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Manufacturing Precision Fittings (With Commentary - 1957)
This 16mm reel from my collection is a work print and has no soundtrack, but the unedited rushes show many workstations and production steps in manufacturing hydraulic lines and fittings from raw stock in the 1950's. Filmed in gorgeous Kodachrome, many of the shots are not ideally focused and ma...
More On Video Tape Editing
I talked about the Ampex film in the livestream and condensed all that talk here with additional visuals - enjoy!https://youtu.be/MbbzOMGzcMA
All The Car Crashes I Survived
The recent video I put up of a 1972 film in my collection that shows crash testing has me reflecting on my own survival of numerous car accidents in my childhood. Enjoy! What? How can you enjoy that??? Just kidding.https://youtu.be/cBmbkVkkqbY
Poodle Booze Boss
This "gag" scene that was put at the end of a routine technical film made by Ampex in 1961 ended up as fodder for my live broadcast - so here you go!https://youtu.be/EviC6sCIkqs
Small Car Crashes! (1972)
Wow! What a spectacular little film from my archive about smashing together servo controlled remotely piloted cars with onboard video (very high tech!) into head on collisions with astounding discoveries - among them that the seat belts of the time routinely snapped in half, sending dummy passengers...
Ampex Electronic Editor (1961)
This 16mm film from my collection is actually a Kinescope (film shot off a CRT) of an edited 2" Quad Ampex videotape, made for trade shows to be shown to groups of guys at conventions in conference rooms, board rooms, and such. "Hey guys - be sure to stick around till the end cause you don&#...
Manufacturing Precision Fittings (1957)
This 16mm reel from my collection is a work print and has no soundtrack, but the unedited rushes show many workstations and production steps in manufacturing hydraulic lines and fittings from raw stock in the 1950's. Filmed in gorgeous Kodachrome, many of the shots are not ideally focused and ma...
Surviving Atomic Attack (1949)
This 16mm film made by the US Army is one of the first to try to quell the American public's anxiety about the looming threat of the new Soviet Atomic Bomb. This reel from my own collection is a Cinecolor print - an unusual 2-color bipack process that puts two strips of film through the camera a...
Bell Telephone: How To Lose Your Best Customer (1971)
This high production value 16mm reel from my collection is typical of the kinds of films that Bell Telephone was making in the 60's and 70's for business training purposes. This reel shows us that using your telephone system improperly and having bad telephone etiquette can cost you your bus...
Do Sugar Free Drinks Ruin Your Teeth????
A recent study suggests that all these delightfully tangy sugar free drinks that are everywhere are actually ruining our teeth - so I set out to find out how bad this really is and figure out some solutions. Enjoy!https://youtu.be/ZYiZQFaJ5wA
Resistance Is Fertile
I have found that once you have a few large power resistors in a bin, you will soon have many many more. Enjoy!https://youtu.be/BVLar-dzp7A
Revisiting The Zero-G Experience A Year Later
It was brought up in my live stream so I went back in time to a year ago when i did the 0-G thing, and talk about what happened to all that footage I was supposed to get. Well.... I got it - it just did not add up to that much.https://youtu.be/NQ74RV28GoE
Right To Repair - Or Right To Own???
It's the wrong argument in my view - In order to get the right to repair anything you first have to fight for the right to own it. Discuss.....https://youtu.be/u-AqMGqmtZk
How Old Could Civilizations Really Be?
Could intelligent civilizations exist that are 10 billion years old? How about 5 Billion? Or is this whole intelligent life thing pretty new?https://youtu.be/bYDdslALmdI
The Drake Equation (Revised)
The passing of Frank Drake has me ruminating on his famous equation, and revising it by applying what we have leaned about radio in the 60 years since he first proposed searching the skies for interstellar radio signals.https://youtu.be/VsuEinDdljM
A Career In Machining (1971)
This 16mm film from my archives was made specifically to show to high school kids and is a real picture of a specific time in American life when vocational education was a huge part of the engine of the US economy. Lots of color correction for this one, and as always I transferred it myself with my ...
Waves (1960)
This 16mm film from my collection is made in Japan but published for the US market with American narration. Most of the color is gone, but not the excitement! Lots of hypnotic test setups that demonstrate wave motion. You're getting sleepy.... Veeeery sleeeepy...... zzzzzzzzz.... Er - Enjoy!http...
FranLab Live! Across The Universe Edition
https://youtu.be/-3fqOVmephY
No One Should 'Believe' In Science
I hear it a lot these days: "I just don't believe the science" - and there in lies the problem. No one should 'believe' in science. You either choose to study it, learn about it, understand it, and comprehend it, or not. These days with so much technology in our lives the ability...
FranLab Live... Live?
Could I pull off a real LIVE show in the meat world with a studio audience and a live band and everything, completely 'Late Nite' style? It's something I've been working on - but would anyone even show up for it? Hmmmm.....https://youtu.be/NixEB0syq0A
Light (1965)
This 16mm reel from my collection has seen better days before (and more cyan) but still represents the rank and file kind of art instruction films that I say as a kid. Enjoy!https://youtu.be/RhQt9UPjR-Y
Apollo 11 Crew Interviews (1969)
This 16mm reel from NASA is a set of Q&A from the press pool shot before the launch of Apollo 11 when the crew were in isolation. The press and camera operators are in another room and you can see their reflections off the glass window that separates them from the crew. A candid look at the guys jus...
FranLab Live! Labor Day Telethon Edition
Special holiday show at a special time from Philly!https://youtu.be/gxIH1rr2AFg
The Real Cost Of Starting A Business
You really have to know the costs of the business you are about to go into, to the smallest detail, and project those costs years into the future even before you put down dollar one to enter a new business venture. When you sit down and do that math you end up with a figure that honestly reflects wh...
Artemis I: FranLab and EEVBlog Live!
A special highly experimental simulcast of FranLab and EEVBlog live for the launch of Artemis I. Getting all this to work is going to be our own Moon Shot....https://youtu.be/8IEvwBshD8E
FranLab Live! Film Threat Edition
https://youtu.be/tqUhzLPdCqY
A Career In Manufacturing (1974)
This 16mm reel from my collection is chuck full of cool footage - from prototyping concept cars at Ford, to the Mustang assembly line, to making Quasar television sets, to CNC machining with a PDP-11, to modular synthesizers, making rotary phones, and much more! Made in Philly in 1974 and transferre...
Smoking And You (1962)
This British public service reel from the mid 1960's is an interesting snapshot of a moment in time in many ways. Interesting to note that as illustrated rather graphically in this film, everything about the health dangers and mechanisms of smoking were well known even then, and in 2022 people a...
Unfinished Laboratory Film (1983)
Another odd reel from my collection - this original 16mm camera footage is as sharp and crisp as it comes. These assembled rushes for an uncompleted industrial film showcase lots of processes and workstations with floating craned dolly shots and lab workers hitting their marks as actors for the day....
Television: How It Works! (1952)
A classic 16mm Coronet film about the magic of Television back at the very beginning of it all. Lots of great footage of early 1950's television production and some good illustrations and animations about just how television works (as the title states). Enjoy!https://youtu.be/s9VO2mQY9zU
