Animated view of sun and description of a total eclipse. Animated picture of moon passing across the sun. Citizens preparing to watch an eclipse. Astronomers from all over the world watch the sight. Moon covers the image of sun with halo of light around it. (Solar Eclipse). Tongues of flame in the halo of light visible through telescope. Animated view of earth from the moon.
Film 'The Fight for Life' dramatizes experience of a physician in obstetric practice at a Chicago hospital. View of engraved stone reading: City Hospital, 1932, over archway, at entrance to a Chicago hospital. Medical staff walk in hallway. A nurse enters maternity center where doctors stand beside a woman in labor on a table.The principal doctor monitors the fetus heartbeat. The mother becomes stressed and the anesthesiolgist helps her. Physician places newborn infant on cart and nurse rolls it away. View of baby. Nurse and doctors attending the mother express alarm over her blood pressure.They administer oxygen and several doses of medicine by hypodermic. But the patient dies. One of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) is clearly moved by the event, and seems deep in thought as he leaves the hospital, not even noticing the receptionist who bids him good evening as he passes her.
Following the death of a mother during childbirth, one of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) walks along rainy Chicago streets at night mulling over the event. He walks past numerous decorated shop windows highlighting the good life, and thinks aloud about the details of the event. Traffic moves along the streets as life goes on in the city. Dr. O'Connell wonders whether the mother's life could have been saved. He speculates about the event comprising an exchange of the mother's life for that of her child. He discusses the matter philosophically with a senior colleague, who encourages him to take up obstetrics and to practice in the slums of Chicago, where there are great needs for such services.
1930s graph on danger and health effects of smoking cigarettes. Graph shows decrease in circulation of a tobacco sensitive individual by smoking one cigarette. It shows the temperature after smoking and inhaling one cigarette by tobacco sensitive individual.
NASA Astronaut Virgil Grissom walks towards and enters MASTIF (Instrument panel of producer trainer). He adjusts his helmet and other astronauts help him strap up.
NASA Astronaut Virgil Grissom seated inside MASTIF (Instrument panel of procedures trainer). He operates controls and talks on the headset.
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