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Tracking the Sleeping Death

🎞️ Movie 10 min --
1938

A tale of science's battle with Africa's dread sleeping death that tells the true-life story of Sir David Bruce, a doctor/scientist. who went to Uganda in British Africa in 1900, and after tireless work and investigation discovered the the tse-tse fly was the carrier of the dreaded germ. By having the natives move from the low-country, infested by the fly, onto the higher mountainous ground, the disease was finally conquered.

Cast

Gilbert Emery
Gilbert Emery
Dr. Robert Bruce
Claude King
Claude King
Doris Lloyd
Doris Lloyd
Mary Bruce
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Hudson Shotwell
Carey Wilson
Carey Wilson
Narrator
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David Snell
Composer