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Funny shot of globe turning w/ model houses stuck onto various continents & flies buzzing around. Latin name “Musca Domestica” superimposed - flies described by hilariously alarmist narrator as “one of the most dangerous insects known to man”. Says that house flies spread disease & death, blaming them for typhoid, dysentery, TB, leprosy, hookworm, cholera, anthrax, diarrhea & gangrene! Zoom in on globe.
13:16:37 Gray-haired housewife in kitchen cooking. VO points out flies equally at home in “finery” or “filth” - cutaways to litter-strewn alleyway, an “unsanitary privy”, decaying bobcat carcass & rubbish dump. Film cruelly cuts back to little girl eating cake at birthday party w/ balloons. “Tests have proved that flies from a dump such as this are capable of flying up to twenty miles away to alight perhaps on baby’s birthday cake”! - baby swats at “germ-laden flies” - cut to baby crying in crib. Flies on milk bottles.
13:17:47 Extreme close-ups of flies - VO describes physical characteristics - body parts labeled. Unsuspecting family play in garden while flies devour watermelon on picnic table. Flies crawl over rubbish inc. fish heads. VO re sticky feet of flies over shots of them crawling across ceiling.
13:20:45 Laboratory test - fly walking across gelatine plate to scatter fungus - scientist looks through microscope to see spread of fungus. More gross CUs flies. Diagram of fly digestive system inc. regurgitation - VO “Supposing this fly was to alight next on your strawberry sundae” - cut to exactly that, man picks fly off sundae & carries on eating. Flies crawling over surface covered in “fly specks” - faeces & regurgitated food.
Hygiene; Public Health; Sanitation; Pest Control; 1950s Paranoia; Families;
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Main titles. P1 of 2 Funny shot of globe turning w/ model houses stuck onto various continents & flies buzzing around. Latin name “Musca Domestica” superimposed - flies described by hilariously alarmist narrator as “one of the most dangerous insects known to man”. Says that house flies spread disease & death, blaming them for typhoid, dysentery, TB, leprosy, hookworm, cholera, anthrax, diarrhea & gangrene! Zoom in on globe. 13:16:37 Gray-haired housewife in kitchen cooking. VO points out flies equally at home in “finery” or “filth” - cutaways to litter-strewn alleyway, an “unsanitary privy”, decaying bobcat carcass & rubbish dump. Film cruelly cuts back to little girl eating cake at birthday party w/ balloons. “Tests have proved that flies from a dump such as this are capable of flying up to twenty miles away to alight perhaps on baby’s birthday cake”! - baby swats at “germ-laden flies” - cut to baby crying in crib. Flies on milk bottles. 13:17:47 Extreme close-ups of flies - VO describes physical characteristics - body parts labeled. Unsuspecting family play in garden while flies devour watermelon on picnic table. Flies crawl over rubbish inc. fish heads. VO re sticky feet of flies over shots of them crawling across ceiling. 13:20:45 Laboratory test - fly walking across gelatine plate to scatter fungus - scientist looks through microscope to see spread of fungus. More gross CUs flies. Diagram of fly digestive system inc. regurgitation - VO “Supposing this fly was to alight next on your strawberry sundae” - cut to exactly that, man picks fly off sundae & carries on eating. Flies crawling over surface covered in “fly specks” - faeces & regurgitated food. Hygiene; Public Health; Sanitation; Pest Control; 1950s Paranoia; Families;