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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This short educational film from 1954 titled “Your Friend the Water: Clean - or - Dirty!” uses animation and live action clips to display the benefits of clean water and consequences of pollution and dirty water. Presented by Encyclopedia Britannica Films and produced by The Conservation Foundation, this film follows an animated water drop and a young boy on a journey as they travel through water pipes to the city reservoir and up a mountain to discover where water comes from. They learn the benefits of clean water to animals and the dangers of letting water become dirty from pollution. Encyclopædia Britannica Films (also named EB Films for short) was the top producer and distributor of educational 16mm films and later VHS video cassettes for schools and libraries from the 1940s through the 1990s (by which time the internet replaced video as a primary source for educational media). Opening credits (0:10). Close-up of typewriter typing (0:37). Collage of triangle-roof homes (0:52). Animation of boy getting a class of water from the tap in his home (1:01). Water drop greets the boy and offers to show him where they came from (1:12). Water reservoir (1:31). Animation of water source in the mountains (1:48). Montage of live action clips of snow covered mountain forests and water (1:53-2:26). Aquatic wildlife - beaver, moose, ducks, fish (2:28-3:09). Fisherman (3:10). Animation of boy going fishing (3:23). Typewriter typing a message (3:39). Animation of boy fishing out litter from a polluted river (3:53). Animation of water drop and boy investigating sources of pollution (4:29). Montage of live action clips showing sources of water pollution (4:34-5:18). Fish swimming in polluted water (5:24). Closing credits (6:05). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
