Overview
- Description
- The title appears superimposed over a British flag. Children with rickets (osteomalacia) are superimposed over a map of England. The narrator claims that the English tried to use rickets as a war weapon against the Germans. A doctor examines a child with the disease. The narrator explains the cause of rickets over an animated diagram of a bone. More children and infants with rickets are shown and symptoms explained, and the narrator explains that for women the condition can preclude vaginal delivery of children. The narrator explains what prevents rickets, as a woman is shown breastfeeding her baby and ensuring that he gets time in the sun. Cheerful music plays, happy children play in a sunny park, and infants in outdoor playpens play with each other. Children are shown exercising and a young child happily eats fruit. The narrator enumerates the foods that children should eat in order to prevent rickets. Scenes of children playing in winter as the narrator says that the danger of getting rickets is especially great in the sun-poor winter months. Children playing at Reich-sponsored winter sports. Nurses weigh and measure babies. A doctor examines an infant and hands the mother a vial of vitamin D. A nurse places a baby under a sun lamp. A woman dispenses Vitamin D drops to her child as the narrator states that National Socialist Germany is ensuring that the English disease never becomes a German disease. Shots of happy, smiling children and children running into the ocean to swim.
- Duration
- 00:12:19
- Date
-
Production:
1941
- Locale
-
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Library of Medicine
- Contributor
-
Director:
Betina Ewerbeck
Producer: UFA
Producer: Reichsgesundheitsfuehrung
Camera Operator: Gerhard Mueller
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Instructional.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:00:00 to 01:12:19:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2739 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2739 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2739 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2739 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2739 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2739 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2739 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2739 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division in September 2004.
- Copied From
- 16mm
- Film Source
- National Library of Medicine - Reference and Customer Services
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4889
Source Archive Number: WD 145 MP35 no.1 1930 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:50:21
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