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The Smoke Menace (1937)
Directed by John Taylor
· 11m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- John Taylor
- Writer
- J.B.S. Haldane
- Producer
- John Grierson
Details
- Release date
- 1937-10-13
- Runtime
- 11m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- British Commercial Gas Association, Realist Film Unit