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Title: ON THE SPOT WITH FIRST AID

Reference number: 1580

Date: 1956c

Director: d. Stanley Russell

Production company: Thames & Clyde Production

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.04 mins

Description: An illustration of the St. Andrews Ambulance Association in action demonstrating their first aid techniques.

Credits: ph. Ken Mackey
comm. Jan Jack
comm. s. Michael Aspel
technical adviser George Watt
[Made with the co-operation of the St Andrews Ambulance Association]

Shotlist: Credits [superimposed over picture] (.05); General shots from an ambulance driving through Glasgow streets and including views of Sauchiehall Street (.36); General views at an accident with shots of the ambulance men lifting the victim into the ambulance (.56); The ambulance driving through city streets (1.10); It arrives at the hospital (1.48); General views of teacher and pupils in science class and of pupils in woodwork class (2.05); Shots of a woman with nose bleed (2.29); Shots of two men helping an injured boy (2.40); Young boy lying on floor after receiving an electric shock (2.50); Close-up of first aid box and shots of a man describing the contents (4.08); Demonstrations on the use of lint dressings and slings (6.22); Shot of exterior of a school (6.26); General views in woodwork class (7.14); Shot of young boy sawing. He accidentally cuts his hand with a saw and the teacher dresses the wound (8.21); General views in a science class with shots of a boy accidentally scalding himself and the teacher administering first aid (10.21); Shots of the two men helping an injured boy in the street (12.57); Demonstrations of mouth to mouth resuscitation (15.11); Injured boy leaving woodwork class (15.25); Shots of a young girl having her injured finger attended to (15.40); General views of hospital wards and equipment in an operating theatre (16.41); ecs (17.04)