Progress on trial

Duration: 0:22:00

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians : Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1948 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film, "Hills of Home". Addresses the problem of of overcoming resistance to social and scientific progress in the nineteenth century. A country doctor risks his professional standing in a Scottish community by using the newly developed anesthetic, ether, in an operation. His skill dispels the doubts and fears of his neighbors., Deals with the problem of overcoming resistance to social and scientific progress in the nineteenth century. Shows a country doctor risking his professional standing in a Scottish community by using the newly developed anesthetic, ether, in an operation. Explains his skill dispells the doubts and fears of his neighbors.

Complete Record: , This excerpt from Hills of Home shows how a doctor in a Scottish village during the Victorian period faces a father's objection to the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic for his son who has an attack of acute appendicitis. After a dog is successfully anaesthetized, and father concedes, and his son's life is saved., Deals with the problem of overcoming resistance to social and scientific progress in the nineteenth century. Shows a country doctor risking his professional standing in a Scottish community by using the newly developed anesthetic, ether, in an operation. Explains his skill dispells the doubts and fears of his neighbors. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.