High Seas Rendezvous to Save Paralysis Victim

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1057A
Date Released
8 Sep 1949
Date submitted
Sep 1949
Date submitted
6 Sep 1949
Stories in this Issue:

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Us Polio Rescue. DESCRIPTION: 21 year old Sydney Mooney went down with infantile paralysis when the British ship Parthia was two days out of Liverpool bound for America. A US Coast Guard cutter meets the British liner with a doctor and an iron lung. SHOTLIST: KS US Coast Guard cutter conveys Dr Greenfield to British liner "Parthia" in the North Atlantic to attend a case of Infantile Paralysis. The ship’s cargo nets serves to swing the doctor and the iron lung aboard and a plane flies over with medical supplies. Shots of patient 21 year old Sydney Mooney on board "Parthia".
Keywords
Ships and boats; Health and medicine; Children; Accidents and disasters
Locations
Halifax; Nova Scotia
Card file number
52500
Credits:
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Length of story (in feet)
74
Story extras:
Film clip

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
AP Archive
Email
info@aparchive.com
Web
http://www.movietone.com
Phone
+44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held
View all series held by AP Archive

How to cite this record

'High Seas Rendezvous to Save Paralysis Victim', British Movietone News Issue No. 1057A, 8 Sep 1949. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/15935 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)