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Title(s): Blue jacket holiday
Author(s): United States. National Archives and Records Administration
United States. Army Pictorial Service
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Date: 		199u
Publication
Information: 		[Washington, D.C. : National Archives, 199-?]
Language(s): English
Format: Moving image; 077 min.; Sound; Black and white; Color
Subject(s): Military Medicine
World War II
Malaria - prevention & control
Infection Control
Rights: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Identifier(s): See catalog record: 101290544
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101290544
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Description: A collection of films, some created by the United States Army Pictorial Service, cobbled together at the National Archives. About half the films have some medical relevance. Rumors is an animated Private Snafu cartoon about what happens when a rumor is spread on a military base. The set of Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike animated films are about military preparations to fight malaria, and appear twice in the film list. Target Snafu is about ignoring malaria prevention precautions. The Enemy Bacteria is a color film with animated segments about cleanliness. It shows slides of microscopic bacteria and describes what happens when bacteria are allowed to grow.
Received: Sept. 25, 2006; purchase; from the National Archives and Records Administration.

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