ID

FBW001822      Short documentary

Country / Year

USA, 1955

Original Title

Tell Me Where It Hurts

Directed by

Stephen L. Sharff

Produced by

Hadassah, the Women's International Zionist Organisation of America, Inc., New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Hazel Greenwald; Script: Millard Lampell; Camera: Fred Csasznik; Editing: Stephen L. Sharff

Length

294,74 m / 26'52''

Format

16mm/farbe/1:1,37

Abstract

Depicts a family of newcomers to Bet Mazmil in Israel, whose troubles dissolve when the Hadassah Health Center teams seek them out and help them adjust to their new life.

Subject Terms

1950-1959; Immigrants; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America; Aid to refugees; Israel

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 294,74 m / 26'52''; 16mm

Bibliography

- Antonini, Josephine S.: Educational Film Guide. 1954-1958, New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1958
- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 CREDITS, over scenery
- 029 Beit Mazmil
- 042 Hadassah nurses, street scenes in village
- 112 New immigrant family arrives in village
- 175 Medical clinic at Beit Mazmil
- 222 Family casebook opened, clinic
- 300 Family undergoes complete medical examination
- 396 Other children in clinic receiving treatment
- 424 Medical staff conference, Dr. Kalman Mann and Dr. Jack Karpas
- 439 Immigrant family at home with caseworker
- 495 Medical conference
- 499 Father outside home with caseworker
- 516 Labor exchange in village
- 528 Manual labor in village, first school
- 549 School playground
- 556 Construction scenes
- 560 Staff conference
- 564 Children playing, girl has heart trouble
- 591 Conference
- 597 Parents and child told of need for care, scene of immigrant home
- 615 Jerusalem streets
- 636 Beit Hadegel Hospital
- 650 Interior of Beit Hadegel, preparations on girl, medical tests
- 686 Conference with mother and doctor
- 701 Ward scene at Ziv Hospital
- 719 Ward scene at Ziv Hospital, Arab child
- 728 Move to operating room
- 798 Waiting room, parents
- 808 Ward scene
- 818 Medical conference, Drs. Mann and Karpas
- 830 House scene
- 841 Father working at manual labor
- 848 Health center in Beit Mazmil on Tu B'Shvat, tree planting, Mrs Abraham Tulin of Hadassah and Dr. Kalman Mann
- 878 Ein Kerem, building scenes of hospital
- 946 Father in Beit Mazmil with family
- 967 END
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem