Dream Hospital (1950)

★★★★★ · Historical Information on Newsreel · Tom Debley · 2004-01-08

This is a very historic newsreel, shot in 1953. The location is Walnut Creek, California. The key figures in the footage are industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, co-founders of Kaiser Permanente, the largest not-for-profit health care delivery system in the U.S. The hospital here is one of three that were build in 1953 and 1954 in California -- Walnut Creek, Los Angeles and San Francisco. They were considered revolutionary, and drew international interest. In addition to this newsreel, the Walnut Creek hospital was the subject of a spread in Look Magazine and the…

★★★★ · Enjoyable newsreel clip · bread · 2006-10-01

I enjoyed this newsreel clip. I liked some of the new inventions they showed. If you are interested in hospitals you will probably enjoy this film.

★★★ · Dream Hospital · Christine Hennig · 2003-09-01

In this 40s newsreel story, we are shown an ultramodern hospital of the future, built by the Kaiser Foundation. Nurses submit charts through pneumatic tubes, patients get x-rayed on a huge moving table, new mothers pull their babies out of incubator drawers, and new fathers use an ultra-modern ashtray of the future. But the "answer to a doctor's prayer" is the swimming pool! That'll bring 'em in from the golf course. Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ***.