“ VIRUSES: THRESHOLD OF LIFE ” 1967 DISEASE & HEALTH EDUCATIONAL FILM PH45664

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1967 color educational film produced by Coronet, which credits educational collaborator Dr. John E. Kempf, professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center of Chicago, takes a look at the subject of viruses (TRT: 13:38). A biological scientist in a laboratory pours a liquid from one beaker to another. “A Coronet Film” (0:09). The doctor reviews a chart in the lab, next to a microscope, and beakers of colorful liquid (0:35). An electron micrograph of a virus shows scattered spherical shapes on a dark background. The leaf of a plant, partially eaten away by a virus (0:59). An array of petri dishes. Closeup on a culture of disease bacteria being destroyed by viruses (1:20). Young men and women working in a biology lab (1:41). A glass slide is placed under an optical microscope (1:55). A microscopic view, with a white arrow indicating a small