Medicare: CompressAir

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

272

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Medicare: Equine Air-Bed
2. 2Medicare: Telephone Gas
3. 3Medicare: CompressAir

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Every schoolboy realises that air is essential for us to live. This programme explores less well known, but equally important uses of air in our constant battle for survival. Fresh air isn’t strong enough stuff for young Debbie Bloomfield. She must breathe pure oxygen for twelve hours every day. Until recently, that’s involved hundreds of heavy, unwieldy, metal bottles. But life is now easier. An ingenious molecular filter sucks in normal air, extracts most of the nitrogen in it and delivers almost pure oxygen to her whilst she sleeps. It’s safe and it’s simple.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Engineering; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/272

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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