Assignment Home (1945)

 

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Title	Assignment Home
Year of production	1945
Country of production	États-Unis
Director(s)
Duration	27 minutes
Format	Parlant - Noir et blanc - 35 mm
Original language(s)	English
Subtitles and transcription	English
Production companies	Universal Pictures
Commissioning body	U.S. Navy
Archive holder(s)	United States National Library of Medicine

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Main credits

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UNITED STATES NAVY TRAINING FILM

RESTRICTED
COPYRIGHT MCMXLV BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES COMPANY, INC.

ASSIGNMENT HOME

Content

Medical themes

• Occupational health hazards. Occupational health and hygiene
• Health and hygiene of the nervous system. Health and ethics
• Psychiatry. Pathological psychiatry. Psychopathology. Phrenopathies. Psychoses. Mental abnormality. Morbid mental states. Behavioural and emotional disturbances

Theme

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Le retour à la vie civile de soldats de la Navy qui ont souffert de troubles psychologiques.

Main genre

Documentaire

Synopsis

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Context

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Ce film fait partie d'un vaste corpus de films consacrés aux troubles psychologiques et psychiatriques des soldats tournés par la Navy ou d'autres divisions de l'armée américaine dans les années 1940 et 1950.

Ce corpus comprend :
Combat Exhaustion (1943)
Introduction To Combat Fatigue (1944)
The Inside Story (1944)
The_N.P._Patient (1944)
Combat Fatigue Irritability (1945)
Insomnia (1945)
Combat Fatigue Psychosomatic Disorders (1946)
Let there be light (1946)
Shades of grey (1948)
Combat Psychiatry - The Battalion Medical Officer (1954)

Combat Psychiatry - The Division Psychiatrist (1954)

Structuring elements of the film

• Reporting footage  : No.
• Set footage  : No.
• Archival footage  : No.
• Animated sequences  : No.
• Intertitles  : No.
• Host  : No.
• Voice-over  : No.
• Interview  : No.
• Music and sound effects : Yes.
• Images featured in other films : No.

How does the film direct the viewer’s attention?

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How are health and medicine portrayed?

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Broadcasting and reception

Where is the film screened?

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Presentations and events associated with the film

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Audience

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Local, national, or international audience

National

Description

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Supplementary notes

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References and external documents

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Contributors

• Record written by : Élisabeth Fuchs
  
• Transcription : Thibault Riegert