NATURE, SCIENCE, TRAVEL; EARLY 1950'S
03:40:40:00,Miami Serpentarium, Guests walk around Serpentarium grounds, Young woman makes souveniers out of snakeskin, CU jewelry, purses, wallets, etc. made of snakeskin, Tour guide gestures, people peer at snake cases (mostly children in front), CU cobra arched, inside its tank, Man in doctor's whites takes cobra out of tank (nuts), CU pencil follows path on spinning globe from India to Florida, Man in white (Dr. Haast) fishes another, bigger cobra out of a tank, Schoolmarm woman in cats-eye glasses lectures visitors, Dr. Haast flops huge king cobra onto the grass, holds onto tail, CU pissed-off cobra, Long sequence of Dr. Haast catching the cobra, with hilariously ferocious sound effects added to the cobra hiss, Many reaction shots of disturbed spectators, Force-feeding cobra with rubber hose and grease gun, CU pumping grease gun (can't see snake), ECU cobra head with fangs being displayed (kind of small), Crowd of spectators (very serious), Lots of monkeys jumping around in cage, Lab technicians injecting monkey, Pouring clear liquid into beaker (cobra venom), Healthy monkeys jumping around, Montage of headlines about using cobra venom against polio, Cute little polio victim (girl) being attended to by two nurses, Dr. Haast brings out another cobra, flops it onto the grass, Another catch-the-snake sequence, with nice CU's of snake & spectators, "Milking" the cobra for venom, Very retro sign "Miami Serpentarium Laboratory", Dr. Haast working in laboratory (impossible to tell what he's doing w/o voiceover), Working with beakers, petri dishes, dehydrator, etc, with insane cheesy music, Montage of medical journal mastheads, More lab work with microscopes, test tubes, petri dishes, Several excellent shots of old-style sealed glass vials (contain Cobroxin), Little boy climbs ladder on playground slide, CU little boy waves at camera, CU Dr. Haast (looks like child molester), Little boy down slide, Little boy clinbs jungle gym, Dr. Haast sits on lawn chair beside two fat women, CU fat young woman testifying about how cobra venom saved her life, Shaky hand held shot of sign on brick wall "South Dade High School", Early fifties teenage girls play basketball, CU smiling chubby teenage girl, CU Dr. Haast speaks to camera about cobra venom as polio cure, CU Dr. Haast works at desk under desk lamp ("Working long into the night...")