Death

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Verite Productions

Complete Record: Subject: follows one man, a terminal cancer patient, through his last days at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Doctors discuss the psychology of dying and the manner used with the dying patient. Explains how nurses aids are trained to console and care for their patients. Shots: Church. Nuns. Priest. Sad looking patents in hospital. LS singers with guitar in church with nuns. CU doctor with stethoscope talks, treats old woman in bed, then old man in bed. Patients n wheelchairs. Black women sip milk from cups with TV playing behind. Young nun talks table with black women, walk through wards of hospital smiling and chatting with patients. CUs on faces. Nurse at bedside. Thin patients receive medication. Patient dies, body is wrapped, put in morgue. Doctors talk with nun. Priest gives communion to patients. Patients speak (CU). Relatives speak. Patient at pay phone. Patient smokes while in wheel char. Outside hospital footage - visiting area. Black nurse wheels patient. Man with wall eye speaks of days in military, some footage thereof (Mac Arthur picture on mantle) . Home shots. Pan to garden. Woman wears glasses (cat eye). Patents gets sips of liquid from nurse. Nurse wipes patients face. Older woman wearing pearls and snazzy dress visits patient. In church with patients in wheel chairs robed priests, CUs on faces of old ladies. Patient gets lifted from bed by sling. Priest consoles patient. Dark hallway of hospital. Another dead patient - gets wheel out, put n morgue chamber. Mann suit talks on phone (greased hair) reads from note. Pictures of dead man when he was younger. Body placed n back of station wagon drives off. Not a happy film.