Knockdown & kill
- Date:
- 1974
- Videos
About this work
Description
A film about insecticides; what they are and how they work. Using live action and then animated diagrams (some illustrating the chemical composition of DDT) aimed at A level students and undergraduates, it illustrates nerve transmission and death in the insect. The film also covers insectide resistance.
Publication/Creation
United Kingdom, 1974.
Physical description
1 encoded moving image (30 mins.) : sound, colour.
Notes
Donated in 2001 from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a teaching film used 1960-1976.
Creator/production credits
Director: Alastair MacEwen. Production Company: C24 Scientific Producations. Sponsor: J. L. MacEwen. Producer: Michael Cockburn. Script: John Maunder Photography: H. Payton. Animator: Filmfex Animation Services. Editor: J. Hogarth. Music: Richard Arnell, Richard Hewson. Sound: Florian Eidenbenz.