Pfizer Sandwich.
- Date:
- 1963
- Videos
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A corporate video produced for staff and visitors about the research activities of Pfizer, a pharmaceutical business with a large research facility at Sandwich. Originally shot on 16mm film. the beginning is lost (approximately 30 seconds) and so the film starts with high angle footage of the exteriors of laboratories. The chemical research laboratories are seen and a meeting is shown in progress. Radio isotopes are shown being used to test a new compound. The laboratory researcher wears simple disposable plastic gloves and the narrator says that great care is taken in the handling of radioactive compounds. The results are passed on for evaluation. A treatment for the removal of parasites in sheep is investigated; a dead laboratory rat is then shown. Various shots around the site are seen (hand held camera shots). The animal husbandry department is seen (with the eponymous laboratory beagles in a pen). A slide bank of tissue samples held in a standard filing cabinet is consulted. Volunteers at the company come forward for drug trials (a woman donates a blood sample). A proposal to the Committee for the Safety of Drugs is prepared (referred to as the Dunlop Committee) - this then goes to the Department of Health for appraisal. The vaccine development department is then visited with an audio explaination. The sugar lump vaccine was developed in this laboratory. Their concerns are the health of poultry and then in other countries, the treatment of trachoma. It is noted that even the air is treated; it's 'burnt'. Steam sterilisation is demonstrated. Milk yields are investigated; enriched pellets are made and fed to goats. Next the study of enzymes is explained, followed by anti-parasitic treatments. Night time comes and a cleaner mops the corridor. End Credits.
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