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In our own backyard / Bullfrog Films presents ; produced, directed and edited by Lynn Corcoran ; a production of Buffalo Documentary Group.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hooker Chemical Corporation.
- Hazardous wastes--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
- Hazardous wastes.
- Pollution--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
- Pollution.
- Housing--New York (State)--Niagara Falls--History.
- Housing.
- Groundwater--Pollution--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
- Groundwater.
- Environmental toxicology--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
- Environmental toxicology.
- Chemical plants--Waste disposal--Social aspects--New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
- Chemical plants.
- Chemical plants--Waste disposal--Social aspects.
- Chemical plants--Waste disposal.
- Groundwater--Pollution.
- History.
- Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--Niagara Falls.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (59 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- Other Title:
- Title on website landing page: In our own backyards : the first Love Canal
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, PA] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2014]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In the U.S., the first national brush with toxic waste occurred at Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, following the discovery of 21,000 tons of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood by Hooker Chemical. Love Canal quickly became the subject of national and international attention, controversy, and eventual environmental notoriety. This classic video documentary on the nation's first encounter with toxic waste shows the complexity of the democratic process in action. Government officials struggled with a new set of questions--weighing not only what government should do, but what it could do in the first environmental emergency of its kind--while residents, brilliantly led by Lois Gibbs, formed their own views of these questions and developed strategies to answer them, including public protest and a skillful use of the media to influence government's response.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Mary Travers; commentators, Lois Gibbs ... [et al.].
- Credits:
- Camera, Lynn Corcoran, Joseph Steinmetz ; sound Joseph Steinmetz, David Abbatoy.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Buffalo Documentary Group, c1981; previously released in 1983.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 28, 2014).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-lc Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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