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1952 - Training Films, Medical: All My Babies, A Midwife’s Own Story R1 of 3

Reel Number: 221278-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952,1950s

Country: USA

Location: albany,Georgia

TC Begins: 07:11:02

TC Ends: 07:28:30

Duration: 00:17:28

Titles. 07:12:06 Mary Cooley a mid-wife at ironing board. Montage of doctor & nurse, baby handed to mother in bed. Pregnant woman looking at pictures of children Mary has delivered. Mary packing bag. Clinic & meeting w/ expectant & new mothers. 07:14:15 Nurse taking blood pressure, temperature & pulse. Stethoscope. Testing blood. Doctor checking mother. 07:16:17 Mary leaving on delivery. Sandy dirt street, kids playing, couple walking w/ groceries to pickup truck. Mary up steps of house & visiting where baby will be born. Checks out clean sheets, towels, soap, etc. 07:17:51 Man teaching two young children to carry kindling wood. Mary w/ women checking out clothes;plays w/ previously delivered babies. 07:19:14 Midwives meeting w/ health officer lecturing about baby having died from infection in umbelical cord. CUs listening. Explains steps to avoid this in positive way. 07:20:42 Mary practicing tying umbelical chord on baby doll. 07:21:17 Mary Cooley walking at night w/ doctor’s bag & singing gospel song. Woman standing by picket fence & Mary tells her (Maybelle) & her husband in truck to come into the house to talk. They look unhappy as she’s not seen a doctor, told she’ll have to before Mary can help her. They say their first one was born dead & second baby came too early. Mary says she’ll go with her to the doctor. 07:23:42 White doctor & nurse examines Maybelle. Mary has another patient who doctor examines as there are problems w/ headaches & putting on too much weight. Woman agrees to let the doctor help her. Nurse tells women what to eat & how to take care of themselves. Brochures. 07:26:35 Sharecropper plowing w/ white horse, woman gathering firewood outside of falling down board shack / house w/o foundation. Mary sees she’s not eating what she was told. Interior of cabin. Maybelle looking in mirror, sits on bed looking very tired. Lays down & cries. 07:28:23 Husband plowing. Educational Films; Instructional Films; Black Culture; Ethnic Culture; Poverty; 1950s; 1952; Segregation; Georgia; Midwives; Medical Treatment; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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