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Immunization (2nd Ed) (1955)

Explains what immunization is and how it is built up either by having a disease or by being inoculated with vaccine. Shows how smallpox vaccine is produced and used and how diphtheria toxins are treated to produce toxoids.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Audio/Visual: sound, B&W
Keywords: need keyword

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Spuzz - - November 4, 2003
Subject: Mmmm! Cow side crust!
OK, if not spectacular overview on how immunization occurs and how vaccines are made. You'll be interested to know how smallpox vaccines are made. With a blender too! Mmmm! Just think of that next time you're ordering a frappacino at Starbucks! Plenty of footage of kids getting shots as well.
The usage of animals for testing is always appaling, but is used to a minimum in this film.

Reviewer: dynayellow - - September 11, 2003
Subject: Warning: contains sick bunnies
Covers the way our bodies fight infections and diseases, and how immunization can help boost our rate of recovery.

Demonstration of the role animals (cows and rabbits) play in developing and testing the drug. Strangely, they include the test rabbits to "show" how the immunization agents work, even though all the footage from within the bloodstream is animated. The rabbits all survive, by the way.

Did you know that the smallpox vaccine came from crust that formed on the side of cows? Yick.