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Physician giving physical examination to Native American Indian youth at a boarding school

Native American actors portraying boys at a boarding school. They play volley ball on a school field. A school supervisor calls them together and introduces a physician, who tells them they look strong but could harbor germs. Doctor examines one of the boys, by tapping on parts of his upper body, as he explains what he is doing. He uses a stethoscope. He takes a chest Xray of the boy. The doctor removes the film and tells the boy he'll show it to him after it is developed.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078233
Actors play role of doctor and Native American patient in a sanitorium. The doctor explains nature and cause of TB

Native American Indian youth recovering from TB at a sanitorium, is seated on a bench outdoors, when his doctor joins him. In hope that the Native American youth can be helpful to members of his tribe, who are suffering from epidemic of tuberculosis, the doctor explains the disease to the boy. He shows sketch of the lungs and describes them and the progression of TB and its accompanying symptoms. The boy asks about medicine for TB. The doctor says none exists, but nature can heal a lung if it rests, just as a broken leg can heal if rested. The boy asks about his operation. The doctor tells him it is pneumothorax, and explains it with help of illustrations how a lung is collapsed so it can rest and heal and then reflated. Asked about the cause of TB, the doctor tells the boy it is caused by a living organism, and invites to see it in the laboratory. In the lab, the doctor show the boy two test tubes, one of which contains cultured organisms from a TB patient. The boy sits in bed with hands behind his head pondering the role of social hygiene in the spread of TB.

Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078236
Sheep of Native American Indians are dipped in chemical solution under Federal Government supervision

Views of sheep dipping of herds owned by Native American Indians. Stockade-type pens erected to hold and control sheep. Workers guide the sheep into a channel where they are immersed in a solution (insecticide and fungicide) under direction of U.S. Government experts. Stong young Native American men are seen picking sheep up and placing them into the liquid-filled channel, where others, including women, prod them along through the bath. One of the men (acting) appears in distress, and companions help him to a car, which drives away with him. Scene shifts to young Native American woman and her Grandfather (named Slow Talker), outside a building as physician comes out to tell them their friend, is very sick with tuberculosis. He says the heavy work at the sheep dip caused his lungs to bleed.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078237
Young Native American Indian convinces girlfriend and her grandfather (all actors) to be checked for TB

Dramatization: Outside her log home, a Native American youth (actor) speaks with Native American Indian girl (actor) about their friend afflicted with tuberculosis. He suggests that the girl be examined for possible TB. The girl's grandfather sits nearby listening. He stands and says, "I'll take Nema (granddaughter) and the doctor shall examine me too."Scene shifts to doctor showing the grandfather an X-ray of the girl's TB-free lungs. clear. The doctor then shows the grandfather his own X-ray confirming TB. The grandfather realized he is the source of TB in his family. He agrees to undergo treatment. At the door of the hospital, he bids the young couple farewell. Back at the family log home, the young woman, now a mother, is seen with her baby, as a visiting nurse admires the child, as her husband stands outside looking in. Later, the young married couple show their baby to her grandfather,while he sits in a wheel chair on the sundeck of a sanitorium. He bids them goodbye and them ponders the need to stay away from them (until healed) to protect them

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078238
History of rabies and illustrations of its manifestation in brains of humans

Leading slates describe history and nature of rabies and its effect on the human brain. Pictures of brain hippocampus, where rabies is manifested by negri body inclusions in cells. Pictures of nerve cells, nuclei, and inclusions.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078239
Henry Ford with the 15 millionth Ford car; Ford production line scenes during car assembly; 20 millionth Ford rolls off line

Henry Ford in the Highland Park plant steps into the fifteen millionth Ford Model T car just before it rolls off of the production line on May 26, 1927. Ford's son, Edsel Ford, is driving the car. Next scene shows Ford auto workers during car production on assembly line in factory. Wheels and tires moving on overhead line. View of the twenty millionth Ford automobile, a Model A, as it is completed and rolls off the line in Dearborn, Michigan, driven by Edsel Ford, on April 14, 1931. It is a 1931 slant windshield Town Sedan 160B.

Date: 1931
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078248