| Title: |
The forgotten frontier [motion picture] / [presented by] the Frontier Nursing Services, Inc. ; by Marvin Breckinridge. |
| Author(s)/Name(s): |
Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge. |
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Breckinridge, Mary, |
| Publisher: |
[Hayden, KY] : The Nursing Services, [1931] |
| Related Names: |
Frontier Nursing Service, inc. |
| Description: |
2 film reels of 2 (1674 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. answer print. |
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2 film reels of 2 (1674 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. duplicate negative. |
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1 videocassette of 2 (Betacam SP) (40 min.) : si., b&w. ; 1/2 in. duplication copy. |
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2 videocassettes of 2 (Betacam SP) (71 min.) : si., b&w. ; 1/2 in. duplication copy. |
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1 videocassette of 2 (VHS) (40 min.) : si., b&w. ; 1/2 in. viewing copy. |
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2 videocassettes of 2 (VHS) (71 min.) : si., b&w. ; 1/2 in. viewing copy. |
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1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (71 min.) : si., b&w. ; 1/2 in. viewing copy. |
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Copyright: 1931 Marvin Breckinridge. |
| Language: |
eng |
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| MeSH Subjects: |
Child Health Services |
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Maternal Health Services |
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Nursing Services |
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Rural Health |
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Kentucky |
| Other Subject(s): |
Notable |
| Summary: |
This is an unique and historically valuable film depicting the important medical aid that the Frontier Nursing Service provided in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. The Service provided child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health, and emergency surgery for poor, mountain people. Film shows patients’ and nurses’ cabins, children, town, and gives flavor of their lives, language, and problems. Scenes include: nurses crossing river at night in ice and snow on horseback to deliver babies, nurses innoculating townsfolk at one-room school, nurses and men making a strecher in forest and walking 7 hours carrying a man with gunshot wound to hospital, steam trains, etc. Exterior of Wendover headquarters, Frontier Nursing Service Hospital, etc. Paper file contains film production details. |
| Notes: |
Live. |
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Last inspected: 1981. Condition complete; good. |
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Reviewed in: Congressional record, E2548, Apr. 2, 1968. |
| Acquisition Source: |
Received: (date unknown); donation; from Mrs. Jefferson Patterson (Marvin Breckinridge Patterson). DNLM |
| NLM Unique ID: |
8600028A |
