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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221278-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1952,1950s
Country: USA
Location: albany,Georgia
TC Begins: 07:49:17
TC Ends: 08:03:06
Duration: 00:13:49
1952 - Training Films, Medical R3 Mary into house, turns on light & sits down on bed; says she’ll fix her bag in the morning. She can’t sleep & thinks about Health Inspector’s words... “Something wasn’t clean.” Gets out of bed, sterilizes instruments & prepares her bag. 07:50:42 Newspaper boy past on bicycle & throws paper on porch, man in pickup drives up & runs to porch knocking loudly. Mary gets out of bed; arrives w/ him at their home / shack w/ her bag & newspapers. Maybelle kneeling by chair & crying. She tells man hush go get water. Mary prepares; husband cutting wood w/ axe & takes armload into house, building fire in fireplace. 07:53:13 Puts Maybelle into bed; scrubs up quickly. Calls man in to help. 07:54:13 Man by fireplace, sends him to clinic to get incubator. CU new-born baby. He drives off past woman leading cow. Mary makes hot water bottle & puts baby into prepared cardboard box. Then waves flies away. Midwife’s nurse arrives to help. 07:56:05 Man arrives at clinic, helped to get incubator. Husband & White clinic nurse arrive w/ incubator & man goes to cut more wood for hot water for incubator. 07:57:05 CU of new baby stretching. CU Maybelle; husband gathering wood, neighbor calls to him. Maybelle eating, crying, consoled. 07:58:45 Ida combing hair of other daughter while Mary cleans new baby. Clinic nurse & midwife nurse cook for Mary & Ida. Summary of steps in preparation of umbilical cord. Ida & other daughter eating. 08:00:39 Ida & Maybelle w/ babies both at clinic for six week check up. 08:01:07 Doctor checks womb of new mothers w/ clinic nurse assisting. 08:02:00 Happy parents take baby to coin operated photo booth, aka photo-while-U-wait w/ sign: smile. Father sits w/ baby, framed portrait of father & son. Happy families, Mary w/ Ida & babies. 08:02:59 The End Educational Films; Instructional Films; Black Culture; Ethnic Culture; Poverty; 1950s; 1952; Segregation; Georgia; Midwives; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate.