Blackfly Foam
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In the African tropics, men toil on the fertile banks of rivers in the hope of feeding their families. The price they pay is blindness. They are bitten by blackflies - a disease-carrying insect born and bred in those same turbulent rivers. But work by British scientists has led to a fatty foam, which will rest on the surface of rivers; a barrier against the birth of blackflies; a barrier that doesn’t interfere with the life of the river.
- Researcher Comments
- Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 303’ under the title ‘Mosquito Trap’
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Insects; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/215
- Credits:
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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