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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220476-50
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: Australia
Location: Sidney
TC Begins: 18:03:39
TC Ends: 18:06:04
Duration: 00:02:25
WWII - 1945, Australia Homefront: Polio Victim Demonstrates Use of Feet To Replace Use of Hands Intertitle: Meet Remarkable Shirley Ross Who Uses Feet As Hands. 18:03:45 MS, CUs Australian polio victim knits floormat w/ feet; folds & glues mail. 18:04:23 Puts paper into typewriter w/ feet & types. 18:04:47 Using sewing machine; 18:05:02 Ironing cloth. 18:05:12 Repairing iron plug w/ screwdriver. 18:05:22 Takes out needle from sewing kit & pulls out thread, cuts w/ scissors & threads needle using toes. 18:05:48 SOF Shirley Ross talks to camera re encouraging soldiers / troops who have lost their hands. 18:06:00 End title - Join The March Of Dimes. Handicapped; Pedi-Dexterity; Human Interest; WW2; Polio; Infantile Paralysis; Paralyzed; Oddities; Fund Raising; 1940s;