Simulium
- Date:
- 1971?
- Videos
About this work
Description
The film footage is very dark. The film with edited in intertitles explains the presence and prevalance of tsetse flies in Anglo-British Sudan and ?. Villagers are shown fishing with baskets on rapids (a place where tsetse flies are present). Villagers' legs are inspected for exposure. Villagers blinded by onchocerciasis (river blindness) walk past camera. To come
Publication/Creation
Sudan and Belgian Congo, 1971?
Physical description
1 encoded moving image (05 mins.) : silent, colour.
Notes
Donated in 2001 from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a teaching film used 1960-1976.
Possibly missing credits as opening intertitle is 'S. Damnosum breeds in rocky torrents'.
Label on can indicates ' Prof Beiher (hard to read?) shows DTM 1971'.