Manufacture of vaccines at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories; field stations where animals are kept for the preparation and testing of vaccines; production of penicillin, Salk vaccine and Pulpy Kidney vaccine at the laboratories at Parkville. Over 600 valuable and life-saving products are made to which rigid standards of research and production are applied.
Content notification
Our collection comprises over 40,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued between the 1940s and early 2000s. As a result, some items may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.
Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.
How to watch
Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
002561
Language
English
Subject categories
Animals & Wildlife → Animals, Treatment of
Animals & Wildlife → Microbiology
Animals & Wildlife → Veterinary medicine
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Research institutes - Australia
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Communicable diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Prevention
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Penicillin
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Vaccination
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Vaccines
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Veterinary medicine
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Chemistry - Research
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Laboratories
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Microbiology
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Research institutes - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)