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Hiding in the walls / directed and produced by David Sebastiao, Angel King Wilson ; a Silent Media Group production..
LIBRA DVD RA1231.L4 H53 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lead poisoning--United States.
- Lead poisoning.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Video Project, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Millions of people in America today are living with lead poisoning or complications from chronic lead exposure. Lead-based products especially paint are commonplace in houses built before the 1970s, and prolonged exposure can have detrimental effects on health, brain development, and cognitive functioning. A child with lead poisoning is more likely than their peers to struggle academically, experience behavioral issues, and even have interactions with the criminal justice system. Yet despite its known risks, the use of lead-based paint in American homes persisted for more than 50 years after it was banned by the League of Nations in 1922. In cities like Baltimore, Maryland, where the history of lead paint coincides with a history of racially discriminatory housing policies, the ongoing epidemic of lead poisoning has had a lopsided effect on black communities and neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. The growing awareness of lead's developmental impacts created a harmful stigma for lead poisoning survivors, and a destructive financial industry has emerged to prey on lead lawsuits on settlements."--Container.
- Credits:
- Editor, David Sebastiao; music, Cheyanne "Zadie" Givens.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2022.
- Title from container.
- Wide screen.
- OCLC:
- 1346130130
- Publisher Number:
- HIW-2019 Video Project
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