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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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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.
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Stephen McNally
Dr. Christiaan Eijkman
Dorothy Morris
Secretary (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Scientist (uncredited)
Alvin Wyckoff
Director of Photography
Jacques Tourneur
Director
John Nesbitt
Producer
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