This 1970 awareness film “A Child’s Garden of Pollution” is narrated by Bill Bixby and follows him and his “son” (actor Brandon Cruz who played Bixby’s son on the TV show “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”) as they examine different environmental issues. These include agricultural runoff, air pollution, water pollution, overcrowding, and animals going extinct. There are many shots of pollution and smog generated by cars and factories. The film features short narrated elements by scientists who are experts on pollution and the environment. The song “Daddy, what if…?” sung by Bixby and Cruz encapsulates the theme for the film, focusing on creating a better future for children.

0:17 Fancy car driving fast down a winding road with a father and son in it, 0:57 Title “Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz in”, 1:10 Panoramic shot over smoggy Los Angeles, 1:22 Title 1:35 Musical interlude about the environment to a montage of city and industry shots, 2:00 Scenes of smokestacks from factories releasing smoke, 2:17 Smokey Boeing 737 flying, 2:57 Father and son walk along the beach, 3:13 Seagull sitting on a polluted beach, 3:22 Title “Written by Hal Wallace”, 3:33 Title “Directed by Allen Schwartz”, 3:40 Frontal shot of Bill Bixby narrating about massive environmental damages over the course of only one generation, 4:18 Shot of a polluted beach, 4:44 side profile of the son as he is looking over the city, 5:05 Bill Bixby picks up his son and continues narrating, 5:34 transition to both walking in a very green forest and several shots of trees, 6:47 Grumman Ag Cat crop duster plane, 7:00 Farmer climbs into crop duster and starts it up, 7:34 Crop duster takes off and begins dusting crops, 8:21 Shot of Highway towards San Bernardino, 8:36 Caltech’s Audrey Hugenschmidt sitting in a car explaining Carbon Monoxide levels, 9:40 Old car with smokey exhaust sends the Carbon Monoxide meter over 100 PPM, 10:24 Several sequences of doctors examining patients with lung problems, 11:22 School children running around a schoolyard happily, 11:41 Alternating sequence between a picture of a child breathing and different shots of smoke coming out of vehicles and factories, 12:23 Several shots of the coast, 12:35 camera pans out to show offshore and onshore oil rigs, 12:48 different ships spilling waste oil into the sea, 13:20 Laboratory of the North American Rockwell Corporation using sensors to detect pollution from space, 14:15 Aerial View of a countryside stream, 14:35 Infrared image of same stream to highlight the dangerous environment substances in stream, 15:21 Infrared image of a polluted stream entering the ocean with lots of agricultural runoff, 16:01 Bill Bixby and his son sitting on a rock overlooking the ocean, 16:25 Sequence of overcrowded street, suburban housing units, city shots, and freeways to represent overcrowding, 17:28 Highway shot to represent cities built for cars, 17:47 Smokey Boeing 727 landing, 17:54 take off sequences of Boeing 727s, Boeing 747s, and Boeing 707s, 18:56 Mom pushing a cart full of groceries with her child in the cart to represent overconsumption, 19:18 Mom loads groceries into her car,. 19:32 Garbage being loaded into a landfill, 19:51 sequence of shots of large factories with smokestacks that pans to an overview of smoggy Los Angeles to represent air pollution, 20:13 Slow panoramic of older people sitting on park benches while one plays the violin, 21:57 People walk across a road and a sequence of car shots “If I Could” by Simon and Garfunkel plays, 22:30 a pile of junk cars waiting to be shredded, 22:55 Slow panoramic of road works, 23:27 an orange sign with “endangered animal written on it”, 23:43 Bill Bixby and his son at the zoo looking at several animals with the orange sign continuing to flash in between, 24:38 Bill Bixby and his son walking along the beach at sunset and talking, 25:31 camera pans out over the ocean and credits begin to roll.

Bill Bixby (1934-1993) was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panelist and is most known for his role in various sitcoms like “My Favorite Martian” or movies like “The Incredible Hulk.”

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