FREE LOAN FILMS
16mm sound
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HOW TO ORDER THE FILMS
The films should be ordered by writing or calling:
AUDIENCE PLANNERS, INC
1358 Merchandise Mart
Chicago, Illinois 60654
Telephone (312) 822-0892
AVAILABILITY: The EPA Motion Pictures described in this
brochure are available in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Min-
nesota, Ohio and Wisconsin to educational and organized
community group audiences FREE OF CHARGE on short ierm
(2-3 days! loan basis.
Absolutely no admission may be charged in connection with the
showing of EPA films.
PROJECTING FILMS: Although EPA films are loaned without
charge, the borrower is responsible (of damage to the film(s)
while in his possession. Film prints are cleaned, inspected
electronically, and delivered in good condition. Subsequent
damage often may be caused either by careless handling of
more frequently by a dirty or faulty projector. It is therefore nec-
essary that film borrower use only a 16MM Sound Projector
operated by a trained projectionist when EPA films are shown.
GREMLINS-CAN W&ECK A FILM.
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RETURNING FILMS: After your scheduled viewing, each film
must be REWOUND carefully on the plastic reel on which it was
received, and securely packaged in its plastic shipping container
and promptly returned via Parcel Post, insured and prepaid, to
Audience Planners, Inc.
REMEMBER, borrower is responsible for loss or damage to the
film while in his possession.
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FREE LOAN FILMS
16mm sound
DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY?
10 Minutes—Color
Television comedian Tim Conway deadpans his way through a
grueling drive from home to work thai makes a timely point:
There's got to be a better way than to depend on the automo-
bile. Banjo music and cacophony accompany him through
numerous situations that are familiar to any auto commuter,
situations that are both hilarious — and an almost subliminal
reminder that clean air and energy are both limited. When he
looks longingly at a bus or a group of people car-pooling, so do
most viewers.
THE GREAT CLEANUP
51 Minutes—Cofor
An outstanding documentary produced by the Canadian
National Film Board for corresponding environmental agencies
in the two countries that share the world's largest freshwater sys-
tem. The first half concentrates OR the history, magnitude, tre-
mendous offerings, and problems of the Great Lakes: A fisher-
man, a steelworker, environmentalists, and others appear to
explain their positions. The second half goes into more detail of
progress being made to clean up the Great Lakes, with clear
explanations of the bi-nationa! efforts, specific pollution prob-
lems and methods to combat them, and the need for continuing
attention to the 300,000 square-mile area that directly depends
on the Great Lake ecosystem, filmed throughout the Great
Lakes Basin.
CAN WE FISH AGAIN?
15 M/nutes—Color
A child's haunting words to his father, after an outing on the
Great Lakes, underscores this sensitive examination of the
effects of toxic substances like PCBs and PBBs have on the lives
of the 44 million people who live in the Great Lakes Basin. A
short powerful film that can be an excellent opening to a discus-
sion or meeting on toxics. Winner of an international Golden
Cine award in! 976.
WHAT YOUR SCHOOL CAN DO ABOUT
FRIABLE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIALS
11 Minutes—Color
U.S. EPA prohibited the spraying of asbestos for fireproofing and
insulation in public buildings in 1973 and for decorating pur-
poses in 1978. The reason: Use of friable (easily crumbled)
asbestos has been linked to lung cancer and asbestosis, and ex-
posure to the material over long periods of time increases the
chances of damage perhaps 20 years later. Schools have been a
target of EPA's efforts to rid the environment of this type of
asbestos, which was commonly used in construction in trie post
World War II building boom. This film explains how to identify
possible asbestos problems, and what to do about them.
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CHOICE STAKES
W Minutes—Cofor
A film dealing with man's desire for a richer, fuHer material life
and the inevitable effects on the environment. Concentrating on
this problem, the film uses two main characters in four different
ways to show man's choices and the cost of his decisions. Film
has been produced without dialogue or narration, but utilizes a
rich music and sound effects track. This concept attacks the
problem — a problem that has been with us for a long time —
and will be with us for a long time.
THE BIG PICKUP
28 Minutes—Color
"Everybody wants us to pick up their garbage but nobody wants
us to put i! down," commented a big city mayor. THE BIG
PICKUP describes America's five billion doliar-a-year chore —
collecting solid waste. This documentary film shows die gar-
bage c of lector's problems and illustrates new techniques which
can improve efficiency and effectiveness.
SANITARY LANDFILL —
YOU'RE THE OPERATOR
22 Minutes—Color
Through the device of an interview with a visiting newsman, a
sanitary landfill foreman gives you an inside look at his job.
interesting to citizen's groups and those concerned with
improving conditions in the sanitation industry. Serves as an
introduction to a technical training program on landfill
THE VILLAGE GREEN
1? Minutes—Co/or
This is a training film describing many of the issues and consid-
erations involved in organizing and running a successful and
self-sustaining citizen's recycling center. The film depicts the
activities of a citizen's recycling center in Greenwich Village,
New York City.
WITHIN OUR REACH
15 Minutes—Color
The 1972 Clean Water Act Amendments required cleaner water
from municipal sewage treatment plants — and provided vast
sums of money to help local governments pay for modernizing
and building new facilities. This film, which explains the con-
struction grants program and its goal for cleaner water as one
that "for the first time in 100 years is within our reach," follows
the community of Parsippany-Troy Hilts, New Jersey through its
decision to upgrade facilities, from hiring a consulting engineer
onward. Although costs and deadlines specified no longer
apply, this film provides good information for mayors, city man-
agers, and city planners in how ERA'S construction grant pro-
gram works.
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CHARLIE BROWN CLEARS THE AIR
7 Minutes—Color
Charlie, Linus, Snoopy, and pals are forced to take a look at air
pollution in this special film created by Charles Schulz for the
American Lung Association, with a supportive grant and
cooperation from the EPA. What the Peanuts characters them-
selves do — and learn they had better begin to do — is easy
enough for members of any viewing audience to identify with.
A MAN AND A RIVER
14 Minutes—Color
Richard Chamberlain narrates this film that features the late
Thomas Hart Benton — great citizen, painter, author, and con-
servationist — and the river he loved, the dear running Buffalo
in the Ozarks. Benton lived and worked in Europe and New
York before reluming home to enjoy the countryside and river
that inspired him. "Telt 'em this," he says, after canoeing a sce-
nic stretch of the Buffalo, "Clean it up before you go away."
WATER FOLLIES
7 Minutes—Color
Animated cartoon characters need no words to demonstrate
uses and atl-too-common abuses of the water we use daily.
Leaky faucets, long showers, and many other household uses of
water are quickly illustrated in this short, well paced film that is
humorous to children and aduits alike for its examples of self-
recognition. The point — that we ought not to take water for
granted — is stronger for being mao*e so subtly.
AN INVESTMENT TO PROTECT
13 Minutes—Color
Hundreds of millions of tax dollars have been spent to build
wastewater treatment facilities to clean the Nation's lakes and
rivers. The plants themselves are an investment, and protecting
them requires that the people who paid for them and operate
them are welt informed. This film was produced to generate
public awareness of the environmental importance and eco-
nomic dividends that cart result from a well-run facility. It
focuses on such a plant in Hinsdale, Illinois, a residential
community in the Chicago suburban area. The film includes a
section on the history of Hinsdale, an older suburb that, like
many others, was affected by the post World War II trend to
leave the inner city.
SLIDE SHOWS & FILMSTRIPS
PLAYING IT SAFE
J; Minutes—Color
Efren Herrera of the Seattle Seahawks is narrator and featured
personality in this 63-sfide presentation on the safe use of pes-
ticides, it is directed to farm workers whose work puts them in
contact with a full range of chemical pesticides. Herrera speaks
of the special clothing he needs for his job (knee pads, helmet,
and such) and the need to obey the rules by way of emphasizing
the same points for anyone who works among pesticides. Avail-
able with synchronized cassette for tape recorder, in either
Spanish or English narration.
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BATTLE OF THE BUGS
Color
Pesticide safety is the message of the presentation of cartoon
panels, available in either filmstrip or slides and coordinated
with audio tape cassette. Several points are made clearly
enough for children to understand: that pesticides are chemical
weapons that control insects and rodents that threaten our food
supplies; that pesticides can harm people and pets unless care is
taken; that it is often possible to use smaller amounts of pes-
ticides, included is a basic lesson on the number and tenacity —
and thus the problem — of insects.
DEALING WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS:
A CITIZEN'S ROLE
Color
A fast moving, 60-slide presentation with synchronized tape
cassette that briefs viewers on the irreversibility of our chemical-
based society, certain problems that it has created, laws that
have been passed to help protect people and the environment
— and suggestions for making sure that these Saws are being
followed- Emphasizes that laws exist, including stipulations in
those laws that guarantee citizen participation. "But the govern-
ment cannot act alone," the narrator states. 'The problems
belong to al! of us," and well-informed Americans' help is
needed to solve them.
FIVE STORIES
Color
This 110-slide tape presentation profiles five women who have
taken charge of the environmental concerns that confront them:
a Dallas mother whose asthma, and that of her daughter, led her
to do battle with air pollution on a persona) level; a Washington
D.C. environmentalist who speaks up for "smalt changes, small
victories" in urban pollution; a Chicago-bom farmer's wife in
Arizona, whose crops are grown with a minimum of pesticides;
an Ohio woman who spearheaded a drive to save the Cuyahoga
Valley Recreation Area; and a Massachusetts educator who
knew drinking water supplies depended on preserving a
swamp.
ATTACK ON HAZARDOUS WASTE:
CHALLENGE OF THE '80s.
Color
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act jRCRA) addresses
the problem of hazardous wastes generated by our society.
Regulations that allow £PA to enforce RCRA, which were set in
place during 1980, will control these wastes from "cradle to
grave." Because understanding how these regulations will work
is a matter of extreme importance, EPA in May-June 1980 held
briefings for state and local officials throughout the country. Pre-
sented at each was this series of 355 slides, many with text only,
which was prepared to explain RCRA and the new regulations
that govern the generation, transportation, storage, treatment,
and disposal of hazardous waste.
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