Heartbeater
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: After a heart attack, action has to be quick - and often violent - to start the heart again. And there’s a crucial time-limit of just four-minutes before the brain suffers massive damage from oxygen starvation. A small portable box now delivers oxygen, and uses the same compressed gas supply to provide a huge starting blow and continuous rhythmic pumping. And the box goes on, untiring, until the heart starts up its own pump action once again.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/168
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Roy Deverell
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
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How to cite this record
'Heartbeater', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 168, 1975. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325711 (Accessed 19 Feb 2025)