Pask film no. 7.
- 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 first sequences are soft and out of focus. Different bouyancy suits are tested (but not identified with captions as in later versions). Latter shots feature the subject underwater with no flotation aids.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]
Physical description
1 film reel (14:36 mins) : silent, black and white; 16mm.
Contributors
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: Complete copy of first experiment at the London Hospital Baths. Quite a good film. No script. Finishes up with the patient sinking without a flotation jacket. (It might be a good idea to transfer this last shot from here to No. 3, where it is too dark.) Also handwritten comment: June 1952 Not particularly interesting when compared with some of the others, but the shot of Pk [Pask?] sinking without flotation jacket is good and probably should be changed for similar shot on No. 3.
Creator/production credits
There are no production credits on this film.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4197FCan't be requested Note