1970s film about air pollution. Its causes, effects & possible solutions. (environment, pollution)
Environmental Activism: CU/MS group of enivonmental activists laying on the ground, lying still as if dead, some wearing gas masks, participationg in theatrical demonstration. Sirens in the distance.
Various shots of the landscape. Shots of ice flows & water. Ice breaking. VO talks about the greenhouse effect.
Ecologist Dr. Barry Commoner, MS he talks about greenhouse effect & pollution.
Montage of images demonstrating sources of air pollution: factories, aerial shots of large cities, VO talks about the effect on the environment.
MS of crowds of commuters coming up out of a subway station. MSs crowds of pedestrians walking down crowded urban street.
CU of a blue flame. Montage of images demonstrating different types of flames and combustables, VO talks about burning things polluting the air.
Low angle pan across large electrical sub-station. LS/GV factories with smokestacks.
MS of Ecologist Dr. Barry Commoner talking about the environment.
Montage of pollution makers including smoggy cities and factories. MS pans across a series of tubes & ducts at a factory.
MS cars piled on rack, being moved at junkyard. MS claw moving junked car. MSs piles of garbage. Series of MSs showing bulldozers moving trash into burn pile, huge flames incinerate the heaps of garbage.
LS large atomic (nuclear) power plant near the water. CUs of hands on dials inside the power plant. CU dancing orange/red light on monitor. LS exterior atomic power plant. CU solar flares shooting from the surface of the sun. GV/MS equipment inside the atomic power plant.
GV interiors of steel factory, sparks when molten metals are poured. Exterior GVs steel mill in California that produces almost no air pollution. MCU stack with on smoke. GV/MSs worker examining filters. Various shots showing dirt like partials collected in filters being poured into boxcars at the factory. MCU pan up smokeless stack.
MS Professor Ronald Mills in his laboratory talking about pollution control, removing fly ash from the atmosphere and recycling it into a useful material. MCU Professor Ronald Mills using an electron microscope. CU monotor of the electron microscope . CU Professor Ronald Mills holding a chunk of cement created from fly ash waste.
GV freight car full of coal moving into a factory. GV car full of coal being rotated and dumped, creating clouds of dust. CU science experiment were a small amount of coal dust is poured in a dish of water, trying to find a way to reduce industrial dust clouds. CU science experiment where coal dust is sprinkled into a flask containing a water/ detergant solution, the dust disapates. GV factory were coal cars are being sprayed with a a water/ detergant solution. GV rotating train car at factory.
MS residential street showing boy riding a bike and girl pulling a wagon.
GV/MSs of a bucket crane scooping and moving garbage from a huge dump pile. GV/MSs trash moving along convayor to be recycled.
CU hand holding recycled trash that will bemixed into asphalt. MSs men laying asphalt on a road.
MCU Pan across a grocery store shelf lined w/ plastic bottles. Cus scientific demonstration showing a method of breaking down plastic.
High angle LS industrial area. Low angle traveling MS of palm trees. Traveling MS back end of a car driving down the highway. MCU Motorcycle tires as it drives down the road. Tracking shot moving past cars breaking in traffic jam.
MS Ecologist Dr. Barry Commoner talks about pollution from cars.
MS gas guzzling traffic on the highway moving toward camera.
MS sandwichboard sign reading Test Vehicals Only . GV/MSs of university students arriving at race track with experimental cars they created, entering in the Clean Air Car Race . Various shots of a propaine fueled car named Miss Putiry . CU young woman talking about taking part in the event.
MSs very small experimental, low emitions cars being tested in Detroit Michigan. Tracking shots of these cars pulling out of lot and driving along road, cool shots. MSs man lifting opening trunk to reviel massive battery cell pack. MS closing trunk, three men get into car for a ride. Cu dashboard showing the Battery Volts gauge. GV the experimental car driving around test grounds.
Tracking shot of fuel cell powered motorcycle driving in the country (built by Union Carbide). CU fuel cell motor on the bike. Montage of shots showing the fuel cell powered motorcycle stopping next a gasoline powered bike, the riders size each other up and reve for green light positioning, the gas powered cycle takes off like a bat out of hell while the fuel cell powered motorcycle starts off the line like a moped. Tracking shot following fuel cell powered motorcycle driving and making a turn.
Ground level view as jet airplane gains speed on runway, moving toward camera, lift off and view of plane overhead.
CU light on the end of an endoscope. CU endoscope being placed in person's mouth. POV endoscope view as it moves down the throat. Endoscope view of the respiratory system inside the body. While the scope is inside the bronchial tube, we can see an asthma attack. (science, medicine, medical treatment)
Microscopic shot of a lung cancer cell dividing into four. Great shot. (microscope, disease)
MS/CU traditional / native clay sculptures.
DO NOT USE: Still Photos Windmills.
GV steam geysers tapped to produce geothermal energy. Exterior and interior LS/GV/MSs of thermal energy plant.
MS Ecologist Dr. Barry Commoner talking about the environment.
LS pan lake surrounded by trees.