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  1. 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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  2. Pandora’s Box. Part 4: Goodbye Mrs Ant (1992 Television)

    Producer
    Adam Curtis; Edward Mirzoeff
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 60 min.

    PANDORA’S BOX is an award-winning 6-part series on the impact of science and technology on everyday life in the twentieth century, and their reflection in changing media images of science and scientists....

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Loners (2001)

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £ 15 per item or £ 100 for the whole set (inclusive)

    One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This programme looks at the work of three Nobel winners: Sweden’s Gustav Dalén makes...

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  9. Cost of Cotton, The (1979 Film)

    Producer
    Luis Argueta; David Temple
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documents excessive and uncontrolled use of pesticides in Guatemala. The country’s cotton production depends on aerial spraying of pesticides every two or three days during the harvest. The consequences...

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  10. Eco: Unnatural Solutions (1985 Video)

    Director
    Paul Cleary
    Producer
    Vivica Parsons
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    A survey of the effects on foxes, otters, bees, birds, etc. of the effects of DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, glyophosate, lindane, paraquat, 2,4,5-T, ioxynil and phosphorus compounds. The dangers of spray drift on...

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