The bizarre breakfast of 1947 — man devours bowl of DDT-infused porridge

Don't knock dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane as a condiment until you've tried it.

In this obviously staged film from 1947, a white savior sprays DDT from a hose while a group of bored-looking people identified as "Africans" watch. The narrator, with a nasally posh British accent, says the locals dislike the DDT because they are a superstitious lot who suspect the man wants to poison them or is practicing witchcraft. — Read the rest