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Title: HEALING HANDS IN NAZARETH

Reference number: 4048

Date: 1959

Director: [filmed by Nat and Nettie McGavin]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 36.49 min

Description: Depicts the day to day workings of missionary hospital in Nazareth. Shows the town and surrounding countryside, people at market and at work, details the medical work of medical staff in the hospital, graduating nurses and the importance of religion in everyone's lives.

Award winner at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival of 1959. Winner of the Oliver Bell Trophy - for a film of religious or moral significance.

Paper records held relating to this film at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive 2/3/46

Credits: [ph & nrr. : Nat & Nettie Mc Gavin
comm. Rev. Dr. Ronald Falconer
m. William H.Blakey
sd. Park Film Studios Ltd.]

Shotlist: Depicts the day to day workings of missionary hospital in Nazareth. Shows the town and surrounding countryside, people at market and at work, details the medical work of medical staff in the hospital, graduating nurses and the importance of religion in everyone's lives. (20.19);
Edinburgh Street scene (20.27); shot of the mound (20.35); sign for Cowgate, Livingstone House 39 Cowgate, University of Edinburgh sign (20.58); Magdalen Chapel (21.11); George Square, Architecture Research Unit, University of Edinburgh (21.37); people entering and leaving a University Building? (22.08);
The film Healing Hands in Nazareth focuses on the nurses as they perform their duties in the hospital, dealing with patients and relatives as well as incorporating religion into their lives. This particular section focused on the Graduation Ceremony of the student nurses. The Ceremony took place in the hospital's place of worship, each nurse was presented with their Registered Nurses Badge, a scroll and a prayer book. This section also showed the day to day events in the life of a Nazareth person. (36.49);