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Ministering Angels

Series

Series Name
Ingot Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.
31
Date Released
Jan 1958
Length of issue (in feet)
748
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Your Carriage Awaits
  2. 2Ministering Angels
  3. 3A Year and a Day

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 3
Summary
BFI Summary - Children’s ward at a Swansea hospital at Christmas
NFA synopsis: Nurses at Morriston Hospital near Swansea (which serves the R.T.B area) are shown keeping Christmas with their patients. The children’s ward is seen, and the ward sister puts up Christmas decorations. Local choirboys sing carols for the adult patients. On Christmas Eve in the children’s ward the nurses sing carols for the children.
Keywords
Music and dance; Health and medicine; Children; Women; Celebrations and festivals
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.13 No.149 March 1959, p141.
Credits:
Producer
Geoff Busby
Director
Pat Pullen
Sponsor
Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group
Production Co.
Verity Films Ltd.

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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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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