BATHING THE BABY
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Title: BATHING THE BABY
Reference number: 1346
Date: 1938
Sponsor: Glasgow Corporation Public Health Department
Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 13.10 mins
Description:
Illustrates how to bathe a baby correctly.
Part of the hire stock of the former Public Health Dept. Glasgow Corporation.
Believed to have been screened in the Scottish Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition.
Credits: ph. and ed. Alan Harper
Shotlist: Credits (.05); Every mother bathes her baby, but does she do it right? Baby needs a warm room and the right articles. Shots of hearth in living-room. Baby bath and all necessary linen and ointments placed ready for use (1.25); Nurse demonstrates how to wash and bath a baby, how to dry him and then dress him (10.47); Nurse settles the baby in his cot and tidies away all the bathing things, rinses the nappies and puts the bath to one side (13.06); End credits (13.10).