The Bureaucratic Activist Federal Filmmakers and Social Change in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Tick Eradication Campaign

Figure 5a & b.

In the second act of The Charge of the Tick Brigade (1919), “Mrs. Tick” narrates an educational film-within-the-film, telling viewers of her alarming fertility rate. Later, a map of the Southern quarantine line shows cattle owners where infestation rates were worst.