Good afternoon everybody, welcome to stage C. In case you're not aware the Wi-Fi is up and running. All the information's in your packs. I think it's EMF camp and EMF, EMF. It's my pleasure. As you can see, the screen's a bit dark. There aren't any slideshows for this one. We are trying to improve it for later. You'll notice when we've got better screens because suddenly you'll be able to see them in daylight. Otherwise, it will be fine tonight. It's my pleasure to introduce for this talk though, Tom Owen on Bayspots. Screaming fans, excellent. Do I need this thing or shall I shout? Yeah, yeah, okay, right. So yeah, so thank you. Here is my extremely poorly planned and prepared quarter of an hour talk. I have no slides, so it's actually turned out to be a good thing. But honestly, the reason I have no slides is I only actually finished making the hardware for this at half two this morning. And so I've had no sleep, a little caffeine and am inclined to ramble and talk too fast for the best of times. So if I'm totally incomprehensible, can you please just heckle loudly and I might notice and slow down? So I'm Tom. So thank you for the introduction and thank you to EMF in general. I'm nominally affiliated with Cambridge Makespace. I'm just a member there. And so this little thing was made there. You should come and drop in if you're in around the city or in fact drop into our village. It's over there somewhere. It's on the map. The base spot is an attempt to make simple electronic projects mobile. So if you've done any of this, what you might call physical computing, so rather than writing things on the screen and making things light up on your video, you actually have some interaction with the physical world. You'll notice that for one thing, people find it much more interesting. If you ever teach this, the amounts of entertainment, even totally normal adults, get out of turning an LED on, is utterly insane. I don't know quite why this happens. It's because of some exerting control of your environment or something like that. But if you're going to teach someone programming or you get someone excited about programming, whether that's a five-year-old or a 50-year-old, one of the best ways to do it is to make something that interacts with the real world around you. A follow-on from that, so I've typically used Arduino's because they are incredibly cheap. The obvious other case is the Raspberry Pi, the MicroPython and any number of other microcontroller boards. You plug together while you break a few. It doesn't really matter because they only cost £5 and so on. At some point, you might start thinking, well, the two things people want to do, they want to get their project's network, which is one aspect, and I'm not going to talk about that. They want to make the move. It turns out that making your project move is actually really hard, not because motors are particularly hysteric pieces of K2 or that batteries don't exist or are expensive or anything, but because the moment something has mechanical parts to rotate, you have a whole load of things you have to take into account, design tolerances, you know, is it going to stick? How do you actually make it physically? So this little guy, which is not actually a very impressive demo, I'm afraid, because it's running a test firmware, but this is a basebot. So what I have here is the basebot chassis and the motors and the battery pack, and in addition an Arduino Uno and a pixie camera vision processing module from Carnegie, which was a Kickstarter a while ago. These little things are great because they, as an aside, they offload all of the heavy image processing lifting that you'd have to do otherwise. If you've ever contemplated doing image processing on an Arduino, you'll realise very quickly it simply isn't possible. They don't have any power, they don't have any memory, and the moment you start going, well, can we process a frame buffer 50 times a second? The answer comes back very quickly. No, no, you can't do that. So this little thing, which I recommend buying, they're about $35 or something, is we'll spit out a list of bounding boxes of features it finds, and your Arduino definitely can handle that at 50 frames a second. So this will actually work. I'll be able to show you this as a proper demo if you drop by a makespace tent later. I'm not going to try and do it now, partly because it doesn't have the right firmware actually loaded into the microcontroller. But the premise is that other than the Arduino and the camera, this is what you get if you make a basepot. So this is all open source, all of the schematics for it are on GitHub. It's not as well documented as it should be. Shock. An open source project not documented well. I can see your looks of utter amazement at this point. This is version 16. If you're contemplating designing a machine and using a 3D printer or a laser cutter to build it, be prepared for lots of iterations and a lot more time than you expected. I seriously thought this was going to be, you know, a couple of afternoons of playing around and why some motors in. There are some minor tweaks, but this is pretty much the finished article. Now, it takes about, I guess about half an hour to cut all the parts to one of these on a laser. So we have an HPC laser thing that's about the size of a small grand piano in makespace and it's one of the more powerful ones. It still takes half an hour to cut. Mostly because of all the holes. That may or may not have been a good design decision, but it's really handy when it comes to mounting things. And that's really the point of this design. It's the bare minimum you need to make your project mobile. It's agnostic to microcontrollers. It provides a large number of mounting points for other hardware. So in this case, I've put a camera on it. Maybe you have ultrasonic rangefinders, maybe GPS, Magnitometer, temperature sensors. So one of my test applications to this would be can you make something that will navigate autonomously around a room, take temperature readings and tweet them so that software on a server can build up a temperature map of your space, for example. It's a sort of thing you could only do once you can make your project mobile. Simply wouldn't be possible otherwise. Speaking of mobile, we could be all about to go on a magical mystery adventure in approximately that direction. If it happens, please try to keep the screaming to a minimum. I have a headache. So, to be honest, that is actually the salient point. The baseball is not complicated. What it is is a set of laser-cut platters. It uses continuous rotation servos, and the advantage of these are you don't have to worry about power electronics. Typically, if you take, say, a 6 or 12 volt motor and you want to interface it to a microcontroller, you have to go through some intermediary. You can't simply plug the motor into an output pin of your microcontroller. It will either fry it or not work or both. Most probably both, if you're unlucky. So, typically, you use what's called an H-bridge, or a specific motor driver chip with a heat sink, and that's another thing you have to mount and source. You can get these things from eBay, dirt cheap from the Far East, but are you going to be able to get them the same next week? You don't know. A servo, of course, traditionally would be a rotating armature that moves between a range depending on the pulse width that you feed it. But the key point is that the input to it is digital. And it's a logic-level digital specifically. So, you provide power to the servo, but then your microcontroller can talk directly to it. There's no other circuitry required. So, when I say that all you have to add to the baseboard is a microcontroller, I do literally mean that. It's got the power conditioning. It's got the motors. Typical cost to build one, well, it's going to depend on what battery you pick. This is a nickel metal hydride pack. It's using reasonably nice continuous rotation servos, and this version probably is about £35. If you go all out on saving costs, you can probably pull that down to £25. So, it's getting to the point where, for a class, you could give it to children rather than having it as something only the teacher gets to talk at. For those interested in swarm robotics, which I am, personally, for one thing, if this is new to you, I thoroughly recommend looking on Corsera for the control theory course from Georgia Tech, where they will do, amongst other things, show you how to do puzzle-solving across 12 robots. Of course, for that, you need 12 robots, and if you go and buy commercial ones, then suddenly you need to sell your car. If you build these, okay, 12 of these will cost you a fair bit, but not that much. If you're a hackspace, you can certainly make 12 of them. It's never going to be zero cost, but it's going to be as cheap as possible, and that's the general idea of this. It has a website. It has a blog, which I don't post to nearly enough. It has a Twitter account, because everything has a Twitter account. It has a wiki, and the wiki is currently deserted in a barren wasteland of emptiness. Just sad. What I'm hoping to get from being here at EMF, as well as the random drunken conversations at two in the morning with crazy Dutch people, although I happened to have camped next to you by accident, and discovering new cocktails and accidentally electrocuting myself in the retro gaming tent again, is to find some people who might be interested in taking this to the next stage. So there are really two problems that need solving, one of which is production distribution. At the moment, you can't buy one of these things. You could go and buy the parts, you could go and cut the plasters on a laser, but I'm not getting into the business of producing this. I already have a day job, which is taking about 800% of my time. I play six instruments, and yeah, I don't have time to create another company that won't work. I've done that twice. However, if we have some... I know that phenoptics are lurking around somewhere. I wouldn't recognise them visually, so maybe here. Any small companies that can laser cut parts and sell them on at some approximation cost would be fantastic. But the other thing is content. I'm happy hacking with this and picking up my random modules I bought from China and chucking them with an Arduino and things, but it would be great if we could develop some lesson plans at one extreme or just general guidelines at the other. The activity range we reckon for this varies from six-year-olds where you build a shell and you paint it. You can decorate, so you've got the artistic element to that. Ride up to degree-level control theory and swarm robotics and collaborative applications with quite advanced sensing.  It's a platform you can build on, but it could be. What's missing now is the content that is necessary. If you're a teacher and you say, well, great, this looks fantastic, what do I do with my class? At the moment, there's this big hole. And you go like, well, you could build some and that's quite interesting in itself in some ways. But then, okay, what problems do you solve with them? What do you do? What are you trying to teach? What level is appropriate to what? I'm not a teacher. I'm an ex-academic. I'm a freelance software engineer. I'm a general tinkerer and hacker. But one thing I don't know how to do is teach aturals. Someone who actually teaches aturals regularly, they'd probably be in a better position to do this than I am. So that empty wiki of desolation and loneliness, I would absolutely love for that to be populated with people with interesting ideas. We can make sure that anyone who wants to do this gets a baseboard at some nominal cost to cover the part so we can cut the laser bits. No problem. So yeah, just kind of... Well, some more people on board at this point. It works. At the moment, all it will do is run across the stage and fall off, but I can get it to do that. Just to show you it's not actually totally fakes. It's reasonably quick, and it will actually... So it's quite tough. If it actually has enough traction, it would happily run over that cable there, for example. It runs on short grass, which I didn't expect. One of the other aspects, of course, of it being a laser cut design, is you're designing in two dimensions. That's a lot easier than designing in three. So if someone could find a laser cutter, and I believe there are some around here, download the DXF files for this, or inkscape SVG, and modify the wheel so that it's a toothed wheel rather than one with a plumber's o-ring on. Instantly, plumber's o-rings, packs of 20 for about £4. Model car tyres, packs of two for about 10. There's a reason I'm using o-rings. Yeah, and the casters are from Bulgaria. I don't know. If you can find somewhere that isn't Bulgaria to buy very small casters, you talk to me. I don't know why they come from there. They just do. Yeah, so, have a play. I've got the parts, which I can't, as I said, 2.30 this morning, to make another two of these in a highly-fetching purple and a rather unpleasant orange colour. Apologies to our Dutch friends. And the, yeah, if you would like to help make these, programme them, hack them, have a play, drop along to the makespace tent. I can't guarantee that I'll be there at any given point, but someone there will be able to find me. See you. Thank you for coming. How are we time-wise? Any questions? That man I definitely don't know and haven't planned to answer questions. I could if I brought my laptop, because at the moment the firmware in that is just to test the motors and so it just runs from full power forwards. I will put the firmware back on that I used to the demo at the Cambridge Science Centre the other day where I taught it to follow people's shoes by colour. So there's video up on, if you navigate the links properly. Oh sorry, I should have said. The website is basepot.org. Should hopefully be findable. And everything's linked from there. Yes, we had it chasing. This little girl was very taken by it because the camera does colour recognition. So she had particularly unpleasant pink crocs on. So the robot was chasing her around the room in quite a sedate fashion, but because it was running an incredibly naive control algorithm, it was just jittering rounds all over the place. No PID stuff in there. Yeah, sure. I haven't tested that, but it is pretty solid. The intent was to make something that went a bit over and beyond the very basic kits you can get. I mean it's a fairly crowded space to wheel robots with casters, right? Most of them, however, are either much more expensive or they're very hard to customise. So this was always intended that you could mount a lot of kit on it. I actually mean to meet up with the Phenoptics guys because they have a robot arm kit, which again is laser cut acrylic and which should fit perfectly on the front of this. That could be quite fun. Depends a bit on the motors you pick because there's a... Continuous rotation servers aren't all equal in terms of their power and their torque. These particular ones are factory... So they're not hacked ones. I've got ones which I got from eBay which are TowerPro MG95s or something which have been hacked. They are really high torque. They drift because it's a hack that they're not actually that great. But when they're running they will drive that thing. I mean you can't stop it. You can push it down so it spins its wheels but you can't stop them actually moving. I reckon you... I mean some kilos I don't... Well, that's of... That particular battery is... I don't know if I have another one lying around somewhere. Yeah, so I rather doubt that those motors are drawing more than an amp between them. So I mean one and a half hours basically. I mean obviously you've got to drive the electronics but that's a relatively low current application. These packs are reasonably expensive. They're one of the parts that I would swap out. What I'd actually suggest people used were six packs of AA NIMH cells. So the NIMH rather than lithium polymer because they're much more tolerant to damage and abuse. So if you're talking about something that you're going to give to kids having a battery technology that has tendency to explode if maltreated is bad these things you can discharge them you can trickle charge them it doesn't matter. They're more expensive they're heavier and they're less good but they have desirable properties. But you could run this off regular AA cells. I mean you know there's it's nothing particularly esoteric about it. I just like these because they're rechargeable than a small. Yeah, so it includes the so if you have a look at it there's quite a lot of things like there are metal spacers to hold it so it's one of the reasons it's a strong design. Three mill acrylic is intrinsically very strong. It's sandwiched so it's basically braced with hex PCB spacers and M3 hardware to link those together. The spacers are actually one of the more expensive parts. You could try and replace those with something flimsier but it would be a flimsier design. The cheapest I've seen the continuous rotation servos are about four dollars. These ones are more like 12. The batteries this I think was 12 pounds and you could clearly do a lot less than that. So the figure I quoted was for that one. I reckon you could get it down to about 25 quid. Especially if you're buying in large numbers. So I'm not selling it at all at the moment. As I said, your best bet is to find a friendly laser cutter equipped hex base. What I'm hoping, my ideal outcome would be that someone turns up and goes we've got an existing business where we sell laser cut parts. We'll sell these for you. You can go to Github and get the SVG files. What you end up with. This is the number of parts for two of them. So there's quite a lot.  The top color mounts and the the plasters. So that's a pair. This is why it takes a while to cut. Obviously separate out by color and the white parts will make too. Sorry, you certainly could. You could clearly make your own spaces. It's actually quite fiddly. It will take you a while to make 20, 30 mil spaces. If you have a pillar drill for it and you tap them. You could clearly do it. They're not so expensive that it bothered me. Also, by making them out of metal it makes it much more robust for being dismantled and put back together again. I think we've got the out of time by masses. Come and talk to us at makespace. Cambridge makespace is on the map. Sorry for overrunning. Thank you again for coming.


On to our play, Act I of Thirteen Room Adelaide, starring Robert Montgomery as Bob Sharkey, Lloyd Nolan as Gibson, Richard Conte as Bill O'Connell, and Vanessa Brown as Suzanne. Not until Pearl Harbor did the United States fully realize how frighteningly effective had been the espionage machines of Japan and Germany. Shortly after this disaster, we established a secret espionage service, the first in our history. As the man most capable of organizing the United States Intelligence Corps, an attorney from St. Louis was selected, Charles S. Gibson. I accepted the appointment largely because of the men who would be working with me. Men like Robert Emmett Sharkey of St. Paul, Minnesota. Master of five languages, Robert Sharkey was twice captured by the Germans in World War I, escaping each time with a brilliant record of achievement behind enemy lines. Starting in 1942 with Sharkey's help, we trained and sent overseas 76 groups of agents. Then came Group 77, each a member of volunteer for hazardous duties behind enemy lines. In the group were men like Papi Simpson. George T. Simpson, age 47, British Intelligence Office, World War I. Twelve years, Professor of English Literature, Dartmouth College. The majority were much younger, take Jeff Lasseter, for instance. John and Byrne, Switzerland, 1920, Son of the United States Council. Educated at Geneva and Oxford, recruited from officers training school, can speak French law. There were three women in Group 77. One was Suzanne de Beaumont. I am a citizen of France. I found myself stranded in the United States when my country came under the Nazi domination in 1940. My husband is a captain of the artillery in the French Army. I have had no word of him in over four years. There was Bill O'Connell, graduate Rutgers University. Eight years in the Foreign Department, Washington, National Bank. Was in Europe two years prior to Hitler's march in Napoleon. He returned to New York in 1939. Twenty-two of them all told, and their training commenced in one of those secluded country estates not far from Washington. The day they arrived, I got together with Robert Sharkey. Well, they looked all right to me, Gibb. How much time will I have with them? Three months in Dr. Nation. Two weeks practical exercises. I wish I could make it longer, but I can't. I'll be ready. Oh, one of your pupils speaks German. Good. He can speak German because he's a German agent. A German agent? Mm-hmm. Here? You're sure? Yes. Man or woman? Well, I want you to find that out for yourself. Let me know when you think you've spotted them. Is that all? That's all. For now. Thanks. Well, I'll get to work. May I have your attention, ladies and gentlemen? You all know why you're here. First, I must remind you that everything you learn, everything you do is secret. Not even your closest relative can know you're an agent of Group 77. Maybe no one will ever know. That's not important.  You'll have a lot to remember and a couple of things to forget. Forget the rules. Forget sportsmanship. No secret agent is a hero or a good sport. That is no living agent. You're going to be taught to kill, to cheat, to lie, and everything you learn is directed toward one objective, just one. The success of your mission. Fair play is out. Years of decency and honest living. Forget all that or get out now because the enemy can forget and has forgotten. I'll be with you every inch of the way. All the way. Good luck to you. All right, sergeants, show them to their quarters. This was a superior group, but only superiority could absorb the intense schedule Sharky put them through. Communications, photography, the use of knives, guns, poisons, map maids, cryptography, judo, sketching, meteorology. You're going to hear some sound effects. Identify the sound and write it down. All right, proceed. A freight train or 155-millimeter shell passing overhead. All right, next, next. Write your answer. A door latch with a cocking of a .45 caliber pistol. Come on, next, next. What was it? A jungle bird or a falling bomb. Part of your training during the past few weeks has been in pairs. It's important to learn which of you can work together best. You're to be sent out now in pairs for practical tests in espionage. The following teams will report to my office in 20 minutes. J.L. Sheffield and Suzanne de Beaumont. Albert Fremont and Harry Gluck. William O'Connell and Jeff Lasseter. Yes? Lasseter and O'Connell are here, sir, for instructions. Send them in. O'Connell and Lasseter, you two have lived together. You ought to be able to work together. I think so, sir. O'Connell here is the best. Thanks, Jeff. That goes for me, too. Well, as long as you're so happy about each other, suppose you tell me what this is. This apparatus on the table. A torpedo detonator? Yeah. Here's your assignment. Go to a plant that makes this detonator. Get jobs there. Find out what its specific advantages are over the old type. Get all secret data possible. That means blueprints, drawings or photographs. Any questions? Yes, sir. I really go to the submarine base at Portsmouth or the one in New London. Take your choice, O'Connell. They're both very well guarded, but that shouldn't pose any great difficulty for a couple of bright boys like you. Uh, how much time will we have, sir? Why me when you've gotten jobs? After that, you'll have 72 hours. 72 hours? You heard me. Get going. Yes? Mr. Sharky to see you, Mr. Gibson. Oh, send them in. I thought I'd let you know that 77's back from their fieldwork. How'd they do? Okay. I had to tear a couple of them out of the arms of the FBI. But the average is good. Well, who gets the gold star? Lasseter and O'Connell. Five beautiful pictures of the torpedo detonator in New London. Yeah. Hey, that's excellent work, Bob. Yeah. Too good. Too good. The man who helped get these pictures is the German agent. William O'Connell. What makes you so sure? Am I right? Yes, you're right. How'd you figure it? Well, he stood at the head of his class all the way. That was the lead. It's simply a case of doing everything perfectly too many times. He's too quick for a beginner. Yesterday at the submarine base, Lasseter went into a torpedo shed between shifts and got these pictures. O'Connell stood watch outside, but there was a guard in the shed and Lasseter got caught. O'Connell saw what had happened and came in. Now an American would have slugged the guard, not O'Connell. Instead, he posed as a security agent and slugged Lasseter and graduated the guard and went off with his prisoner. Ten minutes later, they were on a train. What's all there in the report? O'Connell's real name is Kunsel. Kunsel? Well, when are you going to pick him up? We're not going to pick him up. You must never know he's suspected. He's after something big, Bob, or it wouldn't be Kunsel. Information on our organization? Oh, it's bigger than that. The second front? Yeah. That's my guess. Where and when? Oh, how they'd love to know that. Now, our jobs are ranging for Kunsel to get information. The wrong information. And our plan must also provide a logical way for him to escape with dealing with a very smart operator. And when do we start? Tomorrow. You and I and Group 77 are leaving for London tomorrow. War racked and battle weary, London was still the hub of all Allied intelligence operations. The top secret groups like 77 were billeted in the remote countryside and held in complete isolation while awaiting specific assignments across the channel. Assignments like the one that Robert Sharkey laid in the lap of his star pupil, William O'Connell. There's no doubt about it, Bill. You see, I've checked up on what you've told me. Yes, you know Holland all right. Well, I lived in Holland long enough. All of a sudden, Holland's become a pretty hot spot on our maps. I'm sorry, I'm not right to ask questions. Yes. Yes, I think it may be Holland, except what I think doesn't count. We just obey orders. I need help. You want a job? I didn't go through all that training to become an English country gentleman. Pack your gear, you're going back to London. You're to live and work there in tight security. That security begins now. Clear? Clear. No goodbyes, nothing. And not a word to anyone about what I've mentioned. I understand. I think you'll like it. Anyway, we pull out of here the first thing in the morning. Thank you, sir. So did William O'Connell suddenly drop from sight as far as his fellow members of Group 77 were concerned. From the head of the Dutch intelligence, O'Connell learned every phase of a proposed Allied invasion through Holland. Meanwhile, in another section of London, Robert Scharke has called in two other agents, Jeff Lasseter and Suzanne de Beaumont. You're late, Suzanne. When I say zero, six hundred, I mean zero, six hundred. I stopped by the communication section. Why? They've been trying to help me locate my husband. Your husband's whereabouts are not the slightest concern of Group 77. Do you understand that? Yes. I understand. You know the rules. All right now. Assignments have come through for the two of you here. Take a look at these photographs. Hitler's secret weapon except it's no longer a secret. New kind of bomb? And what a bomb? It's called a V-2. A self-propelled pilotless bomb with a warhead said to contain a ton of explosives. Now look at these pictures. These are launching platforms for the V-2. For months they've been springing up along the French coast. Faster than others than our planes can knock them out. Why haven't the Germans used them yet? We think we know why. The enemy knows there's going to be a second front. They don't know where or when, but they do know the invasion base is in the Southampton area. When they launch V-2, it's going to be a sustained barrage smothering Southampton. When do you think they will stop? As soon as General Eisenhower makes his move. The Nazis know they can't win the war. They're just hoping for a stalemate. And to achieve a stalemate, they've got to prevent an invasion. While our job to try and help the Allied high command gain the preciously needed time to complete the invasion buildup. Lasseter, you're going to France. Yes, sir. You're going with him, Suzanne. You'll be his radio communicator. Yes, sir. Ah, let's get back to this map. The most closely guarded area in all France is right here. This is the main assembly area of V-2. But to destroy this target, we have to know every detail of its construction. Even the French underground has not been able to get this for us, so we're stymied. Thoroughly stymied. Except for one vitally important fleet. Now forget the map and look at this photograph. This face. This name. Marcel Ducroix. A very important man to the Germans. Burn that face into your memory because the destruction of the target is linked to that one man. Marcel Ducroix. And what's Ducroix's connection with V-2? He, a Frenchman, designed and built the bomb depot. We must take Ducroix and take him alive. How about some coffee, Suzanne? No, thank you, Jeff. If I am to be your communicator, I'd better spend some time with the receiving officer. It will help them become familiar with my torch. Yeah, I guess you're right. Someday, maybe we will have time for coffee. Excuse me, please. Mr. Stimson. Oh, a matter of the bomb off. I hate to keep troubling you. No, it's no trouble. There's still no word of your husband. Thank you. However, we have contacted an agent in the Harbour area. He'll be informed as soon as we hear. Mr. Scharke's order. Mr. Scharke? Oh, thank you. Thank you. Good morning, Jeff. Oh, close the door, will you? Yes, sir. I understand you met your friend, Bill O'Connell, this afternoon at the canteen. I was glad to see him. But I didn't know what had happened to him. What'd you talk about, Jeff? Backgammon, mostly. Backgammon? We used to play all the time back in Washington. I owe him $12 million. Oh, I see. Did he mention what he's been working on? No, sir, he didn't. He did say he wished I'd be going with him. How do you feel about that? Well, I wish I were too. You mentioned your assignment to him? No, sir, of course not. I'll take it easy. I'm not accusing you. O'Connell is an agent of the German government. He is? His real name is Kunzel. He's a clever, thoroughly trained German secret agent. But you're kidding. No, I'm not kidding. I can't believe it. Anyway, O'Connell has been assigned to Holland. That's the clincher to all the phony information we have purposely allowed him to obtain. Holland? Yes, the invasion of Holland. That's the lie we're trying to sell to the German high command. And Kunzel, alias O'Connell, is the salesman. Hold on. Where do I come in? Kunzel has asked for you. We're going to send you with him. Well, what about Dukla? That's still your mission. Only you'll go to France by way of Holland. How? You'll be parachuted into Rotterdam along with O'Connell. You'll contact a man there named Wulfer Bachmann in the Department of Public Works. Bachmann will see that you and Suzanne get through safely to France. Suzanne? Yes, you'll be on your way within 48 hours. Now comes the rugged part. Yes, sir. We think O'Connell is sold. If we're right, he'll disappear as soon as you're in Rotterdam and you'll never see him again. Could he know anything about Dukla?  Not unless he gets it from you and Suzanne. He won't. Never, never forget that you're dealing with an extremely clever man. Drop your guard for one minute and we'll have failed and you may be dead. Yes, sir. He thinks fast, Jeff. He's ruthless. That's why we're going to do this his way. His way? What's that? If O'Connell is not sold, if he should in any way suspect that you're on a double mission, he won't disappear. Instead, he'll try to follow you. And you will shoot him. Shoot him? Make sure it's for keeps. That's, uh, that's rough. That's war and that's your mission. O'Connell could do it. Can you? Yeah, I... I can do it. Thanks, Jeff. That's all for now. Did I check your parachute, Suzanne? You too, Jeff. The pilot says we'll be over-rotted there in ten minutes. Okay. Suzanne, I want to tell you how sorry I am about your husband. Thank you.  If it had to come, I'm glad it came then. There will not be time to cry about it now. Yeah. Maybe it's just as well you're not going back to France. Philip, you do not mind. I'm sorry. We're approaching the target. It's got about three minutes. Thanks. Well, Jeff, this is what we used to talk about back in Washington. Our first jump into enemy territory. Yeah.  Yeah. You know something? What? I don't believe you. What's the matter with you? Nothing. Sure there is. You've been looking at me like I was in a test tube. Sorry, I guess I'm just a little nervous. Yeah. That's 12 million bucks, you want me, Jeff? I'm wiping it off the books. Your heart's 12 million anyway. I'd never have time to spend it. We're even, Jeff, we'll start from scratch. Running in. Not clear the jump hole. First miss? Yes. I'm first. Lasseter's next and I'm last. Already, miss. Good luck. Thank you. See you below. Jump. The Rotterdam plane to Beaumont and O'Connell dropped over target. Lasseter's parachute failed to open. Static cord deliberately cut. Believe O'Connell responsible. Get me Mr. Gibson on the phone immediately. An act two of 13 room ad... Here's Mr. Keely at the microphone. Act three of 13 room Adelaide starring Robert Montgomery as Bob Scharke, Lloyd Nolan as Gibson, Richard Conte as Colonel Quintzel and Vanessa Brown as Suzanne. City of La Havre. The Gestapo headquarters for the heavily fortified coastal area was located at 13 room Adelaide. That evening, shortly before seven o'clock, a staff car and a truckload of soldiers roared out of 13 room Adelaide and headed down the road for Pont Levec. In the staff car, as we subsequently learned, was Colonel Conte. Meanwhile, in Pont Levec... Look at them, Captain Freighter.  Those fools.  I told them time and again they must never assemble. But why haven't your soldiers come? You called them 10 minutes ago. That phone call I made. That was not to the hotel. Not to the hotel. Colonel Conte is on his way here. He's greatly interested in your town, Mayor Gallimard. Listen to them. They blame me because I have tried to help you bring some order to this town. I must be protected. The troops are not to leave the hotel because this is... The people know why that man came here from Vici. That Mr. Chavar. I have already built this town for workmen. You know I have. Where is he now? Chavar. He has disappeared. They've killed him. Just as they've killed me. Here you see. They're throwing rocks at me. Guns. They've got guns. Now we'll do something. Mr. Captain Freighter, get me the hotel model. I will talk to the people. Go back to your houses. You are breaking me long. There will be trouble. You must go back to your houses.  Where has he gone? I do not know, Captain Freighter. I thought you were the city hall, Captain. Who are you? Me, Captain. The night porter. Where's the desk block? Where's the elevator, Freighter? What are you doing in the elevator? The service was overshadowed a little while ago. It gives me a chance to clean the elevator. Get out of there. But if the clerk is gone, who is going to pay me my wages? I don't know. Come back later. I need my wages. I'm going to pull mine to get out of the elevator. No. I will not leave until you give me my wages. Get up before I... Monsieur. All clear. Monsieur. Pick up your knife. You may need it again. Yes, Monsieur. The desk clerk and the sergeant. I've taken care of them. Who else might be here? The night detail. From the third floor, perhaps, eight of them. Ducroix? I found you, Monsieur. Second floor room details. Marcel Ducroix? What is it? Who are you? Come with me. Who are you? Why do you put a gun at me? The resistance has taken over the town. You'll be better off with me. To the guards. The soldiers have gone to the city hall as a riot. Come on, Ducroix.  Very pleasant in the moonlight. There, they've even put the vacant ten minutes. Whatever's going on in that town, Major, is more than a mere outbreak of the French resistance. Somehow it's all tied in with... Stop the car. Colonel Conso, wait a minute. Turn out your headlights. Signal that truck to stop. Yes, Herr Colonel. Major, don't you hear anything? A plane. By one plane, no, I don't think so. It's a flashlight. I look below there in that valley. They're signaling to the plane. That's an 077 landing operation, Major. The plane is either landing someone, which I doubt exceedingly, or picking someone up. Get back in the car and rush for that field. We're coming in, 077. We're coming in. Wind 90 degrees. Velocity two zero. Wind 90 degrees. I'll pick up already. Everything is ready. On the field. There may be troubles.  One may be a full truck. They extinguish their lights. All right? Here we come.   Hurry, get him out there. The plane's landing. Where are you going? I'm taking Emil's car. I can block the road for a little while anyway.  Cut across the field. Is this an interrogation? Well, then go faster. Turn on your lights. It doesn't matter now. We'll make it all right. A hand could have been there on the field. Five or six only.  Don't slow down. You were knocked out for a moment. The plane got away? Yes, but if there's some way of contacting the house, perhaps they could intercept the plane. Where's the car that crashed into us? We'll find the driver of that car. Look through every foot of this. Look out! Look out! I got him. Over there in the barge.  I'm conscious. He must not die. Corporal Gwinterpontlevec can get a doctor at once. Yes, Colonel. It's not a bad wound. He will live. Then all our luck didn't deserve us tonight. This man with persuasion will tell us everything we want to know. This man is Robert Scharke. Scharke? Then who was in that plane? My guess would be Marcel Dupois. We'll soon know. One minute. Tough break, Scharke. Always so sure of yourself. Marcel Dupois was delivered to my office some time after midnight. We were waiting for him. Air corps officers and intelligence. Once Dupois realized he wasn't going to be tortured and killed, he gave us a whole story. Just one more question, Dupois. Look at the map. This area is a grain field. How far is it exactly from the river to the depot? No guess, Dupois. If you don't know, say so. If I don't know, Monsieur, I am an engineer from the river to the depot, 12 kilometers point 27. That's all we need to know, Mr. Gibson. Take him out, Captain. French intelligence wants him upstairs. Well, Gibson, we know now where the V2 depot is. Every detail of its construction. You can be very proud of your organization. I want to thank you for your cooperation. Right. Now, it's our job. Good night. Good night. Good night, Mr. Gibson. Oh, yes, Simpson. Come inside, please. Communications and contact with Susanne de Beaumont. Get Susanne all right. Listen. Have not much time. Sharky taken alive to Gestapo headquarters. The hall. Sharky ordered me out. I could not make it. Soldiers surrounded farmhouse can hear them. Sorry. I will not be taken alive. Question, Sharky. That's all. Just two questions. Where's the invasion coming? When? Sorry, console. I don't know. I'm sorry, too. Sorry you make it necessary to go to these ends. But believe me, we've only started. I believe you. But I can't tell you what I don't know. You do know. We'll continue to use any means we can to make you talk.  Don't stop, Sergeant. You see, Sharky, we'll make you tell. A man can take so much punishment. Remember what you taught me? Fair play, years of decency. That's out. You've done your job. Now I'll do mine. Where will the invasion take place? Have you got a map? Let him go, Sergeant. Over here, Sharky. Where on the map? Where? Right here. Spike the Colonel, will you? Stop it.  We'll try again later. We didn't know then what was happening to Sharky, but we could imagine. Poor Suzanne. She at least was dead. But Sharky, we planned the one move. The one move that should help. At ease, men. You pilots have been assembled for a more special mission. Your target is there on the wall. One city, the half. One street in that city. One building on that street. Thirteen room eddling. Take a good look. The landmarks are well defined. The bay, surrounding hills. Take a good look and remember it. This has got to be a job of total destruction. Not a wall left standing. No one must escape from that house alive. No one. You're going for squadrons. Two dropping high explosives, followed by two squadrons at minimum intervals to smother the entire target with rockets and machine gun fire. You've been given the route of approach. Time over target, zero three hundred. Bombers will go in at zero feet. I know. I know it's tough. Any questions? Well, Colonel, I think we'd kind of like to know who's in that house. Gary, maybe? Hitler or who? I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to answer that. Well, perhaps in a way I can. Gibson, I know that this is a tough assignment. You'll be risking your life. That house is the headquarters of the German Gestapo in Lahore. Now, that's an important reason for destroying it, but it's not the only reason. There's an American agent in that house. He knows the when and where of our invasion of the counter. Now, if he talks, it may cost the lives of countless soldiers. Right now, he's suffering the cruelest torches that Germans can devise, but he won't talk. Not as long as he can stand punishment. But no human body can stand it too long. Not even this wonderful tough guy from Minnesota. So I'm asking you to kill my friend as soon as you can. If you're ready, man, we'll synchronize our watches. Talk, Sharky. Sharky, are you ready to talk? No. The air raid, sir Colonel. Do you think... Keep beating him. Those planes and bothers here, they'll be heading to the waterfront. The enemy's been hit, sir Colonel. Tonight, sir. Make him talk. Make him talk! You're too late, Colonel. You're too late. Flight commander to Gibson. Flight commander to Gibson. This is Gibson. Go ahead. Target obliterated. Target obliterated. That's all, Simpson. Why don't you go to bed now, sir? You haven't slept at all. Yes. Yes, I think I will. Oh. Take a message to Washington, please. No, no, you don't have to write it down. Just say mission completed. The curtain falls on 13 Room Madeleine and in a moment we'll call our four stars to the footlights for a curtain call. A thrilling play like 13 Room Madeleine is always enhanced by brilliant acting. And that's what we had tonight from Bob Montgomery, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, and Vanessa Brown, who returned to the footlights for a curtain call.  Well, I hope you mean that better than it sounds, Bill. I mean as an actor who directs and stars in his own picture. Well, having acted in the first film that Bob directed, I can say that he's as capable behind the camera as he is in front of it. I've always wondered, just how does an actor direct himself? Well, first of all, you do the best you can in front of the camera. And then you step behind it and bore yourself out. I see you've had experience with directors, Vanessa. Don't you ever talk back to yourself, Bob, on the set that is? Well, when I'm out in front of the camera, I don't dare affront the guy who's fronting for myself behind the camera. But when I move from behind the camera to the front, wait a minute, where am I? Sounds like you were on a merry-go-round. Well, that's more or less so if Bob's talking about his latest universal international picture, Ride a Pink Horse, which takes its title from a carousel. Thanks for getting me out of that confusion, Bill. I trust, Vanessa, there are no such confusing problems in your current picture, Foxes of Harrow. Oh, what kind of foxes are those, Vanessa? 20th century foxes, foxes. Well, Halle Ho, I'll join the hunt for the nearest theater where it's playing. But tell us, Bill, what's coming up for next week? Next Monday night, we bring our audience a fresh, unusual screenplay that's achieved worldwide acclaim. Universal international's delightful drama, Stairway to Heaven, and our stars are Ray Merland, Anne Blythe, and Nigel Bruce. Stairway to Heaven is a tender story of a British pilot in love with a young American girl who fights for the right to live and love against the adverse powers of another world. That was one of the most original screenplays of the season, Bill. Your audience is lucky. Good night, Bill. Good night, and thanks for the visit to Rue Madeline. Leave a brother's company, and the makers of Lux Flakes join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening, when the Lux Radio Theater presents Ray Merland, Anne Blythe, and Nigel Bruce in Stairway to Heaven. This is William Keely saying good night to you from Hollywood.


Hey friends tonight, we are hanging out at the greatest carnival on the planet right here in Orlando, Florida I am so excited. This is the central Florida fair and we are gonna ride some rides play some games and eat some carnival food So let's go do this They have so many different rides that I can see that I'm already a big fan of Including this little tiny can of Peeler like roller coaster You got to have the big ferris wheel the zipper and we're gonna have some haunted houses in here I love a carnival season and this is the perfect weather for a nice little fair day Because it is 2021 there are COVID-19 Safety warnings and safety rules plus sanitizer dispensed throughout the whole entire park Of course, we're gonna be having our mask on why we ride and walk around in the common areas And I think it's just gonna be a fun day. I'm luckily for us today is $2 Tuesday and $25 wristbands for unlimited rides. You know, we got to get the wristband. That's some fancy stuff right there Luckily, I'm gonna have a fair buddy today. Yeah, we're gonna have rides to ride and play some games Jackie Super Enthusiast you've got the wristband too, right? Yeah. Yeah Oh First ride has to be the wacky warm. Oh, there it goes.   Look at this This is gonna be a great night. I am so pumped Got a sanitize on our way out But a bing but a boom the wacky warms felt like an appropriate way to start off the day now I'm ready to enjoy all of the other festivities including like the haunted houses and like the Mirror houses those ones are always my favorite. You know how I get with these things Win or lose hit or miss Once for Goldilocks, huh? How much is it a play? Okay, you know what I'll take five bucks five bucks right here one dart one I'm gonna try not to miss it, but I'm gonna shoot it one-handed What did we get No A Very I have a Nemo. Hey, if you did it one more time though, I'd make it bigger for you We go large. Oh, I just want a Nemo. That's it. Yeah Nemo Nemo went out to see Nemo went out to see or Nemo went to the haunted this looks so much fun. Let's do it. You want to do this one? Oh, yeah, is that the haunted dance?  Thank you It's like a magic band don't get spooked I'm gonna scare Jackie Fun it's like a good level of cheesy fun. It's just something that I love It's just my favorite thing about fairs. I don't know why It's always I love it Yeah, let's fight about it Looks like our next stop is gonna be the magic maze this looks so fun Oh, and I like the music too. I'm loving how they have all the sanitize stations as well So we can get all sanitized before we go in Hello, sir We're going in the magic maze gonna watch Jackie go through first she already looks lost You ready You've got this Oh There's only one way down from up here looks like I'm going down this slide. Oh Boy, I feel like I might rock out of this slide. Oh, geez. All right. Oh, I can't even fit up. There we go. Oh, oh, boy Oh Boy Wow, you were much more graceful than I was much more graceful Now that we've officially completed the magic maze I think we're gonna go on a spin on the super cyclone. Doesn't that sound fancy super cyclone? Look at this bad boy. That's super cyclone Coming in the station. Oh boy Cyclone coming up Look at that sunset though. Oh boy. Here we go. Holy moly much fun. Oh my lord my hat is all messed up now Other than all the fun rides we've been actually riding they have tons of great food Which we will definitely be getting stuff to eat later on and they also have some like live entertainment and shows And if pirates aren't your thing, maybe a little BMXing is they have KTS action sports This looks like a lot of fun. They have a lot of good offerings for this fair Obviously you have to be very careful when doing like chunks like that So always wear a helmet because you know, you never want to slip and fall and they're really good though They're actually hitting the jumps and it's a good show But if you really want a good show or just a good time only cost a dollar to open the door One dollar Is all it takes Are you ready? Hey No problem, Pappy the sunset is so beautiful at the moment I think we might actually just hop on the Ferris wheel because this is amazing Look at that view Our carnival is not going to be complete without going on a Ferris wheel and especially during the sunset With all the lights turning on this is going to be so pretty During the duration of the ride Enjoy the view Here we go This is going to be beautiful How you liking all this music Look at that look at all of the fairgrounds Everything's all lit up and beautiful you can see Orlando from over here This is beautiful And just take a look at that sunset happening This is why we wanted to ride this Jackie's a little bit afraid of heights You got to be strong We're at the top kid Look at that. Oh boy, this music is perfect. Yes disgrace kicking your channel over the place singing That was totally worth it so fun to be up there during the sunset in that golden hour Now I think we're getting a little bit hungry.  Are you ready? You ready to get down? Choose your vehicle Oh, what are you going over here? Huh, I'm gonna go with the purple one. I don't think Jackie knows What I'm gunning for Yep, I'm going in the right. All right. I'm gonna pick up some speed. Here we go Oh boy, I got someone chasing me Look, she's going that way. I'm gonna try to get I'm gonna try to cut her off I'm gonna try to skim right through here. Oh, no that way Right through look at those skills. There she is I'm picking up some speed All right, I'm getting out. I'm gonna open her up a little bit. Here we go To go as fast as I wanted to on those bumper cars I mean, they were pretty good But I definitely like to open it up a little bit and then just ram into somebody I guess you really can't do that on a kid's ride though I think it's time that we actually get going. We need to check in to the zombie hotel Are you excited for the zombie hotel? I don't know man. Is this like are there reservations open you think right now? Yes, because I am the co-manager With satan? Yes. I'm the co-manager of the zombie hotel with satan In your wildest fantasies.  Let's see Thank you Feed me Time to go in now Look at these zombie kids all over the walls All right, I'm going in here Oh, is that to me?  I come you spin me right from baby right That kind of hurt Oh boy And you know, I have to get my sausage with onions and peppers whenever I come to the fair so we're going to get a Sausage with onions and peppers. They also sell bratwurst here, too How you doing man taking a sausage with onions and peppers? Look at this Two of them I also wanted to get myself a lemonade and I ordered just a lemonade and they gave me A wade shows and care So this is the carnival company that actually runs the central florida fairgrounds and it was 10 dollars So I felt like I was duped. I was duped, but I don't know how the lemonade is fresh squeezed lemonade That's good lemonade that is good lemonade Yep, I made lemonade Look at this stuff though. This is this is this is fair food right here Oh, I love the sausage and I love the peppers and onions and the french fries. I'm just going to dive right in That was one of the best sausages I've had in such a long time I didn't even get to talk about it much because I ate it so quick. Woop Helicopter ride coming in 25 bucks for a helicopter ride here. I think that's a good deal I think we need to take a trip to the beer garden to wash down that sausage It's nice to have a beer garden at a fair. I mean some fairs. They don't sell any alcohol or anything like that But an actual beer garden. I like the sound of that Here it is though. The good old beer garden Cheers to the beer garden This is such a fun night just sitting here drinking a beer listening to music and looking at all the lights of the fair I feel like I'm in a movie actually It does And now maybe a nighttime ride on the super cyclone This was probably my second favorite ride of the night other than the haunting because this is fun Actually, like there's a lift and a drop Really good stuff right here And there's still nobody actually waiting to ride. We're walking right on this is a great day for the fair $2 Tuesdays is amazing Yeah Gonna get load up in our safety seat Best we're moving I have to say these rides are quality made and we're ready. Here we go. Here we go.  We're taking a gap all this time leaving our hats on. Oh, yeah I'm holding it though. Look at all the fun things happening Oh, we're getting to the top now Oh, here comes the big drop. Oh boy. So we're spinning. We're going quick Thank you The super cyclone is one of my favorite rides here like I said I would eat like put it number two right behind the haunting But I think we're gonna finish up the night Maybe play some uh ring toss and then do a race down the super slide Can't have a great day at the fair without racing down the super slide with your best friend Five bucks for a whole bucket a whole bucket. Yep. I already bought it. Okay, so we're gonna play ring a bottle Yep, ring a bottle I did very bad. I'm gonna do even worse I Time to race down the super slide. Okay, grab your sack We're going all the way up.  Yeah, let's go And with that super slide a lot because Jackie beat me. I think we're done for today What a fun amazing day. We ran into Adam and Tim and it was just a fun day overall Just hanging out at the fair It was so funny because we didn't all plan to meet up here and then we ended up being here at the same time What a coincidence. So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time. Bye