AV Geeks 16mm 1-23-2024

that that that Hello everybody welcome I'm skip Alzheimer this is the avgeeks lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films and uh that was kind of fascinating like in the middle of this uh like big industrial manufacturing film some guy gets a cinder in his eye has to go to the uh um the doctor go to the infirmary that was uh really kind of interesting like uh normally they they don't show that but there you go without that being the point uh I guess is what I'm trying to say is like somebody to gets a splinter in or Cinder in their eye then it's like okay you need to wear goggles you know or okay you need to take this precaution um so it's kind of interesting ah excuse me all right time for uh learning going back to a simpler time before uh we turn pig iron into steel this is a colonial children Joy it is the year 1680 in the English colony of Massachusetts stands the Adams House mother Adams finishes cooking breakfast over blazing logs in the big fireplace just as father Adams comes in carrying two buckets of water swinging from a wooden yolk on his shoulders the fireplace is the center of most household activities breakfast will be Hasty Pudding made of cornmeal served in wooden plates called trenchers as usual Rebecca Adams and her younger sister Cynthia helped their mother they have moved the Trestle board up near the fire with a ladle made from a gourd mother dips milk from the homemade wooden bucket Mr Adams is a well-to-do Massachusetts farmer and a devout One Rebecca and Cynthia stand respectfully at their places and brother Jonathan too while father says Grace heavenly father bless thou this food to the good of our bodies that we this day may walk in thy path go with us as we work and shelter us from all harm amen now that Grace has been said Rebecca Cynthia and Jonathan may be seated and begin their meal Cynthia is proud of her Silver Cup made by a silver smith of Boston Jonathan's trencher is heaped with good Hasty Pudding made of the meal from their own Indian corn milk is a food important to all especially now in late fall there are no more fresh vegetables the adamses eat their breakfast in silence children are to speak only when spoken to and father Adams is quiet because his mind is occupied with thoughts of work for the day it is a rule among the colonists to stop eating when only moderately full after breakfast Cynthia Attends Little Daniel the only one of the children born in America Jonathan's first job for the day is to make a new blint broom for his mother a stick of red Birch has been softened in water and now Jonathan needs only a sharp knife thin strips or splints are carefully peeled back toward the end and folded over each other the remainder of the stick is Whitted down to form the handle while Jonathan Works mother keeps the fire going additional splints are used to bind those in the broom together mother I finished the broom you a good son Jonathan while father chops firewood the children study how be thy name t h y k i n g e o m c o m e thy kingdom come Jonathan is reading his New England primer he who now learns his ABC forever will a blackhead be but he who to his books inclined will soon a golden treasure find a in Adam's fall we sin it all B th life to men this book attend C the cat of play and after sleigh D A dog will bite a thief at night e an eagle's flight is out of sight F Rebecca has come over to see how lessons are progressing but something outside causes her to look up it must be something unusual what is it Jonathan the fox it must be the one that got our chickens last week a fox there's a reward for the one who kills him the Adams long barreled musket is heavy for Jonathan but father is away in the woodlot the Fox May soon be off and Jonathan is eager for the reward mother Jonathan shot the fox how wonderful Oh What a Beautiful Fox see mother I shot it what a fine big one yes and now he claims the Bounty too yes it's 3 shill 6 isn't it father that's right son here let me take him 3 Shilling 6 one shilling to put aside toward his gun with some left over and here is Jonathan's list save for gun one shilling knife one and six Fish Hooks 3 p comb three sweet Meat six in the afternoon neighbors arrive at the Adams House good day mistress Adams Welcome Friends won't you come in she very kind of you to help me make my fine new quill it is always a pleasure to help a friend and only right that we should come for you helped us last spring oh PA will you not take off your cloaks good day Rebecca it's good to see you I'm so glad you came Cynthia and Polly are always glad to see each other making quilts is tiresome work and Mrs Adams neighbors help her just as she helped them the decorated cloth came from India when Cynthia and Polly are older they too will help make quilts they too will have to spin and weave and sew and make candles and soap just now they play crch Cradle meanwhile the quilting goes on Mrs Adams and Paulie's mother are rubbing colored chalk on a piece of cord this is stretched tightly and now when the string is plucked a straight chalk line is left on the cloth Cynthia and polly have put aside their game young as they are they have already learned to do useful work on this hand Loom Cynthia is making a strip of tape for the tying and lacings needed for Homespun clothing poly works on a piece of needle work making letters and samples of stitches so the cloth is called a sampler both Polly and Cynthia someday will have to make cloth and sheets and towels dresses and suits and bonnets this my sampler here you see what care my mother took of me such work was a part of the early training of these Colonial women without whose skilled fingers quilts could not be made hands prepared the wool for the quilt hands made the thread for the quilt and hands guide the needles evening and time for lighting candles homemade candles of towel or wax in the evening as always home life centers around the fire in the big brick fireplace the fire that is kept steadily burning for cooking for warmth and for light father tired from a day of work on his farm sits down for a quiet smoke with pipe tongs he picks up a live Amber to light his pipe then he rests contentedly perhaps thinking of the friends he left behind in England six years ago for the women of the household evening does not mean an end of work there is wool to be spun by candl light there is cloth to be woven by candle light woven on the handmade loom woven by tireless hands that have learned both skill and Patience Jonathan shells corn to be ground into meal now Rebecca fills the warming pan with hot coals beds are upstairs and the warming pans will make cold beds more comfortable the day comes to a close with Father's reading of the scriptures of the Lord he is my refuge and my Fortress my God in him will I trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that fth by day nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon day there shall be no evil before the neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling for he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways oh yeah that's right those early EB films just kind of end without any like outro music or some Nation um yeah but it has our good friend James Brill James bril the narrator uh sorry for the uh the fox drama the fox killing drama um all right uh behind me I have a film scanner and I have something set up it's called total communication uh captioned Edition captioned edition Enjoy [Music] for [Music] how many boys are here I see one teacher and six boys here today right how many boys no this preschool class of deaf children is using total communication chis is here all were four years old at the beginning of the school year and all have profound hearing losses which have been present since birth total communication involves the use of speech speech reading sign language amplification Reading Writing and finger spelling total communication makes possible a more open and complete interaction between parents and their deaf child between teacher and child and between the deaf child and his peers what's restriction of a child's natural attempts to communicate serves as a denial of his right to be hot face oh that's awful what happened yesterday yes where inside here outside really it was raining windy yes you want to write about that do you want to write about that who fell fire paper toasted marshmallows did you like them I here the classroom interaction is based heavily upon the personal involvement of the children the teacher and pupils function as a group even more importantly there is extensive student to teacher communication and student to student communication I can't hear you where's your voice all put it in the fire first from bed hold it in the fire toasted candy yes language grows out of Human Experience natural dialogue among very young deaf children is possible through total communication what else did you eat this enables the deaf child to cope with everyday emotions such as anger and fear and ways other than through temper tantrums these emotions and Abstract Concepts can be discussed among parent teacher and child eliminating the frustrations faced by deaf children when communication is [Music] restricted yes did they really shoot the car really the pict yeah right should I write that what should I write here about the picnic Miss breeger was cross should we write that total communication places strong emphasis on speech as well as on the use of residual hearing and the highly visual language of science you say that picnic picnic yeah picnic same picnic picnic picnic yeah okay what your Miss Bogner write you want to write about your sandwiches May what well sandwiches sandwiches with not only in the classroom but in the home total communication has major value the addition of sign language and finger spelling reinforces speech reading inside or outside this is true because signs describe the concepts and feelings being expressed this is of great importance in the family setting the parents who will be talking to us all have children who were born deaf and who are now 3 years of age or younger put him in these soundproof rooms and they tested him in there was sound and at the same time the sound they had a light and uh he would respond to a light but not the sound no matter how high they turned it so they went from there at his young age determined he had about a 90% decibel loss I me he was less than 2 years old when we came down to Frederick in the preschool program and uh we went all over before in another state even and they didn't have any preschool till they're around five or even six years old and uh Frederick had it one started well they took him right away they don't have any age limit they say younger they are the better they are and as fast as they catch on I agree with them real well matter of fact The Young Ones can catch on faster than the older ones I found out later on in the program that uh his total communication was signs and speech he just picked it right up and no trouble at all communicating a baby learns to talk before they learn to read if they can hear Timmy could understand signs before he could understand lip breing and I feel that was the most helpful thing is learning the signs so that he could communicate with us and we could communicate with him and being sure he understood what you were saying was the most rewarding thing um we manag her behave but giving the spankings when she needs spankings and having to go in her room when she need to go in her room and she responding real well when we give her uh this you know whenever she's wrong she don't think we doing her mean so because she understand when she in the wrong she know that she going to get something for we just found out around about a month ago that Cassandra need a Gless she wasn't responding to uh paperwork and close work and U we taking her at the doctor and they begin to tell us that Cassandra's farsighted after Cassandra received her glasses she began to do close work and she began to pay attention more my son noticed that Cassandra were babing Mo he said Mommy Cassandra talking now I said yes Robert Cassandra's talking now I discipline uh Timmy the same as I do Amy uh sometimes maybe he doesn't doesn't always understand but we try to explain to him why he's being punished he he's treated just the same and U I feel that uh they're both they're not treated any different and there's no difference in disappointing a non-hearing child is a hearing child they're both children well with the three older ones and him we actually treat him just like one of the family because the whole the whole family's been to sign language class and they know what this total communication is and they all use it so we just don't even well we we even talk to him and holler at him sometimes and forget his death we just communicate with him just treat him like one of the family we don't right yeah I mean like I say there's if he does something wrong he gets corrected just like anybody else we don't let him get by with anything like I say it was only about a year and a half and they couldn't talk talk anyway but with signs he could catch on and he grabbed a hold of signs and now also he goes to preschool up in Hager town and they work on his speech more up there and he does sign and speech at the same [Music] time where dog this is a test I want your best speech please okay watch that individual speech instruction and evaluation is an important regular part of a total communication program even for the most profoundly deaf child better okay wait look here before we read I want you to remember something is this right right what's wrong what voice I forgot my voice we made sandwiches with peanut butter and bread and jelly is that right why what's wrong sign yes sign together with voice same time okay ready okay Carol put words picnic [Applause] then we make [Applause] sandwiches with peanut butter and bread and jelly jelly mhm and [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] reer was Ross [Music] [Applause] she what's that yes right sit down [Music] we finished eating eating the teacher is sensitive to the responses of the children but does not dominate the classroom [Music] scene yes that's the place with trees and the swing and sliding board remember okay why did I Spang Johnny John oh I remember yeah what was what was the name of that bridge the bridge here the children are learning from each other as you and I learned 95% of what we know Joey Randy and Scott are discussing a very complex activity of 2 days ago using signs gestures speech and mind this is the kind of abstract linguistic interchange possible between preschool deaf children using total communication this is why deaf people overwhelmingly support the concept of total [Music] communication [Music] this reminds me uh I do some work occasionally for uh the Linguistics department at NC State we've digitized uh some film some video for them some audio and um basically uh one of my friends uh in that department did a documentary a very short documentary about uh early 20th century when they started doing uh deaf schools schools for the deaf uh they were segregated um and what that meant was that the uh kids that African-American kids kids that went to a segregated Death School kind of learned the American Sign Language but also had their own variations on it and so it's like a whole different there's some similarities but there's a lot of difference as far as uh the way they communicate and um so this film reminds me of the fact that if you g Give Kids the tools they they will try to communicate however they can so um really kind of fascinating uh dock I don't know where you can see it but um it is really great uh dialect yeah maybe but there's some actual grammar structures that were different too so yeah but it is very similar to um I guess a dialect and different Regional ways that people say things and express themselves and that carries over into the death Community as well uh so back in my day we used to call it printing what did you call [Music] [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] [Music] [Music] yes we used to call it Printing and for centuries after Gutenberg started the whole thing by inventing movable type it was printing the printer sometimes with the help of an artist set words in type and he printed books graphic Communications today is something else it involves more people more sciences and skills more activity than Gutenberg could have imagined artists today shape ideas into graphic forms and rely on other Specialists to reproduce them yet they have a link with Gutenberg they think of their work as he did as a combination of Art and [Music] Adventure sometimes the adventure is more pop than purposeful more medium than message and mostly for [Music] labs dimensional printing relies on photography for its novel effects the sense of depth is an illusion created by first photographing objects through a special plastic lens then viewing the picture through a similar plastic lens scenes are carefully arranged for their three-dimensional quality on production runs pictures are printed normally then laminated with lens material to match the [Music] original setting type by telephone is one way Publications make sure their Regional additions match the original new stories in the Wall Street Journal written and edited on the East Coast are encoded on paper tape and sent over telephone lines to Regional plants like this one near San Francisco duplicate tapes are created on arrival and connected to type setting machines when the tapes are played back their perforations cause the machines to set the right letters and cast them in lines of type this is just one one of many changes taking place in the production of [Music] newspapers in this plant a new computer will eliminate paper tape electronic circuits will activate type setting machines automatically other papers are using photo mechanical and electronic equipment to set type photographically the front page is the last to be locked up late news items are added and shifted according to editorial priorities right up to the addition [Music] deadline then page one is plated and the presses [Music] start this plant also sends copies of its pages to the journal plant in Riverside California for distribution in the Los Angeles area and surrounding states from the metal type forms clean proofs are pulled put on a faximile cylinder and synchronized with the receiving station as the cylinder spins a tiny beam of light scans the page and this signal is transmitted by microwave almost 400 m to Riverside where it is recorded on film developed plated printed and Shi with such modern technology The Wall Street Journal has become the only National Daily Newspaper in the United [Music] States perhaps the greatest appeal and the greatest challenge of graphic Communications is in color reproduction each page each set of plates is carefully proofed checked corrected and checked again in the case of this advertisement each proof is pulled on the Paper Stock and with the inks used in the magazine in which it will appear but control of reproduction quality begins long before the proof press stage it begins with the separation cameraman who photographs the original art through filters to separate each color into its primary components the cameraman skill is the first measure of the final printed product he must know the original art the printing process the final use and the best way to get the result he's after new developments in technology are changing graphic Communications electronic scanners for consistent color separation new light sources developments in Metallurgy and chemical emulsions new materials and new ways of making plates these are bringing higher standards and fewer variables to all the hard work graphic Communications has to do in the [Music] marketplace every label is an appeal for attention and each one of those labels must be designed art must be prepared copywritten types set and all the other steps taken and this too is graphic [Music] Communications a packet of seeds is something else not so much an appeal to buy as a promise of fulfillment and the packet itself is part of the promise [Music] this is a gravier cylinder it's made of copper clad steel carefully balanced and after it's been meticulously made ready it's ready made for long press runs big gravier presses print 10 colors in a single pass Five to a side they print millions of magazines or millions of mail order cataloges or millions of whatever needs to be said or done films for packaging or foil for packaging or paper for Packaging [Music] packaging tablets and capsules don't have a lot of printing usually just the manufacturer's trademark and sometimes the size of the dosage but even that might be an important [Music] message drug bottles have labels and so do tubes soft drink cans beer cans and coffee cans are printed too by a different process called metal [Music] decorating think of all the special interest Publications that are printed every month professional journals alumni news trade Publications and hobby [Music] magazines as these flashing characters show the main thrust of graphic Communications is towards science and technology this photo type Setter exposes type in a variety of sizes and at great speed bypassing metal type entirely it delivers clean proofs on film a further advance in technology is this computer-driven electronic type Setter entire volumes can be programmed into the computer and printed out on the face of a cathode ray tube where they are photographed as page units ready for plat making data processing technology is now a vital part of graphic Communications programmers and production Specialists are working together on new applications this press starts with a roll of paper and delivers a finished [Music] book [Music] [Music] but people in graphic Communications are also committed to the traditional strongly stitched carefully assembled [Music] books [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] graphic Communications has much to offer young people including some excellent colleges at which to learn about it Fine Arts students have always been interested in graphic techniques now with prce in demand more of them than ever are exploring traditional methods to create original [Music] designs [Music] many other young people aware of the career possibilities in the field are going to schools that teach graphic Communications they start with the fundamentals in type the first step is to set it by hand from there they go on to learn all they can about the Art and Science of printing learning by [Music] doing [Music] but not this young lady she doesn't plan to be a typ Setter she's majoring in journalism but now she knows how a line Caster works and that will never be wasted knowledge on a newspaper industry schools often sponsored jointly by companies and unions are busy too with apprentices learning basic skills and experienced journeyman retraining for new and better jobs that's a sign of the times the technology of graphic Communications is changing so fast that a man entering the field now can expect to retrain four times before he [Music] retires [Music] [Music] there is probably no single industry that affects so many of us and that offers so much as it moves from a craft to a science it needs scientists chemists physics physicists technicians and Engineers yet it also needs Craftsmen photographers artists and businessmen managers salesmen specialists in finance scheduling Administration production personnel and people with ideas art directors advertising men people with strong opinions editors writers Educators Communications Specialists and all the people who want to think of their work as both art and Adventure graphic Communications we used to call it printing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] a [Music] [Music] oh [Music] graph Communications we used to call it [Music] [Music] printing you were screaming for it to stop but uh come on a Dupont sponsored uh film about graphic arts communication uh with some whaling flute and uh Bongos come on where else are you going to see that that was awesome I'm sorry that was really [Laughter] awesome um a little indulgent at the end granted but still uh it was uh it was pretty great and I'm happy that you were there for it um somebody was it rich Fulton who somebody donated some cash early on and I wasn't able to call out it call it out but uh it's very much appreciated in spite of what I show and how traumatizing it is um thanks for supporting us that's very much appreciated all right uh everybody have a great rest of your day we'll be back 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