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.
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.