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A Medical Fairy Tale

Item number (ISN):

200515

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1934

Item number (ISN):

200515

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ONTARIO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Accession:

1978-0223

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1934

Production company:

Pathé News

Description:

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An account of the first four months of the lives of the Dionne quintuplets. Focused on is the rigid, medically-based daily routine surrounding the quintuplets. Footage of the Dafoe Hospital is also included.~Also shown is: Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe; the house where the quintuplets were born; stills of the newborns and the midwives who delivered them; a clothesline full of laundry; still photographs of Mrs. Dionne and her children; Mr. and Mrs. Dionne; the quints' grandfather; the babies being weighed; crying babies; Mr. and Mrs. Dionne in hospital gowns, touching two of the babies held by Dr. Dafoe; the babies covered by quilts in their first nursery; the babies in their incubator; the babies being moved to their hospital home at the age of four months; Dr. Dafoe looking at them; stills of the babies at five months; the babies warmly wrapped up and in prams on the front porch of the compound; a sign on the building reading "Dafoe Hospital for Dionne Quintuplets"; a dog in the snow at the bottom of the front steps; and Dr. Dafoe on the porch with the babies. <26mn 30s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Material restricted - see OMA file.~2. Title and production responsibility taken from screen.~3. No closing credits.~4. Some footage dark.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

200541

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0387
7808-0389

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.3%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

200542

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0388
7808-0390

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

201484

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9210-0007

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

277449

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9603-0036

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

995452

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9603-0083

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

7808-0388
7808-0390
7808-0410
7808-0412
7808-0405
7808-0406
7808-0408
7808-0409
7808-0391
7808-0403
7808-0393
7808-0375

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9210-0007
V1 9603-0036

Donor restrictions:

Until otherwise indicated, the permission of the OMA is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: Pathé.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of OMA : with permission of the Dafoe family : with permission of the Dionnes : see notes

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