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Angels of Mercy = Les Anges de la compassion

Item number (ISN):

328583

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1994

Item number (ISN):

328583

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION

Accession:

2001-0164

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1994

Production company:

English version
Sound Venture Productions
Canwest Global System

Production credit:

director, Katherine A. Jeans; producer, Katherine A. Jeans; Neil Bregman; executive producer, Neil Bregman; scenario, John Tarzwell; photography, Scott Plante; editing, Richard Millen; sound, Eldie Gouthro; music, Wayne Bartlett; narrator, Julie Khaner; research, Vivian Hanwell

Sponsor:

Ontario Film Investment Program
Department of National Defence
Rogers Telefund

Description:

Documentary about the Canadian nursing sisters of the First and Second World War. Stock footage and stills are intercut with testimonies from these participating nursing sisters: Martha Froom, Marjorie Sanders, Helen Mussallem, Katharine Smith, Gaetane Kerr, Edna Millman and Hallie Sloan. Subjects include: the reasons why they chose to get involved with the military; the training involved; their dangerous journey on the Atlantic; the difficult conditions under which they worked and lived; the D-Day disaster and its casualties; the various types of patient-care administered; social outings and romantic liaisons between nurses and soldiers; and Armistice day and their return to Canada. <47mn 28s>

Language:

English

Original number:

ARCAVWY130B731994

Notes:

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1. For French version, see ISN 328580.~2. There are two copies of this recording in the collection.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2009-11-0033

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Sound Venture Productions.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of the Canadian Nurses Association

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