The Magic Alphabet

The Magic Alphabet

Year: 1942

Runtime: 11 mins

Language: English

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Drama

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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