White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT5
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT5
The American College of Surgeons presents "White Battalions: Serving All Mankind." - PT5 Intended to gain hospital endowments from wealthy patrons, this film shows off medical technologies & advancements of the early 1940s. The film follows a storyline that blends scripted dialog with hospital scenes. Excellent quality & content throughout.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT5
Hospital Interior (non-medical staff): MS female staff busy at work in hospital records department, male doctor enters giving woman papers, pan as she moves to filing cabinets, she files some papers & retrieves others (office, clerical, women). GV hospital kitchen with female staff busy at work. MS female kitchen workers loading cart with food trays. MCU food tray with appetizing display being served to an elderly woman in hospital bed.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT5
Hospital Interior (Education): GV lecture room (hall) filled with medical staff, man at front of room in lab coat gives a presentation. MCU young man in lab coat (medical student) seated at table with tray & microscope in front of him, he uncovers tray which is filled with organic parts, a lesson in human anatomy. MCU doctor placing x-ray image on light board, pelvic area has been circled. MCU elderly doctor in lab coat talking while flipping through paper.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT5
Hospital Interior (non-medical staff): GV lobby with people asking for assistance at front desk, this is a hospital but shot could pass for any high-end luxury hotel. GV bookkeeping & accounting office with female staff typing away (office, clerical). MS profile two female switchboard operators busy at work.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT5
Hospital Interior (Social Services): CU door reading "Medical Social Service", door opens to GV office waiting room with nurse examining throat of a young boy. MS office interior as female social worker interviews mother with two girls. GV pan cold institutional waiting room with long pews filled women & children of working class families (clinic). MS man laying on examination table as male doctor listens to chest with stethoscope, female nurse is also seen in the room preparing equipment.