| A MIRACLE FROM A MOULD Film explaining how penicillin was discovered and spores being incubated to produce drug. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7780 |
| Catalog #: | 511251 | |
| Clip Number: | 511251-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1200 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:26:01 - 01:29:16 | |
| Location: | Africa | |
| Year Shot: | 1944 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DRUGS: Pharmaceuticals HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Research LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Misc SCIENCE: Laboratory | |
| Description: | 'African Mirror No. 246 - A MIRACLE FROM A MOULD'. C/Us of moldy potatoes, bread and fruit. M/S still of Professor Alexander Fleming of St Mary's Hospital, London, the man who discovered penicillin. C/Us of laboratory dishes with mould cultures in them, as commentator explains the work that led to the discovery of the drug. C/U of specimen of penicillin spores that has been sent to South Africa (label on side of bottle is dated 6 January 1944). The bottle is opened and a tiny tube with a pellet inside it taken out. The tube is cut open, the pellet is dropped into a test tube of fluid. The fluid is added to other tubes and incubated in a special cabinet. Later, the tubes are taken out. C/U of one of the test tubes to show it is now a large, moldy blob. The penicillin is transferred into glass flasks for further incubation. Shot of the flasks with clear liquid inside; fade into shot of flasks with mass of white mould inside. Fluid is taken from the flasks and put into test tubes. C/Us of test tubes shows how the penicillin drug has cleared deadly germs in one of them. Scientist looks through microscope. Magnified view of "the wonder fungus". C/U of still of Professor Alexander Fleming. | |
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