I chose a career as a Radiologic Technologist for 28 years . Loved seeing the old movie with Mr. Green as the voice over ! The amounts mentioned in the film for safe levels of ionizing radiation are not safe ! Radiation is a cumulative exposure event and “safe levels” now are much , much lower . Thank you so very much Fran for resurrecting this Iconic 70’s film !
For those curious the narration of this film was done by Norman Rose, he did a lot of these types of films. Hearing that voice brought me back to my school years.
Thanks Fran ! Harks back to the days when there was hope for humanity and educational films assumed their audience could understand a well crafted explanation.
"In 2005, a tongue-in-cheek experimental study by a group of MIT students found that tin foil hats do shield their wearers from radio waves over most of the tested spectrum, but amplified certain frequencies, around 2.6 GHz and 1.2 GHz."
@CARL iCON The study tested various designs of a few layers of alfoil not TIN foil. This isn't to say I believe in tin foil hats, just why are TIN foil hats even a thing? How do people continue to confuse TIN foil with Al foil when it is right there in the name? Tin foil hat wears, if any really exist, wouldn't be deluded because they wear the hats, they aren't even wearing tin. And the foil effects on radiation? radiation effects vary greatly depending on spacing and atomic structure. And of course type of radiation. Who knows, in certain conditions they may be effective. Sn is group 14, same group as Carbon and Silicon that have diverse properties, carbon = life as we know it, silicon = a large part of modern electronics moderated with a few ppm of dopants. Al is group 13 with different properties. Tin is 2.7 time denser than Al with a different electron structure. It has a metallic form called White and a Gray form which can be semiconductor. Both can be superconductor, or insulator , depending on structure from mono atomic layer to multi layer , temperature and further adjusted with various metallic alloys and non-metals.
I keep thinking of a line from an old Flash Gordon episode where they were shoveling radium into a " radium furnace"..." Feel that tingle? It's radiation!". This is a classic school science film....
Never thought I would get nostalgic over frame jitter, but it was part of the format experience we used to be numb to. Now it gets noticed, but it is what it is. That movie is in pretty good shape, considering it's age. Enjoyed this one, thank you Fran.
Most of the material here is fantastic. I could have done without the piercing scare-tone opening score, and just when Professor Watkins had me all vibing and wondering how we ever got so paranoid about nuclear power, the scare-tones kicked back in. 😒 It's like the film couldn't decide what its message about radiation was supposed to be for the first one third or so. Anyway, thanks as always, Fran, for saving this from oblivion.
Watching these movies always scares me. I don't even dare to pause any of these Film Archives. I am just too scared the film will get hot and burn up, ruining it for all viewers having a look at this after me 😂
Oh, Goldie Watkins is so rad, she definitely has a Fran-tastic vibe! :) 19:00 features projection display :). 25:51 looks interesting too. And for those interested, here's the video of the MIT nuclear reactor th-cam.com/video/5QcN3KDexcU/w-d-xo.html
The nuclear plant that they are on location at around 20:40 is Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. I have worked there since 1988. The parking lot location leads me to believe it was filmed before 1981 because that North parking area was not there in 1981. But at any rate...fun video.
16mm had very good audio quality, when produced properly. I ran it 16 hours a day at a TV station, in the '70s. Sound was an optical track along one edge of the film.
@23:15 Dr Eric Hall, a Welshman originally from Abertillery. He had an illustrious career in the UK and, for many years in the US. I recognised his accent immediately! 🏴
"Our senses can't detect it." *concern* I'm fairly certain two of our organs can detect radiation with one of them specifically designed to detect radiation between 350nm to 780nm in wavelength.
Fascinating to see a documentary about radiation that doesn't once mention "Chernobyl". Given the date there can't be many more like that which came after this one.
Interesting that Three Mile Island isn't mentioned in this one either. (EDIT: no surprise Chernobyl is not mentioned - that disaster happened five years after the movie was made)
Prior to Chernobyl, but possibly in the shadow of the Three Mile Island (TMI) incident, which occurred in late March of 1979. I have no idea what the production schedule of a film like this might have been. Would TMI have been an influence or even an impetus for this film, or would this production have been complete enough by then to discourage any significant changes? Either way, if there was any TMI influence to this film, I missed it.
& don't forget the Fukushima disaster, yeah Nuclear power, in theory, isn't dangerous but when you get corporations cutting corners on plant construction/inspection, or you put a nuke plant in a quake zone, or war zone..now you're rolling the dice. And also no mention in the film about what you do with the waste.
I've read "Radium Girls".Those women suffered horribly, and for no reason other than company greed and the workers being female. They were all stronger than me: I could never have endured what they did.
Ah. Produced by a nuclear power lobbying group. I was wondering why this thing had such a budget for travel, expert interviews, and specialized facility access.
Projection display. It passes light from different bulbs through teeny weeny character negatives onto the screen that faces the user. Check out this one: th-cam.com/video/0TD_MhPpZKg/w-d-xo.html
Right, though it was already two years after the Three Mile Island disaster. Kinda reminds me about Alphaville's "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" music video. I could bet my ass that TMI was an inspiration for that...
What did she say her name was? Golden Wonder? Nice film. Interesting to hear the answers to what is radiation! It terrified my mum when she was referred to the department of nuclear medicine at the hospital.
Goldie Watkins. I tried to look her up and found her but only in a few occasional mentions. She worked for the AEC and NY State Department of Health. I was sure she was going to have gone on to some high position but sadly it seems not.
Fran, your film archive is a gem! Do you know where I can find all the PSSC material published? I'm interested not only in the videos but I think those are the hardest to find. Thanks!
@@BenneWill oh yes, in 1981 51+ year olds would be born in the 20s indeed. Makes me think about my mother being 31 back then. Just a teeny weeny five years younger than me now! And Fran was only in her teens.
I don't understand this copyright nonsense. Whatever copyright existed was paid for by the people producing this educational video for public consumption. Never mind fair use and the statutory carve-outs for archival work. TH-cam is heavily damaging our ability to archive our history. You should post the unredacted videos to your own site.
I chose a career as a Radiologic Technologist for 28 years . Loved seeing the old movie with Mr. Green as the voice over ! The amounts mentioned in the film for safe levels of ionizing radiation are not safe ! Radiation is a cumulative exposure event and “safe levels” now are much , much lower . Thank you so very much Fran for resurrecting this Iconic 70’s film !
For those curious the narration of this film was done by Norman Rose, he did a lot of these types of films. Hearing that voice brought me back to my school years.
Thanks Fran ! Harks back to the days when there was hope for humanity and educational films assumed their audience could understand a well crafted explanation.
"In 2005, a tongue-in-cheek experimental study by a group of MIT students found that tin foil hats do shield their wearers from radio waves over most of the tested spectrum, but amplified certain frequencies, around 2.6 GHz and 1.2 GHz."
You need to ground the hat, then it becomes a proper shield. :)
@CARL iCON
The study tested various designs of a few layers of alfoil not TIN foil.
This isn't to say I believe in tin foil hats, just why are TIN foil hats even a thing?
How do people continue to confuse TIN foil with Al foil when it is right there in the name?
Tin foil hat wears, if any really exist, wouldn't be deluded because they wear the hats, they aren't even wearing tin. And the foil effects on radiation? radiation effects vary greatly depending on spacing and atomic structure. And of course type of radiation.
Who knows, in certain conditions they may be effective.
Sn is group 14, same group as Carbon and Silicon that have diverse properties, carbon = life as we know it, silicon = a large part of modern electronics moderated with a few ppm of dopants.
Al is group 13 with different properties.
Tin is 2.7 time denser than Al with a different electron structure. It has a metallic form called White and a Gray form which can be semiconductor. Both can be superconductor, or insulator , depending on structure from mono atomic layer to multi layer , temperature and further adjusted with various metallic alloys and non-metals.
Gosh darn it with the rounded corners Fran! Lolz - thank you for all that you do. You're definitely a wealth of knowledge.
Ha!
Yeah, those rounded corners makes it look like a home movie! ;)
I keep thinking of a line from an old Flash Gordon episode where they were shoveling radium into a " radium furnace"..." Feel that tingle? It's radiation!".
This is a classic school science film....
"And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter." - Tom Waits
Geiger was her maiden name! 😁
I found my nerd girlfriend with a Geiger Counter. She was that hot….
@@fazergazer What did you expect? She was a Radium paint addict! 😁
fascinating historical document and a nice color and sound restoration Fran.
"The earth could be covered with strawberries twenty feet deep."
Yeah, but they'll still be eighty quid each at Wimbledon... 🤨
Never thought I would get nostalgic over frame jitter, but it was part of the format experience we used to be numb to. Now it gets noticed, but it is what it is. That movie is in pretty good shape, considering it's age. Enjoyed this one, thank you Fran.
I needed these vibes after a long day. Thanks Fran!
WOW. What a transfer! You can see the film grain!
Wow, picture and sounds was great for this one. It really sounds like a school science/physics class type movie!
It's amazing how, over 40 years, we've managed to eliminate all the style and class videos like this had back then.
Short attention-spans are to blame :(
This was a very informative film. Thank you for sharing it with us! Science is fun!
Most of the material here is fantastic. I could have done without the piercing scare-tone opening score, and just when Professor Watkins had me all vibing and wondering how we ever got so paranoid about nuclear power, the scare-tones kicked back in. 😒 It's like the film couldn't decide what its message about radiation was supposed to be for the first one third or so. Anyway, thanks as always, Fran, for saving this from oblivion.
not long before I graduated from High school. great year for my guitar collection too.
Watching these movies always scares me. I don't even dare to pause any of these Film Archives. I am just too scared the film will get hot and burn up, ruining it for all viewers having a look at this after me 😂
Oh, Goldie Watkins is so rad, she definitely has a Fran-tastic vibe! :)
19:00 features projection display :). 25:51 looks interesting too.
And for those interested, here's the video of the MIT nuclear reactor th-cam.com/video/5QcN3KDexcU/w-d-xo.html
Throwing the walking stick aside was a pretty great entrance lol
The nuclear plant that they are on location at around 20:40 is Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. I have worked there since 1988. The parking lot location leads me to believe it was filmed before 1981 because that North parking area was not there in 1981. But at any rate...fun video.
Thank-you, Fran! 🙂
This video is fantastic, what a great service you are doing Fran!
You’re awesome Fran!
19:02 Some of your numeric displays there Fran?
Also noticed. I'm almost certain that they're IEE (not IEEE as in SMIEEE) projection displays!
@@KeritechElectronics I'd start looking through Fran's back catalogue but I'm on early shift in the morning... 🌛
Surprisingly good sound for 16mm film.
16mm had very good audio quality, when produced properly. I ran it 16 hours a day at a TV station, in the '70s. Sound was an optical track along one edge of the film.
Really enjoying the vintage films, Fran! I believe the narrator is radio actor and voice-over artist, Norman Rose. What a great voice!
@23:15 Dr Eric Hall, a Welshman originally from Abertillery. He had an illustrious career in the UK and, for many years in the US. I recognised his accent immediately! 🏴
"Our senses can't detect it."
*concern*
I'm fairly certain two of our organs can detect radiation with one of them specifically designed to detect radiation between 350nm to 780nm in wavelength.
Indeed. But that would be two organs of the same kind.
Plus the largest organ of our body can detect >780nm (and
@@KeritechElectronics I meant skin as the other organ.
Thanks Fran. Made me feel young again.
Nice! Thanks Fran.
Great film, thanks for sharing Fran.
I love these kind of films.
oh noooooo the corners are round!!!! :)))) ;)
whyyyyyyyy whyyyyyyy do they have to be round? humanity is doomed
Sarcasm noted and appreciated!
If someone said it seriously, I'd reply "Oh nooooo, my buttocks are round, but they don't hurt as much as yours!" :)
@@KeritechElectronics :))
You know... All Natural!
Radiation, always creeping around lookin to choke me! Thanks for sharing, Fran. I gotta go put on my lead suit now.
Thank you!
wow! this actually has a musical score!
Fascinating to see a documentary about radiation that doesn't once mention "Chernobyl". Given the date there can't be many more like that which came after this one.
Interesting that Three Mile Island isn't mentioned in this one either.
(EDIT: no surprise Chernobyl is not mentioned - that disaster happened five years after the movie was made)
Awesome video
Prior to Chernobyl, but possibly in the shadow of the Three Mile Island (TMI) incident, which occurred in late March of 1979. I have no idea what the production schedule of a film like this might have been. Would TMI have been an influence or even an impetus for this film, or would this production have been complete enough by then to discourage any significant changes? Either way, if there was any TMI influence to this film, I missed it.
No direct references, but the film was almost certainly made after the disaster, and my wild guess (a.k.a. conjecture with
& don't forget the Fukushima disaster, yeah Nuclear power, in theory, isn't dangerous but when you get corporations cutting corners on plant construction/inspection, or you put a nuke plant in a quake zone, or war zone..now you're rolling the dice. And also no mention in the film about what you do with the waste.
No one ever mentions the damaged reactor at Ft. Greely that was shut down in 1973. The site is still radioactive.
I've read "Radium Girls".Those women suffered horribly, and for no reason other than company greed and the workers being female. They were all stronger than me: I could never have endured what they did.
Yeah, their stories are pretty horrifying :(
I own a very sophisticated Geiger counter , as a matter of fact. :)
Ah. Produced by a nuclear power lobbying group. I was wondering why this thing had such a budget for travel, expert interviews, and specialized facility access.
Got a similar impression, given that it was made by a major disaster and it wasn't even mentioned.
@@Nudnik1 Tasty copypasta
Closing scenes in the PepsiCo sculpture garden. Purchase, NY
The music of the beginning of the video reminds me the music of the beginning of Final Fantasy 7 a lot
19:03 How does that display work?
Projection display. It passes light from different bulbs through teeny weeny character negatives onto the screen that faces the user.
Check out this one: th-cam.com/video/0TD_MhPpZKg/w-d-xo.html
loved it :)
Great video!
Thanks Fran, I appreciate your hard work. Hey everyone hit the like.
Finally a intelligent film about all aspects of the many forms and uses of radiation. Woketarians won't like all those facts.
Uh, Fran you Know I think we can Cure this Copyright Audio, Like what we Do with the Radio Copyright Audio..hmmm..
The film was produced over 40 years ago and 5 years before the chernobyl disaster, which i find very fascinating. And I wasn't even born yet.
Right, though it was already two years after the Three Mile Island disaster.
Kinda reminds me about Alphaville's "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" music video. I could bet my ass that TMI was an inspiration for that...
What did she say her name was? Golden Wonder?
Nice film.
Interesting to hear the answers to what is radiation!
It terrified my mum when she was referred to the department of nuclear medicine at the hospital.
Goldie Watkins. I tried to look her up and found her but only in a few occasional mentions. She worked for the AEC and NY State Department of Health. I was sure she was going to have gone on to some high position but sadly it seems not.
Nice
Norman Rose!
I love this stuff.
Yes Im old.
How do you tell?
I recognize the gloria vanderbilt logo on that ladies jeans.
Great film. Apart from that bloody annoying geiger counter. It's at a frequency that gets me realy irritated, next door's washer is the same.
Yeah, that's always the problem with decaying nuclei, so random!
Not just "tick" but "BEEP" and right at the microphone when she rests it down. Are my clothes nearly done?
How many would recognize the male narrator was Lorne Greene?
I could be wrong but it sounds a lot like Norman Rose to me
Fran, your film archive is a gem! Do you know where I can find all the PSSC material published? I'm interested not only in the videos but I think those are the hardest to find. Thanks!
What an odd start to the film!
🍌🙂
Kinda. I could expect it starting with "War... War never changes...", Ron Pearlman being the narrator.
It's a speed-reading test! :) (00:12)
the United States is my favourite land mass
I had a snicker at that, too. And that was after they cited "North America."
Australia not mentioned I noticed. Typical!
nu-cu-lar!
It's amazing to think, that most of the people in this clip were born in the 1920s.
You think most of the people in this film are senior citizens?
@@FranLab Well hehe. As a member of Generation Z weird to think of 40 and 50 year olds being born in the 20s and 30s.
@@BenneWill oh yes, in 1981 51+ year olds would be born in the 20s indeed. Makes me think about my mother being 31 back then. Just a teeny weeny five years younger than me now! And Fran was only in her teens.
I don't understand this copyright nonsense. Whatever copyright existed was paid for by the people producing this educational video for public consumption. Never mind fair use and the statutory carve-outs for archival work. TH-cam is heavily damaging our ability to archive our history. You should post the unredacted videos to your own site.