" CLEAN WATERS " 1950s GENERAL ELECTRIC WATER POLLUTION & WATER TREATMENT INDUSTRIAL FILM 99124

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" CLEAN WATERS " 1950s GENERAL ELECTRIC WATER POLLUTION & WATER TREATMENT INDUSTRIAL FILM 99124

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This color educational film is about the importance of Clean Water brought to you by General Electric. This film was made to boost support for new plants to clean our water and keep it clean. There is no copyright at the beginning or end of the film so the date of the production is in the 1950s based on a statistic shown in the film.
A More Power to America Presentation CLEAN WATERS. Technical supervision by GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC) (:17-:44). Water flows, Man's greatest need is Water. Beautiful water, foliage, trees, water falls, brooks. Lots of footage of bridges, running water and clean water. Homes are built near clean streams and near clean beaches. Water sports, sailing, canoes, swimming, sunbathing, fishing are all done in clean water. Wildlife roam and they need clean water. Deers by water (:45-3:37).
Fishing is successful in clean water. Livestock roam near water. Irrigation needs it as does commercial fishermen. Lots of fishing footage (3:38-4:54). Boat sails along a river. Giant oceanliner. Factories near the water. Our natural water is our drinking water. 75% of USA communities take water from lakes & streams. Wildlife drinks water (4:55-6:02). Waste gets dumped into water. As communities increase, dumping increases and pollution is worse and worse. Many shots of polluted waterways. Water is now contaminated. Effects of pollution is shown. Everything from contaminated waters to people moving to not being able to swim in these waters. Bacteria is in the water, including drinking water. Dead fish, animals. Fumes come from polluted waters, these effects are shown (6:03-9:46) Examples of pollution, bad oysters is shown. Prices double due to this. Salmon in New England is contaminated. Polluted waters don't allow swimming. West Coast beaches have pollution. East coast resort had beaches closed. 200 million is the cost for pollution annually. Modern treatment systems can help polluted water. Complex sewage processes. What is used to combat pollution is shown (9:47-12:53). Industrial waste can be treated by special plants. The goal is water that can be returned to streams clean (12:54-13:45). Municipal waste disposal shown in a moving diagram in great detail. Mechanical removal of solids. Everything is shown: bar screen, pump, settling tank, digestion tank, drying bed, etc. (13:46-16:18). A review of the disposal. A secondary treatment is discussed and shown. All the dangers of pollution are removed. Drinking water is cleaned and cleaned again (16:19-18:37).
Cleaning filtration plants have continued to grow in size over the years. There were only 60 in 1900, today (1950s) there are over 6600. There is still a need for more plants and 2500 of the current plants are inadequate. If new plants aren't created, pollution continues - and the effects are shown again (18:38-20:23). Planning by communities is shown. The Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) is an example of this action - every state can learn from these 8 states that banded together for clean water (all of or part of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York). Plants are needed. They will provide employment for workers. the 200 million lost dealing with pollution would very nearly pay for these plants. Clean water can be done. Many shots of people, boats, animals, clean water. Surging beach surf. Cascades of mountain torrents (20:24-23:04). Fish swim in a stream. Brimming river is shown (23:05-23:38). End credits are shown (23:39-23:46).
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@gailheike2838 4 жыл бұрын

My father, Arthur Treutelaar, was the photographer for this industrial film. I have been searching for it for 15 years as I remembered my brother and I were in the film as well as some neighbors. I did see my brother, but I guess I didn't make the cut!!! So glad to have found this as our Dad passed away in 1961. Thanks, Periscope Film!

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@drdean9913 4 жыл бұрын

@5:27 I remember there was a time when you thought nothing of drinking from a public water fountain.

@jagboy69 4 жыл бұрын

or garden hose....

@skylinefever 4 жыл бұрын

My dad said that by the end of the 1960s, nearly every city in the USA had treatment plants. He knew people who were in the Vietnam war, and that was the first place they had ever seen a heavily polluted river. Another video to watch on water pollution would be ones made by the "Pennsylvania Sanitary Water Board." The video claims that Pennsylvania was ahead of all the other states.

@WauhopM 4 жыл бұрын

How ironic this film made by the very company that dumped millions of gallons of PCB's into the Hudson River thus making its fish contaminated and uneatable.

@maplemanz 4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing when I first watched it.

@mikestaihr5183 4 жыл бұрын

I love these forgotten and obscure promotional films but do find it ironic that General Electric campaigns for water treatment all while dumping some of the nastiest chemicals known to man into the environment.... |-(

@P-G-77 4 жыл бұрын

Like too...

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

And the irony of GE having killed the planet via the Fukushima ELE. Killing the planet... the ultimate water pollution.

@satanofficial3902 4 жыл бұрын

The old GE slogan of "GE brings good things to life" has changed to "GE brings good things to death".

@wakcedout 4 жыл бұрын

@@satanofficial3902 yes because i totally cant leave my home without putting on an environmental suit. This is called the company recognised its fault and took steps to promote fixing it. I swear folks like you are never satisfied. Youre probably the kind of person who would still be offended even after an hobest apology.

@drpoundsign 4 жыл бұрын

@@satanofficial3902 Tim Robbins said that on his opening SNL soliloquy-in reference to their manufacture of hydrogen bomb components.

@amparoospina562 2 жыл бұрын

Gracias

@scratchdog2216 3 жыл бұрын

Given what went on with GE in Pittsfield, MA. this is laughable.

@MrTommyboy68 4 жыл бұрын

The problem with building of all these "treatment plants" is that MOST are built with the MAJORITY of the funding comes from the federal government. Once completed, the individual municipalities are required to perform routine maintenance and upkeep, WHICH THEY FAILED MISERABLY AT DOING, kicking the can further and further down the road KNOWING when it came time to pay the piper, they would be LONG GONE and the current administrations would have to deal with it and expect the Feds to come back in and fix it. Same with roads, bridges and all other forms of infrastructure.

@bunbun8001 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, between the years of 1947 to 1977, GE was dumping 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls into the Hudson River, the likes of which they would be sued for 40 miles of it's clean-up

@jamieelovitz 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Mike Wallace as the Narrator.

@fromthesidelines 3 жыл бұрын

Not even close. That's Michael Rye (aka Rye Billsbury), veteran radio/TV announcer and actor. He voiced "THE LONE RANGER" in the 1966 CBS Saturday morning cartoon series. He was also heard in ABC's color bumpers in the mid-1960's {"This is an ABC COLOR presentation."}, and several of their promos.

@thelaughingtiger146 4 жыл бұрын

Ain't this a good kick inna pants!

@J_Calvin_Hobbes Жыл бұрын

👍

@icelineman 4 жыл бұрын

I am watching this after pooping

@roziifoxx549 3 жыл бұрын

@fromthesidelines 3 жыл бұрын

Originally released in 1950, during the Truman administration. The *Eisenhower* administration, a few years later, was on big business' side [including General Electric's]- and the expansion of factories and other manufacturing plants that caused pollution became commonplace- until, by the late 1960's, pollution was rampant just about everywhere.

@Jimmyzb36 4 жыл бұрын

This was before government schools.

@susanrudd9759 3 жыл бұрын

Really??? What exactly do you mean by "government schools"? Public schools have been around since the founding of this country. All public schools are controlled by local governments, with help from the state and money from the federal government. These is extremely little input from the federal level, if that is what you are trying to imply.