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Summary: Film about the work of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC).
Description: After montage of Crimean war engravings and a bust of Florence Nightingale are a series of dramatised scenes of the army medical services. Casualty flown in, taken to hospital in ambulance; nurses at work - blood sample, X-ray. Operating theatre prepared. Night nurses; physiotherapy; the patient (recovered, in his army uniform) chats with nurses. Two nurses board a civil airliner (Viscount).
Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor)
Film Partnership Productions (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Nightingale, Florence (person)
British Army, nurses (regiment/service)
Keywords: medical, British military - hospital (object name)
medical, British military - movement (object name)
aircraft, British - transport: Vickers Viscount (object name)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 328 ft; Running time: 9 mins