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Epidemics

This episode takes up the theme that, ironically, epidemics are the results of so-called progress.
Series : Plagued | Episode : 2 | Year : 1992 | Total Duration : 52 Minutes | Producer : Deanne Edwards
Director : Edward Goldwyn |
South Lake Tahoe Children's Centre sign and exterior. Interior empty classroom and tracking through Centre. Laurie Prouty, teacher's aid, talking about co-worker taking ill and dying. El Dorado County Offices sign , Dr Curt Weidmer, Director of Public Health, driving car talking about woman being diagnosed with the plague. Children playing at Centre. Director of Centre,Sue Coppini talking about dead woman kissing children before leaving.
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Access No. 123470 | 2 mins 39 secs | 1990s | Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
VS Squirrels and chipmunks around Lake Tahoe. Director of Public Health, Dr Curt Weidmer, talking about woman who died of the plague catching it from her cat who had been ill after catching a chipmunk. Track through bush. Director of South Lake Tahoe Children's Centre, Sue Coppini, and teacher's aid, Laurie Prouty, talking about dead woman's daughter not contracting disease or any of her co-workers or children at the Centre.
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Access No. 125007 | 1 min 38 secs | 1990s | Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Diagram showing three types of plague epidemic
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Access No. 125008 | 10 secs | 1990s | Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © World Health Organization | Colour |
Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute London, talking about the plague and society.
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Access No. 125009 | 28 secs | 1990s | London, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
HAS walled Italian city of Florence, VS cobbled streets and old walls. B&W print nursing plague victim with buboes.
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Access No. 125010 | 33 secs | 1990s | Florence, Tuscany, Italy | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
B&W print Plague Victim dead in street.
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Access No. 125011 | 8 secs | Unknown | © Mansell Collection, London. | Colour |
Still B&W photographs of poverty and poor living conditions in Sydney : People pull back to reveal WS Kent Street during 1900 plague epidemic. Fijian Queen Street. WS Johnson's Lane cleansing team. WS Cleansing Sydney streets. WS dirty Sydney street with horse. Top shot shanty town, Sydney.
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Access No. 125012 | 1 min 1 sec | 1900s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Macreadie File, Mitchell Library, Sydney | B&W |
Pan North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney Harbour in background. VS tracking around building. Chinese people in streets of Sydney. Looking through restaurant window to Chinese man with duck on spit. Professor Peter Curson, bio-geographer from Macquarie University , talking about rats and fleas spreading the plague.
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Access No. 125013 | 1 min 4 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Graphic showing human body lungs illustrating pneumonic plague of which teacher at Lake Tahoe, California died from. Children at South Lake Tahoe Children's Centre playing. Director of Public Health, Dr Curt Weidmer, talking about it being a puzzle that the woman was the only one who contracted the disease. Children at Centre called inside.
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Access No. 125014 | 57 secs | 1990s | Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Lightning flashes across sky. Stormy waves to shore.
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Access No. 125015 | 12 secs | 1990s | © Index Stock Shots, London | Colour |
CU marmots in natural surroundings including CU's. digging, standing upright and looking around.
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Access No. 125016 | 17 secs | 1990s | Central Asia | © BBC TV | Colour |
Archival footage Chinese men on camels, Chinese man smoking, man with unusual hair cut, Rider herding horses, herd of horses galloping
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Access No. 125017 | 17 secs | Unknown | China | © Educational and Television Films, London | B&W |
Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute London, talking about plague coming from the east. Maps with arrows pointing from Asia to Europe showing trade routes.
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Access No. 125018 | 26 secs | 1990s | London, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Still B&W print Venetians trading with Arabs. Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute London, talking about towns filling with people from different origins in confined spaces. B&W print Genoese trading ships at sea. Map showing the plague spreading around Europe. Roy Porter.
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Access No. 125019 | 51 secs | 1990s | London, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
B&W print the Lady of Annabel carried to death cart. B&W print dying woman with child at breast. (plague in Europe).
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Access No. 125020 | 5 secs | Unknown | © Mary Evans Picture Library | Colour |
B&W print people fleeing town (due to plague)
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Access No. 125021 | 8 secs | Unknown | © Wellcome Foundation, London | Colour |
Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute London, talking about plague receding in Europe. Map of Europe showing plague receding. Roy Porter
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Access No. 125022 | 33 secs | 1990s | London, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Chapel of Skulls and Bones. CU candle flames. Flames blown out.
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Access No. 125023 | 40 secs | 1990s | Prague, Czechoslovakia | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Florence - Ponte Vecchio, pan rooftops and skyline. Alleyways and old buildings. Exterior Pitti Palace. Interior Ducal Palace, pan across Grand Room chairs and long table with scrolls. Tuscan hills and small village, farm house, bridge over small river. Interior door slamming. WS Ponte Vecchio in Florence over River Arno. VS alleys and cobbled streets, archways,
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Access No. 125024 | 1 min 48 secs | 1990s | Florence, Tuscany, Italy | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Still photo Hong Kong Streets (1800's). Archival footage Chinese soldiers marching along hillside.
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Access No. 125026 | 16 secs | Unknown | Hong Kong, China | © Royal Commonwealth Society/ Educational and Television Films, London | B&W |
Tall ship, The Bounty, sailing into Sydney Harbour. Pan Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House to wharves at Walsh Bay. Pan down from high rise buildings to wharves. Professor Peter Curson, bio-geographer from Macquarie University , talking about fears in 1900's of disease especially in wharf areas. VS old buildings in Sydney, Rocks area.
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Access No. 125027 | 1 min 6 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Professor Peter Curson bio-geographer from Macquarie University , walking through old streets of Sydney. Tracking through alley and streets in Rocks area, POV from boat around wharves.
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Access No. 125028 | 34 secs | 1900s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA and Channel 4 | B&W |
BCU cat flea
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Access No. 125029 | 8 secs | 1990s | © Science Photo Library, London | Colour |
B&W still photograph pile of dead rats ÒThe Morning's CatchÓ
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Access No. 125030 | 2 secs | 1900s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Macreadie File, Mitchell Library, Sydney | Colour |
Three still colour transparencies showing stomach of flea
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Access No. 125031 | 13 secs | 1990s | © World Health Organization | Colour |
Still drawing showing spread of the plague from rats to humans
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Access No. 125032 | 17 secs | 1990s | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
B&W still pile of rats by furnace ÒThe Morning's CatchÓ. Still advertisement to buy rats for 6d. Pile of rats ÒThe Morning's CatchÓ
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Access No. 125033 | 32 secs | 1900s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Macreadie File, Mitchell Library, Sydney | Colour |
Peter Curson bio-geographer from Macquarie University , talking about plague being an animal's disease and that a range of factors allow it to spread to humans. Pan Sydney Harbour Bridge to wharves at Walsh Bay. Map of world showing epidemic at turn of the century.
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Access No. 125034 | 1 min 7 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
POV car across Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. WS street and tram towards camera. WS San Francisco Airport, San Bruno Mountains behind. Randall Blair, Vector Control Specialist, talking about the plague still being around and will come again. CU vole / mouse in grass. Blair and other man checking traps near picnic area.
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Access No. 125035 | 1 min 43 secs | 1990s | SA, Australian Francisco, SA, Australian Bruno Mountain, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
HAS pan valley San Francisco, San Bruno Mountains. Randall Blair, Vector Control Specialist, showing field where rodents come in from the hills. People cycling, walking dogs. Blair talking about how the plague can be spread from fleas and can spread very fast.
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Access No. 125036 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1990s | SA, Australian Bruno Mountain, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Squirrels being captured so fleas can be inspected at Emerald Bay State Park to see whether they carry the plague. Frank Bruyn and others carry out operation. Identify positive infection, relayed to ranger Steve Johnston at Sugar Pine Point State Park.
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Access No. 125037 | 1 min 8 secs | 1990s | Emerald Bay State Park, Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Trees at Emerald Bay State Park showing Lake Tahoe. Area sectioned off due to plague outbreak amongst animals, people with protective clothing and masks laying traps with flea powder. Ranger Steve Johnston at Sugar Pine Point State Park talking to campers about closure. Track around campground. Glenn Bissell, Vector Control Specialist, talking about clearing infected area to minimise infection. Plague warning signs.
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Access No. 125038 | 2 mins 45 secs | 1990s | Emerald Bay State Park, Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Still colour transparency showing blackened fingers and toes of cowboy infected by the plague after being bitten by fleas
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Access No. 125039 | 21 secs | 1990s | Colorado, USA | © World Heath Organization, Colorado | Colour |
WS trees and tilt down to Emerald Bay State Park. HAS Lake Tahoe surround by trees.
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Access No. 125040 | 36 secs | 1990s | Emerald Bay State Park, Lake Tahoe, California, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
CU's people affected by cholera in hospital. Outside hospital, woman being lifted out of car onto stretcher.
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Access No. 125041 | 41 secs | 1990s | Peru, South America | © Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) | Colour |
Aerial Alabama coastline, Mobile Bay docks with ships. Roy Porter from Wellcome Institute, London talking about spread of cholera in slum areas. Sheila Lemoine leading Cholera Walk in streets of Manchester, UK. CU people's faces listening, canal. Porter talking about infection during industrial revolution.
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Access No. 125042 | 3 mins 2 secs | 1990s | Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA, London, Manchester, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
B&W photographs industrial areas around River Irwill and Tiver Irk, Lancashire, UK.
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Access No. 125043 | 6 secs | 1900s | Manchester, Lancashire, UK | © Manchester Public Library, UK | B&W |
B&W still print Plug Street Slums
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Access No. 125044 | 7 secs | 1900s | UK | © Mary Evans Picture Library | B&W |
Still B&W print Lambeth Gas Works, industrial. B&W print Blue Gate Fields, slum area.
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Access No. 125045 | 12 secs | 1900s | London, UK | © Hilton Deutsche | B&W |
B&W still Bathing in Calcutta
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Access No. 125046 | 4 secs | 1900s | Calcutta, India | © British Museum (India Office Library) | B&W |
B&W print British Cavalry crossing ford (in India)?
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Access No. 125047 | 7 secs | 1900s | © Mary Evans Picture Library | B&W |
Map showing spread of cholera from India around world. B&W print Cholera in Paris
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Access No. 125048 | 17 secs | 1990s | Paris, France | © Wellcome Insititute - print NFSA/ Channel 4 - map | Colour |
Berar-Amraoti Cotton market
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Access No. 125049 | 4 secs | 1900s | India | © British Museum (India Office Library) | B&W |
B&W still print tea plantation, Bengal. B& W British troops on the march, India
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Access No. 125050 | 15 secs | 1900s | India | © Mary Evans Picture Library | B&W |
Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute, London talking about history of cholera. Poverty in Manchester, UK - B&W stills Women in Angel Meadow, Organ grinder in Millgate, Market in Swan Street/Rochester Road, Lodging house, Scotland Bridge houses and river, Children in Angel Meadow (children in street)
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Access No. 125051 | 32 secs | 1900s | Manchester, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 - Roy Porter Machester Public Library - Stills | B&W |
B&W still drawing/cartoon Pull back Radical Reform sign to assembly of rebels - Ruffian Assemblies
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Access No. 125052 | 11 secs | 1900s | UK | © Mary Evans Picture Library | B&W |
Pan Stoke Newington high streets rooftops. Man climbing down through man hole. Man with light walking through Hackney underground sewer . Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute, London talking about improvement of sewerage system in Europe. Interior Stratford Sewage Works, ornate Victorian ceiling. Diagram of human body showing how cholera germs infect body.
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Access No. 125053 | 1 min 33 secs | 1990s | Stoke Newington, London, UK | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Shanty town near polluted water, people in boats near houses, man pulling net from water, boy with buckets.
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Access No. 125054 | 49 secs | 1990s | Peru, South America | © Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) | Colour |
Professor Eugene Gangarosa, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta talking about potential for epidemics even in developed countries eg. Istanbul 1971, Portugal 1974 and Italy 1973.
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Access No. 125055 | 1 min 9 secs | 1990s | Atlanta, Georgia, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
US Food and Drug Administration boatyard at Mobile Bay, small open boat heading out. Exterior US Dept. Health and Human Services - Food and Drug Administration sign. Scientists checking oyster bed. Laboratory scenes, testing for cholera germs. Andy de Paolo, research scientist, talking about isolating cholera organism. Lab scenes.
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Access No. 125056 | 2 mins | 1990s | Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Group conference at table, Dr Anthony Guarino, Chief Dauphin Island Food and Drug Administration, talking about positive identification of cholera in oyster beds. Map of Dauphin Island. US Coast guard helicopter taking off. Aerial bay area, over oil tanker. Plotting maps inside helicopter. Guarino on boat. Guarino talking about potential of contracting cholera from oysters.
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Access No. 125057 | 2 mins 33 secs | 1990s | Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Scientists on small open boat. Dr Paul Blake, Centers of Disease Control, talking about where the cholera organism found in oysters came from, unsure of significance, may cause disease in southern coast of USA and oyster industry. Boat through wharves.
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Access No. 125058 | 1 min 16 secs | 1990s | Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
B&W still Water flea with eggs. Still eggs. Still magnification of cholera germs on eggs.
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Access No. 125059 | 14 secs | 1990s | © Paul West | Colour |
Professor Eugene Gangarosa, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta talking about home of cholera thought to be in delta area of Ganges but know realise cholera found in all estuarine waters. Dr Louise McFarland , Louisiana Dept of Health talking about cholera on coast of Louisiana particularly in seafood. Crabs in tanks, boat along bank.
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Access No. 125060 | 1 min 30 secs | 1990s | Atlanta, Georgia, Bayou, Louisiana, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Dr Louise McFarland , Louisiana Dept of Health talking about how people catch cholera from seafood. Ardell Walters, inspector, at fish market checking fish, crabs and food handling. Paddle steamer along river in Louisiana. Jazz musicians busking in New Orleans. New Orleans skyline, sewage works. Walters checking water, taking samples.
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Access No. 125061 | 3 mins 6 secs | 1990s | Louisiana, USA | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Professor Eugene Gangarosa, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta talking about estuarine waters being the home for cholera and can not be eradicated/
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Access No. 125062 | 1 min 30 secs | 1990s | Atlanta, Georgia | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
Cholera victims, patients in hospital, Doctor examining patients.
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Access No. 125063 | 28 secs | 1990s | Peru, South America | © Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) | Colour |
Dr Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute London talking about social conditions in history creating conditions for diseases such as AIDS. Montage of fleas, crabs, oysters, skulls and bones.
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Access No. 125064 | 1 min 19 secs | 1990s | © NFSA and Channel 4 | Colour |
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