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The Magic Alphabet

The Magic Alphabet

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1942

Runtime

0h 11m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

The Magic Alphabet

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director

Jacques Tourneur

Description

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.