Universal Screen Magazine, No. 21
Science: Modern care of the insane. (State Hospital for the Insane, Kingston, N.Y.) Gentle persuasion and kind treatment have replaced the primitive straight-jacket and other devices in subduing violent patients. Subtitles: Patients out for morning walk. Inmates prepare food. At work in tailor shop. The laundry. Harmless patients sleep in dormitories; they make up their own beds. Frequently work requiring skill and thought proves a cure. Here a patient is weaving a basket. Afflicted have their own library. Pool for the men. Solitaire his sole diversion through long years of confinement. The straight-jacket's substitute. A warm bath calms the violent patient, who is kept in the tub 12 hours or longer. The sweat bath, spray and rub-down is another method of soothing the violent. These methods have cured hundreds of violent patients. Beauty Hints: Laces of the World. A scene from "The Century Girl," Broadway musical comedy success, in which members of the cast display lace products gathered from the four corners of the earth. Subtitles: Italian laces (Lillian Tashman) ; Spanish (Marjorie Cassidy) ; Belgian (May Leslie); English lace (Edna Chase) ; Irish (Evelyn Conway) ; French (Mlle. Semone d'Herlys) ; Harlequin and Pierrot, in black (Beatrice Allen and Vera Maxwell). What We Eat: Watching the food you eat. Inspectors detailed by the New York Department of Health are constantly on the alert to detect any effort by merchants to sell decayed or polluted produce. Tons of condemned products are seized yearly and offenders are heavily fined. Subtitles: An entire shipload of worm-eaten macaroni confiscated. A powerful acid renders the macaroni unfit for sale. Destroying 1,500 tons of decayed pork and three tons of spoiled sauerkraut. Inspectors condemn the pork and destroy it with acid. Inspectors condemn 500 chickens, frozen to death in transit. Industries: A hospital for disabled ships. Hundreds of ocean vessels have been destroyed or damaged during the war. The disabled craft are repaired in this latest type of drydock. Subtitles : Prospective "patients" for the service stations. Hundreds of ships are "treated" here each year. A few of the army of employees engaged in the work. Towing a crippled liner to its berth. The drydock in action. A pontoon platform below the water is raised by powerful electrical machinery and carries the ship with it Formerly ships were placed in a giant basin from which the water was pumped. The new method saves time. Repairing a huge rent in the bow of the steamship "Acre." The giant propeller. Men easily crawl through the shaft tube. Scraping the hull in preparation for painting. Ships must be painted often to preserve plate. The recovered "patient" leaves the hospital. Art: Sculpture in clay. "Bobby," Universal City's lion actor, poses for Willie Hopkins, world's foremost modeler.
- Released
- 1917
Details
Release year: 1917
Storyline
Science: Modern care of the insane. (State Hospital for the Insane, Kingston, N.Y.) Gentle persuasion and kind treatment have replaced the primitive straight-jacket and other devices in subduing violent patients. Subtitles: Patients out for morning walk. Inmates prepare food. At work in tailor shop. The laundry. Harmless patients sleep in dormitories; they make up their own beds. Frequently work requiring skill and thought proves a cure. Here a patient is weaving a basket. Afflicted have their own library. Pool for the men. Solitaire his sole diversion through long years of confinement. The straight-jacket's substitute. A warm bath calms the violent patient, who is kept in the tub 12 hours or longer. The sweat bath, spray and rub-down is another method of soothing the violent. These methods have cured hundreds of violent patients. Beauty Hints: Laces of the World. A scene from "The Century Girl," Broadway musical comedy success, in which members of the cast display lace products gathered from the four corners of the earth. Subtitles: Italian laces (Lillian Tashman) ; Spanish (Marjorie Cassidy) ; Belgian (May Leslie); English lace (Edna Chase) ; Irish (Evelyn Conway) ; French (Mlle. Semone d'Herlys) ; Harlequin and Pierrot, in black (Beatrice Allen and Vera Maxwell). What We Eat: Watching the food you eat. Inspectors detailed by the New York Department of Health are constantly on the alert to detect any effort by merchants to sell decayed or polluted produce. Tons of condemned products are seized yearly and offenders are heavily fined. Subtitles: An entire shipload of worm-eaten macaroni confiscated. A powerful acid renders the macaroni unfit for sale. Destroying 1,500 tons of decayed pork and three tons of spoiled sauerkraut. Inspectors condemn the pork and destroy it with acid. Inspectors condemn 500 chickens, frozen to death in transit. Industries: A hospital for disabled ships. Hundreds of ocean vessels have been destroyed or damaged during the war. The disabled craft are repaired in this latest type of drydock. Subtitles : Prospective "patients" for the service stations. Hundreds of ships are "treated" here each year. A few of the army of employees engaged in the work. Towing a crippled liner to its berth. The drydock in action. A pontoon platform below the water is raised by powerful electrical machinery and carries the ship with it Formerly ships were placed in a giant basin from which the water was pumped. The new method saves time. Repairing a huge rent in the bow of the steamship "Acre." The giant propeller. Men easily crawl through the shaft tube. Scraping the hull in preparation for painting. Ships must be painted often to preserve plate. The recovered "patient" leaves the hospital. Art: Sculpture in clay. "Bobby," Universal City's lion actor, poses for Willie Hopkins, world's foremost modeler.
Top credits
- Beatrice Allen — Self
- Marjorie Cassidy — Self
- Edna Chase — Self
- Evelyn Conway — Self