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This animated film deals with the history of smallpox throughout the ages. Shows how it has ravaged the world from the time of the Pharoahs, the discovery of a vaccine by Edward Jenner and his fight to have it recognised by international medical authorities and how the smallpox problem is being dealt with in the present day.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
009921
Language
English
Subject categories
Animation → Animated films - Czechoslovakia
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Chronic diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Communicable diseases
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Causes and theories of causation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Prevention
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Diseases - Research
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - History
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Smallpox
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Vaccines
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)