Hospital to Hotel

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1958

Date Released

12 Dec 1966

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hospital to Hotel. DESCRIPTION: A century of Hospital Progress - from the vast edifice at Netley in Hampshire, opened by Queen Victoria in 1856 to Britain’s latest - the multi-million hospital at High Wycombe. Netley is being demolished - but beneath the foundation stone, they make a fascinating discovery - the first Victoria Cross ever struck! SHOTLIST: GV High Wycombe’s new General Hospital in Bucks. GV hospital entrance hall. MCU hospital secretary, Mr Holroyd. CU sign ‘Pharmacy’. MCU beside the pharmacy women at work. MCU bottles on shelves. MS beside the pharmacy people at work. MCU ditto. MS ditto. GV one of the wards. MS patient opens bedside cupboard and takes out book. MS another patient eating meal in bed. MS nurse working intercom system. MCU ditto. MS patient eating meal in bed. MS in kitchen man opens up pneumatic tube, with a meal order inside. GV pan the kitchen. MS chef at work carving meat. CU ditto. CU the menu. CU hot metal pellets, used for heating the plates on their way from kitchen to ward. CU a plate is put over the metal pellet. MS kitchen staff serving out the food onto trays. CU ditto. MCU trays of food being put into lift. MS sitting room for patients. GV High Wycombe’s New General Hospital. LS hospital at Netley at Southampton, opened by Queen Victoria in 1856. GV ditto. CU photograph of Queen Victoria. CU photograph of Queen Victoria. CU photograph of the hospital as it was in 1856. Ditto. GV inside the hospital before being demolished. MS one of the old wards. CU photograph of the ward as it was in 1856. MS another one of the old wards. LAS the hospital being demolished. MCU crane driver. LAS the hospital demolished. GV officials and spectators wait for the box that Queen Victoria buried, to be opened. MS ditto. MS spectators watching. MCU workmen at work exhuming. MCU ditto. CU the box being opened. MCU crowd. MS men holding up the medals from the box. CU cadet guarding the medals. CU medals laid out on table. MS cadet on guard beside medals.

Keywords

Health and medicine

Locations

England; Buckinghamshire; Hampshire

Card file number

91859

Credits:

Camera: John Mould
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

300

Story extras:

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