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DDT Covers US Town

Date released

25 Apr 1946

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

46/33

NoS ID

101072

Story no

1 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Columbus, Georgia, gets thorough spraying with miracle insecticide during health drive. Streets, garbage, dumps, drains, houses and even cattle receive a puff of DDT.

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: De-Lousing Germany

Date released

21 Jun 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

837A

NoS ID

013486

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: De-Lousing of Germany. DESCRIPTION: A typhus epidemic was threatening to get out of control in Germany. As a counter measure everyone was dusted with DDT powder before they could cross...

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DDT, the New Insecticide

Date released

1944

Series name

Worker and Warfront

Issue no

17

NoS ID

156861

Story no

3 / 3

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Helicopter Blitzes Farm Pests

Date released

8 Jul 1946

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1602

NoS ID

040109

Story no

1 / 4

Spraying DDT from air on crops is latest American method of defeating insect plague.

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African Pilots Make War on Tsetse Fly

Date released

10 Feb 1949

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1873

NoS ID

041521

Story no

3 / 7

Men of African Airforce fly at tree-top height, spraying DDT to kill deadly insects.

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Japs Evacuate Korea

Date released

18 Feb 1946

Series name

World Pictorial News

Issue no

250

NoS ID

156498

Story no

3 / 5

Thousands of Japanese leave Korea under Allied supervision. At the port of Husan, Japanese are searched, disinfected with DDT and injected against typhus.

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