Community Helpers -- The Sanitation Department

Year Published: 1963

Creator: Charles Cahill & Associates Inc.

Complete Record: Informational film on Sanitation techniques and littering. Shots of beautiful modernist architecture. Buildings. A park with picnic tables. Kids playing in a playground. Children chasing around a tree. A family picnic. “good citizens throw away rubbish.” Boy throwing trash in garbage can. Shots of garbage in cans. Garbage being dumped by a truck. A line of sanitation trucks rounding a corner in a lot. Sanitation workers. Riding on the garbage truck. Kid brings out trash late, drops something, leans over to get it with hands full. falls over and spills everything. They drive to dump, “Sanitary Landfill” or “reclamation area”. Trucks driving over wide dirt lots, bulldozers dozing trash into a heap. Bulldozers crush it and crush it with dirt. Shot of parks, plan to level ground with sanitary landfill methods to beautify city. Shots of incinerator burning rubbish. Street sweeper going down the street. Wood chipper. Man jumping down a line on a tree. Shots of traffic in a city, with busses. Street sweepers. Kid appears to litter in front of sanitation workers, but throws cup in litter box. Snow plows. Shots of people walking on clean streets. A fountain. Text on screen reads “Keeping a city clean is a big job. “ “And a very important job for you, me- -Everyone.” “Don’t be a litterbug.” Shot in Burbank, CA.