A drama set in the future, 1000 years from the twentieth century, when coins are found and the information fed into a computer it triggers its memory bank - what the coin was used for so long ago. This opening is a novel way to start a film about the dangers of cigarette smoking in the twentieth century. It shows the effects of smoking of human beings and the deaths caused by lung cancer.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322516
Language
English
Subject categories
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette habit
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cigarette smokers
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Lungs - Diseases
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)