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Invisible Armies

This episode looks at the interaction between our immune system and history.
Series : Plagued | Episode : 3 | Year : 1992 | Total Duration : 52 Minutes | Producer : Deanne Edwards
Director : Edward Goldwyn |
CU mass of wriggling worms. Hospital scenes. Microscopic image blood. CU children in hospital beds. Tse tse fly. African child held by mother in sling. Snail in water
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Access No. 125852 | 25 secs | 1990s | © BBC / Realis Pictures New York | Colour |
Multicultural street scene, pedestrians.
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Access No. 125853 | 25 secs | 1990s | Atlanta, Georgia, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
High rise buildings, traffic jam on highway
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Access No. 125854 | 42 secs | 1990s | Los Angeles, California, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Dr Wilbert Mason, MD The Children's Hospital Los Angeles talking about measles and how people have forgotten how serious it is. POV walking down hospital corridor and past wards. CU children in cots. Mason talking about cases of measles and tuberculosis being preventable.
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Access No. 125855 | 1 min | 1990s | Los Angeles, California, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU syringes (in hospital) with vaccine. Hispanic mother having her baby immunised, baby cries. Mothers and babies in clinic, health workers talking to mothers trying to find which of their children have been immunised.
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Access No. 125856 | 1 min | 1990s | Los Angeles, California, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Suzanne Westman, the Hudson Health Centre, LA talking about vaccination levels falling and the likelihood of epidemics of diphtheria and whooping cough. Mason talking about epidemics in US cities including increase of tuberculosis. Hispanic women and children at clinic,mother having baby immunised.
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Access No. 125857 | 1 min 55 secs | 1990s | Los Angeles, California, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Three shots man with small pox.
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Access No. 125858 | 17 secs | 1990s | © World Health Organisation (WHO) Geneva | Colour |
Man shivering with malaria. Baby with small pox carried by mother. Man with yellow fever under mosquito net.
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Access No. 125859 | 18 secs | 1980s | © Shell Film Unit | Colour |
Dawn over game park, Kenya. Pan animals at waterhole
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Access No. 125860 | 21 secs | 1990s | Kenya, Africa | © Eric Massey (London)? | Colour |
Large herd of wildebeest. African tribe of people walking. Men with spears around fire. African children playing in bush.
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Access No. 125861 | 50 secs | 1990s | Kenya, Africa | © BBC | Colour |
Map of the world with arrows from Africa indicating spread of diseases. Map of Bering Straits route to Alaska during Ice Age. Maps showing fertile crescent of Africa.
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Access No. 125862 | 58 secs | | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Egyptian boys herding goats. Planting. Animals and palm trees. Children herding goats. Town in Middle East, markets, butchering meat outdoors, dead chickens hanging.
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Access No. 125863 | 1 min 34 secs | 1980s | Egypt, Africa, Middle East | © BBC | Colour |
Waves breaking, mountains and inlet at Isafjordur. Woman, Ina Gisladottir, walking along coast towards mud fishing huts at Bollungarvik where she lost family due to measles epidemic in 1904. Isolated church, exterior and interiors, where measles epidemic originated from visiting sailor.
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Access No. 125864 | 1 min 36 secs | 1990s | ISA, Australiafjordur, Bollungarvik, Iceland | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W still photographs people in bed with measles, funerals in street.
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Access No. 125865 | 25 secs | 1900s | ISA, Australiafjordur, Iceland | © National Museum of Iceland | Colour |
Icelandic coastline pan to house. VS inside family eating around table.
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Access No. 125866 | 50 secs | 1990s | ISA, Australiafjordur, Iceland | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Women sorting fish, people in street (1900's)
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Access No. 125867 | 15 secs | 1900s | Iceland | © Icelandic Film Archives | B&W |
Map of world showing regions of disease. CU fire burning inside hut at reconstruction of Plymouth. Wampanoag Indian talking about a plague decimating 80% of his people. Man comes out of dwelling and talks to tourists.
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Access No. 125868 | 1 min 19 secs | 1990s | Plymouth Plantation, MasSA, Australiachusetts, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still colour print of Cahokia Mounds
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Access No. 125869 | 12 secs | Unknown | St Louis, Missouri, USA | © Cahokia Mounds Historic Site Museum | Colour |
Still colour painting Henardo de Soto (in Mississippi) and B&W print de Soto first European expedition into North America. Map of southern states showing route.
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Access No. 125870 | 28 secs | | USA | © Hulton Picture Library | Colour |
Colour painting Cahokia Mounds - building huts and cooking
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Access No. 125871 | 9 secs | | Cahokia Mounds, St LouiSA, Australia, Missouri, USA | © Cahokia Mounds Historic Site Museum | Colour |
Professor Charles Hudson, University of Georgia, walking around Etowah Mounds Historic Site talking about Spaniards, led by Hernardo de Soto, stayed with local Coosa people in 1540 but after they left there were no other Europeans until 1660's and the community had changed in size perhaps due to disease. 2 B&W prints of compound. Hudson walking around site talking about tragedy of disease.
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Access No. 125872 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1990s | Etowah, Cartersville, Georgia, USA | © Restricted / Etowah Museum | Colour |
Sign ÔWelcome to the 17th Century' at site of reconstruction of Plymouth where Pilgrim Fathers landed. Interviews with actors dressed in period costume talking about disease and interaction with local Indian population (in 17th century).
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Access No. 125873 | 2 mins 19 secs | 1990s | Plymouth Plantation, MasSA, Australiachusetts, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still colour painting Indians on horseback with wagons. Map of Cherokee lands showing the Trail of Tears when they were forced out by European settlers. B&W print Indians marching and burying bodies.
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Access No. 125874 | 36 secs | Unknown | USA | © Woolarac Museum | Colour |
Russell Thornton, University of California, Berkeley showing portrait of his Cherokee great great grandmother whose mother was shot on the Trail of Tears when the Cherokee were forced to leave their lands for European settlement. Thornton talking about how disease devastated the Cherokee people at this time, that they were not left alone and were devastated. Pan Etowah Mounds Historic Site, Georgia.
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Access No. 125875 | 1 min 42 secs | 1990s | Los Angeles, California; Etowah, Cartersville, Georgia, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Man surfing at Honolulu, pan to high rise buildings.
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Access No. 125876 | 17 secs | 1990s | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W still photographs. 1. Three Hawaiian men. 2. Man head and shoulders. 3. Woman's face.
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Access No. 125877 | 11 secs | | Hawaii, USA | © Hawaiian Historical Society Library / Bishop Museum, Honolulu | Colour |
Professor Alfred Crosby, University of Texas at Austin, walking around huts and talking about how remote Hawaii was until 1778 and the arrival of Captain Cook. Men and women hula dancing for tourists. Crosby talking about venereal disease resulting in drop in fertility rate.
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Access No. 125878 | 2 mins 51 secs | 1990s | WA, Australiaimea National Park, Honolulu, HaWA, Australiaii, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W still photographs. 1. Hawaiian woman. 2. Woman and child. 3. Grey haired woman. 4. Beautiful young woman. 5. Old man with pipe. 6. Child in dungarees. 7. Three children. 8. Two old men and two children sitting on map.
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Access No. 125879 | 40 secs | | Hawaii, USA | © Hawaiian Historical Society Library / Bishop Museum, Honolulu | B&W |
Professor Alfred Crosby, University of Texas at Austin, talking about the changes that the Hawaiians went through (after arrival of settlers) were not that different from other people's experience but happened in a very short time. CU waves, sun setting over sea.
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Access No. 125880 | 46 secs | 1990s | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Martin Luther King making speech ÒI have a dreamÓ .
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Access No. 125881 | 25 secs | 1960s | USA | © Martin Luther King Foundation | B&W |
News footage - newspaper headline ÓDr King SlainÓ referring to assassination of Martin Luther King. Burning buildings, race riots, police arrests.
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Access No. 125882 | 32 secs | 1960s | USA | © NBC News | Colour |
Professor Colin Palmer, University of North Carolina, talking about slave trade
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Access No. 125883 | 5 secs | 1990s | SA, Australian Francisco, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Stills 1. Colour painting slave raid in Central Africa 2. B&W print slaves captured by Portuguese 3. B&W print Convoy of captured slaves. 4. B&W print Slave with iron collar 5. Colour painting Christopher Columbus fleet on first voyage 6. Colour painting Columbus lands in New World. 7. Colour print Indians paddling canoe. 8. Colour print Indian planting corn 9. Columbus being greeted by Cacique
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Access No. 125884 | 1 min 9 secs | | USA | © Mary Evans Picture Library, Hulton Picture Library, Scholberg | Colour |
Aerials Jamaican coastline and sea
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Access No. 125885 | 29 secs | 1990s | Jamaica, West Indies | © Mediamix , Jamaica | Colour |
B&W still prints African village under attack, African village by river, African village by river (slavery)
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Access No. 125886 | 17 secs | | Africa | © Mansell Collection | B&W |
Professor Philip Curtin, John Hopkins University, Baltimore talking about the slave trade and belief that Africa was a savage place but actually African communities often brought in people to sell to the Europeans.
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Access No. 125887 | 1 min 15 secs | 1990s | Baltimore, Maryland, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
1. Colour drawing slaves abandoned on march. 2 B&W print Arab slave traders. 3. Colour print Slaves being driven to the coast. 4. B&W prints slaves at Port Augusta . CU Professor Colin Palmer, University of North Carolina talking about exchange of disease (from the slave trade).
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Access No. 125888 | 29 secs | | Africa, USA | © Mansell Collection / Hulton Picture Library/ Restricted | Colour |
1. B&W still fettered slaves taken on board ship. 2. B&W still Layout of slave ship. 3. B&W still slavers throwing cargo overboard. 4. B&W still slavers jettisoning cargo. 5. B&W still Slave trader wielding cutlass. 6. B&W still Food being handed to slaves. Professor Joseph Miller, University of Virginia talking about crew on slave ships catching tropical diseases.
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Access No. 125889 | 55 secs | | Africa, USA | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
1. B&W print Starving slaves on ship. 2. B&W print Cramped condition on board. Professor Philip Curtin, John Hopkins University, Baltimore talking about slaves carrying tropical diseases to America.
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Access No. 125890 | 27 secs | | Africa, USA | © Hulton Picture Library/ Schomberg/ Restricted | Colour |
B&W poster Auction bill for slaves. B&W print Slave dealer auctioning slaves. B&W print slaves being sold in Brazil. B&W print slave auction in Virginia
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Access No. 125891 | 36 secs | | USA | © Hulton Picture Library | Colour |
Professor Franklin Knight, John Hopkins University, Baltimore sheltering from rain looking out at old sugar plantation walking around derelict huts. Talking about hard life of slaves and disease. Some interiors derelict buildings .
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Access No. 125892 | 1 min 44 secs | 1990s | Laurel Valley Plantation, Louisiana, USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
B&W prints 1. Interior sugar boiling house. 2. Cane holing. 3. Female slave in wood collar. 4. Sugar mill 1894, loading sugar cane. 5. Brazilian sugar mill, loading vat. 6. Working on treadmill. 7. Slave being whipped
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Access No. 125893 | 51 secs | | USA | © Hulton Picture Library/ Mansell Collection | B&W |
Professor Colin Palmer, University of North Carolina talking about the shame of the slave trade and high mortality rates but also the demonstration of the human spirit.
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Access No. 125894 | 1 min 1 sec | 1990s | USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Crowd waving arms and singing to reggae music. Street scenes in Jamaica.
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Access No. 125895 | 26 secs | 1990s | Jamaica, West Indies | © Mediamix, Jamaica | Colour |
Coat of arms on gates of Kew Gardens. Professor Arthur Bell, former director of Kew Gardens walking around and inside Temperate House, large glasshouse. Looking and talking about the Cinchona tree whose bark is a source of quinine used to combat malaria. This enabled the Europeans to colonise tropical areas. Bell examining original case used to bring back seedlings from Ecuador
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Access No. 125896 | 2 mins 58 secs | 1990s | Kew Gardens, London, UK | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Map of Africa indicating colonisation
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Access No. 125897 | 25 secs | | Africa | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Yanomami tribe of indigenous people from South America (Amazon Basin). Man smoking. HAS misty rainforest. People walking in rainforest.
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Access No. 125898 | 1 min 8 secs | 1990s | South America | © Geoffrey O'Connor and Realis Pictures , New York | Colour |
Professor Anna Roosevelt, Natural History Museum, Chicago indicating on map and talking about history of Amazonian people being similar to that of other civilisations. Various colour stills of rock paintings from Monte Allegre, Brazil and Amazonian settlements. Also stills pottery and figurines.
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Access No. 125899 | 1 min 50 secs | 1990s | USA | © Restricted / Anna Roosevelt. | Colour |
Yanomami tribe of indigenous people from South America (Amazon Basin) in rainforest, loading basket on back, walking through forest, through water.
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Access No. 125900 | 57 secs | 1990s | South America | © Geoffrey O'Connor and Realis Pictures, New York | Colour |
Professor Anna Roosevelt, Natural History Museum, Chicago talking about life for Amazonian Indians becoming worse and how , due to disease, these people have become shorter in stature. VS still photographs and drawings excavated graves and skeletons showing taller generations.
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Access No. 125901 | 58 secs | 1990s | USA | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Yanomami tribe of indigenous people from South America (Amazon Basin) - in hammock and inside hut with baby. Hose and excavation for gold. Small aircraft taxiing on dirt runway, Indigenous children playing, Children receiving food from Western people. Various close ups indigenous mothers and babies.
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Access No. 125902 | 2 mins 12 secs | 1990s | South America | © Geoffrey O'Connor and Realis Pictures, New York | Colour |
Baby being examined. CU doctor filling syringe for vaccination. Baby being innoculated, cries. VS Children well wrapped up against cold playing in playground including slide and swings. LS small aircraft flying in valley and landing. People disembarking. Pan deserted church with cemetery and grave stones, desolate landscape.
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Access No. 125932 | 2 mins 33 secs | 1990s | ISA, Australiafjordur, Iceland | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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