Comments on: 1958 TV show on Global Warming

By: Doug Nelson

Doug Nelson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My junior high science classes consisted mostly of the teacher putting on one of these Bell movies and then leaving. Ok, he gave me the movie and left and I ran the projector. But I had no idea they were 15 years old then.

So Dr. Frank Baxter was my 8th grade science teacher.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Goddamn tree-hugging humanity-hating telephone company! They just want to take away your Dodge Dart and make you ride the street car like they do in Soviet Russia.

The greenhouse effect is mentioned in the movie Soylent Green (1973) as well.

By: midsentence

midsentence — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh my god, it’s the crazy scientist who does the pre-credits introduction to The Mole People.

DOWN, DOWN, DOWN

By: Squirrel X

Squirrel X — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We need to put all that carbon dioxide down, down, down, into the very nipple of the world.

By: alainsane

alainsane — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here is a link to an article (at least the first pages of it) that's eight years older and also ponders whether the earth is getting warmer.

By: doc_roswell

doc_roswell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I watched many, many of these (HEMO THE MAGNIFICENT was among the more memorable) as an elementary and even junior high student up until 1980.

Much love for Dr. Chromedome, aka Frank Baxter.

Visual instruction on science good. At least for folks wired like I was.

By: anwaya

anwaya — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Produced by Frank Capra? Damn! where’s the rest of the show?

By: Pipenta

Pipenta — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah! What ANWAYA said!

By: tim

tim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Proof that the Global Warming Cabal has been organising this Attempt To Drain Our Vital Bodily Fluids for decades!

By: TheNipponese

TheNipponese — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t front, ya’ll only know about this because you watched Frontline last night:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/

By: Ugly Canuck

Ugly Canuck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

pipenta and anwaya are correct. The prof does have an emphatic style…I think it’s the way he uses his hands.
Note that Frank Capra (!) produced this…not Frank Capra Junior?
The fellow asking the question (Richard Carlson) starred in many goodish sci-fi flicks of the fifties, too, IIRC.

By: chaircrusher

chaircrusher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heck they used to have all-school assemblies to show the Bell Labs shows when I was in Junior High in the early 70s. I guess some days the faculty just needed an hour to themselves.

There is no underestimating how influential and remarkable these shows were. I love that Frank Capra directed the first three, and produced the fourth. But the crowning glory of the series was “About Time” which explained relativity better than anything before or since.

By: Ugly Canuck

Ugly Canuck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

At least I think it was a question, it may have been a bald statement, badly enunciated.

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s taken us 50 years to get to this point? We’ve been slacking off for too long. Fire up the coal power plants and let’s get this baby cookin’!

By: Than Saffel

Than Saffel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I take exception to the notion that head-patting and advertising have sufficient power to “persuade” us to accept the forces that have gotten us here. It’s been much more effective to 1) outlaw or tightly regulate and discourage the integration of homes and businesses; 2) Separate destinations with greater and distances; 3) Let developers do whatever the hell they want; and 4) “forget” to put sidewalks in between homeplaces, work places, and shopping places. Voila! Sprawl, obesity and doom.

By: phoenix

phoenix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So much for the denier argument that a: this whole global warming thing will blow over in a couple of years and/or b: this whole global warming thing is new- blah blah global cooling in the 70s.

Well, at least the messages have been consistent!