The Gorgas Memorial Laboratory: its research & training program
- Collection:
- Tropical Disease Motion Pictures
- Author(s):
- Pipkin, Alan C.
- Publication:
- [1961?]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Laboratories Tropical Medicine Communicable Disease Control Research Panama Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.
- Abstract:
- Dedicated to Dr. Herbert C. Clark, Director of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama from 1929-1954, the film includes images and footage of buildings on the Gorgas grounds; staff and officials; laboratories, specimens, and procedures; live insects; outdoor plants and trees; jungle terrain; a posterboard presentation on Chagas disease; patients being examined and treated for tropical diseases (e.g. a man with open sores covering his legs); and villagers seemingly awaiting medical treatment. The film is part of the Gorgas Memorial Institute manuscript collection at the National Library of Medicine (MS C 212). [This film appears to have had a soundtrack originally, but that soundtrack was missing when NLM acquired it, so it is effectively a silent film.]
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 047 min.
- Color:
- Color
- Sound:
- Silent
- Cast:
- Narration, "Johnny B." Ballinger.
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9614458 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9614458