Beneficient reprobate: ethyl alcohol, its nature and properties

Sponsored by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, this film deals with the industrial uses of alcohol, and the effects of alcohol on the central nervous system of the human body. Produced from Bertha Rachel Palmer’s “A Syllabus in Alcohol Education”.

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Credits

director

Elmer Clifton

production company

Burton Holmes Films

Duration

00:35:34:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1935

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

313904

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Alcohol

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Alcohol - Physiological effect

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Alcohol in the body

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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United States, 1935

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