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Title: IN HIS NAME: The Epic of ITU Leper Colony

Reference number: 3605

Date: 1950c

Director: filmed by James A Ballantyne

Sponsor: The Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 46.16 mins

Description: The Itu leper colony - one of six Church of Scotland centres in Africa and Asia where people with leprosy were helped. They formed part of the general Medical Mission work of the Church.

Credits: Founded by Dr A B and Mrs Macdonald in 1928. Now maintained with the valued help of THE BRITISH EMPIRE LEPROSY RELIEF ASSOCIATION, THE MISSION TO LEPERS and many interested friends.
titles Tom Mackay and Robert Lennie
p. James A Ballantyne

Shotlist: credits (.38) This story begins in an African village where Kalu, a Nigerian peasant farmer lives Man has injured foot has gone to the "witch doctor" for medicine. Drought in village - "evil spirits" at work - Kalu accused of causing the drought [staged] faith in men gone, and belief in his pagan religion shattered....suspecting leprosy and hearing of the colony Kalu goes off downriver to find it. At the gateway he meets a Colony policeman and receives advice c/u sign reading "Church of Scotland ITU Leper Colony. Founded 1928. "In His Name"" situated by the Cross River in the Calabar Province of Nigeria. Dr and Mrs Macdonald superintend the Colony - one response of The Church of Scotland to the problem of the Leper shot of Dr and Mrs Macdonald one Leper who in 1926 came to a general clinic to ask for help, marked the beginning of this, the largest residential colony in the world (11.24) A history of the Colony with a description of its work and the nature of the disease and its treatment, seen through the experiences of Kalu (46.16)