Too Thick to Navigate, Too Thin to Cultivate
Too Thick to Navigate, Too Thin to Cultivate
There are several reels for this film: HSC 90A is an internegative element. HSC 90B is a B Roll element. HSC 90C is an A Roll element. HSC 90D is an optical track. HSC 90E is a mag track. HSC 90F is an answer print. HSC 90G is an answer print. (This is on preview cassette #210184) The following information was formed by watching HSC 90G, an answer print, like HSC 90E, but of better quality. MS of two young girls running and playing in water sprinklers on their green front lawn. Tight LS of a resort pool, no one around, the water calm and placid, the surrounding deck chairs empty and placed just so... tight LS and MS of a red sports car going through an automatic car wash... MS of a young woman at a water fountain... CU of a wine glass filled with water, brought to a man's mouth... CU of a map of the Great lakes and immediate land masses... level tight LS's of Niagara Falls... aerial shots of steel mills, paper mills and sewage treatment centers by bodies of water; CU's and MS's of said foundries' contributions to ecological pollution, specifically to water; CU's and MS's of thick sludge pollution in Cleveland, then Green Bay... MS of a burly old fisherman wearing a Gatsby and heavy coat, standing on a Chicago wharf, lights a cigarette, then moves onto a boat; MS of him and a young boy checking and pulling a fishing net... pollution at Indiana Harbor: CU's and MS's of sludge and algae in the waters; good, rather level aerial shot of smokestacks spewing still plumes by the harbor; LS's of water pollution, a topical mess; scary CU of methane gas bubbles rising and bursting to water surface; dead water syndrome... oil slicks and sewage puddles... LS's of a beach closed due to water pullution; MS of a warning sign, reads, "No Swimming, Polluted Water" on a beach in Hammond, Indiana (the waves in the BG appear slow and lumbering, breaking heavily as if forced to do so)... MS's of a man testing the water of Tinley Creek (an older guy with a precise buzz cut; has a pocket protector; does a glass test)... closing montage of polluted bodies of water, ones near or related to Lake Michigan; includes a tight LS of a half-submerged garbage truck by the shore of a lake. This is a news program specially produced for Chicago residents, regarding the possible and altogether imminent danger of pollution in Lake Michigan.