# Public Service Announcement (PSA) on Pollution • Retro

Public Service Message on Pollution • from the 60's or 70's. This is the classic 'Crying Native American' AD (or 'crying Indian' ad, as some refer to it). It appears the copy I have here was the highest resolution copy of it on Archive dot Org for all of a week - and does NOT have a Web Site URL pasted over it - like https://archive.org/details/CryingIndian does. I found this old recording of the (now famous?) PSA (Public Service Announcement) regarding environmental pollution - from "The AD Counsel" - lurking about on an antique hard drive. Now there is an Original, and "Clean", Copy: for posterity. Summary: A native American in a traditional canoe paddles through highly contaminated waters to land on a rocky shore near a busy freeway. Standing near the side of the road, he sees someone throw garbage out of their car window - and it lands at his feet. As the announcer's voice over concludes the message: he turns to face you and a tear goes down his right cheek. Zoom in on the tear rolling ... CLASSIC Of American Television. Original and undamaged Low Resolution copy. Superseded by https://archive.org/details/crying_indian_psa_hd "Jumpin' Jupiter", "Martian Through Georgia" and "Rocket Bye Baby" are used for Commentary, and Illustrative Purposes, and are Uploaded under a "Fair Use" Claim! I do not believe they are still for sale. They were uploaded to support commentary in another series : under fair use clauses. If you wish to see the page using them for Commentary, and…

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1971
- By: US Ad Counsel
- Genres: Animation, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/psa_retro_pollution_640)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/psa_retro_pollution_640?play=1)