The Great American Dream Machine; 18

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meet you've got those poor eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth i believe in you ideally you again yeah it is he says dickens
says this it's b is it it is it's
nice there's seven hundred and fifty thousand the media one hundred million dollars writer
plus and so oh ok oh geez oh
geez thank you when i got there the company had been there a number of hours of sunlight shining know when they get zero and it was over in an article and two minutes four minutes and i looked up was quieter and everything would be to spend in
southeast they don't see this journalist i'm david greene was drafted and november sixty seven went to basic training at fort campbell school at fort benning jump school at fort benning right became a paratrooper went to vietnam without and seventy third airborne and certain april until october sixty eight to sixty three and that's the way we went to hawaii causeway when the sales companies
as well this year unknown chorus to ban condoms to who knows what an attendant weekend at whether that is this man it didn't actually about the belles no one unless those unless we were taken from their to do just didn't seem right for three years that's how everything together and i told his sales way off and keep screening gonna make a quarterly that make a quarter i'd like to know for instance martin killing close to the guys in my unit were the contest body count can test to see if their squad their fire team they personally their company and it was going to kill him
shout seems to be doing ok you get a raise and promotion chose the sheets some union agrees to take us to get increasingly more sales and more sales and get a raise and promotion so hard for little climate that everybody does this these commanding officers are you're thinking of emotions and to get a promotion at the agency report patients to orient them and they don't give a damn we get the bodies he realized that seems to its new lear the relevance for reform without me and take care of it why don't quit thinking about lincoln and seasons that it was my company about an image to make a mark
very very lucrative christian upbringing all white area and ask the race didn't you know there's a big thing to forget again i ask that you know and he has always said that a recession so lucky to be looking at all these guys going to be a new trial at all why does everything has to happen to me and i was so upset and so such a traumatic experience for me in so confused what was going on that i was really afraid for my own life if i didn't cooperate or i did commit myself somehow to some degree that i too might be so i pointed my aunt's eighty nine at the people
who find one round and i never know what i knew whether anyone because immediately after it fired the rest of the squad opened up in their honor just refused to send any ideas was and it estimated about thirty people believed when i got back to headquarters i s y c overheard would have been on the beach and he says you know we got we got twenty six bc necessarily a previously they were they were our friends recall procedures and the bees yes important for all joe santry was in town all jealous actor i told you that we really ought to be given all the jet engine from kokomo i told us of
course there's lots a canton tell me i know i know that they're though they knew i didn't know how he could ruin see those warriors were really swell such memories i got you in this one you know volatility it way that i carry around this guilty about all those people i helped kill that it has a longing this afternoon and went running home and i just made the facilities where it's just an expression of feeling was the percentages in the mouth sal russo reason i didn't report was because everybody much a minority knew about it my squad leader the army want to listen is in their use in the next states on the body of a man who was in an expanse of the body
everybody knew about it but nobody had really my nine more many lies you think one libyan people aboard with this message of follow the whole tally with a day that would go as you know what's going to they were registered voters rally was just doing his job but they did say he can and that's an eye on me my job line wearing move through time smiling and joking a lot of people i don't even like on a day a lot of sleep tonight i can tell you i just really can't seem to function going to get our lesson when we were there were killing people all the time and innocent people most of them and we're still doing it and are still dying and i cannot stop it can't be guilty of any longer television when they knew who needs a
list at least be informed citizens if it was collective that doesn't move product on more westerns that had just waking up and you could just get the raise guilty about ice cream on his debts tranquilizers idiot boss we know the shooter vester mother tvs not fun anymore you know mm hmm
the police the power christopher cities
and i believe it this week the thing we did was wheeled into the same house so it's a very small apartment so will decided to really think a sandwich or have the same religion thing we did what we all know about and probably in the rca religious cult we wear these know a bad a lot closer together it's an absolute legend because things are changing in such a way where there everything has to be done in an economical way
an intelligent ways to save time amortized and this is what we will come to this conclusion that they are cia has the best vision for this hour we want it today
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really nice because you personally savings accounts it's been it's been here we go and the other aaron
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what happens in most cases it has as a little box in his house we put all its money to a charity in his mouth and his jowls place to place no one knows is there and then he goes home sites in the back way he covers any higher than money in this little box and so because of the nature of god so it's not as though you know a lot of money
this week right cream james govan comedians house
finished the piece hello i'm albert brooks and i'm speaking to you on behalf of the famous school for comedians located on twenty two gorgeous acres near arlington national park how many times if you've gotten nice laughs at a party had a friend turn deal and say you know something that was pretty funny you should think about being a comedian well your friend was right yes the comedy fraternity of show business is a fast paced nutty funny world there are always openings for good comedy talent but you say i just don't know violent takes to become a professional albert so i say why not find out yes that's right we'll send you want free comedy talent test that will tell us in just
five short minutes whether or not you have a future in comedy more about that later first come with me if you will let's have a review of the school i think you'll like what you see here we are strolling down the down the form all those students enjoy walking here as they try out new material on each other factors things that they've learned to license the rock so yesterday resonates this mine in new york was so badly and david while walking through central park i was mugged by a visa dug up and i like the way you're using your hands now rubble under glass really light very much related to simulate a day now we hear how jack klugman comedy research center that area those students something funny was going on and
forget tonight first today we'll visit comedy take last year the students practice all kinds of takes a double take no more take and today they're working on the spit take made so famous by danny thomas on making it for daddy remember when then it would be drinking coffee his agency would come in with some surprising knows and then it was probably over seven the furniture let's see how he's going to do it i was pretty good idea where just one more time in the same way i remember i just walked into the room now start to drink good now i speak yes why i just run on the bank and not only don't you have any money but your sister is dead mrs i'm as good as much better except again carroll who didn't put the liquid in your mouth and you guard against that
now let's visit a comedy deadly clash always be and as to his practice a variety of techniques from falling down to getting up today they find out they're throwing a pie isn't as easy as it looks on tv let's say isn't the thing to remember when you're throwing a pie is to make sure that you hit one of three desirable it the last one is here this is a mess i say what i mean it's not as funny as at the plywood land here now apply here is
funnier than if it landed in areas three but funniest oh i think you'll see why would be to make direct contact with the notes are now in syria one being the nose area one might wonder there's been a dessert sure that is the cafeteria as revisit our last class today we find that since their lives are filled with making foreign many canadians feel a special responsibility toward the serious side this is usually means working for a cause which often takes the form of contributing their talent to the support of programs devoted to the elimination of disease in this class the instructor is helping students choose which disease to work for in case they make a big now that's been a workout on our identity your work for polio are a couple
was you know it's not this reporter from the ama it shows that there are still several new cases each year now this may not be an appointment to see is just a lot of work to be done well and we have exit left and a few different kinds of cancer who would like to take on a cancer as well we're almost out of time so come with me now if you will back to my office all right forgive enjoy our little tour now let's talk more about the comedy talent test we use indian for this free test film about a moment that was we'll have one of our professors agree you personally no we won't lie to you and say you're funny if you're not it's too costly a waste of time to have a professional grade students they know are no good here's the exciting part if you qualify everything can be done in your spare time
at home and now let's take a few simple questions from the comedy talent asked to show you that it's not as difficult as you might think for example can complete this famous joke a man walks in the war with his wife under his arm the bartender looks at him in shock and asks of his double breaks this is no doubt the men says and you finished or complete this famous one liner with the choices the take my wife a for instance maybe i'll be along later see please you say you've always answers go and then you just might be on the road to a new and exciting career but don't delay time was running out so for your free comedy talent has today and now here's a nice man in your area to give you the correct mailing address is just about it but you
know we're always proud of our graduates of the famous school for comedians and suddenly here is former graduate another working comedian mort who are how's everything good in the future and good luck to you too thin member you don't have to quit your present job a little spare time at home is all you need and who knows maybe in just a few short months i'll be seeing you on the ed sullivan show goodbye and thank you christy hello las vegas the problem they're so what really is going on in the day like any other little girl
i always wanted to be miss america america and part of what she once tried to be my name is khan i come from asheville and i am his north carolina nineteen seventy seven from fairfield connecticut romanians lived in jackson tennessee generally will spring up wearing western allies because bees i always wanted to be miss america because this was part of america and do that with that title comes a certain amount of power by using that power you can bring other people into their positions of like you can make other people happy you can do other things for people who wears something like a black on then does not command immediate
respect or attention that a crown that's a lot oh yeah those three areas of judging in which israel can score points number one is the theory of swimsuit competition that i personally feel is very very difficult category covers more confusion among them because you're thinking about not only the foremost you think that the passion to a girl compassionate care she's getting her spirit her starring vincent way she walks to a lifelong passion then there's the second area of competition and that is even down an evening gown a
girl is judged on her poise under carriage and really the type of jesse we're doesn't flatter her thing here does she do something for the chest as well jesus it's been money it's big and then of course there's the house intelligence committee is
important because it not only does the girl first of all have to look appealing and then sound appealing she has to do and i think they're using her talents she can share something that god is with other people we have very stringent regulations and ruthless these girls must follow the girl is a chaperone the sheer we put a requirement that a chaperone be at least twenty eight years old and married we provide their lodging father in an area that in the control of their state and to make sure that they are cared for and with that list fear that their parents and grandparents would expect them to be smiling is a very interesting point of the pageant
many times a girl smiling freeze on sometimes judges can make dopamine a new novel begins to her new jaws into her and feel like just thinking so i start to smile when the fluorescent light and it's because it's a risky smile a little better then maybe brightly lit and then you really pretty darn so concerned for the people around them and their lives and what they would do to give of themselves that if justice and they used this was just thinking i was a girl you would have to increase who were injured at least three times which normally wages and if that was the best all the time i say i i have about almost i would say i have probably thirty years of changes will the persian miniatures one girl every time when they get an opportunity for every virulent that stage to find out who she is where she
wants to go to a primary but this is a budget is to provide scholarships preserving and talented young lady who hear north carolina's homes the cost really should be understood before and i started to figure out a couple of times and i stopped because i know if i showed it to my father he wouldn't leave it out of my clothes for the title even the locals or the kind of person i will make the first in a better individual better since then eventually their white i wanna continued with having a career and i like to become an ambassador possibly to a foreign country and you need the title miss america in an automatic position automatic reputation and automatic head start although there is a lot of controversy and that
topic today for this reason people who are members of the women's liberation feel of this is that we're the way of judging the girl just trying on all why do you want the judges majeski as a contest art what do you think of the women's liberation today signing stand because a dozen job which is akin to that man militias versus an unsettling that supplies femininity and then i'll walk out this tuesday yeah
at what to do you know you've got people protestant and you'll be in the public and he needs that you create will be what is known as miss north carolina illinois and your parents at this time if they have any questions or comments concerning her reign as miss north carolina nineteen seventy two when a highway yes those a dollar question go about eli it is
now and muddy good day and i'll believe that when you're here on tuesday that got huge fuel be a sixties forward and we had to stay in this thing being an attorney i would say that this is somewhat light in preparing a lease we always say that we will return it in the same condition as when we see our the state it is
you need the penny has
been a healthy condition i want to talk to you about something that really turns me on tires i call myself a cairo just there are too many of us around was did you give the tires only when you're shopping for nuance
well with me it is and i'm passing me to a dealer parties hobby i championed by his belt i had bought a polyester and when people compliment bmi nylons i know it's not my legs that my ring but my wheels what was at the port road the fall comes in a little tiger paws and it does the fall comes in on tiger paws power cushion polly klass fast track last pelted still building radio applies to get there anytime can you tell which is that or you can't i can't let's take a test which is the best ken guest by the name how the car companies make these types which is the first line the second line and third line is it fires those champion goodyear's rally good riches life saver when general jay ensley let's hear which one oh nice a compact body type you couldn't tell but the dread you can't tell which one will call it that is bob sugar where longer one company's premium maybe as good as that of his first wife when you look at what you get is the
main and the salesman's worked on they climb the only way they're made tires on pure ability safety and all around performance not by the luckily advertising it's by becoming an expert by paying your dues and putting in your years ok here's the answer to the test in this group the premium tire is good reaches lifesaver first line from ohio good years romney also the ohio generals get at the fair and in this corner the loser it fires those champion oh lowest rated third line higher salary cap a i got an immigrant now can you tell me which department of government in nineteen sixty six was directed by public law a nine five sixty to come up with a uniform grading system for passenger car tires question to which the popping of government since nineteen sixty six has
failed not come up with a uniform grading system for passenger car tires the answer is the department of transportation let me tell you what the real problem with blind tigers is no one has said rating standards for the tire industry one company's first line may or may not be superior to another company's second law you know our own premium line tires to say there's a real polite tire have a superior stopping ability ability better traction if it does why does the public transportation say so does the re encored tired give you longer mileage than the polyester court attire either puncture resistant you can see why so many people make mistakes in the pain or replacing every ten thousand miles and i can see why people buy because they like the white walls a because somebody told them that the white raised letters on the side as deftly the law in the seventies that's an incredible reason for buying a product your life depends upon
you have any questions about tires that could save your life drop a note to the public transportation if you have any questions about the history of tires as we get let me ask you who invented the pneumatic power where when and for what reason what that is and so is the answer john dunlop an irish veterinarian in dublin invented the pneumatic tyrant at eighty eight for his son's bicycle his son said oh thanks dad say you thought i was gonna say time to retire didn't but i'm always full of surprises kathy for some sneaky next and it's been ms
bishop so in this instance my name is ginger and on it as ruin senior high school my name is rj hands their prime minister this church which is the first united church of christ located it so than in india the
political makeup of the county is the arch conservative this is one of the few counties so heavily for barry goldwater idea johnson has its backers there's an emergency it's not an activist republican society i would say that probably the john birch society here the numbers horrified people i do believe however it's a thinking conservative element support for government demonstrations is that has its main worry a lot more than we don't have
demonstrations we have no racial element here now we don't have protests and demonstrations i'm proud of our student body they have performed well they're very happy with relief to have an actual facility parents didn't make it that way we have not have the protests and demonstrations sure we have questions i think it's wrong to treat treat you the same way and years since i think i get it and then you're quite an alarm that we have all this sours dr rubens to know about sex and saying well we just keep them under the counter and sometimes the littlest on hiring and they're just for adults who would not disappear to be released so many of the books on the best seller list are those that we can't share that people want
to read them and the glory and myself we all know this is the texas billionaire and we should have the books that people want only have been censored very very low do the play only thing is security well one thing you have to have maybe three things from the iphone in her wee in the past two years have been averaging about forty two percent of our graduating seniors who go on
to some college or university or some school of some sort of be sending away to college and returning as one of the seven years of this little town and probably all little towns in america we send a heck of a majority or the percentage i should say of our graduating seniors off to college to indiana and they just never seemed to find themselves back here again basically i would say our churches from the bottle as we say take the bible and waited for a garden center of conscience believe there's a heaven became a hellish ugly believe that this is a fundamental along those lines don't have too much of the current situation in our enrollment here for sweetie we hear about this we know that i should say we don't know we really think that we have parents here as we do in concert and surrounding areas we have some here i think there's a whole city
mayor anatoly variations yeah the lives of the slaves because one of the people who has been married it's based in washington dc
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is it's nice any day is it anyone know who said be a warrior
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- Episode Number
- 18
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- Contributing Organization
- Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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- cpb-aacip/75-171vhk36
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- GADM
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- Description
- Series Description
- The Great American Dream Machine, NET's 90-minute viewing experience comprising vignettes, features, investigative reports, humor, theatrical performances and commentaries touching on life in the United States, will be televised Wednesday at 8:30 PM over PBS. The series which premieres January 6, was formerly called "Wednesday Night." "Our goals is to explore and examine the various aspects of contemporary American society through a selection of subjects, themes, personalities and approaches - techniques that inform and entertain, providing the viewer with different ways of looking at things that affect him," according to Al Perlmutter, executive producer. Each week we will deal with material that addresses itself, through a variety of approaches, to people's goals, ideas of themselves, their country, their hopes, their dreams," he says. "Accordingly we arrived at 'The Great American Dream Machine' as a title. That in itself will be interpreted many different ways - according to where the individual stands." The scope of the series will be diverse so as to contain features of interest to a broad spectrum of viewers. Each program's elements will flow one into the other in order to preserve its fluidity. Although the series will not have a regular host, from time to time several personalities will guide the viewer. "This concept is harder on us but we think will be better for the viewer," predicts Perlmutter. "The series will be able to move in any and all directions with no ties either to a studio or an anchorman." According to the NET producer, the segments will be short and fast paced, although "there will be no hesitation to devote extended periods of any subject that might warrant special attention. "Each program will utilize segments filmed or taped on location as well as sections which originate live from location or studio situations. Whenever possible, live inserts of timely events will be included." Programs will include commentary by American humorist SJ Perelman; special series of reports probing the plight of the American Indian; and a number of sports-oriented features, including one dealing with the career of Mohammed Ali and other stories on the upcoming Super Bowl game. Among the segments expected to be featured each Wednesday are: 1. A commentary by columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman on such subjects as how doctors' prescriptions are influenced by "sexy" advertising in medical magazines. 2. A media critique by reporter Bob Kaiser covering newspapers, magazines, television and radio. 3. Commentary by columnist Jeffrey St. John. 4. Consumer tests by actor Marshall Ephron. "The Great American Dream Machine" will also take a close look at how American men and women relate to each other and devote time to the subjects of growing old, loneliness, and the Vietnam War. Al Perlmutter and Jack Willis are the executive producers for "The Great American Dream Machine." Coordinating producers are Lou Solomon, Bob Bendick, John Fuller, Louis Ames, and Arthur Holch. Among the producers are Al Wasserman, Arthur Barron, Barbara Gordon and Fred Wardenburg. Jack Sameth is the director, and Don Sussman, the production supervisor. "The Great American Dream Machine" is produced by NET and is transmitted nationally by the Public Broadcasting Service. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Description
- Among the show's highlights: Steve Katz, of Blood, Sweat & Tears, leading a chorus in the first performance of "The Great American Dream Machine," a song he wrote especially for the series; the group shown giving a concert for Chino Prison inmates in California; Albert Brooks providing a tour through his school for comedians; Dream Machine cameras viewing behind-the-scenes happenings at the Miss North Carolina Beauty Contest and visit Lebanon, Indiana, where town folks tell "how things are." In other segements, actors Charlotte Rae and Michael Vale portray Mr. and Mrs. USA settling down for an evening of television during which they remain impervious to the news of teh day, except to lament, "My, My, More My Lais."
- Broadcast Date
- 1971-10-20
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 01:00:00
- Credits
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Executive Producer: Perlmutter, Alvin H.
Executive Producer: Willis, Jack (Film producer)
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
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- Chicago: “The Great American Dream Machine; 18,” 1971-10-20, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-171vhk36.
- MLA: “The Great American Dream Machine; 18.” 1971-10-20. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-171vhk36>.
- APA: The Great American Dream Machine; 18. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-171vhk36