New Labels on Children's Sleepwear Alert Parents to Fire Dangers
Prevent burn injuries by wearing snug-fitting or flame-resistant garments
Press Release # 00-129
Transcript
There is some audio for this video clip. The picture sequence is as follows:
- Screen reading: "Commissioner Thomas Moore; U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission."
- Commissioner Moore speaking: "So, it's more likely, it's a tight fitting garment because of the denial of oxygen the flame will die, it will go out before there's any serious burns and injuries. We see hundreds of children burned every year, two or three hundred a year, two or three hundred a year, that's a lot of children. We'd like to eliminate all together, if possible, serious burns, and we're trying to convince parents to help us do that by putting their children to sleep in tight-fitting garments. The yellow tag is the educational item that will tell you why this garment is made the way it is, why it is a snug fitting garment, why that is what you ought to use for your child to sleep in, so look for the yellow tag.
- Screen reading: "B-Roll of burning 100% cotton loose-fitting T-shirt."
- Doll standing on surface dressed in loose-fitting garments, garments being lighted with a cigarette lighter.
- Demonstration of how quickly the flames rise until the entire garment and the child have been burnt.
- Demonstration of how quickly the flames rise until the entire garment and the child have been burnt. Close-up of burnt body part.
- Screen reading: "B-Roll of children in snug-fitting sleepwear and snug-fitting labels parents should read."
- Yellow label about tight-fitting garments.
- Close-up of yellow tag.
- Woman putting tight-fitting garments on a little girl (the garments are white shorts with little blue stars on them and a red shirt with a flag on the front), and saying: "They're shorts, maybe you can wear them in the parade, the 4th of July parade, can I cover that up a little bit, turn around a little bit....there's a flag on the shirt.
- Close up of white tag on the red shirt.
- Close-up of yellow tag.
- Woman putting tight-fitting garments on a child.
- Two children dressed in tight-fitting garments playing on the floor.
- Close-up of one child playing on the floor.
- Close-up of the other child playing on the floor.
- Close-up of one child with a ball in its hands.
- Both children playing on the floor.
- Girl sitting at a kitchen counter eating something.
- Woman coming in a room and putting a garment on a child.
- Woman taking a book from a bookshelf.
- Woman and little girl reading together.
- Woman tucks little girl into bed, gives her a kiss, says good night, and turns to leave.
- Screen reading: "B-Roll of flame-resistant sleepwear and typical label."
- White garment tag reading: "10; This Garment is Flame Resistant; 100% Polyester; Made in Philippines; RN 54023."
- View of garment with something else on top.
- Close-up view of garment tag.
- Screen reading: "B-Roll of sleepwear on store shelves and shoppers checking hangings and other labels."
- View of the inside of a store.
- A person passing through with a shopping cart, stopping to look at a garment and inspecting it carefully, looking at the labels and other hangings and continuing to walk along.
- Boy looking at garments.
- Adult and child looking at garments.
- Adult looking at yellow tag.
- Top of a shirt rack.
- Close-up of a yellow tag.
- Yellow tag hanging from a garment.
- Close-up of a yellow tag.
- End