Resuscitation from Drowning and Electrical Shock (1922/1923 )

This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English This film instructs the viewer in the correct technique for resuscitating victims of drowning and electrocution. The first intertitle reads: “The Prone Pressure Method is endorsed by leading Medical, Engineering and Public Utility Organizations“. The film uses a dramatization in a swimming pool to demonstrate resuscitation: one woman flounders in the water as another swims towards her; the victim is towed to