REPAIRING WAR'S RAVAGES [Main]


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  • Other title(s): REPARACION DE LOS DANOS CAUSADOS POR LA GUERRA (on copy held) [alternative]
  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 15 mins
  • Description: The inhabitants of the centre are soldiers in hospital blues, all either with an arm or a leg missing, or in wheelchairs, or blind. A group of them assembles to hear a representative of the Ministry of Pensions explain the trades the Army will teach them to help them return to civilian life. Two of the men, each with a leg missing, are taken to join others learning how to be clerks and typists. The men learn to understand account books, to type one-handed, to understand commercial correspondence and accounting. Other men are taught in a workshop how to make purses and other items from leather. In another workshop some are taught electrical work and soldering. Outdoors a teacher blinded in the war shows men the principles of poultry farming. Indoors, a one-armed man learns how to work and maintain a cinema projector. In the engineering section some men work with lathes. Others are taught car maintenance and driving, including how to repair a car tyre inner-tube. Blind or handicapped men weave baskets in the open. In the woodwork shop a one-armed man fits a chisel to his artificial arm for use with a lathe in shaping wood. Finally, wearing their civilian clothes, the men are given a discharge allowance by the Army to help them look for work.
    Spanish language version of a film on the work of the Army rehabilitation centre at Roehampton, Surrey, autumn 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, Roehampton Centre / Ministry of Pensions / medical, British military - long term: [+] / journalism and record, British - cameraman (?) / animals, birds / equipment, British - personal: cinema projector / industry, British - craft / industry, British - general / 31/3(41) / GB, England & Roehampton, Surrey
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Imperial Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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