Synopsis
The development of polio vaccine and the significance of its discovery.
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Details
- Running time
- 14 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- Uncondit1956
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Medicine: Poliomyelitis
- Medicine: Infectious diseases
- Medicine: Pediatrics
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · to remember · cashel · 2004-03-17
A very important story told in a staight forward manner, The disease may be history but the dedication and courage of the people involved must not be forgotten. The Hollywood movie life story of Sister Kenny (1946), starrung ros russell would be a good intoduction to the subject
★★★★ · Ouch! · BraddS · 2005-06-02
This is a beautifully photographed and well preserved film about the production of polio vaccine in 1955-56 at an Ely Lily plant. For those of us lucky enough to remember what life was like in the 1950s, this will bring back mixed emotions. Before the media figured out how to maximize attention (and advertising dollars)by creating stories about how everything gives us cancer, they scared the **** out of us kids by showing images of other kids welded into iron lung machines for the rest of their lives because they were stupid or unlucky enough to catch polio. (It was another 40 years before I…
