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A shortened version of a film on Whittingham Mental Hospital made for Granada Television in 1975. The programme attempts to show what life is like in a modern mental hospital.
A shortened version of a film on Whittingham Mental Hospital made for Granada Television in 1975. The programme attempts to show what life is like in a modern mental hospital.
| Module code and title: | TD342, Systems performance: human factors and systems failures |
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| Item code: | TD342; 13 |
| First transmission date: | 29-08-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:58 |
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| Producer: | Mike Scott |
| Contributor: | Ray Gosling |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Farm work; Mental hospital; Nursing problems; Patient attitudes; Staff |
| Footage description: | Over shots of Whittingham Hospital and grounds, Ray Gosling introduced the programme. Gosling interviews two patients, first briefly Rubin and then Harry. Shots of Harry reading the epistle at the hospital church and then talking to Gosling. Film shots of patients singing and dancing in a large hall. Gosling interviews several nurses while they are attending to patients. They talk about their jobs. Film shorts of an elderley male patient being interviewed and then examined by a doctor. Film shots of hospital officials making the morning rounds through the wards. They stop and speak to some of the patients. Film shots of patients being fitted with monitoring electrodes and being X-rayed. Ray Gosling then talks to a female patient working in the hospital laundry. Gosling interviews a member of staff who is the hairdresser for the female patients. He then talks to a patient who helps out with the hairdressing. She talks about her stay in the hospital over the past seventeen years and tells Gosling of the various treatments she has undergone during that time. Shots of patients queueing for various medications. Ray Gosling, over shots of the hospital, grounds and patients working on an assembly line, sums up the programme. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/2130 |
| Production number: | 00525_5248 |
| Videofinder number: | 3587 |
| Available to public: | no |
