[Indiscriminate chatter] [Dynamic frantic music] [Cinematic technique,facial montage] [The Squeeze] [Directed and produced by: Hilary Harris] [Music by: David Hollister] [Associate producer: Giancarlo Lui; Production assistant: Luis Weksler] [Sound recordings: Phil Gibson] [Applause] [Speaker 1:] Thankyou, Mr. Chairman. [Bird’s-eye shot] Ladies and gentlemen, everysecond, three babies are born. Every minute, 200babies are born. Every hour, about12,000 babies are born. Every day, 300,000babies are born. Every week, 2 millionbabies are born. Every month, 8 and a halfmillion babies are born. Every year, 100 millionbabies are born. [Disruptive loud music] [Images showingpopulation crowding] [Speaker 2:] Peopleare living longer. More infants beingborn are living. As the number of the populationexpands, it's like a snowball. [Speaker 3:] This seems to meto be a very serious problem. In the time tocome, the world will won't be big enough ifthe population increases the way it is. [Speaker 4:] It'sa terrible thing. The jobs are decreasing, whereasthe people are increasing. [Typewriter clacking] [Speaker 5:] Well, it's always, what's the old saying? "The rich get richer andthe poor have children." [Speaker 6:] Well, certainly itspopulation will increase also in slums willincrease because you have less jobs for thepeople, and it has just degraded constantly. [City street sounds] [Speaker 7:] The worst thingabout the population problem is that it hurts the people whoalready have the toughest time. They already live in themost crowded conditions. [City street sounds] [Footsteps] [Speaker 8:] (singing) She hadno money to pay her rent. She borrowed a one,she borrowed a two, and passed it on to Y-O-U. [Subway train passing] Typewriter clacking] [Speaker 9:] What'sbeen since time was. They always have gottenthrough, somehow. [Speaker 8:] (singing) --go toMacy's any more, more, more. There's a big, fat policemanat the door, door, door. He'll pull you by the collarand make you pay a dollar-- [Groovy music] [Images showingpopulation crowding] [Indiscriminate chatter] [Speaker 11:] I don't likebeing pushed and shoved, and you look likea bunch of cattle. [Speaker 12:] They live like ants. [Speaker 13:] They get apsychological detriment. They get a spiritual detriment. [Speaker 14:] They say thatby the year 2060 or so, there won't be enough spaceon this Earth for anybody to stand. [Police sirens] [Stopwatch ticking] [Alarm beeping] [Stopwatch ticking and alarm beeping] [Alarm beeping] [Car engines running] [Alarm beeping] [Crowd murmuring] [Public address announcer:]Your attention please. Your attention please. All persons who areholding green cards, please form a line [?]. [Car honks] [Airplane flying] [Large crowd chatter] [50s beach music] [Swimming, walking, playing, various activities] [Playful music] [City landscapes] [Playful music] [Speaker 15:] The mainthing is that you either live along with it or youjust get swallowed up. [Music] [Cinematic technique,facial and landscape montage] [Speaker 16:] Thenyou move out there and then that gets crowdedand you go further. You keep moving out and thepeople move up out with you. How far out can you go? All right. So you move back in. [Music] [Speaker 17:] Peoplelive, people die. [Speaker 18:] Peopleare born and they die. [Music] [Cinematic technique,facial and landscape montage] [Frantic music] [Speaker 19:] I have kids. I have a 11-year-old,I got a 10-year-old, and a five-year-old. [Music] [Cinematic technique,facial and landscape montage] [Eerie high frequency pitch] [Audio fades] [Cinematic technique,facial and landscape montage] [High frequency pitch] [Muddled talking] [Throat clearing] [Speaker 1:] If the presentrate of population increase had been in effect since thebeginning of the Christian era, there would be 90 billiontimes 10 to the 12th power number of individuals,or a solid mass of people 2,000miles thick covering the surface of the globe. [Typing] [Dynamic frantic music] 300,000 babiesare born each day. 200,000 of these are bornto families who are not able to obtain enough to eat. Ladies and gentlemen, everyday two-thirds of the world's children go hungry. The poorest countrieshave the most rapid rate of population increase. There are more hungrypeople in the world today than there were peoplein the world altogether 50 years ago. The present day tells us... [Ominous music] [Graphic illustrations of population growth] [Indiscriminate chatter] [With grateful acknowledgment to: The United Nations photographic libraries and the United Nations film library] [End]