- Title: PA-51B
- Summary: TOBACCO AND THE HUMAN BODY: SUBSTANCE ABUSE, TOBACCO MEDICINE, CANCER - FILM ANALYSIS TOBACCO SMOKE; SHOWS EFFECTS OF NICOTINE AND TARS ON HUMAN BODY; EXPLORES REASONS WHY PEOPLE SMOKE. HOW TOBACCO EFFECTS YOUR BODY
- Description:01:11:42 - MS RE-ENACTMENT AS DESCRIBED BY COLUMBUS' FRIEND MIGUEL DE TORE. PAN NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS, FACING CAMERA, SEATED IN TEEPEE BEFORE BURNING PIECES OF WOOD UPON WHICH THEY PLACED DRIED LEAVES (TOBACCO), INHALING FUMES THROUGH TUBES INSERTED IN THEIR NOSTRILS, PASSING TUBE TO THE NEXT INDIAN. INDIAN BOY FANS THE FIRE. CU LEAVES EMITTING SMOKE INTO STRAW-LIKE TUBULAR WOOD. 01:12:14 - MS FIELD OF TOBACCO PLANTS, SEVERAL AND TOBACCO HOUSES IN B/G OF FAMILY TOBACCO FARM. WOMEN AND MEN IN GREEN HOUSE, SEPARATING THE LEAVES FOR CURING. CU TOBACCO CROP IN FIELD. FARMER CARRIES BATCH OF DRIED, CURED TOBACCO LEAVES; SEVERAL RANDS CIGARETTE PACKAGES, AND CHEWING TOBACCO ON ROTATING DISPLAY. 01:12:55 - CU CIGARETTE BEING LIT WITH MATCH. 01:13:04 - CU SCIENTIFICALLY DESIGNED CIGARETTE SMOKING APPARATUS LIGHTS CIGARETTE AND TAKES IN THE SMOKE INTO TUBES AND VIALS UNDER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS IN RESEARCH LABORATORY. ZOOM BACK CHEMIST WATCHES APPARATUS. CU LIT CIGARETTE TILT DOWN SMOKE GOING THROUGH TUBE INTO FLASK FILLED WITH LIQUID, AS SUPPLEMENTARY TRAPS CALLED BUBBLERS, CATCH ANY SUBSTANCES NOT CAPTURED IN FLASKS, (VOICE OVER EXPLAINS THE ENTIRE PROCESS). 01:14:04 - CU APPARATUS CALLED ULTRA-VIOLET SPECTRAPHOTOMETER (?) IS USED TO MEASURE MINUTE AMOUNTS OF NICOTINE. 0114 25 CU FEMALE CHEMIST HOLDS TINY ONE GRAM OF NICOTINE WITH TWEEZER. THREE TIMES THIS AMOUNT CAB CAUSE NICOTINE POISONING. VS CHEMISTS SEPARATING TARS FROM CIGARETTE SMOKE, THEN BREAKING DOWN THE TARS INTO VARIETY OF OTHER CHEMICALS IT CONTAINS, INCLUDING CARBON MONOXIDE. (VOICE OVER EXPLAINS). PAN VARIETY SUBSTANCES CONTAINED IN TARS. "ALL SMOKE, INCLUDING HUMAN SMOKE CONTAINS CARBON MONOXIDE". ANIMATER DIAGRAM SHOWS EFFECTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE ON TISSUES. ALL OF THESE SUBSTANCES ARE A PRODUCT OF BURNING, "THEY ARE NOT IN TOBACCO LEAVES". 01:16:03 - CU LIT CIGARETTE INN PERSON'S MOUTH, EXHALED SMOKE EMITTING FROM P[PERSON'S NOSE AS VOICE OVER EXPLAINS WHAT PORTION OF THE NICOTINE REACHES THE MOUTH. ANIMATED DRAWING SHOWS HOW NICOTINE ENTERS MOUTH AND IS DISTRIBUTED INTO STOMACH, LIVER, HEART AND ALL TISSUES OF BODY, CARRIED BY BLOOD TO NERVE CELLS. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS. 01:18:15 - CU X-RAY VIEW OF BLOOD VESSELS IN RABBITS EAR BEFORE AND AFTER EAR IS INJECTED WITH NICOTINE. CU DOCTOR'S HAND INJECTING NICOTINE. CU DRAMATIC CHANGE IN RABBITS EAR IS SEEN. 01:18:58 - MAN STRAPPED TO BED IN SPECIAL CHAMBER FOR EXPERIMENT, IS INJECTED INTRAVENOUSLY WITH NICOTINE. CU GRAPH SHOWS DROPS IN BLOOD, SKIN TEMPERATURES. 01:19:33 - CU GRAPHIC SHOT RABBIT'S HEART IS SHOWN BEATING AT AN ACCELERATED RATE AFTER DIRECT APPLICATION OF NICOTINE; ANIMATED DRAWING SHOWS WHY? 01:20:24 - CU MAN STRAPPED IN BED PUFFS ON CIGARETTE IN HIS MOUTH. BURGER'S DISEASE SHOWN; HYPODERMIC; COUGHING; NOT SURE IF IT CAUSES POLLUTION; CANCER; GRAPH, ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW RESULTS OF NICOTINE IN MAN'S HEART AND BODY FUNCTIONS. CU MAN'S LEG WITH SORES (BURGHER'S DISEASE) CAUSED BY BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER DUE TO NICOTINE. 01:21:22 - GLASS CONTAINER WITH PIECE OF RABBIT INTESTINES IS TESTED. SCRIBE SHOWS VIOLENT DRAMATIC ACTION, WHEN NICOTINE IS ADDED TO SOLUTION. CU X-RAU SHOWING PEPTIC ULCER IN STOMACH. DOCTOR ADVISES PATIENT WITH THIS CONDITION TO ABSTAIN FROM SMOKING. 01:21:56 - ANIMATED DRAWING OF HEAD AND BRAIN, SHOWS NICOTINE ACTING ON CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, VOICE OVER EXPLAINS. 01:22:07 - CU RABBIT ACTS CALMLY TO DOCTOR'S HAND PATTING AND TAPPING IT ON THE BACK. DOCTOR'S HAND INJECTING RABBIT WITH NICOTINE. CU RABBIT RE-ACTS WITH CONVULSIONS AND TREMOR. MORE ANIMATED DRAWINGS HUMAN BODY. 01:22:43 - CU MAN PLACES CIGAR BUTT IN MOUTH, LIGHTS IT WITH CIGARETTE LIGHTER. VOICE OVER ASKS, "WHY DO PEOPLE SMOKE?" WITH CLOUD OF SMOKE RISING BEFORE THEIR FACES, CU WOMAN ANSWERS "TO BE SOCIABLE", MAN SAYS, "I NERVER THOUGHT WHY I SMOKE"; ANOTHER WOMAN, "I STARTED SMOKING WHEN I WAS QUITE YOUNG"; "MY PARENTS SMOKE, SO DO I" SAYA ANOTHER WOMAN. 01:23:10 - MCU YOUNG MAN LIGHTING HIS CIGARETTE. "TRIES TO LOOK IMPORTANT OR LIKE HIS HERO. MS ABOVE VIEW TABLE WITH CUPS OF COFFEE, ASHTRAYS FULL OF BUTTS, AND PEOPLE SEATED AROUND TABLE WITH SMOKE CLOUDING THE SCENE. MCU MAN CIGARETTE BEING LIGHTED BY HAND WITH LIGHTER. COUGHS AFTER TAKING PUFF. CU SAME. 01:23:52 - MCU DOCTOR LOOKING INTO MAN'S MOUTH WITH LIGHT. CU MAN WITH CIGARETTE IN HAND COUGHS VIOLENTLY, UNCONTROLLABLY. VARIOUS CITY, COUNTRY SCENES WITH HEAVY POLLUTION OBLITERATING THE SCENE. LS INDUSTRIAL AREA WITH SMOKING SMOKE STACK. 01:24:27 - VARIOUS SHOTS SCIENTISTS IN LAB EXPERIMENTING WITH MICE. CU CAGE FULL OF SMALL WHITE MICE. CU SCIENTIST SMEARS TARS FROM CIGARETTE SMOKE ON SKIN OF SMALL MOUSE. CU SKIN CANCER ON MOUSE'S BACK. 01:24:55 - CU CANCER ON PIPE SMOKER'S LIP. DOCTOR EXAMINES MAN'S CHEST WITH STETHOSCOPE. DOCTOR SHOWS X-RAY TO YOUNG MAN. 01:25:33 - BLINKING NEON "TOBACCO" SIGN, SUPER-IMPOSED ON FACE OF WOMAN LIGHTING UP CIGARETTE AND FACE SHOTS OF OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE 01:26:03 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1955
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: PA-51B