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Summary: Promotional/career film showing the advantages and importance of army nursing.
Description: The film begins by showing an operation and indicates the important role that nurses have to play in the recovery of the patient. Student nurses are shown in Cyprus, Germany and Chelsea. A brief outline history is given as the film moves towards the Royal Pavilion at Aldershot, where training begins. Among other things shown is the uniform, designed by the Royal dressmaker, Norman Hartnell. The student nurses spend six weeks in Aldershot where they are shown being taught basic education, military education and first aid. State Registered Nurses are filmed spending a further eight weeks at Aldershot and State Enrolled Nurses in Colchester. The film suggests that young women who don't want to become nurses could become medical clerks or dental hygienists. Nurses are filmed training abroad in Hong Kong and Berlin. The film concludes by showing the nurses coming home for their final assessment and suggests that 'training with the army is the most rewarding and exciting way'.
Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor)
Chapman Raper Productions (Production company)
Hopkinson, Peter Richard Gunton1920-06-272007-06-28Hopkinson started him career in the film industry at the age of 16 as a clapper boy at Ealing Studios, then working at Denham Studios. He volunteered for overseas service in 1941and was an AFPU photographer and informant in the "Wartime Filming" interview project. He was sent to Persia initially to make a film about getting supplies through to Russia and made many other films in the Western Desert. He joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). His career after the war was mainly filming documentaries and his last documentary was Whickers War, made in 2004. (Production individual)
Hearne, Anthony (Production individual)
Hopkinson, Peter Richard Gunton1920-06-272007-06-28Hopkinson started him career in the film industry at the age of 16 as a clapper boy at Ealing Studios, then working at Denham Studios. He volunteered for overseas service in 1941and was an AFPU photographer and informant in the "Wartime Filming" interview project. He was sent to Persia initially to make a film about getting supplies through to Russia and made many other films in the Western Desert. He joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). His career after the war was mainly filming documentaries and his last documentary was Whickers War, made in 2004. (Production individual)
Smith, Nobby (Production individual)
Norton, Simon (Production individual)
Daneman, Paul (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Hartnell, Norman Bishop (person)
British Army, nurses (regiment/service)
Keywords: medical, British civilian - hospital (object name)
training, British military - specialist: nursing (object name)
GB, England & Aldershot, Hants <Royal Pavilion> (geography)
Colchester, Essex, England, UK (geography)
GB, England & London, SW <Chelsea> (geography)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography)
Cyprus (geography)
Hong Kong (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 2
Footage: 1347 ft; Running time: 14 mins
