The search : University of Minnesota heart disease research University of Minnesota. Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene Cardiovascular Diseases -- etiology Diagnostic Techniques, Cardiovascular Longitudinal Studies The film explains the enduring hunt by a team of scientists for treatments to curb cardiovascular disorders, which kill nearly a million adult Americans annually. The film features Dr. Ancel Keys, a famed physiologist who studied the effect of diet on health and is known for the Seven Countries study and for his contributions to the K-rations that fed soldiers in World War II. The film shows experiments conducted on 500 normal, healthy men from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, who are subjected to a variety of tests including running on a treadmill, blood tests, X-rays, and a personality inventory, all in attempt to explain why heart disease claims so many lives. Peabody Award winner for research. Credits: Produced for The search by Roy Lockwood; film consultant, Alfred Butterfield; written by Charles O'Neill; additional material by Lawrence Mollot; filmed by Information Productions, Inc. for CBS Television; directed by Julian Roffman. Cast: Narrator, Eric Sevareid; Ancel Keys. Gift; Catholic University of America; 20170210 Acc.# 2017-02. New York : Young America Films, 1955 Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992, narrator. Keys, Ancel, 1904-2004, on-screen presenter. Roffman, Julian, 1915-2000, film director. Gitlin, Irving, -1967, film producer. Young America Films, presenter. CBS Television Network, presenter. Information Productions. Documentaries and Factual Films Moving image 026 min. Sound Black and white Live action nlm:nlmuid-101774355-vid 101774355 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101774355 OCLC: 1293829323 English The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0 Copyright status: Sources: Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1950-1959; Research date: 20230306