To Stem the Black Tide

Artificial pond where the outflow of acidic water from a disused coal mine is being treated. The disturbances caused by mining can lead to contamination and acidification of surrounding waterways. The runoff from mines is kept in areas such as this so that the pH can be raised and contaminants removed before it returns to natural ecosystems. Filmed in Wales, UK.

Man cleaning up rubbish along the coastline; Hong Kong; 1977.

Volunteers are cleaning up after an oil tanker sprung a leak off of the South Korea coast.

Sara Delano Roosevelt calls for New York City cleanliness initiative

The oil tanker Exxon Valdez strikes a reef off the Alaskan coast, causing an enormous environmental disaster. Co-production with the BBC.

01/14/64 A0002698 LEICESTER, ENGLAND -- EMERGENCY CLEAN - UP SAVES SWANS FROM OIL POLLUTION. LN33047 "SWAN CLEANING" SHOWS: OIL ONWATER; SWAN; OIL ON WATER; RSPCA MAN IN BOAT HEADS SWANS INTO LOCK; SWANS; SWAN BEING CAUGHT IN LOCK; SWANS TIES IN SACKS; SWANS HEAD; SHOTS SWANS BEING CLEANED; (SHOT 1/14/64 40FT) RIVERS -- SOAR BIRDS -- SWANS WATER POLLUTION UP - LN / 40 FT / 16 - NEG / R1423

Medical aid to contaminated birds in Cornwall, England. People holding cartons enter a wild bird hospital. Holland Bird Authority members provide medical aid to the birds who have been contaminated by floating crude oil which leaked from a ground tanker in the sea. Emergency clinics are set up for sick birds. Members use a chemical detergent to clean thick oil smearing. View of pollution at a beach. Location: Cornwall England United Kingdom. Date: April 4, 1967.

Documenting various aspects of air pollution, water pollution, and soil contamination that is international and global in scope. This has given rise to environmentalism and the environmental movement that generally seek to limit human impact on the environment... Night scenes of a large city, lights, traffic, people. Fruit on trees, people eating, fruit market. Large number and groups of people in motion. Long shot of an offshore oil platform, industrial plants. Contaminated water flowing from a pipe, polluted river, sign that reads Danger. Polluted Water, No Swimming. More scenes of dirty, contaminated water flowing into streams some contaminated with oil. Man-made trash, garbage in river. Several scenes of factory smoke stacks belching smoke into the air. Industrial plant chimneys spewing pollution into the air. Smoke from engines of jet aircraft. Automobiles in large parking lots. Numerous scenes of automobiles and buses, close-up of exhaust pipes of vehicles, people in traffic jams. Layer of smog over a city. Shows results of a lake polluted with fertilizer and man-made trash, garbage washed up on shore. Abandoned junk cars and automobiles. Various city scenes, freeway traffic, houses dotting the landscape. Various scenes of bugs and insects, spraying insecticide in a field and orchard. Oil spill clean up. Processing garbage and waste. Man-made islands masking oil installations coast of California, aerial view of freeway and freeway interchanges. Long shot people on bank of river, in a large pool, and at a beach.

LS of smoke coming out smokestack of Inco plant, PAN following trail of smoke in late afternoon sky (0:46).

Cyanide spil clean up: Men in Yellow and Orange Safety Suits/ Clean suits/ Chemical Suits; Man sprayed down with hose after clean up; EXT of small brick suburban houses; ( Toxic waste) (Pollution)

Part 2 picks up where Part One ended with oil derricks and oil slicks on the water. Garbage barges are accused for littering the oceans, sewage run off pollutes the rivers, and industry takes its toll on clean water. Various pipes dumping pollution into water- one red, one white and foamy. This contrasts with scenes of pristine mountain lakes and forests. Families canoe, play at the beach, and go sailing. We're told it's our responsibility to do something to turn things around. Interior Secretary Walter Hickel wraps things up.

Late afternoon backlit LS of many industrial smokestacks belching thick smoke on shore of Lake Superior (0:33).

Lismore & Grafton, Australia. <br/> <br/>SV tractor clearing up debris in street. LV men in Grafton hosing down street. GV partly flooded area. SV pan, water damaged house. SV interior - people cleaning up. SV house on dry ground after being swept half mile from Lismore. GV wrecked houses. SV & SCU wrecked house. SV dead cow on tree. SV dead cow draped over tree. LV bales of hay being put onto boat to feed cattle. SV span missing from Casino Bridge. LV lorries carrying material to repair bridge. LV Gollan Hotel, Lismore, where Queen stayed. CU notice pre-shrunk bargains. CU girls washing damaged goods on pavements. SV polluted meat being thrown onto wagon. SV pan, polluted goods burning on dump. LV partly flooded area. <br/> <br/>(F.G.) (Orig.D.)

'Problems of Peace in Europe' produced in 1948, depicts reconstruction problems in aftermath of World War II and includes footage from during the war and soon after the war. Scene of desperate and hungry civilian people (possibly in Germany but could be elsewhere in Europe) scrambling over each other and trying to find food on the ground among garbage or wreckage, circa 1945 or 1946. European peoples massing to reestablish political order and seek relief in post-war Europe. Montage of images of people from all walks of life. Reminders of war showing aircrews in bombers and bombs falling. Batteries of rockets being fired. A formation of U.S. B-17s and a B-26 aircraft with D-day stripes, in flight. Allied bombing of cities with devastating effect (likely 1944-1945). Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Aerial view of a major U.S. industrial complex, with many smoke stacks and industrial pollution. Mass of workers leaving at end of shift at a U.S. manufacturing plant or factory. Views of two different streamlined locomotives pulling passenger trains at high speed, approaching camera position. Freight trains speeding on railroads. Farmers harvesting and baling hay by machine and cultivating fields with tractor. Huge sprawling industrial sites in America. Map of Europe. Street scene in Germany with destroyed buildings and rubble cleaned from street, but still piled up in places. Desperate and poor German citizens rummaging through garbage piles for anything to eat or anything of value. Two very young German boys standing together on a street, with one boy smoking a cigarette. Children scrambling over trash and rubbish heaps. Location: Europe. Date: 1946.

Canadian students clean up pollution at the lake beaches and the Humber River. Susan Fish, the Canadian Environment Minister, speaks about the massive clean up. PLEASE NOTE VIDEO & AUDIO OF NEWS ANCHORS & REPORTERS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING.

Nitrogen is polluting Long Island Sound and NY is paying money to help clean up water treatment facilities; beach CU; water activity at waste water treatment plant; man's hands type at computer keypad; man interviewed says state needs Federal money; pier and beach on snowy day; birds fly over Sound in snow.

Artificial pond where the outflow of acidic water from a disused coal mine is being treated. The disturbances caused by mining can lead to contamination and acidification of surrounding waterways. The runoff from mines is kept in areas such as this so that the pH can be raised and contaminants removed before it returns to natural ecosystems. Filmed in Wales, UK.