The American Nurses’ Association and the National League for Nurses present, The Shelter: The Psychological Aspects of Nursing in Disaster. This is a 1950’s era, black and white movie made under a grant from the U.S. Department of Health Service and the National Institute of Mental Health. The movie stars Eliza Ross Thorne as the nurse and isnarrated by Gregory Peck. Produced and directed by Roger Tilton Films, Inc. Music by David Raksin. Screenplay by Alvin Boretz. Photographed by Robert Sherry. Edited by Don Gundrey. The movie opens with a woman running in panic, 00:15. People rush into a fallout shelter, presumably after an atomic bomb has detonated and nuclear war initiated, 00:42. A young girl is carried into the shelter crying, 2:20. The men and the nurse start to tend to the wounded. Everyone is terrified, 2:45. A man is gravely injured and impaled by a pole, 3:08. The nurse attends to a woman with a bad cut on her arm, 4:02. The nurse fashions a makeshift splint out of wood and newspaper and applies it to the man’s leg, 4:15. The nurse attends to a woman with a bad back, 4:57. The nurse calls on young girls to help her, 5:25. The woman is covered with a blanket, 6:05. The nurse remembers her training as she rallies people to assist her, 6:35. The nurse separates people who are going into hysterics to keep everyone calm, 14:35. The nurse puts Mrs. Jonas to work tending the children, 14:20. A man in a hardhat holds his head in his hands and the nurse tries to reassure him, 16:10. The nurse enlists the help of the man with the hardhat, 17:20. A man listens to the radio to get emergency reports, 17:50. A young man starts to get loud and the nurse calms him down, 18:11. The nurse help s a man in apparent shock, 19:18. The girls play ring-a-round-the-rosie, 19:30. Woman is hysterical and the nurse speaks calmly to relax her and keep the hysteria from spreading, 20:10. The nurse successfully calms, the woman down, 21:05. The people wait nervously in the shelter for news from the outside, 21:20. A man gets nervous and tries to leave the shelter; the other men talk him out of it, 22:00. The nurse calms a man and gets him to lay down, 22:50. A man listens to the radio and hears the name of the dead, 23:14. The nurse sits alone and collects herself, remembering her training, 23:47. A woman smells gas and starts to go into hysterics; the nurse tries to calm her, 24:10. The nurse tries to calm the woman down, 24:30. The men search for the gas leak, 24:45. Water drips in a bucket, 25:08. The people try and get comfortable in the shelter, 26:16. The nurse sits alone on a box and reflects as people lay around her, 27:10.
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