Health-Medical

5 DVD Box Set

Disc 1 X-Ray & Medical Radiology Films (1940s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This two-film X-Ray collection is the only such DVD compilation of its kind. See the world of X-Ray technology as it was viewed in the early 1940's. My, How Things Have Changed in the World of Science! What a great piece of historical documentation in an important scientific field. Running time 18 minutes.

Title #1: Inside Information

Production Date: 1941

Running Time:  8 minutes

Brief Description: This film contains X-Ray technology demonstrations and plenty of informative dialogue about the use of X-Ray in all types of work, including automobile manufacturing and police work. 

Title #2: Taking the "X" Out of X-Rays

Production Date: 1940

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Another terrific educational look at how X-Rays work and the science behind X-Rays in the 1940s.

Disc 2 Graphic WWII Medical Surgery Film (1945)

Title #1: Remember These Faces

Production Date: 1945

Running Time: 18 minutes

Brief Description: This intense film was originally shot to show how war bonds are used to provide for medics to help wounded soldiers fighting in the island hopping war campaigns in 1945. The footage is some of the rawest, most realistic and brutal footage that the government produced during WWII. Although it was filmed and released to the public (shocking, considering how graphic the movie is) at the tail-end of the war, it showed that there was still a lot of suffering and death still taking place.

Disc 3 Nursing Films DVD: Nursing Tribute Films (1927-1945)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This rare DVD is a tribute to the nurse. Three films from 1927-1945 show the progression of nursing practices and theory during this era. From The Army Nurse: "In her there is the tenderness of all women, of mother and sister and friend. Her voice and touch lend encouragement, instill hope. It's the surgeon who saves a man's life; it's the nurse whose tender care helps him to live." This is the one and only DVD compilation of these three amazing historic and educational nursing films.

Title #1:The Army Nurse

Production Date: 1945

Running Time: 17 minutes

Brief Description: This is a rundown of all the activities of an army nurse, including work both on the battlefield and off-duty.

Title #2: Nursing

Production Date: 1942

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description:  This semi-vocational film shows all the qualifications that both men and women needed to become a nurse in the early 1940s. This is a rare piece of historical documentation about medical practices from the mid-20th century.

Title #3: Artificial Respiration: From Stillman Fires Collection

Production Date: 1927

Running Time: 11 minutes

Brief Description: CPR and artificial respiration procedures sure are different today! See this film from the 1920s that's all about artificial respiration techniques and practices and includes some excellent dramatized accidents along with beautiful anatomical illustrations.

Disc 4 Medical Quacks & Doctors Films (1930s - 1950s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This is a wonderful collection of bizarre films about medical quackery and bizarre medical practices from the 20th century. 

Title #1: Quacks PSA

Production Date: Post 1930s

Running Time: 1 minutes

Brief Description:   Really fun PSA about how to avoid medial quackery, given by Raymond Massey.

Title #2: Medical Quacks

Production Date: 1950s

Running Time: 26 minutes

Brief Description: A great exposé on medical quackery from the 50s from the television show Confidential File hosted by Paul Coates. 

Title #3: Relax

Production Date: 1930s

Running Time: 10 minutes

Brief Description: Doctor & Professor Donald Laird tries to measure relaxation scientifically.  Amazingly enough relaxation is best in a Chevrolet. 

Title #4: Quacks & Nostrums

Production Date: 1958

Running Time: 19 minutes

Brief Description: Another expose about medical quacks.  When a mother brings home some magical tea her son catches the sent of a medical con artist at work. 

Title #5: Experiments in Abnormal Psychology

Production Date: 1930s

Running Time: 9 minutes

Brief Description: Silent film that shows peoples reactions to getting hypnotized, pre and post hypnosis. 

Disc 5 Medical Doctor Film (1960s)

Brief Synopsis of DVD: This educational film presents the daily life of a medical doctor as a veteran of the trade shares thoughts with the next generation of prospective doctors.  The film has an strange obsession with both the status doctors receive in society and the difficulty of telling a family one of its members has pasted away.  The film also focuses on the exciting challenges that lay ahead for new doctors such as space flight research and curing cancer and leukemia. 

Title #1: I Am a Doctor

Production Date: 1960s

Running Time: 24 minutes

Brief Description: The American Medical Association & The Association For Medical Colleges presented this career film in about being a doctor.  The film's format is a veteran doctor dictating a letter about what it takes to be a doctor into a voice recorder intertwined with scenes from his daily work.  Oddly, the film has a very gloomy tone towards the profession, as the doctor believes, "it is you and life versus disease and death."  The film also challenges young minds to solve the puzzle of disease and to explore new science and outer space.  Scenes include childbirth, an open heart, a severely wounded leg, surgeries, stitching a wound, and x-ray machines.  This film is in full color.