Document MBEoKk2nMrOk073DejD7G8jk

i / I a i. COP! OF kEKOJUKDOU December 4, 1955 Apropos of our discussion of s subject for e motion picture, 1 would like to suggest a possible subject for your considera tion. It seems that Dr. Armstrong is interested in baring a picture based on baoteriologjr and it occurred to me that we Blight combine this ^ with the subject of nutrition by basing a scenario on one or sereral of the food cycles by showing how, the symbotlc schezomycetes play an important part in the preparation of cur food. Without the bacterial processes which reduce organic substances, it would be Impossible to hare the necessary chemical interchange between animals and regetables and therefore it would be impossible to sustain life. The theme of the picture might be two children getting ready to start for sehool. Their breakfast is put on the table and the picture would riiow how the bamteria played an important part in the preparation (or destruction), of the food. To be more specific, assume that we show how certain foods get to the breakfast table by showing how a plant grows, absorbs nitrogen from the soil, and forms certain organic compounds, the plant then being eaten by an animal or an autotrophic bacteria. Assuming the animal is a cow, we could show the bacteria which enables the oow to digest and transform cellulose into glucose. This, in turn, would lead us to the discussion of milk and the lactic acid forming bacteria. We could work in many foodstuffs and their related symbotio or pathogenic bacteria such as the ptomaines, etc. This would also give Miss Guilford a chance to work in something from the nutrition angle. The picture would proceed to carry the children through the day, working in such angles as handwashing, the various pathogenic bacteria, etc. In the picture we might have some of the children's friends get sick and bring in the pneumococcus and certain of the staphylacoccus and diphtheria bacillus and some of the anaerobic micro-organisms such as the tetanus or botulinus bacilli. If this is not enough to round out ths picture, we night also correlate with the nutrition angle the blastomycetes and the hypomycetes. Incidentally, the Educational Pictures, Ine., havs an excellent film on the growth and distribution of molds end of certain fungi Although the foregoing suggestion lacks any dramatic interest, I am convinced that it would create an interest among both school and theater audiences. No doubt Dr. Armstrong and Dr. Lanza and others better qualified than myself could expand this idea into a workable plan. (Signed) T. W. Scott