Late lessons from early warnings. 1:4, Lead for life
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Research, Lise Frederiksen ; photographer, Michael Daugaard, Jakob Gottschau ; film editor, Jesper Osmund ; music, Niels Mosumgaard.

Narration, Brian Patterson ; interviewees include Bill Kovarik, Philippe Grandjean, Herbert J. Needleman, Angela Mathee.

Human enthusiasm for progress--particularly when shortsighted, misguided, or tainted by self-interest--can ricochet, marring the global environment and the lives of millions. As a gasoline additive, lead suppresses engine knock. Lead is also a well-known poison, and yet during the 1920s it was championed over safer alternatives--and even backed by the U.S. surgeon general. Why? Money, of course, and the tremendous power of oil and automobile companies. This program presents a condensed history of the gasoline additive, tetraethyllead, and its impact on human health and intelligence, most notably as documented in Herbert Needleman's controversial study of schoolchildren.

Produced with the support by [the] Danish Ministry of Education; Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Nordisk TV-samarbejdsfond UR, YLE, NRK; The Danish Film Institute by commissioning editor Dola Bonfils.

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