Flu Research (1956)

M/S of a scientist sitting at a desk in a laboratory in the World Influenza Centre, which is part of the National Institute of Medical Research in Mill Hill, London. He puts an egg on a wooden box with a light in the centre of it; C/U as he makes a mark with a pencil on the end of the egg. C/Us as he takes a circular cutting drill and cuts the end of the egg off. M/S of another scientist at a workbench as a man brings him a beaker containing some test-tubes. The scientist is putting little glass covers over the top of some eggs. Commentator says the virus will be allowed to grow in these specially fertile eggs and, once identified, can be fought by an appropriate vaccine. M/Ss and C/Us as the man takes an egg, removes the top and drops a sample of the local ’flu virus, then puts a small glass cover over it. He puts the egg on a rack with some others and places the rack in an incubator. M/S of a female scientist at a bench; with a pipette she takes some ’flu infected liquid that has been drawn