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Title:FRONT LINE DENTISTRY (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 77-13
Other titles:
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.
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)
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.