Synopsis
New York City street scenes with pedestrians and children in playgrounds, then driving shots from atop an ambulance with its light flashing. A patient is taken into an emergency room and wheeled down a corridor, seen from the gurney, followed by surgery and the delivery of a baby.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Pay No Attention To The Flickering Light · Spuzz · 2012-07-09
Narrated (of course!) by Burgess Meredith, 'Dialogue With Life' is a rather general trip through the modern wonders of medicine and how it it's making people live longer lives because of it. From birth, to adolescence, the common doctor is not now purveyor of doom, as the film hammered over and over again by indicating the hospital was a place to die at one point.. and now it's a place to get well. **REVIEW UPDATE** Since my initial review back in September 2003, I got a chance to finally see the 2nd half, and let me tell you, it's the second half when things get going here. This half focuses…