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The Surgical Motor Ambulance

Item number (ISN):

220737

Series title:

Canadian War Records

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1915 ?

Item number (ISN):

220737

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: NON CBC PRODUCTIONS

Accession:

1981-0156

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1915 ?

Production company:

Pathé

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Province of Ontario Pictures

Description:

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First World War-era footage of a Model-T style ambulance, identified on the grill as "Berbet" or "Berget"; ambulances assembling and preparing close to the front lines; the sterilization car including a disinfecting stove and an operating theatre; and the x-ray car used to locate metal splinters.~French army ambulance drivers and attendants on parade in front of their vehicles. The ambulances move off in a cloud of smoke. Construction of huts for a temporary base is shown, using prefabricated wooden frame and siding. The roof's framework is covered with tarpaulin. A disinfecting unit with boiler and stove mounted on the supply truck. Plumbers are shown connecting radiators and wash basins to a mobile central heating boiler. Portable operating tables are set up in seconds. The mobile x-ray truck interior is shown in use. The radiologist wears a head harness supporting the x-ray screen over the patients body. The machine is under the led. (Unique footage of the technique of the period).

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

4043

Notes:

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1. Title on PDC card is THE SURGICAL MOTOR AMBULANCE.~2. Listed in the 5th edition of the List of Slow-Burning Pathéscope Films, issued by Pathescope of Canada Liimited, Toronto, as SURGICAL MOTOR AMBULANCES, a Pathé production, number 675.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

227545

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0997

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

227546

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9404-0127

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8207-0997

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

228794

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9405-0097

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9404-0127

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

230977

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9406-0028

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

9404-0127

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

409078

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2005-03-0003

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

979752

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2005-03-0017

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8614-8302
8614-8303
8614-8304
8614-8305
8614-8306
7611-0504
8510-0018
9512-0164
9512-0005
7707-0141
9108-4068
7301-4068
8221-0075
7708-0717
8207-0855
8311-0364
9405-0097

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2005-03-0003

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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