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High Plains Films Clip of the Week
Clip of the Week: ‘The Dust’ in Libby, Montana, Part II

Editor’s Note: This marks the second installment of the High Plains Films clip of the week—a new feature here at NewWest.Net in which each Friday on our pages, High Plains Films will be sharing a noteworthy film clip. This month, as the W.R. Grace trial grinds on in Missoula (click here for coverage), the clips will come from the High Plains feature documentary Libby, Montana, which explores the company’s contamination of the community. Below, filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis explains the following clip:

In this short scene from our feature documentary, LIBBY, MONTANA, former WR Grace plant manager, Earl Lovick, talks about his knowledge of the hazards of the dust produced at the Libby mill. His commentary here is from a videotaped deposition recorded during a civil case against WR Grace in the 1990s. Lovick died in 1996.

For more information about the film, trailers, audio downloads, external links, reviews, blogs and more please visit either the official site for the film at High Plains site here or on the PBS site here.

Click here for “The Dust” Part I and bookmark www.newwest.net/highplainsfilms to check back for coming installments.

Comments

By Mike Crill, 4-03-09
I believe Lovick testimony will put the icing in this cake.Not that enough said to convict...Thank you for putting this out there for all to see.A need for all to see.How about a Libby Montana 2...Tens years after.And Libby continues to expose more people by selling Libby as safe.What did we learn in 1999? And for what? To make tons of money off of what was done to Libby and the people.Look who is selling Libby as safe.Stay away from Libby is what I say.The truth.
By sharon fisher, 4-03-09
Just wanted to say, I saw Libby, Montana, during the Idaho International Film Festival a couple of years ago and I was *riveted* (and then I went home terrified of the insulation in my house, which was built around the same period). Excellent, excellent work. How can people get to see it?
By Doug Hawes-Davis, 4-04-09
Thanks, Sharon. The DVD of LIBBY, MONTANA is pretty widely available from amazon.com, netflix, our own web site (highplainsfilms.org), and many other web sites. It also has re-broadcasts on PBS stations periodically.
By Wordsmith, 4-07-09
While the Cranford mining disaster was going on, I saw the DVD 'Libby, Montana.' Got it from Netflix. Had to watch it twice. Earl Lovick was UNBELIEVABLE .....I was stunned watching him.
By Mike Crill, 4-07-09
To be fair about this, Dust to Dust by Michael Browns Production on Libby is of the same quality and human experiences of the people of Libby.God Bless all of you for doing what you have done to warn and protect all the people from what is killing me, my family and a entire town.This is for those we leave behind to seek truth and understand so this never ever happens again.Libby Mt #2...Better than the first...

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