At least they tried asbestos they can at the time.
153Cough, cough ... You got that right ... cough, cough, hack, HACK, HHHHHHHHHHAACK, cough, cough.
31Me so glad they tried!
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The Wizard of Oz was one of the absolute most dangerous films ever made. OP is there a good essay about the history of this? It's a REALLY fascinating story and a lot of people who watch and enjoy movies would probably be absorbed into reading it.
103There was a couple of books about it, it seems.
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If you don't know: It made them all gay
64Yea, just like the frigging frogs!
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The Slow Demise of Asbestos, the Carcinogen that Gave ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Snow https://archive.vn/CCy5x
60I think I looked this up at one point, and weirdly, none of them died from the asbestos. I seem to remember several of the actors died relatively young, so maybe something else got them first.
41It was in 1939. Asbestos usually fucks you 20 years later, so around 1950. While Asbestos related diseases were acknowledged in the 40s, the widespread understanding of a health hazard was only coming up in the 60s to 80s.
So it is very well possible, that it simply wasn't checked.
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Mesotheli OH MY GOD I LOVE PRACTICAL EFFECTS
24Just posting this all over the place? I've seen it on three different meme subs
23Breathe deep!
9I saw a very long summary of all that went wrong at the making of this film on Reddit once.
3Just goes to show you Hollywood was always a messed up place. It was indifferent to people back then, it is indifferent to people now.
On a slightly related topic, "Babylon" was too much the same self loathing and despair from Hollywood; it ultimately bombed, despite being a technically great movie, because everyone is sick and tired of seeing Hollywood bemoaning that this messed up world is never going to change.
I hope they will be proven wrong after the strike.
2Oh... OP is trying to do this in order to bring popularity to a bunch of reactionary political takes. "jimmy dore is a lefty" and OP simps for "apolitical" enlightened centrist Matt Taibbi, as well as that shit No Labels party that's actually funded by conservative billionaires.
-20Ngl I’m pretty terminally online and spend an unhealthy amount of time reading about politics (both fringe and otherwise) but I have almost no clue what your comment is saying lol
60So you can blame it on horseshoe theory, or right wingers posing as lefties in order to disincentivize the get out the vote campaigns, or simple trolling by otherwise disinterested people, but there’s a phenomenon that seems to be getting more prevalent - on lemmy in particular but also our there in social space.
It’s folks who will unironically brand Bernie Sanders as a capitalist reactionary while praising Putin as an anti-capitalist hero standing up against imperialism. The dialog is actually remarkably close to what we saw in the early days of the_donald, where the over the top jokes about the trump train and the line transformed via some kind of sea change into what was considered serious dialog.
There was an actual fracturing off of some elements of the relatively far left (think pacifica radio not the weathermen) with the trump-russia thing and that might have its own causality to explore, but I don’t think that does anything but provide a nucleus for the rest to organize around.
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12fuck that shit
2Man I miss old matt taibbi so much. What happened to him 😭
2Yeah same :(
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