She then sets out to educate and mobilize hometown groups by lectures, field trips, individual instruction, putting up posters, distributing books, and screening a film-a coordinated campaign. Health Education Against Malaria – Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, United States Public Health Service, with the South Carolina State Board of Health, black and white, 1944, 6:11Ī teacher learns facts about malaria control and mosquito elimination in a seminar sponsored by local, state and federal public health officials.Criminal at Large also features a lesson on mosquito entomology: diagrams of eggs, larva, and pupa the difference between male and female adults the role of the female mosquito in the transmission of malaria organisms and the difference between different species of mosquito. The plot features a young novice reporter at “Scoop Magazine” who tries to make good by getting a story on a “dangerous female killer” he comes to call Anne the Awful. This “filmograph” (sequential drawings with a soundtrack) was part of a larger public health campaign against malaria that anthropomorphically represented the female Anopheles mosquito-Annie O. Criminal at Large – Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, United States Public Health Service, color, 1943, 13:05.They were digitally mastered from the best 16mm master prints available to us, but have a variety of minor defects-scratches, splices, fading and other problems due to age and handling. The films presented here are in the public domain. They represent only a small sampling of the Library’s World War II-era public health films. The following motion pictures come from the collection of the National Library of Medicine. Read the essay: “ The Public Health Film Goes To War“ Thirteen Rare and Wonderful WW2-era Health Films
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