Light in our darkness.

Date:
1954
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Light in our darkness. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A look at the Occupational Health Centre at the F. H. LLoyd steelworks which at the time the film was made was the largest in the British Empire. Footage of the foundry in operation includes: workers in the foundry arriving and leaving through factory gates; workers being treated for minor injures by a nurse and a doctor; a man having his leg bandaged; chest x-ray being taken; a man undergoing physical examination (it is explained that all personnel are given a full medical prior to being engaged); apprentices being weighed and also drinking milk; workers having physiotherapy and chiropody; an eye examination; the sterilisation of instruments; drug cabinets; 'burly' workers taking baths and showers; workers in protective clothing including respirators; demonstration of effectiveness of a protective facial respirator.

Publication/Creation

1954.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (13:05 mins.) : sound, black and white

Duration

00:13:05

Copyright note

Not known.

Terms of use

Unrestricted.
CC-BY-NC
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Language note

In English.

Creator/production credits

Technical Supervision J. S. Minton, Photography Alfred Kerntiff, Sound C. W. Green. Script and Narration by Dr. A. B. Davies. Directed by John S. Abbott, Jnr. Devised and Produced by Edward Cook. Produced by Big Six Film Unit.

Notes

This film forms part of a group of films donated to the Wellcome Trust in 2006 by The British Medical Association.

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