G for Goldberger

Duration: 0:22:00

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "G for Goldberger" (season 2, episode 14), which first aired January 12, 1954 on ABC-TV. Dramatizes the scientific method employed by Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the United States Health Service to discover a cure for pellagra. After a tour of stricken areas of the South in 1915, Dr. Goldberger conceives and proves his hypothesis that pellagra is the result of a dietary deficiency., Dramatizes the scientific methods as employed by D. Joseph Goldberger to discover a cure for pellagra. Depicts the disease as serious in 1915 when it often occurred in epidemic proportions in the South. Shows development of a theory as to its cause, experimentation to verify the hypothesis and eventual discovery of a cure.

Complete Record: , Dramatizes the scientific methods as employed by D. Joseph Goldberger to discover a cure for pellagra. Depicts the disease as serious in 1915 when it often occurred in epidemic proportions in the South. Shows development of a theory as to its cause, experimentation to verify the hypothesis and eventual discovery of a cure.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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