Hull - Polio City

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1690

Date Released

23 Oct 1961

Date submitted

19 Oct 1961

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hull - Polio City. DESCRIPTION: Almost over night, the people of Hull found themselves facing one of the worst polio outbreaks ever known in Britain. But for a great step forward in anti-polio research, they’d be in a grave situation. This step forward is the production of a live vaccine taken by mouth. Developed by Dr Sabin of America and now being produced in Britain, it has many advantages over injections. SHOTLIST: MS people waiting for vaccination. MCU sign. MS people waiting for vaccinations. MS ditto. MS ditto. MCU sign Polio Vaccination. CU man. CU ditto. CU vaccine. CU ditto. CU air pump. CU vaccination. MS scientists testing vaccine. MS ditto. MS scientist filling bottle. MCU ditto. MS bottle. MS man packing. CU ditto. MCU ditto. MCU ditto. MCU man dropping vaccine on sugar. MS ditto. MS people taking sugar. MS baby taking vaccine in syrup. MS another. GV pan people outside store. GV people inside store. MS mayor. GV people taking sugar.

Keywords

Health and medicine

Locations

Kingston-upon-Hull

Card file number

83344

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner
Camera: James Humphries

Length of story (in feet)

138

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