Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Trailer: "Hospital Help"
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- British Movietone News
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- 1 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: DOMESTIC WORKER - TRAILER. SHOTLIST: TS looking down on hospital balcony with five beds and patients, nurse hands out drinks (possibly TB ward). MS nurses in masks and gowns in operating theatre. MS hospital kitchen with cooks. LAS apple being peeled. CU hand being unbandaged. MCU domestic worker washing up. LAS silhouette of tray being laid with surgical instruments. MS nurse takes tray from cook. MCU young boy with bandaged head is given tray by nurse. GV row of beds in empty ward. MS matron seated at desk talks on telephone. GV corridor with nurses moving about. GV workers in kitchen cleaning up. MS cook being trained. CU matron speaking says "This is really important work and a job you can be proud of doing. Please come and help us".
- Researcher Comments
- Commentary: When we see a hospital we are inclined to think of the work done by nurses, doctors and surgeons, but they are in effect part of one big team working all over the hospital. In the kitchens for instance, other members of the team play their part in the work they have to do. A hospital depends on this, as much as this job needs doing. Unless the teams complete with its domestic workers it cannot function effectively. Without their support the hospital could not carry on. Already wards have had to be closed due to lack of domestic help. Patients are waiting to come in, but unfortunately the matron has no alternative - matron speaks (on the telephone) "No, no I’m sorry, goodbye". Here lays an opportunity to give real service, where help is urgently needed. For those that are not accustomed to the work, special training courses are provided. Matron - "This is really important work and a job you can be proud of doing. Please come to help us".
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- Trailer
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Social welfare; Public information
- Footage sources
- Ministry of Information
- Card file number
- 44775
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 85
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