The Smoke Menace

(1937)

Year: 1937

Runtime: 11 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Taylor

Cast: Peter Hine

Plot

A stark warning about Britain’s coal-fired smog, charting its damage to health, buildings, and the economy while advocating cleaner gas/electric power, processed smokeless fuels, and better housing—presaging the Great Smog of 1952 and the Clean Air Act of 1956.