Winged Scourge (1943)
1943 · Newsreel · 9 min · dir. Bill Justice
- Documentary
- Animation
Synopsis
In this propaganda short, the viewers are taught about how the mosquito can spread malaria. A young mosquito flies into a house and consumes the blood of an infected human. She then consumes the blood of a healthy human, transmitting the disease into him. It turns out that this is actually a film within a film and the Seven Dwarves are watching it. They volunteer to get rid of the mosquito by destroying her breeding grounds.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Bill Justice
- Studio
- Walt Disney Productions
- Released
- 1943-11-04
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- News & Public Affairs
Cast & crew
- Bill Justice Director
Art Baker
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · 7 Dwarves Vs Mosquitoes · PL_Maven · 2010-03-15
Walt Disney produced this US government film about mosquitoes, how they carry malaria, and how they breed. Starring Doc, Dopey, and the Seven Dwarfs who perform now-environmentally questionable actions such as pouring oil on pond water and burying tin cans -- and presumably it was DDT in the bug sprayers. B&W.
Walt Disney Film · Jilly9 · 2012-01-20
This film is part of the Health For The Americas series of animated short films that Walt Disney Studios made for the now-defunct US Government Agency "Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs."
