News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Lord Nuffield and the "Iron Lung"
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 7 / 10
- Section Title
- News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Lord Nuffield and Iron Lungs. SHOTLIST: At the Morris Works at Cowley, Lord Nuffield watches the iron lung in use. Mr Botth, the inventor, demonstrates and is watched by Dr Mackintosh, who Lord Nuffield says was his inspiration in giving one to every hospital. A patient is put into the contrivance and the working is clearly shown. Short view of the factory where the instruments are to be manufactured.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Economics; Business and commerce; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Inventions and discoveries
- Footage sources
- Great Britain
- Card file number
- 34976
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 46
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How to cite this record
'News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Lord Nuffield and the "Iron Lung"', British Movietone News Issue No. 496, 5 Dec 1938. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/9470 (Accessed 30 Apr 2026)