's a little closer than you realize this half a dollar leave me time at a half a half a dollar just trading dollars with you 50 cents is a well i'm trying to get a lot of sales are made right out of the cooler but in this fast-moving business the telephone is often quicker for buyer and salesmen well after all i mean all you all you're giving me is what what all i'm trying to do is get an order for carlo to meet well i sure don't like the sound of your market we have a lot of meat to move all right i'll put it in i don't think it'll do any business but we'll quote it anyhow who knows and feel that making shipment of this type only detrimental to our business stop uh i think we're gonna have to uh be a little lower than we've been all right we'll talk to him about the pork loins and also about the pork lovers too okay good enough i'd say the top of the market is seven you might not be able to get it but let's push for it well i don't know i didn't hear that the government had uh given over their grading to the payback and company but you know oh what are you what are you having them rolled us standard or ate backing company brother here we go again all day long the salesmen are at it and all day long the phones are busy keeping the meat counters filled in nearly twenty thousand cities and towns and villages all across the country but the salesman isn't through when he hangs up the phone buyers and retailers are having their problems too just about as many and as different from each other as there are meat count and these problems continually change the pattern of how meat is bought and sold and put on the road good morning gene it's mr cooper that sticks here we have is going all the tremendous bag i'm going to need some more lines can you help me out well i'm going to need 25 to 30. can you get those up to me in the morning fine and along with that i'd like two fifties of pork two crates of chickens and some baloney 15 tons of meat on the road and the problem at every turn well i got hot weather here and i gotta cancel five of those trucks yeah two more everybody's back from labor day and they all want me a couple of cars come in friday got a good price on them uh well either saint paul or omaha listen chris we've got a big strike on the south side and the market's off can you cancel those three refrigerator cars and re-route those others to our north side stores catch up with him where all fine but i've got to have an extra 10 boxes of ribs this week the barbecue season has really hit joe we just can't use any more lamb in miami the tourist season's just about over down here so it goes just about everything that happens affects the retailer and what he can sell weather strikes holidays and different preferences all over the country and it changes every day how do you make sense out of it for a perishable commodity how do you make quick sense out of it for distribution quick communication is part of the answer reflecting immediately the changing demands and needs and expectations across the nation quick calculation is another part as these needs are processed and translated into specific shipping requirements for each packing plant what it should ship and where and how and when and so the roots of thousands of refrigerator cars and trucks make sense as they head out cross country toward the consumer but still the problems are not all solved i know it's not there yet as i wired your warehouse that flash flood near yuma required rerouting it'll be there first thing in the morning teletive to pittsburgh reroute cars 1016 1285 1192 highway reading well that storm's got trucks jack knifed all along there frankly most of them are going to be delayed i heard an hour ago he was slow down in the dust storm but he's moving and meat does keep moving as the consumer knows for the consumer can walk into any market in the country and the meat will be there in abundance and variety and this meat will be fresh wholesome and appetizing an important source of high quality proteins she'll buy or not buy as she chooses and what she chooses turns the wheels of this industry it turns them all along the line from the range lands to the packing plants to the retailers it turns them fast and in competition to deliver what she wants when and where she wants it and so the trains and the trucks still move it's only a matter of time and highways in a way it's like the way it was on the range time and grass and a tempo of the two but now the pace is fast now it's time and highways and the tempo of these two and a customer somewhere at the other end of the line [Music] hello everybody i'm skip alzheimer welcome to our uh labor day lunchtime streaming av geek show uh i'm gonna try to concentrate on showing films about work including my favorite film about work which i'll talk about when i get there but uh first we'll show uh this is a film called um choosing your occupations and it's the title is clipped but you'll get the point here it is enjoy dad [Music] what did it take to plan the choosing of your occupation well i suggest two major investigations the first one about not what you wish you were or are afraid you might be but your real self and another investigation about occupations what's ahead for you and different job this takes planning but it will lead you to one of the most important decisions of your life now what do you need to know about yourself well what are your interests what do you like then your abilities what are your strong and weak points your personality what kind of person are you all right first what interests you you know there are ways to determine your interests preference records like these will help you analyze yourself [Music] suppose you like to take pictures this interests you photography may continue to be a spare time hobby or it might lead you into your own business or employment in a growing field if your hobbies don't lead to a vocation what kind of books and magazine articles do you like to read what classes do you like and make good grades in consider many fields that interest you your list may narrow down as you consider your abilities you may be better at some skills not so good at others for example there are different kinds of ability needed here aren't there you may be alert and smart enough to be a catcher and yet like the good control and stamina required of a pitcher if you know your abilities you'll have a better chance of making the team and just as the coach tries you out in various positions you try yourself out in various fields with these tests besides general intelligence tests for mental abilities there are other specific ability tests these tests are not absolutely certain [Music] but they try you out give you a jumping off place to start studying jobs come here for a moment this manual dexterity test is one of them how do you do on manipulating your hands and fingers there are quite a few aptitude tests in many fields computational personal social mechanical scientific while you're investigating abilities visit your doctor to check up on physical abilities there are specific ways of determining your physical abilities and aptitudes but measuring your personality is more difficult [Music] suppose you work on the school paper your attitude toward getting things done is a measure of your sense of responsibility how much imagination do you have how much initiative you can see can't you that your personality and emotional outlook will affect what you do yes there are many things to consider about yourself your interests your abilities and your personality and when you know more about yourself consider some of the occupations that might fit you you'll need to know what preparation is required study training what atmosphere will you work under places and people working conditions what opportunities are available how many jobs are there where are many ways to investigate occupations read and study about many and pamphlets like these put out by state universities by federal and state governments by professional and trade organizations and by special guidance publishers and here's a suggestion keep notes on what you read and on what you observe it'll help you all around you people are working they are in occupations what does it take to do that job how did she get into that occupation what skill is required for that how long did he prepare for this what could you learn about that occupation by trying that job for the summer investigate the courses of study for higher academic learning the years of time and money you may spend studying for degrees what will you get out of these what about practical preparation courses offered in trade schools may provide technical training that will prepare you for a vocation in the trades besides school on the job apprentice training is often required investigate also working atmosphere the people and conditions around you as you work working conditions i got a chance to move around meet people then too i like working outdoors there are other factors to working atmosphere would you rather work with other people or by yourself [Music] other advantages to working nights and sleeping days perhaps there are more opportunities then what about opportunities how many jobs are there for helicopter pilots are more people trained than will be needed in the next five years supply and demand do affect opportunities look for opportunities in the business directory of your telephone book investigate new and growing industries where you live you'll find many advantages in occupations in your own town where you can investigate the preparation required the working atmosphere and the opportunities for advancement these factors must fit together with yourself we counselors can only guide you toward considering the proper factors when you've investigated you'll have many related facts and opinions which like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle must be considered and put together it takes careful thought how your interests fit together with your opportunities in enough money you may choose your occupations for the luxuries that money can buy but you may discover that collecting wealth leaves no chance to enjoy it you may choose for security the feeling that the job is for life or choose to serve humanity finding your satisfaction in the importance of accomplishments you may want to create artistically or build mechanically you may desire power leadership [Music] fame may find a combination of these aims in your choice of occupations but start now to choose wisely and plan your courses your next few years are vital to you take advantage of this time when you apply for that first job and the employment manager asks what can you do be ready with specific answers answers that will enable you to begin a successful career oops looks like the uh not only was the title clip but the ending was clipped that happens of course because when teachers who are not trained on how to use a projector thread the projector they shred it or when they try to rewind it back through the the um projector that also shreds it so um that's how films like this end up missing those beginnings and ends because people don't really pay attention um yeah today is labor day um i just wanted to say thank you everybody for tuning in today you didn't have to hopefully you have the day off and uh it's really nice outside in raleigh for once for the first time in many months and i'm looking forward after this show going out and spending some time outside um before i go back inside and start digitizing some more films um but i want to say thank you for all the coffee that you've given me over the last couple of months way to support us is to buy us coffee and um it is like this direct correlation it's really wonderful i love coffee and it seems to be inexpensive enough for you guys to buy it so i appreciate that um in it then the coffee gets into my brain and causes wheels to start turning and so uh it's a great great transaction uh this next film is called keeping your job is work here we go these four young people have been hired but will they be able to keep their jobs when you accept employment with a firm or an individual you've also accepted certain responsibilities to keep your job you must meet those responsibilities it is as simple as that some employers or supervisors will continuously instruct direct and advise you others will give you assignments with little instructions in either case you'll be evaluated on your performance and your job will depend on it you may have the best intentions in the world but its performance that counts what then are the things that will make the difference between keeping your job and being promoted or losing it your first responsibility is to give the highest quality work that you can there are however other responsibilities that are just as important two of the most important things in keeping a job or being at work every day and being on time [Music] i just can't seem to get myself together in the morning it's the baby or the car or traffic is heavy or something i try but i guess i just don't plan right plan to arrive at work well ahead of time not just on time that way if for some reason you're delayed you will still arrive on time getting to work on time is very important to me being late or absent all the time that's my supervisor that i'm not dependable and i don't like that because i know that i'm dependable if i'm going to be late or absent i always call in and tell them why remember that time to an employer is profit profits are what keep him in business i always felt plenty about asking questions if he gave me something to do he must have thought that i knew how to do it past questions always made me feel stupid so i need to try to figure it out or try to take it don't be afraid to ask questions asking questions really shows that you're interested in learning many times your fellow workers may be able to answer your questions but if you still don't have a clear understanding ask your supervisor when your question has been answered remember it make a note of the answer so you won't have to ask the same question over and over again keep this information and refer to it when necessary [Music] the first few weeks or months on a job is your probationary period this is when the supervisor is watching your performance closely try to do your best and accept criticism from the supervisor without getting angry nearly everyone finds it difficult during this period but instructions and directions are important to help any group of people work together [Music] i just don't want anybody telling me what to do you know like i've got some sense i'm no dummy this sounds good when you're talking to your friends but it doesn't work on a job taking orders may be hard for some people to do but taking reasonable orders is essential to keeping your job getting along with other employees is just as important as getting along with your supervisor conditions that make employees unhappy will affect the quality of their work you know i just can't understand these old guys man some of their ideas are way out it's like uh their minds are in deep freeze i try to talk with them about politics and about society and man they're just not with it [Music] work is not the place to argue politics or religion you cannot win respect the knowledge and experience of older employees don't make fun of the way they do things if you think you have a better idea discuss it with your supervisor if it is a workable suggestion we'll remember you for your alertness before you criticize existing procedures try to have a positive suggestion to make [Music] be business-like when working act mature be sure that your dress and behavior are appropriate for the job environment eating making personal telephone calls or having friends drop by to visit have no place at your workstation [Music] oh by the way when your work brings you in close contact with other people be very careful about your personal hygiene an employer expects you to show some initiative a lack of initiative is usually interpreted as laziness some jobs have a built-in steady supply of work other jobs have peaks of heavy workloads and periods of lesser work production when the work required of you is slow find something to do sitting around reading a book or knitting tells your employer that you lack initiative and ambition or that you're just lazy the other extreme is just as bad to keep asking what next or to always be johnny on the spot is being pushy i always tried to compete every assignment in record time man i was like speedy he would give it to me and it was done i wasn't concerned about how it was done just that it was done [Music] the very pushy employee can drive the supervisor up the wall getting a job does not mean that you will keep it begin on the very first day trying to keep your job the probationary period is a very important time it is during this period that the supervisor is attempting to see if you can perform satisfactorily and if you can get along with other people keeping your job and advancing will depend on your ability to be prompt and dependable have a clear understanding of what's expected of you accept constructive criticism cooperate and get along with fellow workers take pride in your work and your behavior show some initiative getting to work on time is very important to me being late or absent all the time tells my supervisor that i'm not dependable and i don't like that because i know that i'm dependable getting a job is a [Music] that splice at the at the end we don't know getting a job is what no idea i can guess uh somebody commented the sounds soundtrack was awesome um also somebody commented that everybody looked like they were in a porn movie well the thing to remember is that everybody in the late 60s and early 70s looked like that and only some of them a tiny portion of them actually appeared in porn um because that's what they look like when i had their clothes on like everybody else in the late 60s early 70s um it's funny well i mean it's weird like everything is like well that's fine but you know anyways uh this next film is uh part of a batch of films that i got on ebay including that included electric heating goes to school and uh ohio power company vet party 1950. uh this is a silent film and it was uh it's it's actual footage uh reversal kodachrome footage now here's something interesting um i was gonna try to take a picture of it so we could learn a little bit something today but sometimes if you don't know the data something uh and it's on kodak stock you can look on the edge between the sprockets and you'll see kodachrome or kodak safety film and then you'll see some codes and uh let's switch to it what what happened wait what's going on hold on let's try that again there we go we'll switch over all right so this is uh something that kodak would do in their manufacturing process when they make something then they would uh basically put in a um a latent image that would uh when you process that you would see it and it would say kodachrome uh or kodak stock or whatever and then you would have this weird instead of just actually putting the years they would have this kind of hidden code um which if you did research you could find it i'm sure but um let me move this down because it's interfering um so when i looked at the this film there were two dots so two circles and so it could be either made in um if you look the two circle symbol you could have been made in 1919 nope 1939 nope 1959 hmm 1979 hmm um so i'm looking at the can and somebody actually wrote notes on it it says erecting power transmission towers color silent kodachrome 1962. so that makes sense like 1959 is when the stock was made and um it was uh shot in 1962 because you know cam camera film can has some a shelf life to it um there's also other stuff which i don't have handy but you can also see which plant which kodak plant made the film based on a dot on where on the the word kodak so there you go there's our av geek knowledge of the day so this next film as i said is uh erecting power transform towers oh with helicopter 1962. so there's no sound with this enjoy so people ask me why i collect film and i mean that's awesome that is really really something uh very much enjoy that film i haven't watched it in probably 10 years but um really an amazing documentation of you know how they put these towers up i you know given where this box of films kind of the rest of the films deal with kind of western pennsylvania no that's what pennsylvania yeah western pennsylvania eastern ohio kind of area um you know it's probably somewhere around there is where this was uh filmed um yeah awesome uh so today i'm gonna show my favorite film of all time i've been putting it off for quite a while but um people ask me all the time like what's your your favorite film and it's usually a hard question to answer but this one for me it kind of explains why i collect what i collect and why what tickles my brain and um this film i got it on ebay and a lot of times when i'm looking on ebay uh i'm looking for things that nobody else is bidding on i mean certainly there's a short list of things i'm always looking for but a lot of times i just like seeing what is out there because i find things that i don't know that i'm looking for and this is an example of that this film the description was very simple it said oscar mayer film about high school marching bands and um i was like hmm that sounds intriguing so i watched this i got the film for nothing nobody else bit on it because nobody else thought it was interesting uh got the film and was just floored by how amazing this film is um and at first it was really a question of and i asked this question whenever i get a film and look at a film is like who is this made for what's the intended audience and what's the problem that they're trying to solve uh because that's why films like these exist is they're trying to address an issue or a problem or they're trying to promote something and so what is this promoting and i'm not going to give these answers at first i want you guys to kind of think about it now some of you might already know the answer to this question so i ask if in the comments don't say anything yet until the end but for some of you this is the first time i've shown this you or you've seen this so i want you to kind of think about why was this film made who was it shown to and is it is it a successful film and what it does um i think it is but that's just me all right so here it is um pride on parade enjoy [Music] if there's one place in the world where it's fun to be part of the crowd it's at a parade maybe that's why everybody loves a parade i like to see the families having fun brings back a lot of good memories but just makes me feel happy i guess it looks like everyone's enjoying what they're doing that's what it's really all about of course it wouldn't be a parade without a band to listen to or a hot dog to eat that's what a parade is hot dogs and music excitement and anticipation it's the fun of waiting for a band to come marching by seeing the talents and skills the discipline and pride that come together into one grand and thrilling impression called music a band on parade is a finished product created by many individual talents all working together to make the sounds we like to hear the tastes we enjoy the things we like to eat these two are a combination of special ingredients brought together by people of skill and talent let's go see why in music or in food these qualities of excellence lead to success the hot dogs we enjoy eating at a parade begin way out here in places such as this all over america meat processors like oscar meyer come to buy pork and beef fresh off the farm turning natural products into good tasting foods just like turning notes into music requires people who have special skills and talents and enjoy being the best at what they do all right stars and stripes forever starting at the grandiosa portion here we go one two ready now the final product is important in all of our minds but we have a great time in rehearsing and there is a good rapport between director and members of the group yet the primary thing of course is that work now and play later and we all have a great time at it and when i saw it i said this is the band that i want to be in and i never even dreamed that i was going to be in this band i had to wait four years to join the band so i was really happy it's just real fun it's nice because we work hard a lot of practice with her rear ends uh eric i want you to watch those dynamics there the accents are just just not there i'm waiting for them this time eric be with us here we go one two ready now our sound has to be the right way in tune and everything and we have to have all our notes it's a hard thing to do to get as much practice as you can to be good at it the skills it takes to make a band a success are also the skills it takes to make good meat products pride experience teamwork the meat processors art has its own disciplines as rigid as those of the musician when i came in they had someone that was already trained on the machine that i run and i worked with him it's kind of complicated machine it's got a lot of buttons and switches i had a lot of experience with bacon we had be able to judge what was good and what was not good third trumpet what's going on over there mush all i hear is much no intonation no dynamics what's going on let's get it together one two ready now teamwork is vital to the success of an organization such as a marching or concert band we have the various elements of the organization that must be working as a team to provide one unified mass performance there's a lot of individuals they're soloists but they all just mesh together and it's really a group effort that makes this band so great so we all have to sound good let's make it sound the best the people are nice and you have to be to make it here to work we have a little saying obst our band sticks together everybody takes care of everybody else if like one person gets in trouble everybody helps them everybody just jump right in took care of my family my dog and the cat it's a lot of friendship all the people in your section come over shake your hand and welcome you to the band everyone's friendly it's just a great plant to work for it's one unit the flag girls the group all the sections within the band management the staff members everything they push for this one band people who work together know the value of teamwork in the meat processors art individual talents work together to make the things we like to eat the boning of fresh meat is still done by skilled hands a tradition that goes back hundreds of years carefully trim sides of fresh pork are still cured and smoked in special rooms where time and temperature turn them into bacon scientific food processing techniques and specially trained people control the temperature moisture protein and overall quality of every item the modern processing plant makes from pork sausage to lunch and meats and it's all done under the eyes of federal inspectors here just as with the band individual skills and teamwork by all the performers are the measures of excellence we have quality assurance throughout the entire plant those quality checks are against certain high standards that our management and our sales department and our marketing department for the most part have set they know and they have their thumb on the pulse of the consumer we know the quality levels that the consumer wants [Music] it's more fun to eat something when you know that what you're eating is good for you every slice of lunch and meat you pick up is a slice of good nutrition now a lot of people don't know this but a hot dog has as much protein as an egg and four ounces of ham has only about half as many calories as a quarter pound of hamburger so when you take quality luncheon meats and make yourself a sandwich you're making something that has the nutrition you need and the taste you like to make things that are good to eat you need spices to give them distinction the spices we taste like the spices we hear have to blend together they must complement the other ingredients that are used the other instruments that are played and together they must create a harmony of taste or sound whether it's food or music how good something is depends a lot on how things come together in the case of a band the quality of excellence is knowing that all the parts each instrument each member knows what to do and when to do it we're going to have to repeat that last section again a little bit more work on that about hey again man come on and when each move is made the way it should be the result is perfection and when hot dogs are made to perfection they're made in a special place called hot dog highway that makes thousands of them every hour because people like their hot dogs in all different sizes and shapes meat processors make regular ones long ones short ones plump ones skinny ones little ones and big ones and all along the line there's perfection at every turn research people are constantly improving processing and packaging techniques everything is checked individually and no package leaves the plant without someone's personal stamp of approval being the best making excellence a way of life means having pride pride in how you look and how well you do your job for a band it's wearing a uniform it's how the band looks and sounds when it takes to the field when i'm in the uniform i feel like i've gotta set an example and i also have to show pride that i'm proud of this uniform that i'm wearing a band will be judged by its overall effect success depends on how well the band can execute the sounds and movements of its art the same kind of teamwork is found wherever pride and excellence are a way of life the package of food product wears is as important to its success as the uniform is to the band's success so [Music] do so by the time we're out on the street we're so high as it is that uh we just can't be stopped individual skills discipline pride teamwork these are the qualities of excellence the mark of success they are also the ingredients that make a band sound so exciting and a hot dog tastes so good [Applause] [Music] ah every time i watch that it gets better and better um because it helps reaffirm the the decision i've made about what this film is about um so some people have put forth some some ideas of what they thought this film was uh about and who it was made for um and the first thing was i thought is this like a promotional film for oscar meyer is it like is it a film that when people come in to start working for oscar meyer this is what they show or like is it a corporate film that you know when people tour they get a sense of what oscar mayer's all about because it seems to be covering you know some of those bases about that you know it's selling oscar meyer products and how wholesome they are but the real message here is the fact like every time that they talk to an oscar meyer meat like packager they're not very articulate um they talk about there being a lot of buttons and switches and you know it's it's kind of low unskilled labor for the most part i mean that's who we get hired um and so the message here is it's one building team it's a team building film two any negative aspect to the film about you're not playing together your appearance isn't good it's mush is all delivered by a band director and talked about by students high school marching band students who are far more articulate than the the people that are working at oscar meyer and so it's a way to talk about building morale and teamwork specifically for the people that are packaging the meat at the very end why is this important i mean there's a lot of assembly line footage in here it's it's quite amazing but a lot of it is is mechanical it's already automated except for when they splay out the you know the the different lunch meats or when they package the hot dogs or when they package the bacon there's a person there that has to kind of put that out and so what they're trying to say is that all these other people are doing all this work you have the meat cutters you have the people that are processing it that are doing the testing the quality work you're the last person that's touching this product and you're the one that can completely ruin it for us because the display your carelessness has made it to where this is not a sellable product um it doesn't say that explicitly but implicitly man it's there and it's really phenomenal it's in in that regard of like how can we i'm sure that when they shot this film like aspire is like we need we have a problem with morale we have a problem with products being uh ruined because people are not taking care and they're not taking pride in their work so they probably went they shot and they probably couldn't get anybody to talk negatively about working there because they didn't want to lose their job then they realized like you know having supervisors yell at them on film isn't really serving the purpose because they're already yelling at them so how can we instill some sort of sense of pride well high school marching bands which almost all these people went to high school they know about high school marching bands let's talk about them let's come up and let's interview them and so it's a really amazingly weird kind of montage of the two back and forth cutting meat like playing in a van so that's why i love this film there you go that's my favorite film of all time the other funny thing about this film is that it talks about the different types of wieners that it makes big ones short ones fat ones skinny ones but that's not oscar meyer's deal so in the in the comments who did the fat ones skinny ones um whose line is that from it's not oscar meyer so it's interesting that they mention that um because it's definitely a i don't know if it's a riff on it or what the deal is but it's not oscar minor it's kind of funny all right one last film and then i'm gonna go outside um maybe mow the lawn i don't know we'll see um this is uh on film and um this is a how-to and this is how to dig a hole to the other side of the of the earth enjoy [Music] how to dig a hole to the other side of the world [Music] find a soft place [Music] take a shovel [Music] and start to dig a hole the dirt you dig up is called loam loam or topsoil is made up of tiny bits of rock mixed with many other things such as plants and worms that died and rotted long ago when you have dug through the topsoil you'll come to clay or gravel or sand the digging will be harder when the hole is five or six feet deep you better ask a friend to help she can pull up the clay or gravel in a bucket while you stay at the bottom of the hole and keep digging sooner or later you'll come to rocks all sorts of rocks big rocks little rocks granite limestone sandstone if you started your hole in africa you might find diamonds in brazil you might find emeralds in other places you might find coal or gold or silver wherever you dig watch for old bones and shells the bones of many animals dinosaurs giant tigers turtles and other creatures of long ago are buried everywhere if you find some dust them off carefully and save them when you have dug about 50 feet down maybe more or maybe less you will come to solid rock this is the rocky skin of the earth called the crust it's mostly granite to dig through it you will need a drilling machine start drilling you may hit water rain sinks through the topsoil and gathers in pools and underground rivers if you come to water you should put on a diving suit you may come to a lake of black gooey oil if you hit oil it would be best to give up this hole and start another somewhere else keep drilling when you have drilled down a mile or so the rock will be warm this is because heat flows up into the rock from the center of the earth you may hit boiling water or steam this is because rainwater drips down through cracks onto very hot rock sometimes it comes up again in some places on earth hot water bubbles up in springs or shoots up in geysers [Music] because of the boiling water and steam you will need an asbestos diving suit stay out of the way of geysers if you got caught in a geyser it might carry you up to the surface and shoot you into the air when you came down you would have to start digging all over again [Music] keep drilling for 10 or 20 miles you will come to a kind of rock called basil basalt is black and hard and smooth and heavy there is a layer of basalt two or three miles thick wrapped around the earth keep drilling as you go deeper the basalt will get hotter and hotter it will get so hot that it will melt and blow dark red melted basalt is called magma this is the stuff that sometimes shoots out of cracks in the earth and makes volcanoes when it cools on top of the ground it is called lava volcanoes are very dangerous be careful and don't get caught in one to go through red hot magma you will need a jet propelled submarine it must have a super cooling system a fireproof skin and a drill at the tip of its nose your nose spaceship must be very strong an ordinary one would be squashed by the weight of the magma around it or burned up by the heat down here below the crust of the earth it is hotter than any fire you ever felt and it will get hotter and hotter the deeper you go when you've gone down about 150 miles you're in what is called the mantle of the earth the mantle is made of basalt that is melded into goo and at the same time is harder than steel it is melted by the great heat and is hard because of the great weight above pressing it down keep drilling you still have a long way to go the model is 1700 miles thick as you go down down down in your fire proof submarine you will notice that the color of the mantle turns from red to orange to yellow this is because it's getting hotter and hotter at the bottom of the metal the temperature is more than 3000 degrees celsius it is so hot that if your ship caught fire it wouldn't even leave an edge at the bottom of the metal you are more than halfway to the center of the earth now you must go through what is called the outer core of the earth it is a mixture of melted rock and iron it is 1 300 miles thick it will be hard going but if you have come this far you should keep on you are getting very close to the center of the earth after the outer core comes the inner core the inner core of the earth is a ball of solid iron it is so hot that it glows with white light go 860 miles straight down and you will be at the center of the [Music] earth [Music] [Music] the center of the earth is a place where east meets west north meets south and up meets down at the center of the earth there is nothing under you every direction is up your feet are pointing up and your head is pointing up both at the same time [Music] because there is nothing under you you will weigh nothing you will float inside your nose spaceship the weight of the whole world will press down on your ship do not stay long go straight ahead and begin the long trip up go 860 miles through the inner court and 1 300 miles through the outer core drill up and up through the mantle and then through the magma and then through the crust and then through rocks and sand and clay at last you will come to the surface you will be about 8 000 miles from where you started to dig on the opposite side of the world if you started in the united states you will come up at the bottom of the indian ocean it will be delightfully cool but full of sharks stay in your submarine and steer it to the top there you can open the hatch you will see the sky in the sun or perhaps it will be night and you will see the moon and the stars if you have a sail hoist it and start sailing home or else paddle when you get home you can tell everyone you have dug the deepest hole in the world and are very very glad to be back on top of the earth [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] that's fun film it kind of tickles my brain as a kid thinking about um traveling through the earth and then uh you know the technology would take and the adventure and the fact that it's teaching me a little bit about what the earth is like underground so that's i think that's a successful educational film um i hope everybody has a rest a good rest of the labor day weekend um i hope that you got some quality time in not working or if you're working then hopefully today is a little bit of a break because nobody else is working um again thank you for tuning in and we'll be back 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