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

[@gailheike2838]

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!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@mikestaihr5183]

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]

Like too...

[@satanofficial3902]

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

[@satanofficial3902]

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

[@wakcedout]

@@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]

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

[@skylinefever]

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.

[@drdean9913]

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

[@jagboy69]

or garden hose....

[@WauhopM]

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]

I thought the same thing when I first watched it.

[@amparoospina562]

Gracias

[@MrTommyboy68]

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.

[@scratchdog2216]

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

[@bunbun8001]

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]

Sounds like Mike Wallace as the Narrator.

[@fromthesidelines]

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]

Ain't this a good kick inna pants!

[@fromthesidelines]

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.

[@icelineman]

I am watching this after pooping

[@roziifoxx549]

Ew

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

👍

[@Jimmyzb36]

This was before government schools.

[@susanrudd9759]

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.

[@Richard_K1630]

We need Pete Seeger now more than ever.

[@richardgray8593]

Nobody ever needed Pete Seeger.

[@drpoundsign]

@@richardgray8593 "Too many people looking back." OK-that's Bob SEGER. They both are Cool

[@gerardcarriera7052]

Hypocrites!!!

[@natebit8130]

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