Nov 21 2024The Foundation funds a project by John Grierson to study the influence of films on public opinion.An expert on the impact of the mass media on society and later a film director, Grierson becomes famous for coining the term “documentary” for non fiction films.
Nov 21 2024The Foundation’s hookworm campaign in Thailand commissions a “health boat” to navigate rivers and klongs as a floating dispensary.The boat is also pressed into service during a 1926 cholera epidemic, with its staff administering 48,257 anticholera inoculations.