Learning on ScreenFighting Tropical Disease
Series
- Series Name
- London Line
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: There are over a million people in Africa suffering from sleeping sickness and an enormous amount of research is going on in Institutes and Universities throughout the world. In Britain a very special aid to this research is undertaken by breeding special disease-free tsetse flies - the carriers of the disease - for despatch to overseas research laboratories.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes an interview with Dr Anthony Jordan of the Tsetse Research Laboratory in Langford.
- Local distribution only
- New Commonwealth version
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Animals
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1257/249
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Support services
- Frances Nelson
- Producer
- Graham Woodford
- Editor
- Isabel Logan
- Director
- Isabel Logan
- Presenter
- John Coker
- Presenter
- Jumoke Debayo
- Director
- Robert Harding
- Camera
- United Motion Picture (London) Ltd
- Camera
- West Of England Films
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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