(1933,sound,15min,b&w,35mm)
Sponsor: Metropolitan Life insurance Co. production Co.: unknown. producer: Carlyle Ellis. resources: Copyright not registered; EFC (1939), 158–59. Holdings: nLM.
One of Metropolitan Life’s many public health education films about the treatment of conta- gious diseases. When four-year-old Skipper falls ill, the doctor is called in to give him his first diphtheria immunization. The family physician recalls the early years of his medical practice, when children lost their lives from the disease. note: For more about the distribution of the sponsor’s films, see “More Sales with Business Films,” Pr Ink Mon 28 (June 1934): 69–71.