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Resuscitation from Drowning and Electrical Shock

Item number (ISN):

306610

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922/1923 ?

Item number (ISN):

306610

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1922/1923 ?

Production company:

Filmcraft

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Distributor name:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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This film instructs the viewer in the correct technique for resuscitating victims of drowning and electrocution. The first intertitle reads: "The Prone Pressure Method is endorsed by leading Medical, Engineering and Public Utility Organizations". The film uses a dramatization in a swimming pool to demonstrate resuscitation: one woman flounders in the water as another swims towards her; the victim is towed to the edge of the pool and pulled out of the water; the patient is placed face downwards while the other woman performs resuscitation until the victim is revived. A second dramatization shows how the prone pressure method is used in cases of electrocution: a man touches a fallen power-line and falls to the ground electrocuted; when two electrical workers arrive, one clears away the wire while the second performs resuscitation; a doctor arrives and administers amonia and hypodermic heart stimulants; the patient is eventually revived but is kept lying down until the ambulance arrives. An intertitle reads, "Employees of Toronto Hydro Electric", and the men who performed the dramatization pose for the camera. The film then shows the details of the prone pressure method using intertitles explaining the steps and two men demonstrating each one. The final intertitele reads: "This method practiced by men in the public utilities of Ontario has saved more than one hundred lives". <7mn 4s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

293~3263~3264

Notes:

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1. 1927 Catalogue description: "Approved methods of resuscitation adequately portrayed".~2. Crown copyright over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. For another film about the prone pressure method see HOW TO SAVE A LIFE, ISN 306611.~4. Listed in the 1931 catalogue of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau.~5. The catalogue entitled The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau - A Preliminary Catalogue states that Filmcraft made the film RESUSCITATION FROM DROWNING AND ELECTRICAL SHOCK by 1922 and a film called RESUSCITATION is listed in some Ontario Motion Picture Bureau documentation as a film completed in 1925, but it is not known if the latter film is a revised version or a new film, and the catalogue speculates that RESUSCITATION may be a working title.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

341817

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3263
GC-3264

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

530520

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2011-04-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-3263
GC-3264

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

724511

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

306610-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

7:04

Made from:

2011-04-0004

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

724512

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

306610.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

7:04

Made from:

2011-04-0004

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

724513

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

306610.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

7:04

Made from:

2011-04-0004

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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