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July 2003, Vol 93, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1046-1057
© 2003 American Public Health Association

PUBLIC HEALTH THEN AND NOW

Malaria Films: Motion Pictures as a Public Health Tool

Marianne Fedunkiw, PhD

Marianne Fedunkiw is with the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Marianne Fedunkiw, PhD, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, 45–47 Banbury Road, Oxford, UK OX2 6PE (e-mail: marianne.fedunkiw{at}wuhmo.ox.ac.uk).

I offer a historical examination of a group of malaria motion pictures, a subset of a larger genre of public health films. The majority of these more than 100 films were produced or coproduced by American and British agencies or production companies since 1940. The material is divided into 5 chronological periods, which include World War II, the postcolonial or DDT era (1946–1961), and the past 2 decades.

The films themselves, I argue, represent a unique record of preventive measures, clinical techniques, and sociocultural biases, all within the context of a history of one of the greatest continuing challenges in public health. The malaria films, as a group, represent a large body of work that has not yet been brought together or analyzed as historical sources.




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