Idaho's State Hospitals

Idaho's State Hospitals

Rejissyor: KBOI, News Department. Early investigative report on the Idaho state hospitals. Interviews with psychiatrists and doctors particularly about the issue of mental and geriatric care. Great footage inside state mental institutions. Natural lighting and overexposed light entering through windows gives the mental hospital footage an expressive unearthly quality. Rows of sterile hospital beds. Good footage of early geriatric treatment in hospitals.19:07:07:04 VS inside a mental hospital. Large room filled with beds and blackout blinds over windows half drawn ; patients lying in bed. 19:07:13:02 Nurses bringing food to older female mental patients in room sitting on couches and rocking on rocking chairs.19:07:20:14 VS beds (cots) in rows filling large mental hospital room. 19:07:48:22 MS Mental Hospital Superintendent in suit and bow tie with two pens in his front pocket with hands folded on the table he is sitting at as he speaks into a microphone. Man appears slightly uneasy.��we are called a hospital but we rather look upon ourselves as being, uh, in having an institute in human and family relations. In other words, it could be rightly called a institute of living.�19:10:37:11 VS Men and women reading in library.19:10:41:19 MS scientists in laboratory looks into a microscope; MS scientist stands in front of instrument with various knobs and controls. 19:12:08:00 Doctor wearing black and metal framed glasses in suit and tie holds mask over face of patient in hospital bed as nurses hold the man down. Camera pans up and down mans twitching body. 19:17:19:02 Camera behind white haired doctor (psychiatrist) seated at table with microphone speaking to patient beside him with only his shoulder in frame initially. Doctor and patient speak before an audience of nurses and psychiatrists seated at desks smoking heavily. 19:19:49:21 Sterile looking dormitory with white walls and two rows of beds with white sheets strewn along the wall on both sides. 19:20:56:24 Great shot of room flushed with light fille

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