| MINING FOR RADIUM Radium is mined in Czechoslovakia and patients at the Jachymo Institute undergo radiation treatment | ||
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| Catalog #: | 507055 | |
| Clip Number: | 507055-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 405 | |
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| Location: | Czechoslovakia | |
| Year Shot: | 1937 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Treatment INDUSTRY/MINING: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia, Bohemia) SCIENCE: Chemistry SCIENCE: Physics | |
| Description: | MISSING 5/18/2004 MINING FOR RADIUM Radium is mined in Czechoslovakia and patients at the Jachymo Institute undergo radiation treatment Brief M/S of French scientist Madame Marie Curie - or possibly her daughter Irene Joliot Curie. In Czechoslovakia we see several shots at the Jachymo Mines where pitchblende is mined for radium deposits; rocks are transported through tunnels in crates, loaded onto elevators and out into the open air. C/U of three lumps of pitchblende and a bowl of black gunk. Bowls of white powder in diminishing sizes, presumably illustrating the numerous tests to find a tiny pinpoint of the radioactive element. At the Jachymo Institute (hospital) we see patients undergoing treatments. A man lying on a bed has some kind of radioactive pads directed on his shoulder; another man takes a radioactive bath; some people sit in a room and inhale a radiation potion emanating from a covered silver cauldron in the centre of a room. (Radiation treatment) | |
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