I just want to say one word to you...just one word...are you listening? PLASTICS. This plastic encased, celluloid based, shrinkwrapped video has given me a "graduate" degree and molded me with enough knowledge of lucite, polyethylene, neoprene, teflon, formica, spandex and velcro to dazzle an entire cocktail party at Mrs. Robinson's house. Did you know, for instance, that plastic was invented as a substitute for ivory when African elephants were becoming extinct? Or that early billiard balls were made of highly flammable cellulose and, after a particularly hard break, would sometimes explode, causing cowboys in Wild West saloons to draw their guns? Did you know that waterproof, detachable plastic collar liners nearly put the Chinese laundry industry out of business? Have you heard about the "women's nylon riots" in 1945 when the government no longer needed DuPont's great invention for wartime parachutes and allowed ladies to buy it for panty hose, causing riots outside department stores? Did you know that not a single thing on the Titanic was made of plastic? Benjamin, am I boring you?? Well, I assure you, this video won't. Smart enough to include an environmental discussion of the "evils" of plastic waste, it nonetheless falls a little short by not telling us where we are going in the future with plastics. And, Lord knows, we "graduates" are always worried about our future. Recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (R. Ray)
Modern Marvels: Plastics
(1998) 50 min. $19.95. A&E Home Video (avail. from most distributors). PPR. Vol. 14, Issue 3
Modern Marvels: Plastics
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