Vintage Disease & Infections Films DVD: 1940s Polio, Whooping Cough, Influenza, Colds, Infantile Paralysis, Scarlet Fever, Ulcers, Syphilis, Diphtheria, Measles, And Venereal Disease Films
- Table Of Contents:
- (1) Joan Avoids A Cold (1947) – 13 Minutes
- (2) Outbreak of Salmonella Infection (1954) – 13 Minutes (3) Preventing The Spread Of Disease (1940) – 10 Minutes
- (4) Sniffles & Sneezes (1955) – 10 Minutes (5) To The People of the United States (1944) – 20 Minutes
- (6) Ulcer At Work (1957) – 23 Minutes (7) Unconditional Surrender (1956) – 14 Minutes
Product Description
Did you wash your hands before dinner? Marvelous collection of post WWII disease and infections films developed for teenagers and young adults. The common theme is BEWARE of everything and some of the guidelines proposed to prevent catching a disease are outrageous. Never share your food and always spitting into a toilet when a family member gets sick. You have to see it for yourself to believe it! Table Of Contents: (1) Joan Avoids A Cold (1947) – Wacky film that encourages spitting into toilets. This delightfully funny film follows a brother and sister for a day, but the boy is careless because he doesn’t wear enough clothes, shares food, and gets wet, while the girl keeps clean – 13 Minutes (2) Outbreak of Salmonella Infection (1954) – A fun color film that sets up a mock break out of salmonella – 13 Minutes (3) Preventing The Spread Of Disease (1940) – Outrageous film with a vivid imagination about how disease and infections are contracted. Beware……”Our body is just like a little country that has been invaded by an invading army!” – 10 Minutes (4) Sniffles & Sneezes (1955) – Everything you need to know about how to avoid a cold – 10 Minutes (5) To The People of the United States (1944) – A young Robert Mitchum appears in this public service announcement aimed at promoting awareness of the rising venereal disease rates during wartime. The movie somewhat skirts around any talk of sexual contact, but the point is clear: go and get tested for VDs, more specifically: get tested for syphilis – 20 Minutes (6) Ulcer At Work (1957) – Steve Hall, an executive at his firm, is having trouble with his work and home life relationships because he has a horrible pain in his side. Steve’s boss forces him to go see a doctor who diagnoses him with an an ulcer. Oddly enough the wife is partially blamed for causing the ulcer – 23 Minutes (7) Unconditional Surrender (1956) – This well preserved film from 1956 shows the production of the polio vaccine – 14 Minutes
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