
Dr Wise is here to advise. As Britain fell under the grip of the Great Influenza of 1918-19, the Local Government Board (later the Ministry of Health) commissioned this dramatized public information film.
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The 1918 British public‑information short, Dr. Wise on Influenza, occupies a singular niche in cinematic and medical history. Commissioned by the Local Government Board—a body that would soon evolve into the Ministry of Health—the film was conceived as a visual inoculation against the pandemic that claimed an estima...


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" The 1918 British public‑information short, Dr. Wise on Influenza, occupies a singular niche in cinematic and medical history. Commissioned by the Local Government Board—a body that would soon evolve into the Ministry of Health—the film was conceived as a visual inoculation against the pandemic that claimed an estimated 50 million lives worldwide. Its stark aesthetic, unadorned black‑and‑white cinematography, and didactic narration render it a time capsule of governmental urgency, while simult..."

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