"The Radium Girls: The Dark Story Behind the Women Who Painted with Toxic Paint"
October 31, 2024Video Details
- Style
- Cinematic
- Genre
- History
- Voice
- Kazuha
- Language
- Japanese
Creative Input
Prompt
"The Radium Girls: The Dark Story Behind the Women Who Painted with Toxic Paint"
Script
Did you know that 100 years ago, hundreds of women were employed to paint watch faces with glow-in-the-dark paint containing radium? They were known as the Radium Girls, and their job was to dip their brushes in radium-laced paint and then shape their lips to get a fine point, thereby ingesting small amounts of radium daily. Many of these women suffered from radiation poisoning, anemia, bone cancer, and necrosis of the jaw, a condition now known as "Radium Jaw." Their fight for justice led to changes in labor laws and workers' rights.