News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

112

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Atlas
• 2. Pocketphone
• 3. Fire Alarm for the Deaf
• 4. Radio Heartbeats

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: A radio telephone to save time and life. An ambulance is fitted with an electro cardiograph to record the pulses from the heart of an emergency patient. These pulses are printed simultaneously on a similar machine in the hospital using the radio telephone in the ambulance as a link. Thus, the hospital specialist can diagnose and advise treatment before the patient even reaches the hospital.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Communications; Science and technology; Emergency services

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/112

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

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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).

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