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CBS Reports : The Water Famine

Item number (ISN):

355252

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

1961

Item number (ISN):

355252

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Type of material:

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

BELL CANADA

Accession:

1979-0192

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1961

Production company:

Columbia Broadcasting System

Production credit:

director of operations, Palmer Williams; producer, Jack Beck; executive producer, Fred Friendly; associate producer, Edward Bliss; David Buksbaum; Neil Cunningham; photography, Charles Mack; Martin Barnett; William McClure; Robert J. Clemens; reporter, Howard K. Smith; Alexander Kendrick; editing, Willilam Watt; John Schultz; Joseph Fackovec; sound, Robert Huttenlock; Larry Gianneschi; Maurice Reitberger

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CBS News Chief Washington correspondant Howard K. Smith narrates this documentary film on the international water crisis. Initial sequence on the abuses of the water supply in antiquity with shots of: mideast deserts; the ruins of the city of Babylon and tower of Babel; Greek and Roman aqueducts; windmils to pump water in Crete; stone rice terrace in the Phillipines; Inca water reservoirs in Peru; and comments from Professor Ritchie-Calder and archaelogist [Nelson Gluck]. Further discussion focuses on modern day problems of water supply and management in the United States accompanied by clips of: the Hoover Dam; construction of the Owens Valley pipeline at the turn of the century; the Colorado River Aqueduct; the use of water by steel mills and other industries; maps and graphics of water requirements and resources, and dry water reservooirs. Additional comments on the topic from: Dr. Everett Howe of the University of Southern California; Dr. [Roger Revell], director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Dr. [Able Woollman] and Senator Kerr. Shots of the United States Supreme Court building accompany an outline of the court decision as to the water rights of the Colorado River. ~California Governor Edmund Brown and Governor Paul Fannin of Arizona address the topic. The escalating water pollution problem is explored with shots of sewage and industrial outlets and scenes of polluted rivers and streams. Comment from Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall. Dr. Malcolm Ade [Eesha] of India discusses the problems of water supply in the third world and the program outlines some of the water desalinization developments currently under research. Sequences of life raft survival kits; water works in Kuwait; purification plants in the U.S.; icebergs; irrigation projects in Pakistan's Indus River Valley; agriculture in India; and Israeli scientist Alexander [Zarkin] explaining the methods of water purification through freezing. <108mn 26s>

Language:

English
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Open

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, Bell Canada, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Columbia Broadcasting System.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bell Canada~The HISTORICAL NEWSREELS compilation is open for consultation and copyright has expired - see letter of 5 June 1996 in Collection File.

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