A government produced film about the discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming, and the continuing development of its use as an antibiotic by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. The film uses many modernist animations to depict the scientific research. This video was made from material preserved by the BFI National Archive. Find out more: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/....

Listen to Sir Alexander Fleming discuss the problem of antibiotic resistance in 1945:   / discoveryofpenicillin1945  .