Moving Picture Age (1920) . rmal Conference. April. 1920 MOVING PICTURE AGE 17 Community Welfare Work Promoted by Moving Picture National Organization Uses the Screen to State Problems of Health and Sanitationand Point the Way to Their Solution by Communities and Individuals By A. E. Regnis {Illustrations from Photographs—Courtesy National Organisationfor Public Health Nursing.) METHODS for conserving public health are better under-stood and more abundant in large cities than in remoterural districts, yet country places are learning and theyeagerly grasp the opportunities to learn. One of thes
Moving Picture Age (1920) . rmal Conference. April. 1920 MOVING PICTURE AGE 17 Community Welfare Work Promoted by Moving Picture National Organization Uses the Screen to State Problems of Health and Sanitationand Point the Way to Their Solution by Communities and Individuals By A. E. Regnis {Illustrations from Photographs—Courtesy National Organisationfor Public Health Nursing.) METHODS for conserving public health are better under-stood and more abundant in large cities than in remoterural districts, yet country places are learning and theyeagerly grasp the opportunities to learn. One of theseopportunities is given in An Equal Chance, a film showing theintroduction of a public health nurse in a country town, and theresults that followed. The title of the picture is based on itspurpose, for the public health nurse who took charge of a dan-gerous and pitiful situation showed no favors to the rich andneglected none of the poor, but all had an equal chance to sharein the good which she brought into the A public health nurse working among the Arapahoe Indians on theWind River Reservation in the state of Wyoming. An Equal Chance was produced by the National Organizationfor Public Health Nursing, with headquarters at 156 Fifth York, and branch offices in Chicago and Portland, Ore. Thescenario is by Gilbert Tucker and James Rorty, and was directedby Carlyle Ellis, Autograph Films. The picture is timely for itpresents the public health nurse and her work, which is a subjectwhich will doubtless attract more attention in the future than inthe past. The National Organization for Public Health Nursing?works in co-operation with the New York State Department ofHealth with whose help this picture was produced. The storypart of the film was taken in Duchess county. New York. Otherpictures were taken in the Wind River Indian Reservation inWyoming, among the negro population in St. Marys Parish, La.,-where the colored people present problems which call for i
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