Warning Warning

Streaming video - 2016

Warning Warning focuses on San Francisco Bay ecological conditions in 1970 and threats to the Bay caused by the dumping of municipal, farming and industrial wastes into its tributary rivers and into the bay itself. The film was made in support of the Save the Bay movement that succeeded in stopping further land fill operations. At a time in the 1960's of increasing water pollution, when the Army Corps of Engineers projected that San Francisco Bay would be completely filled down to narrow shipping channels, and that the earth from the San Bruno Mountain south of San Francisco would be used to fill it, a movement arose to Save the Bay. This organization led efforts that resulted in the creation of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and D...evelopment Commission and state legislation to stop the destruction of the bay. The creation of the Commission inspired and was used as a model for the creation of the California Coastal Commission and the conservation and preservation legislation that now has put a stop the the wholesale destruction of the environment of the coast and the bay. To support this movement Harvey Richards made Warning! Warning! to help build public support for the Save the Bay movement. more