At the End of the Rainbow (Part II) (1946)

★★★★ · Medical Quackery at it's finest · Spuzz · 2003-01-02

Oh my god. This film, which trumpets the use of a new invention by Sun-Krafft that will 'use the health-giving rays of ultra-violet to you at home' is a scary SCARY little film. The first half is pretty much a scientific mumbo-jumbo about what Ultra-violet light is, and it's 'medical benefits' but the 2nd half if gonzo, with Sun-Kraft's invention of the home-use Ultraviolet ray thing which can be used to cure everything from rickets to acne! Scary scenes of people standing way too close to these machines (even with goggles on (which made me giggle) are shown. It's even explained that the…

★★★★ · Interesting history and technical details · carl willis · 2009-05-10

I got a Sun-Kraft lamp at a flea market a year or so ago, and found this video by way of an Internet search for details. The video is quite entertaining to watch, especially the glassblower making the quartz discharge tubes, the line workers assembling the electronics, and of course the explanation of the vintage science that largely drove the lamp's popularity as a domestic appliance. Of course, it's understood today that quartz-mercury lamps like this produce mostly very damaging UVC radiation and not much UVB (desired for tanning and rickets prevention). So those people who want to use a…

★ · Most of you are Wrong · Moeyoeyoe · 2008-02-04

I have had one of these Sun Kraft UV lights for the last 25 years, and for all you people who know so much by reading propaganda , I am sorry to say but you are a sad bunch, In the last week I have Purchased 4 more of these lamps from ebay, to give them to family and close friends..This UVl lamp is incredable I have "healed" hot spots on all of my 4 Chows on Hematomahs on their ears after they would fight, after spending hunderds of dollars with Vets that could not prevail, I have healed acne on my 7 year olds face when she was 7 and now is 25 years old.I have experimented hundreds of times…