- Title: VM-278
- Summary: SOMETHING IN THE AIR: DIFFICULTIES & LONG-TERM NATURE OF FORESTRY RESEARCH PERTAINING TO AIR POLLUTION EFFECTS ON FOREST GROWTH. INTERVIEWS RESEARCHERS & SHOWS THEM AT WORK IN THE FIELD. GRAPHICS ILLUSTRATE CONCEPTS OF AIR POLLUTION SOURCES. BEAUTY SHOTS: PINE FOREST, LAKE, MOUNTAINS, SNOW. TRAFFIC, ODD EXPERIMENTS, GREEN HOUSE, FOG, CONGRESS, ACID RAIN, OZONE.
- Description:00:00:07 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS TREES IN FOREST, SUN SHINING THROUGH BRANCHES. TILT DOWN TALL TREE TO ROTTING HARD HAT FORESTER WALKS ABOUT INSPECTING, CHECKING AND MARKING DISEASED TREES. 00:00:53 - MONTAGE FOREST, SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAINS SCENES AS VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF FOREST "DYNAMIC CHANGE" CAUSED BY INSECTS, DISEASE, FIRE, DROUGHT, CLIMATE. EACH ONE PLAYS ITS PART IN SAGA OF THE FOREST". 00:01:24 - HARD HAT FORESTER SPRAYS TREE. IN SOME AREAS MAN HAS HELPED TO SWAY THE SURVIVAL. AS A RESULT, A DYING FOREST IS RARE INDEED". 00:01:47 - MONTAGE - ACID RAIN - VOICE OVER, 'A NEW CONCERN, " A CONCERN ABOUT SOMETHING IN THE AIR" 00:02:28 - MONTAGE GRAFTS AND CHARTS EXPLAINING ACID RAIN, A POLLUTANT, MAINLY CAUSED BY MAN AND THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS. (MOST COMMONLY POWER PLANTS THAT GENERATE ELECTRICITY). 00:03:09 - CU RAIN DROPS ON TALL GRASS. 00:03:11 - MONTAGE VARIOUS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES TELLING OF THE CONTROVERSY OVER ACID RAIN. "THE EFFECTS OF ACID RAIN ARE IN DEBATE". 00:03:33 - CU SCIENTISTS, DR. STEPHEN SHAFER SPEAKS OF CONTROVERSY. VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF "POINT SOURCE POLLUTION". DR, JOHN PINKERTON SPEAKS OF THIS. 00:05:23 - VARIOUS SHOTS CALIFORNIA'S SAN BERNARDINO FOREST. THIS FOREST IS THE ONLY ONE SHOWING A DOCUMENTED CHANGE. OZONE WAS THE DAMAGING FORCE HERE. CU DR. ANN BARTUSKA SPEAKS OF THIS. 00:06:21 - VARIOUS SHOTS HEAVY CITY CAR, TRUCK TRAFFIC. CHART SHOWS THE CAUSES OF FOSSIL FUELS AND HOW THEY CAUSE OZONE. DR. PINKERTON EXPLAINS. 00:07:31 - MONTAGE IN MID 1980S, SCIENTISTS FROM A NUMBER OF C ORGANIZATIONS BEGAN TO STUDY THE ISSUE OF AIR POLLUTION ON FOREST HEALTH. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS "THE FOREST RESPONSE PROGRAM AND MOTHER PROGRAM "NAPAC"( ACONGRESSIONSL AUTHORIZED PROGRAM).. 00:08:12 - VARIOUS COMMENTS FROM MORE SCIENTISTS. INCLUDING DR. ROGER BLAIR AND DR. SHARON HAINES. MS HAINES WEARING HARDHAT DIGS UP SAMPLE OF EARTH USING SPECIAL TOOL. 00:09:26 - IN 1985 A PRIVATE FORESTRY ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS "NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE PAPER INDUSTRY FOR THE AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT", INC. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS ITS 4 MAJOR GOALS. 00:10:37 - DR. BENJAMIN B. STAUT PROGRAM MANAGER, EXPLAINS HIS VIEWS. 00:11:24 - SIGN IN FIELD, "NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV." THIS SERVICE AND THE FOREST SERVICE CONDUCTED STUDY AS EXPLAINED BY VOICE OVER DR. STEPHEN SHAFER AS SHOWN. 00:15:15 - VARIOUS SHOTS PICTURESQUE WHITE FACE MOUNTAIN IN UPPER NY STATE, SCIENTIST STUDIES NUMBER OF WHITE SPRUCE THAT WERE DEAD OR DYING. ACID RAIN WAS BLAMED. DR. ART JOHNSON EXPLAINS WHY HE DISAGREED.. CU DR. ART JOHNSON SPEAKS. 00:17:38 - VARIOUS SHOTS OF WHITE FACE MOUNTAIN HILLS. VOICE OVER AND DR. JOHNSON TELL OF EFFECTS OF ELEVATION AND MOISTURE AS THE CULPRITS. VARIOUS SHOTS OF EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED TO TEST THIS THEORY. 00:18:49 - VARIOUS SHOTS JOHNSON AND OTHERS CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS TO TEST THE THEORY. 00:19:41 - CU DR. JOHNSON SAYS THSAT THE FOR GOING CONCLUSION THAT AIR POLLUTION IS INVOLVED IS NOT SUCH AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE. 00:20:05 - LS VIEW CONGRESS IN SESSION. CONGRESS IS CONSIDERING SEVERAL BILL THAT ARE DESIGNED TO REDUCE ACID RAIN ON THE NATION'S FOREST. MS CONGRESSWOMAN CHAIRING THE HOUSE. 00:20:30 - VARIOUS SPOKESMEN, SCIENTISTS, SPEAK OF CONGRESS ROLE, AND REASONS WHY THE FUNDING CAN DISAPPEAR AFTER 1991..OZONE RESEARCH WILL RESUME THROUGH OTHER PROGRAMS. "IF THERE CAB BE A CONCLUSION TO A STORY ABOUT AIR POLLUTION AND FOREST HEALTH, IT IS THAT NONE EXISTS".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1987
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-278