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Disc 1
Health - Medical - Disease
5 DVD Box Set
Disc 1 Polio Disease & Poliomyelitis Virus
Vaccine & Treatment Films (1950s - 1960s)
  
  
   
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
This is the best DVD video compilation
available on the subject of polio virus and polio vaccines. Two great movies
from the mid-20th century are featured: Unconditional Surrender and Babies and Breadwinners. Both movies offer a different look at
poliomyelitis virus, from the gut wrenching pictures of sick children in
wheelchairs and leg braces in Unconditional Surrender to the
vaccination program coordination in Columbus Ohio in Babies and
Breadwinners. There are plenty of historic pictures of polio treatment
and the people living through the paralyzing disease. Some of the most
common questions for people learning about polio and the vaccine for the
first time are: What is polio? What are the symptoms...what are the causes
of polio? This DVD compilation helps answer those questions and offers a
glance at the history of polio in America and people who spearheaded the
drive to mass vaccination. Learn about the poliomyelitis history through
these amazing videos from 1956 and 1961. Running time 39
minutes.
DID YOU KNOW?
The two most famous people of history
who had polio are the Roman Emperor Claudius and the American President
Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt - otherwise known as FDR.
Title #1: Unconditional
Surrender Production Date:
1956 Running Time: 15 minutes Brief Description:
This well preserved film from 1956 shows the production of the polio vaccine and
a lot about the history of polio. Very interesting footage shows the use of lab
animals as a part of the vaccines treatment research process. This is a great
movie that may elicit some emotional response due to the beautiful, sad pictures
of polio stricken children living day to day with the polio disease.
Title #2: Babies and
Breadwinners Production Date:
1961 Running Time: 24 minutes Brief Description:
This film shows the polio vaccination program in Columbus, Ohio in 1961. This is
a wonderful look at the movement to get the proper vaccines to the proper people
at just the right time to help prevent people from having poliomyelitis. Another
great look at the history of polio virus and vaccine.
Disc 2 Disease & Infections Films (1940s)
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: Did you wash your hands before dinner?
Marvelous collection of post WWII disease and infections films developed for
teenagers and young adults. The common theme is BEWARE of everything and
some of the guidelines proposed to prevent catching a disease are outrageous.
Never share your food and always spitting into a toilet when a family member
gets sick. You have to see it for yourself to believe it!
Title #1:
Joan Avoids A Cold
Production Date:1947 Running Time:
13 minutes Brief Description:
Wacky film that encourages spitting into toilets. This delightfully funny
film follows a brother and sister for a day, but the boy is careless because he
doesn't wear enough clothes, shares food, and gets wet, while the girl keeps
clean. The boy gets sick and now everything he touches must be sterilized.
Title #2:
Outbreak of Salmonella Infection Production Date:
1954 Running Time:
13 minutes Brief Description:
A fun color film that sets up a mock break out of salmonella. Also
includes lots of useful tips on how to prepare food safely and shows chefs in
action making critical mistakes.
Title #3:
Preventing The Spread Of Disease Production Date:
1940 Running Time:
10 minutes Brief Description: Outrageous film with a vivid imagination about how
disease and infections are contracted. Beware......"Our
body is just like a little country that has been invaded by an invading army!"
Title #4:
Sniffles & Sneezes
Production Date:1955 Running Time: 10 minutes Brief Description:
Everything you need to know about how to avoid a cold. Great science class
movie.
Title #5:
To The People of the United States Production Date:
1944 Running Time:
20 minutes Brief Description:
A young Robert Mitchum appears in this public service announcement aimed at promoting
awareness of the rising venereal disease rates during wartime. The movie
somewhat skirts around any talk of sexual contact, but the point is clear: go
and get tested for VDs...more specifically: get tested for syphilis.
Title #6:
Ulcer At Work Production Date:
1957 Running Time:
23 minutes Brief Description:
Steve Hall, an executive at his firm, is
having trouble with his work and home life relationships because he has a
horrible pain in his side. Steve's boss forces him to go see a doctor who
diagnoses him with an an ulcer. Oddly enough the wife is partially blamed
for causing the ulcer.
Title #7:
Unconditional Surrender Production Date:
1956 Running Time:
14 minutes Brief Description: This well preserved film from 1956 shows the production of
the polio vaccine. Very interesting footage shows the use of lab animals as a
part of the research process. This is a great movie that may elicit some
emotional response due to the beautiful and sad camera shots of the sick
children.
Disc 3 Cancer Films (1940s - 1960s)
  
Cancer awareness did not begin until the mid-20th century.
This is a special compilation of cancer-related films from the 1940s, 50s & 60s.
Skin cancer, stomach cancer, lung cancer and more is covered. This DVD has 6
great films and over 110 minutes of rare video about the history of cancer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
(1) At the End of the Rainbow (1946) -
This is a film about ultra-violet light and its health benefits. However, the
footage is startling because it shows lots of people (and a baby!) being
exposed, sans protection, to the harmful lights being touted as life savers.
This exposure has been shown to give skin cancer since the making of this film.
Amazing how no one thought they were in danger in this film!
Length: 24 minutes
(2) Cancer (1940s) - This
early cancer information film talks about many of the warning signs and
treatment options for cancer. This Encyclopedia Brittanica classic is aimed at
teaching adults how to detect early cancer growth. The subject of the film, an
older male, has been stricken with stomach cancer.
Length: 12 minutes
(3) Time is Life (1949) -
Mary Bronsen, the fictional subject of this early cancer film, fears that she
may have the warning signs of cancer. In fact, her entire community is worried
about having cancer. This strange film gives the viewer little resolution, but
is rich in political symbolism. Look for possible classroom correlations between
the "cancer" everyone's talking about and the "communism" everyone feared during
this post-WWII era.
Length: 16 minutes
(4) Time Pulls the Trigger (1960s)
- This lung cancer awareness film was shown in
public schools during the 1960s. If you remember it, you most likely remember
some visual excerpts from the cool animation. A great piece of film history in
which a doctor tries to explain how dangerous smoking is.
Length: 24 minutes
(5) Tobacco and the Body (1954) -
Made in 1954, this early "effects of smoking" film shows the dangers of smoking
cigarettes from a medical point of view. This is one of the first antismoking
movies made.
Length: 15 minutes
(6) Up in Smoke (1960) - A
greedy tobacco company tries to exploit their customers, risking the health of
the American people for the company's own monetary gain. Sound pretty typical of
the tobacco industry? Watch this film, produced by BYU in the early 1960s, and
draw your own conclusions about the ethical issues at stake.
Length: 21 minutes
Total Running Time Is Approximately 112 minutes
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Disc 4 Tuberculosis TB Films (1930-1955)
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD:
Title #1:
Tuberculosis Production Date:
1955 Running Time: 11 minutes Brief Description: This is a fun
little film that shows a general history and overview of the effects of
tuberculosis on our society.
Title #2: On
the Firing Line Production Date:
1936 Running Time: 20 minutes Brief Description: A fantastic film that has great timeless
statistics as well as footage and information about the fight against
tuberculosis by the National Tuberculosis Association.
Title #3: You are
the Switchman Production Date:
1951 Running Time: 12 minutes Brief Description:
A film about noticing the warning signs of cancer and taking appropriate
preventative action. You Are the Switchman was a groundbreaking video because it
was released two years before the link between smoking cigarettes and cancer was
officially out in the open.
Title #4:
City of Hope Production Date:
1930 Running Time:
16 minutes Brief Description: The Los Angeles Tuberculosis Sanatorium
produced this film in the 1930s to help engender greater monetary contributions
by the viewers of the film.
Title #5:
Peter Borik Production Date:
1942 Running Time:
21 minutes Brief Description: In this movie, a
farmer with tuberculosis fails to get medical treatment in a prompt manner and
suffers the consequences.
Disc 5 US Disease Quarantine Film (1950s)
  
  
  
Brief Synopsis of DVD: Merely everyone traveling into the United
States from another country is supposed to be screened for health issues,
illnesses and diseases that could be easily spread and contagious. The vintage
film Guardians Of Our
Country's Health shows how the American government handles these issues
through their border and quarantine stations. Watch this DVD edition of this
historical film and get a first-hand glimpse at the history of American Public
Health.
Title #1:
Guardians of Our Countrys Health Production Date:
1950 Running Time: 16 minutes Brief Description:
This 1950 movie shows the preventative measures taken by the US agencies
responsible or disease control to prevent the entry and spread of health
problems into the United States.
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