{"id":2179,"date":"2015-11-11T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2015-11-16T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:12:16","slug":"unique-film-of-an-expedition-to-east-africa-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2015\/11\/11\/unique-film-of-an-expedition-to-east-africa-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique film of an expedition to East Africa, 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2182\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/GB0809-Leeson_01_20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2182\" class=\"wp-image-2182 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/GB0809-Leeson_01_20-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"GB0809 Leeson_01_20\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/GB0809-Leeson_01_20-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/GB0809-Leeson_01_20-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airline ticket, London &#8211; Entebbe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 1936, Major HS Leeson, an entomologist working at the School, set off on an expedition to study malarial mosquitoes in East Africa. He was accompanied by his assistant, John David Gillett, who made an extraordinary film of the whole expedition, from their departure from Croyden Airport, their flight to Entebbe and the ensuing expedition, for which they hired a seemingly indestructable Chevrolet car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2183\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/map-re.-film-RtA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2183\" class=\"wp-image-2183 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/map-re.-film-RtA-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"map re. film RtA\" width=\"362\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/map-re.-film-RtA-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/map-re.-film-RtA.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outline route of the expedition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The School&#8217;s archives hold Major Leeson&#8217;s archive, and as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/exploreyourarchive.org\/\">Explore Your Archive<\/a> week, we will be showing the film &#8216;Roads to Africa&#8217; in the Manson Lecture Theatre at 12.45 on Tuesday 17th November. The event is free but please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/events\/2015\/11\/film-roads-to-africa\">register <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2185\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/Leeson-menu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2185\" class=\"wp-image-2185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/Leeson-menu-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Leeson menu\" width=\"229\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/Leeson-menu-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/Leeson-menu-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/11\/Leeson-menu.jpg 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A menu from the Leeson Archive<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Leeson archive, have a look at the Archives&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/calmview.lshtm.ac.uk\/CalmView\/default.aspx\">online catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, Major HS Leeson, an entomologist working at the School, set off on an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":2189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27649,1],"tags":[44779,52786,44690,52787,20606],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-uncategorised","tag-archives","tag-entebbe","tag-explore-your-archive","tag-film","tag-malaria","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unique film of an expedition to East Africa, 1936 - Library, Archive &amp; Open Research Services blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2015\/11\/11\/unique-film-of-an-expedition-to-east-africa-1936\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unique film of an expedition to East Africa, 1936 - Library, Archive &amp; 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