Target T.B.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 3: Public Health and Nursing Films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black and white, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm; 400 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 222.74
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Credits: Produced by Willard Pictures for General Electric X-ray Corporation in cooperation with the National TB Association and U.S. Public Health Service; directed by William M. Nelson; photographed  by William Steiner. Christmas Seal Film Library, T.B. League of Pittsburgh.

Summary: Shows TB as an enemy (animation). Discussion of Tubercul Bacillus, the microbe that causes the disease. The only way to detect the microbe in the early stages is to x-ray. Portable x-ray machines have helped to take this advanced equipment to the people.  Shows a young woman persuading her friend to take a free x-ray.