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Welcome Medicine

Welcome Medicine
Clip: 493558_1_1
Year Shot: 1965 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1735
Original Film: 038-035-03
HD: N/A
Location: New York, New York
Timecode: 00:15:19 - 00:16:19

Ask any doctor! Laughter is the BEST medicine of all, especially for children. To prove that theory anew, Ringling Bros. Barnum-Bailey Circus visits Bellevue Hospital. You can see yourself, the improvement among the patients. Exterior of the hospital where all the children patients are seated in a circle. A midget clown giving out candy to the children. CU - Nurses, wearing their little nurse hats, sitting with the children. A clown is on his knees speaking with a sick boy who's holding a guitar. Two clowns have another clown's pant legs that are stretching as they pull on his pants. Looking up - There's a sick child looking out the hospital's window. A circus performer dressed up as Uncle Sam, but he is on stilts making him very tall and his legs appearing very long. CU - Children from the hospital enjoying the antics of the clowns. The elephants perform for the children. An elephant checking out a little boys lolly pop with his trunk, but the elephant knows its a child so he is moving his trunk very slowly and tenderly. Teenage girl patients enjoying the show. The elephants holding each other's tail walking in a circle and then they stand on their hind legs.