72152 “ DRINKING HEALTH ” 1920s CLEAN DRINKING WATER EDUCATIONAL FILM
This black-and-white silent educational film produced by Films of Commerce Co. is part of a series of National Health Council films designed to educate viewers on water sanitation and safe health practices. The film opens with a title card: “Water is necessary for life” (0:31). A rushing river and waterfall. Title card: “To supply safe water, American communities spend millions of dollars— they build mammoth dams and reservoirs” (1:06). The New Croton Dam, built in 1906, which spans the Croton River as part of the New York City water supply system (1:15). A fountain and lake near the dam. Title card: “The human body is mostly water. A chemist would analyze a person something like this” (2:02). Diagram showing chemical constituents of the human body (75% water) (2:42). Title card: “Water is healthful. (1) It is a necessary part of the blood circulation” (2:46). Closeup of blood circulating through the body. Men playing handball (3:16); title cards describing how water replaces loss through perspiration and lubricates the body (3:30). Closeup of female eyes blinking; man lubricating a steam engine. Title card describing how water keeps the body clean (3:54); child rubbing face with washcloth. Title card: water helps avoid constipation (4:20); a man fills an office water cooler cup. Title card: “Health authorities recommend at least two quarts of water daily” (4:46). A clock; a boy wakes up, brushes teeth, drinks from water fountain (5:28), drinks water with dinner, drinks after playing outside. Harvard football players in leather helmets drink water at practice; title card says giving players paper water cups, started by Coach Houghton, is now general practice (6:25). An employee gives factory workers cups of water (7:07). Title card from National Safety Council describes benefits of giving employees water (7:17). Title card describes dangers of drinking “from a common glass;” multiple workers shown refilling a glass from a water fountain (7:45). Quote from Dr. Alvin Davidson at Lafayette College describing germs on public drinking cups. Bacteria from the glass is shown growing on an agar plate (9:47). A female scientist examines them under a microscope. Colonies for pneumonia, diphtheria, tuberculosis, trench mouth (10:26). Part two of film starts at 11:15. Different varieties of drinking glasses; a common drinking cup is defined as “any drinking vessel not sterilized between users” (11:47). List of diseases U.S. Public Health Service says are spread by common cups (12:13). Children drinking from unsterilized glasses at a soda fountain (13:21). A skull-and-crossbones shadow passing over a glass. Title card saying sterilization requires live steam or air at 250 degrees Fahrenheit or boiling for 5 minutes (14:45); title card from Dr. Theodore Appell promoting paper cups. Sign for Martin’s Store in background at a soda fountain with paper cups (15:44). “Safe drinking water ahead” sign on an auto route (15:51). A tourist drinks from a tin can at an outdoor water source; two boys go to drink from the same can, but their mother gives them paper cups instead. A wayside cart owner rinses communal glasses in a bucket of water (17:20). A waitress serves restaurant patrons with paper cups. A man in overalls drinks from a dipper and bucket; title card “This is the safe way” and bucket is replaced with paper cups (18:15). Children in Scout uniforms drink from paper cups on a camping trip. Title card forbidding common cups in waiting rooms, trains, boats, airplanes (19:22). Passengers disembark from a United Airlines plane (19:42). Title cards: “Modern Transportation” (20:00), “Modern Sanitation” (20:24). A stewardess serves passengers in single service cups. Film ends showing drinking glasses replaced by paper cups. "Are you getting this protection?” End credits. <p> <p>Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com