Summary

Color film, 1980s. Film on Asbestos At The Work Site. Specific dates of filming unknown.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 324552
Story Slug ASBESTOS AT THE WORK SITE (1980) PT 1
Format Edited
Date 1/1/1980
Archive Time 1:00:00
TRT 6:28
Video Description (NO rights to narration/music) Man in protective suit and INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST hard hat, walks to big asbestos wrapped pipe, says it's a great insulating material, seemingly harmless; CU brake pads on mechanic's floor; MS angle on mechanic with mask placing brake pad on car wheel. machine shop, angle on big stamping machine stamping out asbestos gasket, worker foreground; int. boiler room, zoom to CU shiny asbestos insulation draping boiler; close angle on home floor, worker places asbestos floor tile on glue covered floor; classic 1970's looking construction worker, longish hair, pounds nail in asbestos siding, ext. house; int. basement, first scene of reel, industrial hygienist in protective suit narrates, leaning on big asbestos coated pipe, puts on breathing apparatus; close angle on two other protective coating dressed workers cutting into asbestos coating around pipe, narrator describes. animation of asbestos cloud spread by breeze, travels to hapless worker, inside cross section shows ALVEOLI of worker's lungs, capillaries, asbestos fibers enter lung along with oxygen, wall thickens, oxygen can't enter blood stream from lungs; worker breathes asbestos, ASBESTOSIS, worker falls over; angle on hapless asbestos cartoon, smokes, diagram shows cigarette smoke going through BRONCHIOLES, shows asbestos fiber and cigarette smoke irritating bronchial wall tissues; yellow LUNG CANCER spreads on walls; hapless cartoon worker, 90 TIMES GREATER RISK OF CANCER balloon, hapless worker throws cigarette into BUTTS wastebasket, smiles; animation of lungs, PLEURAE; CU show asbestos fiber penetrating pleural lining, lining thickens, cancer spreads, MESOTHELIOMA, covered with skull and bones.
Description Color film, 1980s. Film on Asbestos At The Work Site. Specific dates of filming unknown.
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Keywords

asbestos
health
cancer
workplace danger
industrial
workplace safety
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