Walter Schneider 72 Alpha Helix BSIP I, II, III, 1972 [motion picture]

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Walter Schneider 72 Alpha Helix BSIP I, II, III, 1972 [motion picture]

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This one reel color silent film documents an expedition aboard R/V Alpha Helix. R/V Alpha Helix was a floating biological laboratory operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1966-1980. This film includes footage of R/V Alpha Helix at port and shows medical staff examining patients. In one sequence, a man holds up a sign labelled, "Alpha Helix Program, Dr. Gajdusek, Chief Scientist, Rendell, November 6, 1972." This suggests that the film depicts three separate human medical programs in the central and southwestern Pacific conducted in 1972 on R/V Alpha Helix under chief scientists Albert Damon, D. Carleton Gajdusek and Ronald Carr.

1 reel (15 min.) : si., color ; 16mm print.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7375383

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008

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