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Tuberculosis (3rd Edition)

Reel Number: 221310-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1955

Country: USA

Location: Virginia

TC Begins: 19:52:18

TC Ends: 20:01:58

Duration: 00:09:40

Tuberculosis (3rd Edition) Encyclopaedia Britannica High angle of crowded sidwalk in summer below store awnings; superimposed graphics w/ TB, question marks & body outlines. Title. 19:52:57 Poster w/ body outlines, question marks & TB - You may have it, fading to woman passing out literature in front of Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health office. Graph of rate of TB. 19:53:24 Montage: Large steel mill or other factory w/ smokestack & workers after shift; int. coal mine; rural family w boy chopping wood; slums on edge of town; inner city slums; kids play in dirt in sun; people making dust shaking rug from window, sweeping, people coughing; refugees w/ goods past destruction. 19:53:55 Scientist in lab looking thru microscope; people getting tests for tb by doctor putting needle into arm. CU calendar pages for October 8, 9, 10 & checking test w/ boy found to be infected (CU of arm); CU of arm of uninfected girl, Mary. 19:54:47 Mary sitting on couch w/ aunt who is coughing. Sneezing. Diagram of lungs showing route of entry for germs & on into air sacs. Drawing & actual cells swallowed up. Air sacs closed off. 19:56:25 Cafeteria & Mary sitting down w/ others eating from trays. Mary looking tired. Chest diagram showing breakdown of pulmonary or lymph nodes & new disease area. X-ray showing dark cavity compared to earlier. 19:58:09 Mary w/ book & at large radio, sitting & coughing. Calls up doctor. Doctors examine, given tb test. Chest X-Ray taken by nurse. Physician explains findings. Large tuberculosis hospital ext & int. Nurses treating Mary; lying in bed, eating proper food from tray. Laying resting. Surgical procedure shown. Patient w/ drip. 20:01:02 Nurse walking up to large hospital. Mobile chest x-ray unit & x-raying patients; check up by doctors. Other x-rays & passing out literature. The End. Educational Films; Instructional Films; Chronic Diseases; Medicine; Epidemics; Communicable Diseases; Americana; Public Health;

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