# The Fight For Life

Dramatizes a young doctor's training in obstetrics at the Maternity Center, Chicago. Reel 1, Dr. O'Donnell sees a mother die in childbirth and decides to study obstetrics. Reel 2 shows him working and learning at the Center. Reel 3 consists mostly of a lecture to a class of doctors at the Center on procedures for delivering babies at homes. Reel 4, O'Donnell assists in the preparation for and the delivery of a baby in a Chicago slum area home. Reel 5, postnatal precautions are taken and O'Donnell calls attention to sociological problems. Shows examples of poor living conditions. Reel 6 shows the hospital examination of woman who has had no prenatal care. Reel 7 shows O'Donnell instructing an interne at a delivery, after which the mother has a hemorrhage. Reel 8, the mother receives a transfusion and lives. Level of Description: Item Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images This item's copyright was established: * 1940 * 1944 - ca. 1977 Credits: Associate producers, Elizabeth Myer, Tommy Atkins; director and writer, Pare Lorentz; music, Louis Gruenberg; Photography, Floyd Crosby; cast, Myron McCormick, Storrs Haynes, Will Greer, Dudley Digges, Dorothy Adams. * Unrestricted * Restricted - Possibly Specific Use Restriction: Copyright Note: This film may be subject to copyright restrictions. Researchers should contact the copyright holder for further information. Sound Accession Number(s): 3391

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1940
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheFightForLife)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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