Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials, Electronic Resources

Title:

The polio crusade [videorecording] / a Sarah Colt Productions film for American Experience ; written, produced and directed by Sarah Colt.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : WGBH Educational Foundation : PBS Home Video, c2009.

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf. Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.

Target Audience Note:

Not Rated.

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis -- Virginia -- Wytheville -- History.

Television programs for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Wytheville (Va.) -- History.

Other Author:

Colt, Sarah.

Hunt, Linda, 1945-

Oshinsky, David M., 1944- Polio.

Youngner, Julius.