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00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 - Mystery, danger, fifth column activity.

00:29 Aha, secret weapons, deadly formulas.

00:33 These are the forerunners of invasion.

00:35 Say, what kind of an invasion is this?

00:39 Why, it's just a bunch of kids in a doctor's office.

00:42 What do you suppose they're up to?

00:45 Uh-oh.

00:45 (laughs)

00:48 Well, now these floors are kind of slippery.

00:51 It's a doctor's office, all right,

00:53 but these kids aren't sick.

00:54 No, sir, they're here to fight.

00:56 To fight the oldest invasion of all,

00:59 invasion by disease.

01:01 You see, they've come to be vaccinated.

01:04 Of course, this is Tubby's first vaccination.

01:07 He won't admit he's afraid, but he is a little worried.

01:10 Well, I guess it'll be okay.

01:13 What do you suppose this vaccination business is, anyway?

01:19 Say, that must be the needle.

01:24 Boy, it sure looks awful sharp.

01:28 Hey, I'm not gonna let 'em stick that thing into me.

01:30 It's easy enough to see that Tubby

01:33 doesn't quite appreciate what we're trying to do for him.

01:36 I think we ought to take things a little slower

01:38 right at the start here and let him in on the idea.

01:41 Explain to him what vaccination really is.

01:44 And while we're at it,

01:45 why don't we get the rest of 'em in, too,

01:47 so they'll understand what's going on when it's their turn.

01:50 It's nice of you gentlemen to drop in like this.

01:56 As a matter of fact, we were just going to call you anyway.

01:59 You see, the doctor's going to tell us a little story,

02:02 a story about vaccination.

02:04 He's going to show us just what goes on inside our bodies

02:08 when we get sick, and how vaccination will help us

02:11 get all set to fight off diseases

02:14 even before they can sneak up on us.

02:16 Now, in the first place,

02:18 your body is a whole lot of separate parts

02:21 all brought together into one wonderfully organized machine.

02:26 It's like some big city

02:27 with a lot of separate buildings or factories.

02:30 For instance, the heart is the central office

02:35 for the distribution of supplies

02:36 to the other buildings of the city.

02:39 And the blood is really made up of many little workers,

02:42 which the heart sends to the different factories.

02:45 Come along over here a minute.

02:47 We'll show you some of these little workers in person.

02:50 Of course, we can't show them to you

02:52 while they're traveling around in your body

02:54 doing their work,

02:54 but you can see them sitting still on this glass slide.

02:58 First, we'll spread them out thin

03:01 so as to get a good look.

03:02 There.

03:04 Now you'll see for yourselves what we've been talking about.

03:14 You see, what you've always thought

03:16 was just a sort of red liquid

03:18 that popped out of your finger when you cut it

03:20 is really much more.

03:23 It's actually millions of little workers with a job to do,

03:27 a job of keeping us alive.

03:29 Looks like Rags here has a little bloodhound in him.

03:38 Well, let's get back to our story of vaccination

03:41 and see where we go from here.

03:43 Let's see now.

03:44 Here we are.

03:45 We're just going to tell you about our veins and arteries

03:49 and how they're like the roads and highways of the body

03:52 because it's through them

03:54 that the little workers get around

03:56 to the different organs or factories and do their jobs.

03:59 Remember, we said your body is really like a city,

04:02 a model city in which everything runs smoothly,

04:05 and will continue to do so

04:07 as long as it's left undisturbed,

04:10 undisturbed by the invader, disease.

04:13 (dramatic music)

04:21 You see, the wall around this city has a gate

04:23 through which supplies of raw materials must be taken.

04:26 Suppose, for example,

04:29 that you're loading up a new stock of groceries,

04:32 bread and butter, lots of jam on it, ice cream and cake.

04:36 This busy, peaceful city never heard of the invader.

04:39 But look, the enemy.

04:41 It's a deadly disease germ, all right.

04:43 Oh, but there's only one.

04:45 What harm can he do against the millions of little workers?

04:48 Just watch him.

04:50 Suddenly, there are two,

04:52 then four,

04:54 then there are eight, and more to come.

04:57 Now we understand why diseases are so deadly.

05:00 It is because they have the power

05:01 to transform themselves quickly

05:03 into gigantic, menacing hordes.

05:05 He doesn't look so harmless now, does he?

05:09 Before you know it,

05:11 they multiply themselves into millions.

05:14 Invasion.

05:16 The alarm is sounded.

05:17 The workers pour into the supply buildings

05:19 to arm themselves,

05:20 but there aren't enough weapons to go around.

05:22 And it's only with guns that the invaders can be conquered.

05:26 There is nothing to stop them here

05:27 because the body is not prepared.

05:30 Frantically, the factories are converted

05:33 to the manufacture of the all-important weapons,

05:35 but they are far too slow.

05:37 And as the ranks of the invader multiply

05:39 with terrifying rapidity,

05:40 we see that it is already too late.

05:43 (dramatic music)

05:46 This city is blacked out forever,

05:55 yet it could have been saved.

05:57 You see, boys, this city, or rather this man,

06:04 died because his body did not have arms and ammunition,

06:08 or in other words, powers of resistance against disease.

06:12 He was not prepared.

06:14 And he was not prepared simply

06:16 because he failed to take advantage

06:18 of the greatest weapon against disease

06:21 that medical science has to offer, vaccination.

06:24 Great men in all the countries of the world

06:31 have struggled year after year,

06:33 even given their lives in order that we might live.

06:36 Jenner, Pasteur, Koch,

06:40 and many others have worked

06:41 to create this harmless little fellow who will protect us.

06:44 He doesn't look like much, does he?

06:49 But wait until you see what he can do for us.

06:52 First, we have to get him into the body,

06:54 and that's where vaccination plays its part.

06:57 In vaccinating against the deadly smallpox, for example,

07:01 an ordinary point like a darning needle

07:04 presses sideways against the skin,

07:06 letting in a few of the little helpers.

07:10 But the lookouts inside the body

07:11 do not know that these little fellows are harmless.

07:14 They see their wall being attacked

07:15 and strangers entering the city,

07:17 and to them it's a real invasion,

07:19 and the army marches forth to battle.

07:22 But in this case, there's nothing to fear

07:23 from the weak, make-believe invaders.

07:25 Nevertheless, the factories of the body

07:29 immediately go on an all-out wartime basis.

07:32 Production zooms steadily upward,

07:34 but this time the armies of the body

07:36 are winning the battle.

07:37 This time the armies of the body are winning,

07:39 and the war plants have all the time they need

07:41 to produce arms and ammunition.

07:43 They work day and night, seven days a week,

07:45 24 hours a day, building the weapons to fight disease.

07:49 Meanwhile, the soldiers are easily routing

07:52 the harmless artificial invaders,

07:55 and soon the battle is completely won.

07:58 But look at the tremendous supply of arms and ammunition

08:01 that the body has made for itself because of vaccination.

08:04 (dramatic music)

08:07 We're ready for the invader, let him come.

08:13 Now, suppose you should catch some deadly disease

08:17 right out of the air itself,

08:19 because eating isn't the only way the invaders can enter.

08:22 They fly around on tiny dust particles

08:25 or little drops of moisture.

08:27 They're apt to be all around us, anywhere, anytime.

08:31 But if you've been vaccinated, you don't have to worry,

08:34 because your body is prepared against the invader,

08:37 no matter which way he chooses to enter.

08:39 Here they come, airborne troops

08:42 launching their deadly attack.

08:44 They're sure of themselves, confident of their power,

08:47 but brother, they've got a real surprise

08:49 in store for them this time.

08:51 (dramatic music)

08:54 (air whooshing)

08:57 (whistle blowing)

09:12 (dramatic music)

09:14 (air whooshing)

09:17 Here we see a modern mechanized army moving into battle,

09:28 equipped with the deadly weapons

09:29 that they have built up through vaccination.

09:31 (air whooshing)

09:34 (whistles blowing)

09:43 (dramatic music)

09:45 The Black Horde continues its menacing advance.

09:49 This is no false alarm.

09:51 This is a real full-scale invasion.

09:53 But the army of the body has been prepared.

09:58 Look, our fighters are landing through the invaders,

10:01 slashing them to ribbons.

10:02 Watch them use the firepower of mobile equipment

10:07 to overcome the deadly disease germs.

10:11 On every hand, we see brilliant examples

10:13 of military strategy.

10:14 The death rattle of the vaccine gun is heard on all sides.

10:24 Backed up by the dull roar of the germ bomber,

10:28 on they come.

10:29 And now the paratroops, most up to date of all fighting men.

10:34 Watch them take over behind the lines,

10:38 highly trained by vaccination

10:40 and all the tricks of modern warfare against disease.

10:43 They throw open a decisive wedge

10:50 into which rush the overwhelming and victorious army.

10:53 Victorious because they have arms and ammunition.

10:59 Arms and ammunition given them by vaccination.

11:02 Well, it looks as if we have a customer already.

11:08 Now we'll get a chance to see just what vaccination

11:11 really is.

11:12 The vaccine, or as we have shown it, the little helpers,

11:16 comes in a glass tube.

11:17 We clean the tube with alcohol and then we clean the arm.

11:23 Next, we break the tube to allow the vaccine to come out.

11:34 Then we put a drop on the arm and painlessly press it,

11:38 not scratch it, into the skin.

11:41 That lets the little fellows in

11:43 and that's all there is to it.

11:45 Well, okay, what are we waiting for?

11:49 Shucks, he knew there wasn't anything to it all the time.

11:52 Let's go, boys, start building those jeeps.

11:55 I should have had this done long ago.

11:57 Shoot it to me, Doc.

12:00 I've had an invasion of fleas for years.

12:04 Well, here they come.

12:06 Wasn't half as bad as having your ears washed, was it?

12:09 And yet those few minutes in the doctor's chair

12:12 have made it impossible for the invader to attack.

12:15 For these boys are now prepared.

12:18 Inside each one, a powerful defense army has been mobilized,

12:22 ready and waiting.

12:23 V for vaccination and victory.

12:26 Victory over invasion.

12:28 (triumphant music)

12:31 (triumphant music)

12:34 (upbeat music)

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