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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
posted April 18, 2018 02:35 PM
I was interested to see Bill Gates on TV recently talking about the Malaria Summit. He said that his organisation will be spending 1 billion US dollars until 2023. The UK will spend £500m over the next three years.
This was all a surprise to me as I thought that malaria had been conquered by now, but it appears that the mosquitos are very resilient and are not being entirely eradicated as yet.
This all reminds me a of 16mm Technicolor animated film in my collection made in 1943 by Walt Disney for Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs called "The Winged Scourge". It's the only film to feature the Seven Dwarfs outside their "Snow White" film.
I suppose it may now be somewhat rare, but you can see it on YouTube.
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted April 18, 2018 02:41 PM
I seem to recall a few years ago somebody asked the question "Which animal causes the most human deaths?" and the answer was nothing like the lion or crocodile, it was the mosquito.
-so bad it's pushed other people all the way into second!
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
posted April 19, 2018 04:03 AM
I understand that most of the 4 minute "7 Wise Dwarfs" consists of footage taken directly from the Snow White feature, although the latter portion uses some new animation and backgrounds.
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
posted April 19, 2018 04:16 AM
I have this film but in black and white and with a French soundtrack. The YouTube comment says it was intended for South America ; my film was shown in Africa.
This is in French Language, I assume same thing exist in English Language.
There are some very interesting comments on "Moth and the flame"(1938), my prefered Disney Short (which appears in Silly Symphonies Vol 2 which wasn't sold in Europe...). Unfortunately, Derann did not had enough time to print it in Super 8, a treasure among treasures.... Anyway, DVD Vol 2 shows a very correct Video. "Cross fingers" to get all of that in Blu ray, one day or an other...
posted April 20, 2018 11:54 AM
This reminds me of an eposide of some sci-fi series from the past, where a person is awoken from some form of cryogenic sleep in the future, in a world where all disease has been completely destroyed ...
... and then, he coughed.
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