Other titles:COMITÉ CENTRAL DES SECOURS AMÉRICAINS A PARIS PENDANT LA GUERRE 1914-15 [Alternative Title]
Summary: Film illustrates the charitable humanitarian and medical work carried out by the American Relief Clearing House for France and her Allies, showing Allied official support in Paris, the unloading and dispatch to the front of supplies in transport clearly advertising their American source, the French medical pioneer Dr Alexis Carrel and his wife tending wounded French soldiers in his hospitals at Compiègne and Yvetot, Madame Carton de Wiart (wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice) caring for Belgian refugee children housed at orphanages at Ouville l'Abbaye and Besselievre, and orphans from Alsace at Grosfys (Normandy).
Description:
Alternative Title:COMITÉ CENTRAL DES SECOURS AMÉRICAINS A PARIS PENDANT LA GUERRE 1914-15 [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 6437
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1916
Production Country: United States of America
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: French
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 3
Footage: 2157 ft; Running time: 36 mins (16 fps)
