(MEDICAL SCENES IN FRANCE, 1917-1918.)

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(MEDICAL SCENES IN FRANCE, 1917-1918.) Produced: 1918

Description Unedited footage without subtitles. Reel 1 shows a funeral procession and burial; Red Cross buildings; litter patients being placed on trucks and trains; and a motorcycle race. Reel 2, Red Cross supplies are unloaded. A soldier is buried. Shows closeups of an operation on a soldier's back. Reel 3 shows face, leg, and back wounds; operations; aid tents being erected; and a sterilizer. Reel 4 shows a frame building being erected; leg, body, and face wounds; patients in wheel chairs. Reel 5, wounds are dressed. Stretcher patients are moved. Wounded are carried Into an aid station. Reel 6, bed patients wounded in the field are examined. A leg brace is fitted. Reel 7, patients are examined in the field and put on stretchers. Legs are bandaged and splinted. Reel 8, troops parade through a village. A proclamation is read to the citizens. Shows a base hospital. Reel 9 shows a parade, a village park, and bandaged patients. Reel 10 shows X-rays of broken leg bones and operations. Reel 11 shows arm and leg wounds. Patients are operated on and fitted with braces. Reel 12 bows patients fitted with braces; the manufacture of artificial limbs; various types of leg casts and patients learning to walk. Reel 13, troops march on a hospital's parade ground. Reel 14, patients do sitting up exercises. Troops parade. Shows interior and exterior views of a hospital. Reel 15 shows mutilated faces, hospital wardrooms, burial scenes, a parade, and a nurse tending a patient. Reel 16 shows various types of casts and supports for injured limbs. Reel 17 shows convalescents. Nurses and doctors are decorated. Reel 18, patients are examined. Shows an abdomen operation; hospital dining and recreation facilities; and a hospital. Reel 19 shows a hospital; an arm operation; posed patients, doctors, and nurses; and dining facilities. Reel 20, officers pose and march. Reel 21, French and U.S. officers converse. Nurses are decorated. Shows laboratoryscenes. Reel 22, water pails are filled at a fountain. Shows patients in bed and on crutches. Reel 23, patients in Brest, Fr., walks and are carried from a hospital to ambulances. Soldiers enter a delousing plant. Tugs maneuver ships in the harbor. Reel 24, ambulances are unloaded at Brest. Patients receive Red Cross candy. Litter cases are moved from a train to ambulances. Reel 25, patients are placed aboard lighters and carried aboard the George Washington. Shows the sick bay aboard the ship. Reel 26, patients play baseball, receive coffee on a railroad platform, and board trains and ships. Reel 27, litter patients are placed oil trains and ships. Shows a face operation Reel 28, officers inspect a hospital kitchen. Men walk in a hospital yard Shows wardroom scenes.

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