# THE MODERN PIED PIPER

THE MODERN PIED PIPER Produced: 1924 Description Dramatizes methods of rodent extermination. Reel 1, a community, plagued with marauding rats, requests assistance from the Department of Agriculture. Shows statistics of rat damage in the U.S. Reel 2, a Department of Agriculture agent organizes a community anti-rat campaign (using billboards, handbills, etc.). The use of poisons (barium carbonate, carbon bisulphide, etc.) and the setting of traps are illustrated. Emphasizes cleanliness as a means of rat prevention (covering garbage cans, removing refuse, etc.). https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7195

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1924
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33-226-r1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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