- Title: CF731
- Date:1940s
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Summary:
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CARTOON. Cu bottle with skull and crossbones / poison sign and full glass, graphics overlaid read It's Murder, She Says. Maps of South America, Africa and Asia with signs reading Off Limits. Pan across tropical beach with jungle, a sexy lady mosquito in a little black dress drinks juice cocktail but doesn't enjoy it, talks to two other women mosquitoes, vs mosquitoes all over the world drinking cocktails. Cross section of mosquitoes body which is full of live bacteria. Mosquito flies through the air and pierces body of sleeping man. Great cu of explosion, rows of hospital beds overlaid with graph showing rise of malaria. Vs shots of doctors and scientists researching malaria. Soldier reads leaflet entitled Malaria Discipline. Mosquito tries to bite soldier but he takes precautions, mosquito sobs and pounds wall in frustration. Cu bottle marked Repellent, a drop falls onto mosquito and she becomes ill, runs from aerosol, tanks clearing swamps. DDT sprayed from a plane takes on form of monster. Rubble piled into swamp. Mosquito limps away. Row of hospital beds disappear one by one, cu man in bed with thermometer in mouth looking ill. Mosquitoes chase after soldier. - TYPE:Historical
- DATE:1940s
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- SOURCE:Historic
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- Colour:B&W
- Keywords:CARTOON, USA, WW2, WORLD WAR TWO, TROPICAL DISEASES, DISEASE PREVENTION, ANIMATION, HUMOUR
- Master Title:CF731
- Segment:1
- Sound:Sound
