FRONT LINE DENTISTRY (PART 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FRONT LINE DENTISTRY (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 77-13
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  • Summary: RAMC dentists treat patients in 50th (Northumbrian) Division's sector of the Normandy beach-head.
  • Description: Two British soldiers arrive at the mayor's house in the village of Juaye-Mondaye where 48th Field Dressing Station RAMC's dental section is temporarily quartered; the cameraman examines the signboard announcing its presence there. Soldiers requiring dental treatment sit outside waiting for their turn to go in; a corporal orderly calls out the name of the next patient. One of the three dentists in the section is seen examining a patient's teeth.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Carpenter, L (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 50 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, Field Dressing Station 48, Dental Section (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: medical, British military - routine: dentistry (object name) Mayor's House, Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 93 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • Notes: Summary: for footage showing tank, infantry, artillery and medical units in action with 50th Division during the fighting in Hottot, see A70 77-11, 12, 14, 15, 78-1, 2, 7, 79-4, 5, 7, 90-6 and 7. Refer also to ciné material showing RAMC and QAIMNS units in the field, notably A70 56-2, 57-1, 11, 132-8 and 174-1. Remarks: best seen with the items of ciné material listed above, notably A70 78-1 which contains complementary footage.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    A70 77-13

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