1958 TV show on Global Warming
Evan Ravitz says:
This 1958 episode of the Bell Telephone Hour, "The Unchained Goddess" clearly explains Global Warming and its dangers. But for 50 years the oil and gas and coal and car industries have bought the ads and politicians to pat us on the head and turn us into addicts.(I loved these old Bell Telephone Hour Shows. ) 1958 TV show on Global Warming
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Goddamn tree-hugging humanity-hating telephone company! They just want to take away your Dodge Dart and make you ride the street car like they do in Soviet Russia.
The greenhouse effect is mentioned in the movie Soylent Green (1973) as well.
Oh my god, it's the crazy scientist who does the pre-credits introduction to The Mole People.
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN
Produced by Frank Capra? Damn! where's the rest of the show?
Yeah! What ANWAYA said!
Proof that the Global Warming Cabal has been organising this Attempt To Drain Our Vital Bodily Fluids for decades!
Don't front, ya'll only know about this because you watched Frontline last night:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/
pipenta and anwaya are correct. The prof does have an emphatic style...I think it's the way he uses his hands.
Note that Frank Capra (!) produced this...not Frank Capra Junior?
The fellow asking the question (Richard Carlson) starred in many goodish sci-fi flicks of the fifties, too, IIRC.
At least I think it was a question, it may have been a bald statement, badly enunciated.
It's taken us 50 years to get to this point? We've been slacking off for too long. Fire up the coal power plants and let's get this baby cookin'!
I take exception to the notion that head-patting and advertising have sufficient power to "persuade" us to accept the forces that have gotten us here. It's been much more effective to 1) outlaw or tightly regulate and discourage the integration of homes and businesses; 2) Separate destinations with greater and distances; 3) Let developers do whatever the hell they want; and 4) "forget" to put sidewalks in between homeplaces, work places, and shopping places. Voila! Sprawl, obesity and doom.
So much for the denier argument that a: this whole global warming thing will blow over in a couple of years and/or b: this whole global warming thing is new- blah blah global cooling in the 70s.
Well, at least the messages have been consistent!
My junior high science classes consisted mostly of the teacher putting on one of these Bell movies and then leaving. Ok, he gave me the movie and left and I ran the projector. But I had no idea they were 15 years old then.
So Dr. Frank Baxter was my 8th grade science teacher.
We need to put all that carbon dioxide down, down, down, into the very nipple of the world.
Heck they used to have all-school assemblies to show the Bell Labs shows when I was in Junior High in the early 70s. I guess some days the faculty just needed an hour to themselves.
There is no underestimating how influential and remarkable these shows were. I love that Frank Capra directed the first three, and produced the fourth. But the crowning glory of the series was "About Time" which explained relativity better than anything before or since.
I watched many, many of these (HEMO THE MAGNIFICENT was among the more memorable) as an elementary and even junior high student up until 1980.
Much love for Dr. Chromedome, aka Frank Baxter.
Visual instruction on science good. At least for folks wired like I was.
Here is a link to an article (at least the first pages of it) that's eight years older and also ponders whether the earth is getting warmer.