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Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1940: Ants in His Pants: William Freshman: Will Mahoney, Ann Richards: Comedy/Musical: Dad Rudd, M.P. Ken G. Hall: Bert Bailey, Connie ...
3.1 1900s–1940s. 3.2 1950s–1990s. ... First Australian film shown at first cinema. ... Dr William McBride reveals thalidomide is causing birth defects.
Feet of a baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries was prescribed to women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as ...
The drug was used between 1957-62 as a sedative and to treat morning sickness in early pregnancy. A serious side effect, however, resulted in over 10,000 children being born with severe birth defects.
Pages in category "1940s Australian films" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. ... (1941 film) Power to Win (film) Primitive Peoples; R.
Birth defect is a widely used term for a ... in the early 1940s, Australian pediatric ophthalmologist Norman Gregg began recognizing a pattern in which the ...
The mid-1900s had a slow start for Australian film, although the first Academy Award was won for an Australian film, Kokoda Front Line!. The industry picked back up during the 1970s with one of the first internationally released films, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and with the success of the series of Mad Max franchise films.
McBride published a letter in The Lancet, in December 1961, noting a large number of birth defects in children of patients who were prescribed thalidomide, [9] after a midwife named Sister Pat Sparrow first suspected the drug was causing birth defects in the babies of patients under his care at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney. [10]