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Recorded Image and Sound Preservation Committee Page | Film Inventory 2003 National Film Preservation Foundation Award ($11,000)
To preserve a film entitled The Johns Hopkins Hospital (1932). This 70 minute silent film recorded on 16 mm gauged black and white film was produced in 1932. It captured for the first time on film the entire operations of a comprehensive teaching hospital. This documentary footage shows the day in the life of the Hospital. Film makers went to every department in the Hospital and recorded typical daily events, from physicians performing surgery, nurses preparing meals including churning butter, the shoveling of coal, the sewing of clothing, the making of bandages, to specialists operating the latest technologies including x- rays and iron lung machines. |  | | | 2004 National Film Preservation Foundation Award ($15,260)
To preserve a film entitled The Johns Hopkins Medical Units: World War II (1942-1946). The 11 cans containing 2,916 feet of black & white and color 16 mm gauged film provides a rare, unvarnished glimpse into wartime operations of a civilian medical unit. In early 1940, the U.S. Surgeon General asked the Johns Hopkins Hospital to sponsor a 1,000-bed general hospital unit in the event that the US became involved in the wars in Europe and Asia. Doctors, nurses and staff were assembled for this by the end of 1940 and just before the unit was activated in April, 1942, it was split into 2 500 bed units—the 18th and the 118th General Hospital. Both of these Hopkins military hospitals served in the Pacific theater, including Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, New Zealand, Fuji and Burma. |  | | | 2007 National Film Preservation Foundation Award ($8,000+)
To preserve a film entitled The VT Radio Proximity Fuze (1945). This forty-five minute, silent, color film documents the role of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the development and use of the vacuum tube (VT) fuze by Allied Forces during World War II. In 1940 the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was tasked by the US Navy to develop a smart fuze that would detonate a projectile only when it came close enough to a target to actually do damage. The project was assigned to Section T of the NDRC under the leadership of Dr. Merle Tuve of the Department of Terrestial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute. Early in 1942, as the research progressed into development and testing, Section T moved into larger quarters in a used-car garage in Silver Spring, MD and became the Applied Physics Lab of the Johns Hopkins University - JHU/APL. Said General George S. Patton of the VT fuze, "The new shell with the funny fuze is devistating...I think that when all armies get this shell we will have to devise some new method of warfare. I am glad you all thought of it first." | | | |
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