Pask film no. 3.
- Date:
- [between 1940 and 1949]
- Film
About this work
Description
An anaesthetised subject wearing a life jacket floats in still water. Shots above water and below the water line. The subject is shown being hoisted out of the water on a stretcher. Next the subject is seen wearing a buoyancy suit. These sequences are repeated. Intertitle; insultated flying suit with Mae West life jacket. Real time and slow motion shots of the subject in rough water. End.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]
Physical description
1 film reel (16:02 mins) : silent, black and white; 16mm.
Contributors
Copyright note
Nuffield
Notes
Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
From the catalogue accompanying the collection; Starts with an all-white flotation jacket, in STILL WATER. Taken at the London Hospital Baths. Continues with a black jacket. Later on there is a short shot of ROUGH WATER and finally the bouyant suit and the patient sinking without flotation jacket. ("This last shot is, unfortunately, on the dark side"). This picture gives the best all round idea of the experiments, if one picture only is to be shown. Handwritten annotation reads; slight film damage. Shot of apparatus on side, no artificial respiration.
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There are no production credits on this film.
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