Documentary. The potential health hazards posed by environmental pollution in B.C., and the work of the Public Health Service and Pollution Control Board. Includes scenes documenting various sources of air and water pollution; sewage treatment; field testing of air, water, shellfish to determine health dangers, etc. Begins with a speech by Premier W.A.C. Bennett on the importance of keeping B.C. beautiful, despite the demands of progress.

The item consists of five reels of film footage including:

1. Clayburn Plant, 1965, shots of signs, men inside a lab, man working with a scale, tour group as they watch the manufacturing of bricks: outs
2. Bennett bonds, Interview with Premier W.A.C. Bennett about new issue of parity bonds. People assemble for a meeting where a man uses graph to show performance of parity bonds. Shots of audience. Premier Bennett addresses group. Audience files out and picks up printed matter: negative picture with optical sound
3. Columbia Cellulose Ltd., logo: print and negative
4. Pollution controversy, 1969, Hand picks up booklet titled "Coal and Clean Air in North Vancouver"; shots of Neptune Terminals coal-handling facilities, North Vancouver; interview with man: negative picture with optical sound
5. Osaka trees Expo, 1968, Falling and hauling logs for the BC Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. Shows scale model of pavilion: negative.