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Spas : Magic or Medicine

Item number (ISN):

32816

Series title:

The Nature of Things

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

32816

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIDEOTAPE RECYCLING

Accession:

1986-0616

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1983-10-26

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/producer, René Bonniere; executive producer, James Murray; script, Amanda McConnell; editing, David Denovan; photography, Rudolf Kovanic; host, David Suzuki

Description:

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Television documentary hosted by David Suzuki. On location in Japan, Canada, Britain and France, Suzuki explores a variety of spas as alternative methods of health care treatment through descriptions of their historical context, footage of patients, and interviews with health care practitioners. Sequences in Japan show Suzuki being covered with 'regenerative' sand and patients immersing themselves in hot mud. In Canada, ski resort visitors are viewed relaxing in the hot springs of Banff, Alberta; and children receive spa treatment for asthma at the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre. In Britain, clips include visitors to Bath lining up to buy bottled spa water and patients being massaged in spas. Footage in France includes: children in La Bourbouie being soaked, sprayed and saturated with spa water during asthma treatment; patients in Dax immersed to the neck or packed with hot mud; and patients in Capvern-les-Bains imbibing or being sprayed by thermal waters. Doubts about the scientific validity of spa treatment are expressed by Dr. Hugh Smythe, Director of the Rheumatic Disease Unit at Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, during interview footage and by Suzuki, who notes that spas are less costly and less risky than drugs. <60mn>

Subjects:

HEALTH FACILITIES~HEALTH RESORTS, WATERING-PLACES, ETC.~HYDROTHERAPY~THERAPEUTICS ~SMYTHE, HUGH~SUZUKI, DAVID

Language:

English

Original number:

61-2-2407-3804

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

27930

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8610-0087

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

315184

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9810-0049

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

739656

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

32816.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9810-0076

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

739657

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

32816.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9810-0076

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1184709

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9810-0076.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9810-0076

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1184710

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9810-0076.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9810-0076

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8610-0087
V1 9810-0049

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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