The Magic Alphabet
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11mins
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur,
Starring
John Nesbitt,
Stephen McNally,
Dorothy Morris,
Emmett Vogan
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This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for beri-beri on the island of Java in the 1890s, led to the discovery of vitamins.
