| RADIO PILL This new device transmits information about abdominal ailments from the patient's stomach. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6110 |
| Catalog #: | 139111 | |
| Clip Number: | 139111-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 334 | |
| Timecode: | 01:51:50 - 01:54:01 | |
| Location: | Central Middlesex Hospital, London. | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Examinations & Tests LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London | |
| Description: | RADIO PILL This new device transmits information about abdominal ailments from the patient's stomach. Central Middlesex Hospital, London. C/U of several 'radio pills' on a tray; extreme C/U of a pill in someone's fingers; a tiny black stopper is removed from the pill and a piece of tape is stuck over the hole. Commentator tells us the pill, "when swallowed, transmits information about abdominal ailments hitherto unobtainable".MS Patient and nurse. Nurse is making bed comfortable for patient. Doctor comes into picture gives nurse tray which has radio pill on it. Nurse picks up glass of water. MS Patient takes pill and swallows it. Woman lays down on bed. CU Woman laying down. MS Doctor adjusting graph. He then picks up revolving aerial pan to right as doctor picks up aerial and takes it to patient. Stop panning. Pan down to show patient laying on bed. Doctor then sits down beside patient and places hand on stomach. CU Hand pressing woman's stomach pan up to show doctor looking at graph. BCU of graph. High pressure on left low pressure on right at the moment the needle is on the right it swings across to the left. It stops and swings back to the right again. Stops and continues to do this. CU Woman laying on bed she looks up at aerial which is out of picture. CU Aerial swinging round. MS Graph. BCU Graph. Needle is on right and starts swinging backwards and forwards. MS Another doctor examining X-rays. He places X-ray onto holder. He then begins to study X-ray. CU X-ray panning to right from beginning of shot. Stop panning and we see the pill is lodged in the woman's stomach. Hand draws ring around pill. MS Graph pan to right to show woman playing cards. Stop panning nurse comes into picture with a cup of tea. | |
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