HAND TRANSPORT OF THE INJURED
Full length video
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Title: HAND TRANSPORT OF THE INJURED
Reference number: 0930
Date: 1941
Director: [filmed by Dr. A.G. Mearns and B.H. Humble]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.13 mins
Description:
Glasgow Boy Scouts demonstrate techniques for transporting the injured.
Humble papers deposited in National Library of Scotland. Further information can be found at https://manuscripts.nls.uk/agents/57836?agent_type=agent_person [last accessed 26/08/2021]
See "The Voice of the Hills: The Story of Ben Humble" by Roy M Humble (Chapter 6). Additional information file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.
Shotlist: Credits (.14); Assisted walking. One boy bandages the knee of another and then helps him to walk (.49); Pick-a-back (knee and foot injuries). Shots of a boy lying fallen beside his bicycle. Another boy picks him up, bandages the injured leg and carries him on his back (1.13); Two handed seat. Three-handed seat. Four-handed seat (for many incapacities). Demonstration of the three types of seat (2.44); Fore and aft carry. Shots as two boys pick up an injured boy and carry him off (2.57); Fireman's lift. During a staged fire, one boy lifts another over his shoulder (3.15); Chair carry (taking invalid up and down stairs). Two boys use wooden chair to lift another (3.43); Human stretcher (where no other is available). Demonstration by two boys (4.11); The End (4.13)