The story of halibut oil.

Date:
1948
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The story of halibut oil. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

This film shows how halibut oil is made beginning with fishermen catching live halibuts and ending with work in the laboratory to turn the most nutritious aspects of halibut oil into a vitamin supplement which is then tested as a treatment on a group of laboratory rats who have been bred to develop rickets.

Publication/Creation

UK : Verity Films, 1948.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (28.01 mins) : sound, black and white

Duration

00:28:01

Copyright note

Crookes Laboratory

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Unrestricted
CC-BY-NC
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales

Language note

In English.

Creator/production credits

A Verity Film made by Erik Cripps

Notes

This film was originally held in the Crookes Laboratory Film Library.

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