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Flying Ambulance in Saskatchewan = Flying Ambulance Service for Farms

Item number (ISN):

21974

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-03-26

Item number (ISN):

21974

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1980-0199

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946-03-26

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photographer, Ross Beesley

Description:

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Newsreel footage of the flying ambulance service inaugurated by the Saskatchewan Health Department to improve access to health care by rural residents of the province. The footage shows: ambulance plane; Regina Airport control tower in background; Norseman plane; Pilot Keith Malcolm climbing aboard while Flight Engineer Don Watson turns propeller; plane starting; members of the crew: Nurse Gleadow, Pilot Keith Malcolm and Flight Engineer Don Watson; plane taking off from Regina Airport on a mercy mission; various shots of ambulance from hospital arriving patient lifted out of plane after special door is taken fro side of plane; putting patient in ambulance; ambulance leaving for city hospital; scene in office where pilot receives call from the Health Department; pilot and engineer check destination on wall map and leave on mercy flight; ambulance plane takes off from Regina Airport; landing after mercy flight; back at airport; aerial views of Regina, prairie and small town with grain elevators, while on way to farm house; plan makes pass over men standing by signal fire; they wave to attract attention; plane taxiing in farmer's field, practically to the front door; men run to plan and help carry stretcher to plane; nurse and patient on stretcher in plane.

Language:

Silent

Original number:

57-650

Notes:

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1. Subject description is based on Associated Screen News Limited caption sheet for 700 feet of film shipped by ASN on 26 March 1946 to the newsreel companies.~2. This story was included in the Fox Movietone News Canadian Edition Volume 28, Number 61.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

15718

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8304-0080

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7707-0075

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

29036

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4685

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

31441

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8110-0123

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4685

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

31443

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8110-0125

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8110-0123

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

31444

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8110-0127

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8110-0123

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8304-0080

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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