A Drop in the Bucket
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 2: Dental Films
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content: 1 Film reel (color, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm; 500 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 222.23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Credits: Film made with the cooperation of the people of Newark, Delaware. Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service, Division of Dental Public Health. Directed by Joseph Henaberry, script by Oeveste Granducci, photography by Andrew L. Gold.  

Summary: Film shows the process of a small town's residents discussing a new idea of flouridating their drinking water.  Seven years after flouridation began, the children of the town show two out of three cavities are prevented with flouridation.