Asbestos Industry Films

The asbestos industry made films about itself, for its customers, its salesmen, its employees and the public. These come from Johns-Manville's own film archive. Each is shown in full, with a transcript of its soundtrack.

The films

• Fibers of Freedom (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. 1940s, 30:45)
• Safer Ships for Our Merchant Marine (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. 1950s, 18:44)
• Heat: The Science and Economics of Its Control (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. 1950s, 25:02)
• Mr. Johns and Mr. Manville (Johns-Manville Corporation, 1953, 14:07)
• Asbestos: A Matter of Time (Johns-Manville Corporation, 1958, 21:43)
• A Hundred Years of Roofing Experience (Johns-Manville Corporation, 1958, 19:56)
• The World of J-M (Johns-Manville Corporation, 1969, 18:08)
• Montage: Visual Highlights of Johns-Manville (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. late 1970s, 6:56)
• Asbestos (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. early 1970s, 18:36)
• No Smoking Please (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. late 1970s, 11:43)
• Asbestos: Where It Came From and Where It Is Used (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. 1970, 10:08)
• Working with Asbestos (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. late 1970s, 21:35)
• Perception of Risk (Johns-Manville Corporation, c. 1976–80, 22:05)
• Dr. Paul Kotin on Asbestos: A Look at the Future (Dr. Paul Kotin, c. 1978, 7:34)
• Manville: The Asbestos Issue (Manville Corporation, 1983, 29:27)
• Animation of Lungs, Asbestos & Health (Johns-Manville Corporation, 1:41)
• Asbestos Information Committee advertisements (The Asbestos Information Committee (UK), 2:32)

Videotaped depositions

Johns-Manville's archive also kept videotapes of depositions given in the asbestos lawsuits, recorded to be shown to juries. Each is shown in full, tape by tape, with a transcript.

• Videotaped Deposition of Dr. Paul Kotin in the South Carolina Asbestos Cases (1979) (2 tapes, 5:13:39)
• Videotaped Deposition of Clifford L. Sheckler (1982) (6 tapes, 10:14:40)