HOW OUR TOWN SAVED THE RIVER 



Color Sound Portland Cement Association 



30 minutes Free Loan 



Set against the background of a town council meeting, the story 

 brings the old Yankee "town meeting" up to date, in presenting 

 the problem of a recent cancellation by a large industrial company 

 of its plans to erect a plant within the township. The town's water 

 commissioner with an ingenious display of charts and graphs plus 

 a town-made motion picture produced by students at the local col- 

 lege illustrates the reason for the cancellation. His point that the 

 water of a neighboring river is polluted and his demand for a 

 modern sewage disposal plant are met by the old cry of "Taxes!", 

 but his ingenuity overcomes these objections, using the ingenious 

 device of showing that the actual cost of taxes would be less than a 

 candy bar per person per day. 



The film ends by detailing a citizens' campaign to pass the bond 

 issue at a local referendum. In dealing with the water problems of 

 this particular town, it serves its purpose well. 



AUDIENCE: Senior high; adult 



RECREATION 



BEACH HIKE 



Color Sound Northern Films 



17 minutes Sale 



Here is a literal documentation of a twenty-mile, three-day hike 

 along the rugged shoreline of the Olympic National Park, led by 

 none other than Justice William O. Douglas of the United States 

 Supreme Court. As the group progresses along the beach, there 

 are the usual finds of crustaceans and driftwood, weird aquatic plant 

 life and such creatures of the littoral waters as starfish and chitons 

 (molluscs), all of which Justice Douglas rightly advises the hikers 

 to leave for others to see. But the great contribution to the film is 

 that the Justice indelibly marks the production with his own per- 

 sonality and knowledge in such a way that what might have become 

 just another field trip turns into a highly eloquent plea for preser- 

 vation of this country's great wilderness areas. As the hike ends 

 on a newly-developed, four-lane highway, he asks, "Do roads have 

 to go everywhere? Does the whole wilderness have to be paved?" 



AUDIENCE: Junior high; senior high 



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