| DIPHTHERIA TRAILER Official Government film appealing for parents to get their children inoculated against diphtheria. | ||
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| Catalog #: | 265141 | |
| Clip Number: | 265141-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 41/84 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1941 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Instruction & Advice HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Preventive, Innoculate LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: Misc | |
| Description: | Diphtheria trailer. M/S of a mother in her kitchen baking buns, she talks about her children and says she no longer has any fear of one thing, the word 'diphtheria' comes up on the screen. The picture fades to a scientist in his laboratory, he talks about how many children diphtheria kills and how it is easy to stop, the word 'inoculation' comes up on the screen and it fades to a doctor in his surgery talking about how it is simple safe and free. M/S of children going down to air raid shelter, M/S as more run out of school gates. Intertitle reads- 'Inoculation is safe... simple... free!' The picture fades back to the mother with her two little girls appealing to people to have their children inoculated, one of her girls takes a bun from the tray. The doctor also says inoculate now. Various shots of nurse in surgery and an infant school. C/U of the little girl eating her bun and smiling. | |
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