News in Brief: Polio Vaccine.
News in Brief: Polio Vaccine.
Clip: 498819_1_1
Year Shot: 1960
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1668
Original Film: 033-015
HD: N/A
Location: Florida
Timecode: 00:41:49 - 00:42:59
News in Brief: Polio Vaccine. (VO discusses new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Harold Cox of Lederle Laboratories.) Pair of hands uses eyedropper to put something into small paper cups (like Dixie cups). Two young women drink oral vaccine from small cups. Men in uniform climb down from U.S. Air Force plane and take cups from (presumably) medical personnel and drink. People, primarily women and children, queue up outdoors. Woman, children, and a baby drink from the little cups.