The WAPRA report / produced and directed by Tibor Kocsis.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Kocsis, Tibor, author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollution--Hungary--Budapest.

Pollution.

Pollution--Hungary--Budapest--Experiments.

PollutionHungary--Budapest--Physiological effect.

PollutionHungary.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1997.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

One of the hits of the Margaret Mead Film Festival was this amusing film which parodies alarmist documentaries exposing environmental disaster. Filmed in the middle of Budapest where the air is thick with industrial pollutants, the report makes an amazing observation. People are actually getting health benefits from the noxious emissions. We watch as the WAPRA (World Air Pollution Research Association) springs into action, documenting the phenomenon. Learned scientists from all over the globe pour into Budapest to study the salubrious effect of air pollution. School children are encouraged to inhale deeply in traffic jams and patients from the local hospital are carted out on stretchers to the congested main square to maximize their exposure to this air. We see them start to stir from their comatose states.

Notes:

Previously published as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST - Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Palm Springs International Film Festival, 1997; World Peace and Environmental Film Festival, 1997; Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1996

OCLC:

794308170

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.