Established in 2002 by Founder & CEO, Suzanne Ryan, SLR Productions has produced more than 185 hours of content sold in more than 165 countries throughout the world. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. DAGMAWI ABEBE: I wanted to make it under 20 minutes. It only degrades the acid before his time to combine with ethanol. A true story of a young woman's desperate search for a diagnosis for her husband's illness. Enter Ball. Any little ideas about that? Emotionally, the reader will walk along side John in many of tragic mistakes made with his health and well being. DAGMAWI ABEBE: Yes, at the same time she was an instructor at the College of Hawaii, and about six months after that an accident happened where it was chlorine poisoning. IRA FLATOW: And there was also a day in Hawaii devoted to her, right? DAGMAWI ABEBE: So I just wanted to be as accurate as I could. Please try again. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. And that was two years ago. IRA FLATOW: And so Alice Ball worked with people before they were sent off to this quarantine. And it took some time, she was sick, and she really wanted to go back. I got paid by the the agency that was hired to do them, but did not receive any credit. As Science Friday’s director, Charles Bergquist channels the chaos of a live production studio into something sounding like a radio program. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Alice Ball Breuer articulates well the frustration and drawn out agony that impacted her marriage and family due to medical incompetence. This is Science Friday from WNYC Studios, talking about The Ball Method, a great new film by Dagmawi Abebe. The protective substance is an important barrier between a woman’s body and the environment. IRA FLATOW: Was there a lot of stuff left on the cutting room floor here, or did you aim to make it a short piece? She was a young African American woman in 1915 who was trying to pursue a career in academia. I’m excited to see them bring a new Alice-Miranda adventure to children and families here in Australia and internationally,” said Head of Content at Screen Australia, Sally Caplan. This site uses cookies from Google and other third parties to deliver its services, to personalise adverts and to analyse traffic. IRA FLATOW: And in the film, she died of the chlorine poisoning in her own laboratory. Or that the DOD has spent three billion dollars on breast cancer research? Picture the world of chemical research, oh, about 1910. SLR Productions is the media company behind brands such as Alice-Miranda Movies; Guess How Much I Love You; Space Nova; The Skinner Boys – Guardians of the Lost Secrets: Lexi & Lottie: Trusty Twin Detectives; Captain Flinn and The Pirate Dinosaurs; Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures; and I Got a Rocket. IRA FLATOW: Well, not that a lot of people know about her, how did you first stumble on her, or were you looking for something? IRA FLATOW: I would also think that you did not play it up greatly in the film, but the racial side of this story is a young black woman chemist in the early 1900s, the struggles she must have had that you probably could not even find the depth of the kinds of challenges that were facing her. Alice's Faith and Love of God Give her Strength During Extremely Trying Times, Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2012. Jake meets Joanne in college. A documentary about New York City produced in collaboration with the United States Information Agency (USIA) for educational and information purposes. It was a very menial task that he was assigning her. Alice Ball and the making of the short film. IRA FLATOW: And of course, that worked, right? And no one knows why. Was this review helpful to you? Ball was able to discover a method for extracting compounds from the oil and modifying them to become more soluble—a modification that led to the development of an injectable treatment for leprosy. SLR Productions today confirmed production of its second Alice-Miranda animated telemovie, Alice-Miranda – A Royal Christmas Ball with returning partners Screen Australia, Nine Network and ZDF Enterprises. DAGMAWI ABEBE: Yes, I think one of the important process for her to find it was letting the chaulmoogra acid staying cold for overnight. DAGMAWI ABEBE: Yes, that was the most challenging part of making this film, because there was no surviving journal or diary from Alice Ball, except one sentence from her science club high school yearbook. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to the hinterlands of the U.S. This FAQ is empty. Terrific, and I wish you great luck. DAGMAWI ABEBE: Yes, well, not in her laboratory, but that was where she was exposed to it. . DAGMAWI ABEBE: Yeah, I mean, I really want to tell the story of Colonel Robinson, who was an African-American aviator in the 1930s who went to Ethiopia and helped the Imperial Air Force then.