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  • 5/14/2025
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health. | dG1fcHdzMUNIazlXN1E
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00:00Welcome to American Radium.
00:05You are paid one cent per dial.
00:09Your work suffers, Ms. Cavallo.
00:11The eight looks like a fat toddler.
00:13This month's top painter,
00:16Josephine Cavallo.
00:20Will you help me practice my feeling spaces?
00:23I'm studying.
00:24I have to be ready to be discovered
00:26and go to Hollywood.
00:30I want to find a tomb like Tut's.
00:33And I'm an archaeologist.
00:41Joe, will you be ready in five minutes?
00:43Joe?
00:44Don't come in, please.
00:45Joe?
00:48I don't know what's wrong with her.
00:50I'm dizzy.
00:52My joints ache.
00:53I lost a tooth and two others are loose.
00:55Do you know what's wrong with me?
00:57Absolutely nothing.
00:58You're healthy as a horse.
01:00Where do you work?
01:01American Radium.
01:02You're dial painters.
01:03We believe that exposure to radium can cause devastating tissue damage.
01:08Radium is good for you.
01:11Everyone knows that.
01:12What does this mean for us?
01:14You take American Radium down.
01:17There's a doctor that can test if your bones are radioactive.
01:20Bessie, you sound crazy.
01:22I'm not losing my job over this.
01:24I'm scared.
01:25I'm not going back in there.
01:27I'm looking for Bessie and Josephine Maballo.
01:31They did a study.
01:32Here's her.
01:33They own it.
01:34Own research.
01:35That's absurd.
01:36It's like owning gravity.
01:38American Radium is denying the harmful effects of radium.
01:42All they have to do is run out the clock.
01:45They could drag this out for years.
01:47I don't have years.
01:49You'll never win.
01:50I'm not doing it.
01:52No matter what.
01:53You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
01:57I do.
01:58Everyone put down your brushes.
02:00Radium is poison.
02:02Bessie, you trust Bessie.
02:03I won't abandon you.
02:06They're trying to silence you.
02:08They must be stopped.
02:12You really think you can beat American Radium?
02:16I am going to make American Radium pay for what they've done.
02:20Tell them out!
02:22Get Joe!
02:23Get Joe out of here right now!
02:29We're gonna win.

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