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Roosevelt Warm Springs Archive. Film 9 Film 9

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@ Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus

Georgia Warm Springs Foundation

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Roosevelt Warm Springs Archive Film 9 is an eleven minute and thirty-seven second compilation of promotional silent newsreel clips produced sometime around 1933, sponsored by the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, a health resort and rehabilitation center in Meriwether County, Georgia. This film depicts numerous services and activities available to disabled patients residing at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation that include therapeutic massage; supervised mobility exercises; occupational therapy and handicrafts; academic instruction; athletic and leisure pursuits; views of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation grounds; housing accommodations for guests and staff; medical facilities on the premises; and architectural drawings of buildings under construction. Eight seconds of the film have been redacted for privacy purposes; this footage appears as a black screen.The film begins with an initial title card that reads "Roosevelt Warm Spring Archive Film 9." This is followed by three more title cards. The first reads "The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, Warm Springs, Georgia," the second reads "A center for the after-treatment of Poliomyelitis (Infantile Paralysis), and the third reads "Architect's conception of Georgia Hall, the new administration building to be constructed at Warm Springs. This building will be completed late this fall and will be the Central Unit for all Foundation activities." This is followed by several camera pans across three different architectural drawings of Georgia Hall. The next title card reads "Patients dormitory group adjoining the administration building" and is followed by four separate outdoor shots of residential wood-frame cottages, another title card that reads "A few typical housekeeping...
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Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus

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Digital Library of Georgia