Emergency First Aid: Part 3 - Fractures (1942, silent)

Description: First aid instructional film demonstrating how to apply splints to fractures at common locations in the body in emergency situations.

Title and synopsis in Educational Film Catalog 1943 shown as follows: First Aid in Fractures. "Deals with simple, general improvised splints — an old magazine, a board, a feather pillow, an umbrella, a broom. Movie makers"

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Subjects: Health and hygiene,Medicine,1940s

Tags: fractures; wrapping; splinting; stabilizing; broken arms; arm splints; elbow fractures; using chest as splint for fractured arm; collar bone fractures; clavicles; binding; limbs; thighs; patient transport; intertitles; broken bones; The End title; bandages; wartime; Life magazine splint; umbrella splint; pillow splint; What to Do in an Emergency; What Not to Do in an Emergency; "and now practice what you have seen" title

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Bell & Howell, "Jacob Sarnoff, MD"

Credits: Produced by Dr. Jacob Sarnoff, Member of the International College of Surgeons, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Approved by Bert H. P. Bachman, First-Aid Director, American Red Cross, Brooklyn, N.Y. Chapter

Distributor: Bell & Howell Filmosound Library

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1942

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: educational, medical

Language: eng

Rights: "Copyright 1942 - Bell & Howell Co."

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 383