White Blood Cells: Defense Against Disease

Duration: 11

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Tokyo Cinema

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Illustrates through microcinematography and time-lapse photography the action of the white blood cells as they defend the body against invading bacteria. Shows how the body's defenses are thrown up against the tubercule bacillus as it is engulfed by a single leucocyte. Pictures monocytes and phagocytes and their activities. Concludes that in any infection white blood cells and other scavenger cells hasten to remove bacteria from the body.