[00:00 - 00:10]
[rap-style music chanted by children] ♪ Toxic wastes from A to Z coming after you and me. ♪ [the same phrase continues to be repeated]
On a black screen, eight hot pink circles appear in succession across the top. Eight yellow circles appear in succession below the pink.
In hot pink text over a black background the text reads: DANGER DANGER ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
In yellow text over a black background with the exception of “A” and “Zee” which are hot pink: TOXIC WASTE FROM A TO Zee COMING AFTER YOU AND ME
[00:11 - 00:14]
A blinking, hot pink rectangle underlines YOU AND ME. The bright pink rectangle grows vertically into a rectangle and overtakes the screen. A yellow circle flickers at the bottom. Words in light lavender-pink layer over the hot pink background.
Light lavender-pink text over hot pink: ALDICARB ALDRIN ALUMINUM PHOSPHIDE
[noisy beeping sound] ♪ Toxic wastes from A to Z coming after you and me. ♪
A black horizontal line crosses the centre point of the pink and grows vertically, creating a black screen within the pink.
Yellow text over black reads: AMMONIUM PICRATE
12 question marks in a row appear below the chemical name. The words are crossed through. Black covers the words.
[00:15 - 00:29]
Hot pink text over black reads: ARSENIC ACID
Names are crossed through. Black covers the bottom half of the screen
Yellow text over black reads: BARIUM CYANIDE
A yellow rectangle appears in the top half of the view. It turns hot pink. Black wipes the bottom half of the screen and new text is layered over it after each of the following: BENZIDINE BIS (CHLORO-METHYL) ETHER CALCIUM CYANIDE
Slender, tightly spaced vertical yellow lines rise from the centre third to the top of the frame, then continue from the bottom. Black wipes the previous word.
Hot pink text over black reads: CARBON DISULFIDE
A hot pink, tightly spaced grid fills the centre third. Two black rectangles appear each containing..
Purple text over black text: CARBON TETRACHLORIDE
Black fills the frame.
Yellow text: CESIUM C-56 HEXACHLORO- CYCLOPHENDIENE
[00:30 - 00:44]
[electronic beeping sounds in various tones]
At the top right, the yellow dot blinks once, turns hot pink, and hot pink fills the frame.
Light lavender-pink text over hot pink reads: CHLORODANE CHLOROFORM COPPER CYANIDES CYANOGEN CYANOGEN CHLORIDE
The words are crossed out and hot pink then black fills the frame.
Purple text over black: DIBROMO-CHLOROPRO-PANE
Yellow text over black: ! ! ! ! ! DICHLORO-DENZENE DDT DDT DDT
Purple text over black: DIELDRIN
Yellow covers the top and bottom sections of the hot pink frame. Black fills the centre.
Hot pink text over black reads: DIMENTHYL-SULFOXIDE ENDOSULFAN
Purple vertical bars rise from the bottom of the frame and take up about a quarter of the lower half. The same happens at the top with yellow bars. Black fill.
Yellow text over black: ENDRIN
Hot pink text over black: HEPTACHLOR
Hot Pink bars cover the right side of the yellow. A hot pink grid covers the purple. Light pink fills the middle third.
[00:45 - 01:00]
Hot pink, partially illegible text appears on light pink for less than one second before being crossed out. The first letters are: HEMACHLOR
Yellow fills the middle third, green fills the top and bottom thirds.
Black text over green: HEXACHLORO-1.
Black text over yellow: 3-BUTADIENE
Hot pink fills the lower horizontal quarter. Black covers the upper third.
Yellow text over black: LEPTOPHOS
Chocolate brown fills in the black area above and below the word. Black fills in a horizontal section in the middle of the frame. Chocolate brown covers the word.
Hot pink text over black: MERCURY FULMINATE
A hot pink rectangle blinks under the word, at centre. Varying thicknesses and sizes of vertical rectangles in hot pink or yellow fill in the upper right quarter. Rectangles of yellow or pink cover the upper and lower thirds of the screen. Black takes the centre.
Yellow text over black: NICKEL CARBONYL
Black covers the bottom pink rectangle and fills over the word.
Hot pink text over black: NICKEL CYANIDE NITROFEN
Yellow text over black: NITROGLYCERIN
Chocolate brown fills over the black. Yellow briefly overtakes pink. A black rectangle appears in the centre of the top yellow rectangle, and centre of the middle brown.
Hot pink text over black: PARATHION PARAQUAT
Brown columns fill the right and left sides of the image, leaving the words on screen. Added to the brown at the bottom:
Hot pink text over brown: DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER
[01:01 - 01:14]
[scratchy electronic notes that sound like feedback]
A medium pink line appears above the DANGERs. It increases in height to cover the middle third. Brown covers the top.
Hot pink text over brown: PCB PCB PCB PCB PCB PCB
Hot pink text over medium pink: POLYCHLORI-NATED BIPHENYLS
Medium pink outlines the screen area, it fills the middle third, then fills the top third leaving the DANGERs.
Hot pink text over brown: PENTACHLOROPHENOL PHENOLICS
Black covers the top and bottom of the screen.
Yellow text over black at top and bottom: WARNING!
Hot pink covers everything above the lower WARNING. There may be light pink words on the hot pink. If it is text, it’s illegible. Black fills in the top third and is replaced by a bluey purple. Translucent yellow covers the bottom black third with the yellow WARNING, the middle hot pink is replaced by a lighter pink. The previously illegible word may read “PHTHALATE”
Blueish purple fills the bottom third. As it passes WARNING, the text changes to hot pink. Hot pink fills the lighter pink middle third.
Green fills the screen, leaving a frame of Blueish purple.
[ 01:15 - 01:29]
[scratchy electronic notes continue]
Yellow text over black: PLUTONIUM PLUTONIUM PLUTONIUM PLUTONIUM ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A yellow circle appears at the top left. It turns pink. The colours alternate between yellow and pink. After the second exchange, three of the circles get progressively larger and cover the previous. The final pink circle covers the yellow, the screen fills with exclamation marks, then black covers it all.
Hot pink text over black: POTASSIUM CYANIDE POTASSIUM SILVER CYANIDE SODIUM AZIDE SODIUM CYANIDE
Medium pink fill.
Hot pink text over medium pink: STRONTIUM 89
[ 01:30 - 01:44]
Hot pink fills most of the screen leaving a medium pink strip at the top and bottom.
Medium pink text over hot pink: TETRANITRON THANE THORIUM TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) TOLUENE
Green fills most of the screen leaving a medium pink strip at the top and bottom. Black fills the top half of the screen.
Black text over green: DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER
Purple text over black: TOXAPHENE
Yellow text over black: TRICHLOROETHANE
Hot pink fills the lower half of the screen.
The whole image flickers several times then slides up and off screen. As soon as each section is off screen it reappears at the bottom and rises back to its original position. In the same flow of movement, the pink rectangle shrinks in height. The moment it disappears, it reappears at the bottom and rises to just below the words. The moment it reaches the bottom of the words, it shrinks again. Once it disappears, in the same flow, black covers the words.
Yellow text over black: 2. 4. – D 2. 4. 5. -T 2-3-7-8 TETRA- CHLORODIBENZO PARA-DIOXIN
Purple text over black: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Medium pink frames the screen. It is filled with hot pink.
[01:45 - 01:59]
[♪ Toxic wastes from A to Z coming after you and me. ♪]
Purpose and dark pink text over hot pink: URANIUM VINYL CHLORIDE XYLENE ZINCCYANIDE
The left side of the frame alternates from medium pink to black twice. The bottom of the frame alternates from medium pink to black twice. Hot pink fills the black spaces at the bottom and left side of the frame.
Vertical strips of medium pink and black alternate across the screen, covering the words. The pink splits horizontally across the middle. The top section slides up leaving black at the centre.
Purple text over black: ZIRCONIUM
One by one the medium pink strips disappear into the black background. The word is crossed out with chocolate brown and all disappears into black.
Yellow text over a black background with the exception of “A” and “Zee”: TOXIC WASTE FROM A TO Zee COMING AFTER YOU AND ME
Black fill. Eight hot pink circles appear in succession across the top of the screen. Eight yellow circles appear in succession below the pink.
Hot pink text over black: DANGER DANGER
[02:00 - 02:08]
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
[02:09 - 02:11]
[intermittent beeping sounds]
Horizontal static lines slide up and down the image. Black screen with significant horizontal static.
Video description by Kat Germain. Modified by Shauna Jean Doherty.
