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Flying Doctor, Mantle of Safety Spread Over Continent

A look at the work of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Series : Australian Diary | Episode : 62 | Year : 1952 | Total Duration : 12 Minutes |
Director : Jack S Allan |
VS Aerials outback Australia. Wing tip in shot. Aerials over flock of sheep on approach to Tibooburra. WS car drives through outback landscapes. MS Man approaches Flying Doctor plane on ground. Doctor and pilot alight from plane and shake hands with man there to meet them. Men get into car and drive off.
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Access No. 59217 | 1 min 2 secs | 1950s | Tibooburra, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS Car drives down Tibooburra main street. WS Camel drawn cart on street. Camel and cart stopped outside Post Office. MS Man attends camel. MS Car pulls up at hospital. Woman and nurses come out to meet car. Doctor and nurses enter hospital. MS Doctor and nurse attend young Aboriginal boy suffering from malnutrition, Doctor uses stethoscope, boy cries. MS Doctor checks eyes of Aboriginal man. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59218 | 1 min 6 secs | 1950s | Tibooburra, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Aerial outback city of Broken Hill? MS Plane on ground taxiing. MS Plane on ground as two Ambulance Officers lift woman patient from plane on a stretcher. MS Pan right as woman is loaded into ambulance. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59219 | 28 secs | 1950s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS Car pulls up at front of Flying Doctor's radio station headquarters. Doctor gets out of car and enters building. CU Flying Doctor Service of Australia insignia (FDSA) on outside wall of building. MS Interior two men, radio operator and assistant work on radio equipment. MS Woman walks to radiogram machine and begins to type radiogram.
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Access No. 59220 | 44 secs | 1950s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Dramatised scene of after hours emergency call to FDSA radio headquarters. Fade in MS black alarm box ringing. Clock on wall shows four o'clock (AM). MS Radio Operator in dressing gown. VS Operator on radio to emergency caller. Transfers call to Doctor, also in dressing gown. Emergency caller on radio in bedroom, wife in bed. CU radio. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59221 | 2 mins 42 secs | 1950s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Fade in CU clock on wall showing eight o'clock (AM). VS Radio Operator and Doctor in radio room. Operator puts out call for anyone wanting the doctor. CU radio, hand adjusts dial. MS Farmer on radio in bedroom with pregnant wife. CU Doctor talking on radio with man regarding coming out to attend pregnant wife who is in labour. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59222 | 59 secs | 1950s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS Doctor and pilot walk toward plane in dust storm. VS plane taking off and flying past wireless station tower. WS plane lands on outback air strip. Plane taxiing and pilot and doctor alight and are met by property owner. WS Homestead as farmer and doctor walk inside. VS Pilot calls back to base for any more cases they will need to attend. MS Farmer waits outside while wife gives birth. VS wife in bed with new born baby, doctor attends. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59223 | 1 min 50 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
MS Doctor talks on portable radio outside plane regarding next patient. MS Man on peddle radio tells doctor about patient. CU Doctor talks on portable radio . CU peddle radio. WS plane takes off. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59224 | 55 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Dramatisation tilt down windmill to group of men at the bottom. Four men lift injured man covered with blankets onto camp bed. VS Men carry patient on camp bed into homestead. CU peddle radio being adjusted. MS Man on peddle radio with woman, injured man lies beside them. CU Doctor on plane radio. Aerial shadow of plane on ground. VS man gives injured man pills from medicine box on doctors advice. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59225 | 57 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS Plane flies in sky. Various people look toward the skies and wave. Aerials of isolated homestead. Air to air shot of FDSA plane flying. Good hero shots as people look toward the skies with admiration on their faces. Royal Flying Doctor Service
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Access No. 59226 | 22 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
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