- Title: VM-588A
- Summary: A PLAGUE UPON THE LAND: VOLTA RIVER BASIN. WEST AFRICA. RIVER BLINDNESS. ONCHOCERCIASIS. FILARIAL WORMS. MALI. BLACK FLY. SPRAYING INSECTICIDES FROM BOAT & HELICOPTER. ENTOMOLOGY. XYLOPHONE. VILLAGE DOCTOR TREATING PATIENTS WITH RIVER BLINDNESS.
- Description:02:22:37 - AERIAL OVER VOLTA REGION, AFRICA, CUTS TO YOUNG BOY LEADING OLD MAN TO VILLAGE. 02:23:05 - POV ROUNDING BEND AROUND MUD & GRASS HUTS TO TWO WOMEN POUNDING WITH MORTAR & PESTLE. CUTS TO BOY LEADING OLD MAN & WOMAN PLAITING ANOTHER'S HAIR. WOMAN LOOKING INTO MIRROR TO SEE HER BRAIDED HAIR. CU WOMAN POUNDING WITH CHILD SUCKLING, BREAST FEEDING 02:24:34 - CU MEN WITH RIVER BLINDNESS, DISEASE SPREAD BY BLACK FLIES 02:25:03 - CU FLY UNDER MICROSCOPE ON HUMAN SKIN, BITES SKIN, DEPOSITS INFECTIOUS PARASITES 02:25:16 - MAP OF AFRICA WITH UPPER VOLTA AREA SHADED 02:25:33 - AERIAL OVER VOLTA RIVER REGION 02:25:50 - RIVER, RUSHING RIVER WATERS, RAPIDS 02:26:06 - ENTOMOLOGIST EXPLAINING HOW BLACK FLIES SPREAD DISEASE 02:26:41 - ECU FEMALE BLACK FLY BITING INTO SKIN, DRAWING BLOOD 02:27:01 - CU FLY LARVAE, SLIMY, LEGLESS & WORMLIKE CRAWLING ON TREE LIMB 02:27:12 - EXPERT EXPLAINING BLACK FLY LARVAE'S MOVEMENT PATTERNS 02:27:37 - CU BLACK FLY LARVAE, INFANT WORMS UNDER MAN'S SKIN. MS MEN HOLDING INFECTED MAN'S EYES OPEN 02:28:00 - CU PAN PEOPLE WITH RIVER BLINDNESS 02:28:11 - CU INFECTED MAN'S SKIN, MAN PULLING HIS SKIN ELEPHANT LIKE, WRINKLY, LOTS OF EXTRA PAPER THIN SKIN 02:28:18 - CU DISEASED BLIND MAN RUBBING HIS EYES 02:28:33 - YOUNG BOY LEADING THREE BLIND MEN BY ROPE 02:28:52 - AFRICAN VILLAGERS, CHILDREN CARRYING BUCKETS GO DOWN TO RIVER, FILL BUCKETS WITH WATER 02:29:12 - WOMEN OF THE VILLAGE AT RIVER. CU WOMEN WEARING LONG DANGLING EARRINGS, JEWELRY. 02:29:28 - VILLAGERS WASHING WOODEN BOWLS IN THE RIVER 02:29:35 - AFRICAN SHEPHERDS LEADING SHEEP THROUGH RIVER 02:29:40 - AFRICAN CHILDREN PLAYING, SWIMMING IN RIVER 02:29:49 - MS SHEPHERDS LEADING HERD THROUGH RIVER, SHEPHERD CARRYING LAMB, ONE SHEEP ON LEASH, ROPE 02:29:54 - VILLAGE BOYS CARRYING BUCKETS OF WATER FROM RIVER BANK BACK TO THE VILLAGE 02:29:59 - VILLAGE WOMEN PAMPERING THEMSELVES AT RIVER BANK 02:30:06 - AFRICAN FARMERS TILLING THE LAND UNDER SCORCHING SUN, CARTING LOADS OF CUT WOOD PULLED BY DONKEYS SIGN READS: VOLTA NOIRE. BLACK VOLTA 02:30:27 - VOLTA RIVER REGION VILLAGE LIFESTYLE, MUSICIAN PLAYING XYLOPHONE. MS WOMAN GOING OVER TO CIRCULAR MUD OR CLAY STORAGE HUTS, LIFTS GRASS ROOF OFF. 02:30:59 - CU AFRICANS WITH RIVER BLINDNESS, BLIND. 02:31:03 - CU XYLOPHONE PLAYER 02:31:13 - AFRICAN VILLAGE SCENES, MS WOMAN CARRYING LOAD OF CUT TREE LIMBS, NAKED BREASTS, WEARING WRAPPED SKIRT. WOMAN LOOKING INTO MIRROR AT PLAITED HAIR BRAIDED HAIR. CU BLIND MAN. CU YOUNG AFRICAN PRETEEN. 02:31:55 - EUROPEAN SCIENTIST IN AFRICAN VILLAGE SPEAKING 02:32:25 - CIRCLE OF YOUNG AFRICAN MEN. CU CARVER WHITTLING WOOD, YOUNG MAN GOING BLIND 02:32:56 - ZOOM IN ON BARE BREASTED MOTHER & SON POUNDING USING MORTAR & PESTLE METHOD 02:33:24 - AFRICAN FARMERS TILLING THE SOIL, MUSICIANS PLAYING WHILE CHILDREN WORK 02:33:51 - MS SMALL BOY LEADING CHAIN OF BLIND PEOPLE 02:34:00 - VILLAGERS TILLING THE SOIL 02:34:08 - MS SMALL BOY LEADING CHAIN OF BLIND PEOPLE 02:34:15 - TEEN BOYS WORKING THE LAND, TILLING THE SOIL 02:34:26 - GROUP OF BLIND MEN WALKING HOLDING HANDS 02:34:34 - MUSICIANS PLAYING TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS 02:34:45 - CU CHAIN OF BLIND PEOPLE 02:34:54 - BLIND VILLAGE CHIEF IN WHITE VOLTA REGION OF AFRICA. CU BLIND MAN'S EYES 02:36:21 - MS BOY OF SKIN & BONES WALKING WITH HELP OF STICK. MALNURISHED AFRICAN CHILDREN. STICK LEGS 02:36:52 - POV WALKING THROUGH EMPTY, ABANDONED AFRICAN VILLAGE, VOLTA RIVER REGION, ABANDONED HUTS 02:37:17 - 1970s VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE, VW BUG DRIVING UP TO WHO HEADQUARTERS, GENEVA 02:37:32 - WHO DOCTOR TALKING ABOUT AGENCIES WHO ARE WORKING TO SOLVE RIVER BLINDNESS PROBLEM 02:37:51 - INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES & 7 WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN CONFERENCE DISCUSSING ONCHOCERCIASIS, RIVER BLINDNESS 02:38:36 - CU AFRICAN WOMEN WASHING BOWLS, BUCKETS WHILE CHILDREN WATCH. MOTHER WORKING WITH BABY ON HER BACK 02:39:07 - AFRICAN MEN RIDING BICYCLES IN FRONT OF CATTLE HERD. FARMERS HERDING CATTLE 02:40:07 - AFRICAN WOMEN WORKING IN FIELDS 02:40:20 - FARMERS TILLING PADDIES, WET LANDS. AGRICULTURE, 02:40:50 - AFRICAN VILLAGES WAITING TO SEE DOCTOR FOR EXAMINATION. CU DOCTOR TAKING TINY PIECE OF SKIN FROM PATIENT, SKIN BIOPSY TESTED FOR DISEASE. PUTTING TISSUE UNDER MICROSCOPE. LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING TO GET PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED AT PHARMACY 02:42:04 - CU DOCTOR GIVING PATIENT SHOT, NEEDLE 02:43:14 - AFRICAN BOYS WATCHING EUROPEAN MEN IN HELICOPTER PREPARE INSECTICIDES, TAKE OFF 02:44:02 - INSECTICIDE POURED INTO RIVER FROM BOAT 02:44:40 - POV IN HELICOPTER OVER THICK FOREST, STREAMS RUNNING THROUGH FOREST. LOW ANGLE HELICOPTER SPRAYING RIVER WITH INSECTICIDES 02:45:24 - HS LOOKING DOWN AT BOAT DUMPING INSECTICIDE IN RIVER 02:45:38 - MS HELICOPTER SPRAYING RIVER 02:46:11 - MS PAN AFRICAN FARMERS FROM MALI WORKING IN FIELDS, TEA PLANTATIONS. 02:46:35 - AFRICAN CHILDREN AT SCHOOL GOING INTO SCHOOL IN ORDERLY FASHION. IN B/G, BOY LEADS BLIND MAN 02:47:12 - MALI VILLAGE LIFE, WOMEN SELLING & BUYING FOOD, PRODUCE, FRUIT, CLOTHING AT MARKETPLACE, MUSICIANS ENTERTAINING PEOPLE, WOMAN DANCING 02:48:46 - MS BOY LEADING OLD BLIND MAN THROUGH VILLAGE 02:48:56 - CU BABY ON YOUNG MOTHER'S BACK. CU PRETTY MOTHER, FREEZE FRAME
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: VM-588A