The WAPRA report
Description
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.
Runtime
20 min
Creator
Kocsis, Tibor
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
1997
Database
Alexander Street
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