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Ddt Covers Us Town AKA D.D.T. Covers U.S.… 1946
Description
Title reads: "DDT Covers US town".
Colombus, Georgia, United States of America (USA).
Health drive. Various shots of streets, garbage cans (rubbish bins!), drains, houses and cattle being sprayed with insecticide. African American workers pick up litter at roadside. An outside toilet...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Amelia
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 45178
- Sort Number:
- 46/033
- Time in/Out:
- 01:39:03:00 / 01:39:58:00
- Canister:
- 46/33
- Film ID:
- 1380.22
- Issue Date:
- 25/04/1946
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