The Air We Breathe Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

A promotional documentary on the importance of the air respirator to industrial health and safety. Reel 1 traces the need for a respirator throughout history with reenacted sequences, including the British study of the death rate among coal miners beginning in 1902. Reel 2 shows two former Bureau of Mines engineers begin the Mine Safety Appliances Company and develop a respirator that is effective and comfortable. The device is carefully tested and finally approved by the Bureau. Reel 3 explains that industry and government cooperation has removed the "menace in the air," and urges workers in various industries to use the respirator. Presented by Mine Safety Appliances Company, narrated by Stanley Gordon, and directed by Edward M. Grabill. Made by Wilding Picture Productions.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series

Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities