Tom Lehrer - Pollution - historical 1967 short film - Astrafilms Inc. - images/sound restored

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Use the above link to buy Tom Lehrer's songs on iTunes.

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This film is also available elsewhere on YouTube, but here you get to watch it with the soundtrack restored. Please read this info taken from the Demented Database: "A film of "Pollution", featuring a cartoon of a bird playing a piano at a dump, combined with real scenes of industrial excess from across America, was made in 1966 & 1967 by Astrafilms for the U.S. Communicable Disease Center (not the Environmental Protection Agency as previously reported). The first cut in 1966 featured the live recording of "Pollution" from the LP, but this version of the film was not used. It was then redone in 1967, using more drastic scenes to really drive home the message. Tom and the producers agreed that it would be better to use a studio recording of the song without the audience, so he re-recorded it for the second version. It was then distributed by the National Medical Audio-Visual Center."

The Demented Database is here:
http://dmdb.org/discographies/lehrer.disco.html

Treat yourself to the Tom Lehrer research links here:
http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/links.html

The remains of the Communicable Disease Center are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention

Click on the username 6funswede and visit the channel page! You won´t regret that, because you can enjoy Tom Lehrer live on video with a lot of songs! The channel does not represent Tom Lehrer in any way, but we can assure you that he doesn´t mind people watching him in old recordings on YouTube.

This version of the short film "Pollution" was posted to celebrate that the live 1967 240P-version of "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" got one million views in July/August 2011. Play more of Tom Lehrer live on the channel and email the links to your friends and enemies.

Musical satire doesn´t get any better than this :-)))

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[cupjay]

Thanks 6fun for all the good deeds you've committed, hopefully as yet and forever after unpunished.

And of course to the awesome retired UCSC professor Tom, not to be confused with contemporary worthy James Lehrer @ PBS Newshour.

Plus, could it be, thanks also for the first original video composition from 6funswede.

GoBears! (obligatory Cal fan's private joke, sorrry.)

[nickanddeb]

i remember when this first aired...way back when...on, i believe, on "the today show". it got such a positive response, they re-aired it either the next day or a few days later! thanks for the memories...i don't believe i've seen this since then.

[namlhots]

One of his best.

[Zeyev]

He tailored the versions of this song to match the venue. If I'm not mistaken, he recorded this one at the hungry i in San Francisco. That accounts for the "garbage in the bay" "San Jose" line.

His songs became widely known as a result of their being performed on "That Was the Week That Was," a British import hosted by - if I'm not mistaken - David Frost.

Thanks for posting this video version.

[joshuamyler]

cheers mate!

[NotJames1]

Not one of his best

[P1votG33k]

Love it! Very fitting montage for such a hilarious yet true song.