In 1958, McAlpine was the first to suggest that the Minamata symptoms resembled those of organic mercury poisoning.
It is the first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.
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Classic examples being the Minamata Bay poisoning that occurred from 1932 to 1968, killing over 1784 individuals and the Wabigoon River incidence of 1962.