The WAPRA report [electronic resource] / produced and directed by Tibor Kocsis.

The WAPRA report [electronic resource] / produced and directed by Tibor Kocsis.

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1997.

English

In English.

1 online resource (20 min.)

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.

Previously published as DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

For High School; College; Adult audiences.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST - Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Palm Springs International Film Festival, 1997; World Peace & Environmental Film Festival, 1997; Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1996

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