Clean Waters

(1945, sound, 23min, color, 16mm) Sponsor: General Electric Co. production Co.: raphael G. Wolff Studios. resources: Copyright not regis- tered; “14 Festival Awards to Sponsored pictures,” Bus Scrn 8, no. 8 (1947): 25; EFG (1948), 382; Film Forum Review staff, “Clean Waters,” in Ideas, 182–83; “1954 Edition of GE’s Clean Waters,” Bus Scrn 15, no. 1 (1954): 124. Holdings: AAFF, LC, LC/prelinger, uGA. Film advocating electrically powered waste-treatment facilities. Produced as part of General Electric’s “More Power to America” campaign encouraging infrastructure investment, Clean Waters demonstrates the health and safety dangers of water pollution and presents electric- powered sewage treatment as a way to clean up America’s waterways. The film includes footage shot in 28 states and the Alaska territory. note: Clean Waters was selected “the world’s best commercially sponsored motion picture” at the 1947 Films of the World Festival in Chicago. Revised in 1954.