The Rise and Fall of DDT

About

Deals with the pros and cons of DDT by investigating its various uses as an insecticide, military weapon, safeguard against tropical diseases, and threat to the environment. Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the US has banned the insecticide. Tracing the history of DDT from its discovery through its banning in the States, this program asks whether America overreacted with its total ban of this once acclaimed "wonder" chemical.

1 videocassette (19 min.) : 3/4 in. +

Note: Transferred from 1/2 in videocassette, University of Washington

Title from data sheet

Originally produced in 1974, broadcast as a Nova segment in 1975

Commentary read by Gordon Snell ; camera, Ray Henman, Reg Pope, Stanley Speel ; editor, Roger Guertin

Also issued in 1/2 in. Beta cassette and as motion picture

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

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Credit

Alec Nisbett, Robin Bootle, Time-Life Films. Multi-media Division., British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service., WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Language

English

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