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[Evacuation of Canadian Casualties Near Ortona] = Evacuation of Casualties

Item number (ISN):

21714

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944-04/1944-12 ?

Item number (ISN):

21714

Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1981-0152

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1944-04/1944-12 ?

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photography, Colin McDougall; Al Fraser; Andersen

Description:

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Footage shot in area on approach to Ortona, near Casa Berardi during Exercise Cider, about the evacuation of casualties from administering First Aid on the field to the hospital ship leaving Britain for Canada. Shots include: wounded Canadian soldier being evacuated (possibly staged for the benefit of the camera); patient being placed in a slit trench until a jeep arrives to take him to the Regimental Aid Post and transport him to a Main Dressing Station a little further behind the line; Canadian stretcher bearers taking soldier in a modified Jeep ambulance to Advanced Dressing Station (Unit #75); medical care at ADS, where Captain I. L. Lazreek inspects the patient, Private J.F. Hosegrove washes the patient's face; close-up of Corporal W.W. Hamill cleaning up the wound on the leg of the casualty; treatment at field surgical unit where Major H.R. Robertson looks at wound and works on an arm wound; Captain R.C. Long administers ether; Robertson operates; Robertson works on wound; Long administering ether; Robertson bandaging leg wound; ambulance on road, travelling from the Field Surgical Unit; ambulance travelling through Italian town on way to station; evacuation by large truck ambulance to railway depot where patients are loaded on board an ambulance train (#B3); sign "Ambulance Train"; ambulance parked alongside train; train pulling out of station; arrival at #1 Canadian General Hospital; sign on corner house and ambulance turning corner; ambulance enters gate; Major J.A. Langille of Pugwash, Nova Scotia inspecting casualty who has just arrived; Private A.J. Stabell of Winnipeg is the orderly; Corporal J. Watson of Hespeler, Ontario, near end of the bed, takes down particulars; from the Casualties Medical card; patient being put to bed by Nursing Sister K. Simmons of Vernon, covering him up and making him comfortable; Nursing Sister A.T. Hewitt of Perth, Ontario bringing in an order for a prescription and handing the order to Sergeant J. Labow of Montreal; Sergeant Labow weighing out the ingredients of the prescription and mixing them; Labow handing prescription to Hewitt; casualty's leg x-rayed; Major J.R. Gardener of Edmonton, Alberta putting on rubber gloves before operation; sterilization room; an operation on a fractured leg in progress in an operating theatre; doctor operating on patient quickly to prevent further shock, assisted by Nursing Sister Maxine Fuller of Edmonton and Major L. Boxer of Winnipeg who is administering the anesthetic sodium pentothal; Nursing Sister L.E. Pibby of Calgary showing Private Joe Louiser of Chatham, New Brunswick how to make dressings; the recovery ward with patients, including Lieutenant W.S.L. Oakley of Edmonton who is writing a letter; patients reading newspapers such as Eighth Army News with the headline "Closing in on Cassino"; ambulances at a port (likely Naples/Napoli); the wounded on the gangplank to the hospital ship (likely the Lady Nelson); a casualty being made comfortable in a bunk; casualties lined up along rails of ship and the ship leaving the harbour.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

51-581

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1. This sequence also appears, (with slightly different editing and length) in the NFB films WOUNDED IN ACTION, 1944, (ISN 12546) and THE ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN DENTAL CORPS, 1950, (ISN 126540).~2. Source of subject descripton is screening, information provided by a Canadian veteran of the Italian campaign in WWII and NFB dope sheet.~3. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. Additional subject description from NFB dope sheet which states: "This Canadian film material submitted by National Film Board of Canada approved and passed by Canadian censors" and "Please credit Canadian Army Film Unit".
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2004-10-0212

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Fox is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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