Charles King world tour.
- Date:
- c.1949
- Videos
About this work
Description
This amateur film consists of footage shot around the world. Some of the footage is point-of-view shots from airplanes and various moving vehicles. There are public displays of dancing by indigenous peoples.
Publication/Creation
UK, c.1949.
Physical description
1 videocassette (7.38 min.) (DIGIBETA) : silent, black and white PAL.
1 DVD (7.38 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (7.38 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL.
Contributors
Copyright note
Unknown.
Notes
This film forms part of a group of films donated to the Wellcome Trust in 2010 by The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, London.
The film can was re-used and was clearly marked 'Gas-air anaesthesia' prior to re-canning, although the contents are Charles King's world tour.
In the late 1940s, Arthur Charles King, a pioneer and manufacturer of anaesthetic equipment, was sponsored by the British Oxygen Company on a lecture tour of Europe, Africa and Australasia. More details of his life can be read here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1290960/pdf/jrsocmed00172-0052.pdf .
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores5008SNote
Location Status Access Closed stores5008D