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The Magic Alphabet (1942) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1942 · 11 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Jacques Tourneur
- Starring
- Stephen McNally, Emmett Vogan, John Nesbitt, Dorothy Morris
The MGM short from John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade series dramatizes the pioneering research of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who in the 1890s journeyed to Java to investigate beriberi. His experiments linking diet to the disease ultimately led to the first identification of vitamins, laying the groundwork for modern nutrition science.
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