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c. 1954 Documentary about air pollution commissioned by the Gas Council. Continued. Air pollution test station - laboratory tests are made. Samples are shown of various levels of air pollution. “To a scientist of course it's doubly offensive for he knows it's stupid waste.“ Rural industry - shots of coal on conveyor belt, smoking industrial chimney, shot of smoky urban area, lorry tipping coal, digger moving coal. Gas industry explained - “a clean, flexible, smokeless fuel“. Coke is described. Landscape shots (cows in a field, combine harvester) as narrator explains that the by-product of coke production - ammonium sulphate - is used as a fertiliser. Shot of smoky industrial landscape - the bill for the “waste“ is discussed. Coal miners in C/U digging out coal - the result of their hard work “to be sent up in futile clouds of filth.“ The cost of increased “wash bills“, cleaning, sweeping, cost of damage to crops and vegetation, smoke inspectors etc. £100 to clean the greenhouses at Kew af
