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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220376-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1954
Country: USA
Location: Georgia
TC Begins: 02:43:45
TC Ends: 02:54:21
Duration: 00:10:36
The Invader R3 of 3 Early NYC footage w/ street scenes, buses etc. 02:44:01 Blind led to rural house. Patients in doctors office for ongoing 18 month treatment. Doctor & nurse. Black couple in advance stages. 02:44:49 Staged man in Indian headdress selling Chief Webbs patent medicine as cure. People buying bottles from him as others watch. Many bottles. Alexander Fleming in laboratory w/ cultures in lab viewing mold. Penicillin’s effect shown. Writing notes. 02:46:12 Skyscraper construction, people into subway & along sidewalks. Meeting of doctors lecturing on number of syphilis victims. They discuss need to discuss so as to stop its spread. Pedestrians. Government campaign argued against. Posters. 1940s and clinic. Special syphilis hospital built as rapid treatment center. 02:49:16 White rats; Oxford University & Dr. Howard Florey & others working in laboratory. Penicillin used with good results to kill microbes. Tested by US Surgeon General. Volunteers tested (staged?). Laboratory workers checking results. Articles saying fast safe cure for syphilis & put into practice in the clinics. Posters, Zipper sign: Stop V.D. Movie postersTheater marquee for “Feeling All Right”; “Know For Sure” & “Birthright”. 02:52:25 Headline Juke Box Songs To Fight Syphilis. MCU of phonograph & record, radio station. People coming for treatment or because it was found in state required blood tests. Graphics of reduction in numbers of syphilis infected patients. Large crowds w/ graphics over. Microbes of syphilis. Laboratory w/ technicians. Poster: Stamp Out Syphilis. The End. Sexually Transmitted Disease; Venereal Disease; V.D.Antibiotics; anti bacteria; drugs;