Generally, a disease like this is caused by an infectious agent and not spread between people. Neurosyphilis -- tabes dorsalis, although infectious, is not a genetic disease. It is not caused by a defective or abnormal gene.
1 Movies and animated cartoons. 2  While some color film processes (including hand coloring) were experimented with and in limited use from the earliest days of the motion picture, the switch from most films being in black-and-white to most being in color was gradual, taking place from the 1930s to the 1960s.
1 1912 - The Railroad Porter, a comedy directed by Bill Foster (a pioneering black filmmaker), became the first black film.  1914 - Sam Lucas was the first African American actor to star in a full-length film playing the title role in Uncle Tom's Cabin.