Birth

Duration: 40

Creator: Filmmakers Library

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Records the actual birth of the first child of a young couple and the events that surround it. Bruce North is an artist, and his wife Debbie is an illustrator. The camera shows them at work, in a natural childbirth class, during the final prenatal examination, and in warm, intimate discussions with parents and each other, culminating in a twenty-minute labor and delivery sequence.

Complete Record: , Stresses how mothers feel during childbirth. Set in England, a number of young women discuss their concerns about the birth process and their reactions to hospitals and medical personnel. An at-home natural childbirth is explicitly recorded. , Records the actual birth of the first child of a young couple and the events that surround it. Bruce North is an artist, and his wife Debbie is an illustrator. The camera shows them at work, in a natural childbirth class, during the final prenatal examination, and in warm, intimate discussions with parents and each other, culminating in a twenty-minute labor and delivery sequence. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.