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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221470-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: USA
Location: Massachusetts
TC Begins: 03:00:33
TC Ends: 03:16:10
Duration: 00:15:37
RX The Story Behind Your Doctor’s Prescription Presented by The House Of Squibb 03:00:55 Four-engine commercial plane flying over Manhattan at night; military plane above clouds; camels w/ plane landing behind. 03:01:22 Pilot ?? greeted after flying twin-engine plane around world in twin-engine plane, kissed by wife. 03:01:36 Antenna tower, telephone operators. TV antenna, observatory, telescope moving, astronomer, 03:02:06 Medical books on shelf; lecture theater w/ doctors, nurses & patient. MCU doctor looking at patient & up at students. Tropical village hut & doctor & nurses w/ patients outside. Microscope, operating in tent (?); taking patient’s temperature outdoors in Asia. Inside in waiting room, in examining room, men waiting. Doctors at hospital bed, nurses, medicines. 03:03:14 Ext. building w/ sign: J. Leon Lascoff & Son. Pharmacists w/ prescriptions in drugstores around world. Mixing medicines. CU London sign: Savory & Moore Ltd. Chemists To The King. Window display. Interior display of Squibb Products. Talking to customers, MCU. 03:04:06 Ext. Squibb manufacturing plant. Int. mixing drums w/ men adding chemicals, mixers mixing, automatic bottling pills, filling bottles on machine w/ liquids. Man w/ sample bottles & laboratory analysis forms & approvals. Technicians mixing, weighing, analyzing, shipping carton of Sulfathiazole. 03:05:37 pouring ether, using as anesthetic. Ext. of Massachusetts General Hospital, plaque to William T.G. Morton; picture of Dr. Squibb. Ext. of ether tower; int. & packaging & cans moving, filled, caps applied, tested in warm water, boxed. 03:07:10 Children in classroom getting preventive medicine, small pox inoculations. 03:07:20 Technicians in lab preparing vaccines. Variety of Squibb labeled bottles. Sterile room, chemicals moved. Women wearing masks inoculating egg whites, fluid removed, women at benches working w/ masks. 03:08:23 Doctor to patient bedside w/ nurse. Nurses at patients’ beds in ward. CU Squibb medicine packages. Lab & preparing medicines w/ test tubes & machines 03:08:54 Teenage boys on diving platform in lake. Boy in gym clothes giving himself diabetic shot in thigh. Woman in lab manufacturing chemicals, mixing. Kids in classroom smiling, laughing. Continued... 03:09:37 Ext. Squibb company building w/ sheep & horses in pasture. Man feeding. Int. & testing inoculations on white rats. Cages, of guinea pigs, feeding & checking. Rabbit. Plants. Mixing chemical of ?? 03:10:43 Doctor & patient w/ anaesthetic mask. CU needle filled from medicine bottle. Overhead of operating table w/ doctors & nurses. 03:10:53 CU bottles of Penicillin. Sterile room, preparing antibiotics. Incubating & grown in large tanks. Technicians monitoring. Fermented mold filtered out, purified. Women w/ petrie dishes & testing. Filling vials, freeze drying in vacuum chamber. Capped, packaged. 03:12:34 Ext. of large streptomycin manufacturing plant. Int. w/ large vats, operators. Ext. of medical research center; interioir w/ technicians at bench. Men at conference table talking. Medical library, people at tables reading. Technicians working w/ scales, electron microscope, pictures thru it. Research scientists working at various high technology equipment. 03:14:42 Doctors in circular operating theater assisted by nurses, watched by others from above. Hospital operating room. Montage: library, doctors, CU patients, baby, babies held, fed, in crib. Laboratory shots, technicians, chemical laboratory, microscopes. The End, Presentation of the House of Squibb. Promotional Film; Drugs; Drug Manufacturing; Medical Science; 1940s; 1950s; Educational Film; NOTE: one continuous minutes sold at per reel rate.