All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story

All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story

George Stoney's film about a rural midwife in the American South. Story of a midwife in rural Albany, Georgia. 15:02:52:16 MS large heavyset African American midwife at ironing board ironing clothes and folding clothes. 15:03:11:15 MS of a poor middle-aged Black couple who look as if they have just moved; removing their belongings from the bed of a truck, several chairs including a rocking chair, a mirror, and a Tide logo visible in the background. 15:03:21:03 MS white doctor with stethoscope around his neck looks alongside a white nurse looking inside of Black patient's mouth. 15:03:26:05 African American woman lying in striped pajamas in bed (possibly in the hospital) with bright smile. She excitedly is handed her adorable newborn child who is fast asleep. She warmly snuggles against her baby wrapping it under the covers. 15:03:45:04 Wall of photographs of African American babies pinned onto wall. MS pregnant woman talking to midwife in background the pictures of the children. The midwife has delivered 1400 babies. 15:05:07:19 VS Black woman in a white dress sits in profile facing a white nurse in a black shirt and nurses apron with stethoscope around neck. Nurse places a thermometer in the woman’s mouth under her tongue; good CU of Black woman with thermometer in her mouth. CU of nurse checking woman’s pulse on her wrist. MS nurse checks blood pressure. Great CU of nurse pumping air to check blood pressure. 15:06:07:03 CU nurse drawing blood from the arm of the patient. 15:06:15:22 Nurse injects the blood she drew from the patient into a test tube to be corked and sent to the laboratory. 15:06:38:07 MS both white nurse showing African American midwife facing camera looking at two test tubes and both nod. 15:06:55:21 VS of doctor and nurse examining an African American patient in hospital robe. CU light shining in patients face. Doctor examines woman’s mouth with tongue suppressor. 15:08:50:14 Two cute Black children, one boy and one girl, with older man, perhaps

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