‘Dr. Wise on Influenza’: Public information films and the ‘flu epidemic of 1918 — At the Pictures

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‘Whilst many persons are railing against the cinema as a disseminator of disease, there is, I am glad to find, one gentleman who is putting theatre to good account as an influenza combatant.’[1] Previously I reported on some of the debates that the influenza epidemic of 1918 precipitated within the cinema trade. In the […]

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