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The Magic Alphabet

The Magic Alphabet

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Starring John Nesbitt, Stephen McNally

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.