Drinking water (1945)

 

Drinking water
Title	Drinking water
Series	Commandments for Health
Year of production	1945
Country of production	États-Unis
Director(s)
Duration	06 minutes
Format	Parlant - Noir et blanc - 16 mm
Original language(s)	English
Subtitles and transcription	English, French
Production companies	Hugh Harman Productions Inc.
Commissioning body	U.S. Navy
Archive holder(s)	National Library of Medicine

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Content

Medical themes

• Hygiene generally. Personal health and hygiene
• Drinks. Curative drinks. Medicinal waters. Liquid diet
• Prevention and control of communicable (infectious, contagious) diseases. Prevention of epidemics
• Hygiene of air, water, soil. Pollution and its control
• Poisoning. Intoxication
• Pathology of the digestive system. Complaints of the alimentary canal

Structuring elements of the film

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

Broadcasting and reception

Local, national, or international audience

National

Description

Supplementary notes

(français)

Sur le site du NIH-U.S. National Library of Medicine, Drinking water fait partie des 8 films de la série Commandments for Health analysés par Michael Sappol (National Library of Medicine) dans l'article The Five Commandments https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films/medicalmoviesontheweb/commandmentsforhealth.html (consulté le 7 septembre 2017)

References and external documents

• Thèse Florence Hartheiser (2017)