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The Great fever / a Bosch and Company Inc. film for American Experience ; written and produced by Adriana Bosch ; directed by Adriana Bosch and Michael Chin.
LIBRA DVD 013 040
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reed, Walter, 1851-1902.
- Reed, Walter.
- Lazear, Jesse William, 1866-1900.
- Lazear, Jesse William.
- Carroll, James, 1854-1907.
- Carroll, James.
- Finlay, Carlos J. (Carlos Juan), 1833-1915.
- Finlay, Carlos J.
- Yellow Fever Commission (U.S.).
- Yellow fever--United States--History.
- Yellow fever.
- United States.
- History.
- Yellow fever--Cuba--History.
- Cuba.
- Genre:
- Television series.
- Biographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Widescreen format.
- Place of Publication:
- [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In June 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever. For more than two hundred years the disease had terrorized the United States, killing an estimated 100,000 people in the 19th century alone. Shortly after Reed and his team arrived in Havana they began testing the radical theories of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, who believed that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. This production documents the heroic efforts of Reed's medical team to verify Finlay's theory. Eventually their discovery enabled the United States to successfully eradicate the disease among workers constructing the Panama Canal, making possible the completion of one of the most strategic waterways in the world. When yellow fever struck New Orleans in 1905, federal public health officials launched an aggressive mosquito eradication campaign and successfully ended the epidemic. It was the last yellow fever outbreak in the United States, and the first major public health triumph of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Events
- Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
- 1878 epidemic
- Scourge of the Spanish American War
- Yellow fever and the scientific method
- Epidemic in New Orleans, 1905
- Yellow fever in the 20th century and today.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Linda Hunt.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Michael Chin; editor, Monica Glaysher.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture originally broadcast Monday, October 30, 2006 on PBS as a segment of the series American Experience.
- Special feature: Map: major yellow fever epidemics 1793-1905.
- Time stated on container is "approx. 60 minutes."
- Aspect ratio: enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780793693009
- 0793693004
- OCLC:
- 76903167
- Publisher Number:
- 841887008013
- AMEX6905 PBS Home Video
- Online:
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fever/index.html
- American Experience archive
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