Yellow Jack

Duration: 0:33:00

Year Published: 1951

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

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, "Yellow Jack". Dramatizes the work of Major Dr. Walter Reed and his colleagues in Cuba in proving that the stegomyia mosquito is the carrier of yellow fever. Shows how the United States Army Yellow Fever Commission won its victory over "yellow jack' by wiping out breeding grounds of the stegomyia mosquito. Stresses the scientific method throughout., Abridged from the feature film. Dramatizes the work of Major Walter Reed with the Yellow Fever Commission. Cites the heroism of the volunteers for the experiment, which conclusively proved the guilt of the stegomyia mosquito in carrying the disease. Enumerates then the obstacles involved in eradicating the offending mosquito, and depicts the systematic way Reed surmounted them. Stresses the scientific method throughout.

Complete Record: , Abridged from the feature film. Dramatizes the work of Major Walter Reed with the Yellow Fever Commission. Cites the heroism of the volunteers for the experiment, which conclusively proved the guilt of the stegomyia mosquito in carrying the disease. Enumerates then the obstacles involved in eradicating the offending mosquito, and depicts the systematic way Reed surmounted them. Stresses the scientific method throughout.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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