NPO法人科学映像館

• 科学・IT

Color 30 min. (1958)
Sponsored by Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
Produced by Tokyo Cinema Co., Inc.

Award1958 : Introducing Japan -- Film Awards, Asahi Newspaper Award
1958 : Educational Film Festival, Best Film Award and NHK Award
1958 : 1st place in the Best Ten Short Films listings of Kinema Junpo
1958 : Minister of Education Award / Mainichi Film Awards, Educational Cultural Film Award
1958 : Venice Documentary Film Festival, Best Scientific Film Award
1958 : Japan Cinematography Award
1958 : International Science Film Association, Moscow Contest, Honorary Award
1958 : University of Padova, Scientific and Educational Film Contest, Grand Prix Award
1958 : Selected as the annual representative work for the London Film Festival
1959 : University of Rome Science Film Festival, Fist Class Gold Shield Award / Japan Cinematography Award
1960 : University of Brussels, International Medical Film Festival, Grand Prix Award
1964 : Montreal Film Festival Honorary Award

Abstract
How do tubercle bacilli multiply? How do phagocytic cells phagocytize? What happens to phagocytized tubercle bacilli? Using time-lapse microscopic photography, this film investigates this unknown world, and creates an observational record of the intensity of this life and death struggle. Once the tubercle bacilli are phagocytized, they destroy the phagocytic cells and start to multiply. The film also shows the drama of these events. You may not believe it, but this film was made in the 1950 years.