Asbestos (1942)

Asbestos.
Location of events unknown.
Various diagrams showing how asbestos is formed. A woman cuts bits of asbestos from a rock. A map shows the biggest producers are Russia and Canada. Commentator talks about practical uses of asbestos for packing etc. We see a factory where a woman is cutting out the required length. We see various asbestos goods being made, including shield for firefighters, fireproof boots and suit. Women in the factory hold them up. M/S as a coat for a boiler is made. A firefighter wears an asbestos suit, boots and mask. An asbestos snuff is used to put out fire from a bomb. A woman shows off the fireproof asbestos curtains and covers in her home. She demonstrates their resilience by trying to set fire to the tablecloth with a candle.
Cataloguer's note: this is a very good item which could be used to show attitudes towards asbestos before it was discovered to be dangerous.
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[@stephaniedykes4157]

The music sounds so cheerful.

[@drabberfrog]

What an informative video, does anyone know where I can purchase asbestos? I am sold on this revolutionary new product.

[@caphs2107]

rip for these ppls little they knew from this day backward. I’ve seen asbestos bagging racing in footage like this “oldays” big clouds of it puffing in the workers faces! ☠️😓

[@charlienia6619]

mostly banned due to cancer causing problems

[@fenlander7114]

Available all over Wittenoom WA, strangely no one mines it any more…

[@diegovega6545]

UFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
ASBESTOSIS !!!

[@Steam_City]

I usually get mine from old schools

[@Snuzzled]

Boy! Good thing that electric knife she's cutting the asbestos with has a safety handle. That could have been dangerous otherwise!

[@shaygraham6925]

😂

[@dabnisbrickey6527]

It’s crazy how nobody back then knew that asbestosis, cigarettes, and lead paint weren't safe. Who knows what we have today that is a hazard that no one knows the dangers of yet.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

The mRNA vaccines

[@jb8683]

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 literally lol

[@k39564]

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 Trump tried to stop it.

[@tokeitup8891]

@@seldomseenn ironic

[@fortunatebum]

Oh they knew, the companies that relied on them paid off medical professionals to say they have no adverse side effects to humans

[@spaghetti9067]

Those ✨lovely✨silk like fibers

[@Jb1yt-yt]

Thats a terrifying thing to watch. Those poor women could not have lived for very long working in that factory. And being trapped in a suit of burning asbestos sounds like a nightmare.

[@buffalofpv3996]

I mean, it worked great to protect firefighters from immediate danger. I’d much rather be inside the burning asbestos suit than outside of it

[@DuffyWayne]

I love relaxing with a cigarette at home under my nice asbestos blanket. safety first!

[@fork2309]

and going on drives with your teraethyl leaded gasoline filled car, and checking the time with your radium nitrate covered watch

[@Diesel8290]

Ahhh the good old days ❤

[@gunnerdavidson7287]

I feel sorry for those women. But they're doing asbestos they can.

[@aranhoulihan7618]

I find it scary

[@gunnerdavidson7287]

@@aranhoulihan7618 Indeed

[@visualsbysenpai]

In 1970's all those women died from lung cancer

[@charles76355]

Underrrated comment

[@jiae6374]

Thank you for this informative video!

[@SparrowHawk69]

Azbest magiczny minerał, wróć ponownie !

[@war10ck63]

ım sad for working woman with asbest

[@lightningfun6486]

This is horrifying now that we know

[@lampshadethisforshadowthat1050]

This is just sad to look at now…

[@RaymondLo84]

i assume these workers are long dead

[@markunknown6507]

Long long dead

[@TheByrd]

From asbestos or not. They'd be like in their 100s

[@kingtryton]

Yea there time has passed but no telling how terrible it must’ve been in there later years and if they even knew this stuff was killing them slowly

[@spaghetti9067]

It’s difficult to imagine how it could be dangerous as we know it and they are so blasé about it, bro had his head encapsulated in it

[@kingtryton]

Sad, they had no idea of the dangerous just blinded by all the benefits

[@stephenbrand5661]

It's actually not nearly as dangerous when it's bound up in some other material like that.
The real danger is when it is small enough to inhale, like in dust form.

[@jjgun5074]

Madness.

[@86Ivar]

the electric knife safety handguard.

[@danpanther]

The hand saw with safety guard did not look at all safe. Let alone the asbestos!! 🎉

[@asdreww]

It's like a miracle material. I wonder if it will ever make a comeback, in some new safe form.

[@clotz1820]

unfortunately the form is heavily related to its charasteristics. its impossible to work with it safely.

[@virlanionut]

If only they knew 😮

[@fizkallnyeilsem]

Mmmmmm Lung cancer galore

[@migasmiguel10]

Im feiling it from here

[@martybadboy]

In 30 years you're going to see a video like this about lithium batteries. 🤷

[@chicargowest]

Jesus