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Doctor Hero 1962
Description
Titles read: "LONDON - DOCTOR HERO".
Hammersmith.
General view of Hammersmith (?) Hospital. Dr David Spencer is seen inside in a wheelchair with his wife. Commentator explains Dr Spencer is on his way home after sacrificing one of his kidneys, to be grafted into his colleague Dr Ian...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 53666
- Sort Number:
- 62/071
- Time in/Out:
- 01:55:43:00 / 01:56:29:00
- Canister:
- 62/71
- Film ID:
- 1729.12
- Issue Date:
- 03/09/1962
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