Boil Your Water
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BOIL YOUR WATER. (1911, silent, 1reel, b&w, 35mm)
Sponsor: new york City dept. of Health. production Co.: pathé Frères. resources: Copyright not registered; “What Science is Learning from the Motion Camera,” Atlan Con, Apr. 28, 1912, C7; Boyd Fisher, “Motion pictures to Make Good Citizens,” Am City 7 (Sept. 1912): 236. Holdings: not reported.
Early microphotography film that makes the case for boiling water by revealing the tiny organisms living in the untreated liquid. “Nothing could convey to the mind of either chil- dren or adults the folly of drinking such fluid than the succession of horrors that wriggle and writhe on the screen,” wrote a reporter in the Atlanta Constitution.
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