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c. 1954 Reels 1 & 2 (spliced together). Documentary about air pollution commissioned by the Gas Council. Produced by the Pathe Documentary Unit. Devised and written by Jack Howells. Director - Gerard Bryant. Cameraman - Reg. W. Cavendar. Editor - A. Milner-Gardner. Music - Edward Williams. Conducted by - Marcus Dodds. Sound - William S. Bland and George Newberry. Picturesque landscape. Farmer smoking a pipe walks alongside a river with his dog. He approaches his home - a country cottage with smoke emerging from the chimney. Voiceover talks in lyrical tones of how man has learned to “not to cast his waste upon the earth he lives by...“ and to keep his food and water sweet and clean. “But what of the air?“ Montage of shots of smoking chimneys, houses and industrial chimneys, smoke billowing through the air. Night shots of cars being directed through dark smoggy streets by traffic warden with flares. The narrator claims to be a “Medical Officer's Help.“ Shots inside a hospital - nu
