The Two-Legged Space Ship

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Sid Davis Productions

Complete Record: Mark is attending elementary school and he and his class have been learning about ecology and pollution. On his way home one of the boys drops a little plastic bag, and Mark picks it up and hands it to one of the officers whom he knows. He is curious to know what is in the bag and the officer tells him it looks like narcotics, drugs,”personal pollution” of some misguided young people. Mark is at once interested. He has just learned about pollution and the environment, but what is “personal pollution”? And he begins to ask questions. The officer tells him that if he is really interested he will arrange with Mark’s teacher to come to class and explain about “personal pollution”. The officer pays a visit to Mark’s class. He discusses pollution and analogizes the Earth to a giant space ship- and every child to a two-legged space ship which requires clean air, water, and sustenance an which can be harmed, even destroyed by pollution. Mark listens, as he is a boy with a vivid imaginations, and as the officer speaks, he visualizes his words and descriptions in a way only the imagination of a child could. He and his friends learn they can do their part right now in stopping the pollution of the earth, the space ship of all mankind, by deciding not to pollute their own bodies and minds.