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CU''S on the beautiful and mostly hopeful faces of refugee children in the Sudan (in a large food tent). A young girl stares into the camera, other children and adults sit on the ground behind her.
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| 01:00:19 19.9 |
Var. shots a lot of close ups of the refugee mothers of the Sudan in a food tent holding their babies, feeding them. They look hopeful but sad.
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| 01:01:09 69.58 |
Tilt down to the ground with metal food bowls and red plastic drinking containers
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| 01:01:17 77.82 |
Sign on the entrance to the tent for the "IRC Clinic" (the International Rescue Committee).
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| 01:01:21 81.12 |
WS pans of the gigantic IRC Clinic tent full of African refugees. Tables with large containers, the refugee families sit together on cots spread out throughout the large tent.
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| 01:01:47 107.83 |
An American female doctor, talks with an unseen reporter inside the tent - she states she's been at the tent for a few months since it opened - refugees in bkgd.
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| 01:02:04 124.74 |
Tilt down on a pathetic emaciated baby hooked up to a tube, its mother sits on the cot and fans her child. The female worker states that the children are so ill, many with illnesses like pneumonia that they had before arriving at the tent, They won't eat so they are fed through tubes.
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| 01:02:36 157 |
Var. A male doctor tends to patients, a feeding tube attached to a malnourished baby lying in a cot. The doctor states that when the children are severely ill they aren't interested in eating. He points out the electric tape used to attach the tape to the child due to the shortages. The female doctor unseen states they are very short of NG Tubes (Feeding tubes) as well and they need their nutrition otherwise they can't get well.
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| 01:03:07 187.07 |
CU a feeding tube bag filled with liquid nourishment.
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| 01:03:23 203.73 |
Various shots of the sick and hungry refugees in the IRC Clinic tent. A young woman asleep on her cot, some children eating, a baby lying on his cot, mothers with their malnourished children coughing, .
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| 01:03:58 239 |
CU a female child sits next to her mom on a cot and coughs and can't catch her breath. CU of the sad child struggling, her mom holds her close.
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| 01:04:44 284.83 |
Tilt down on another child lying on a cot alone wrapped in a burlap blanket, her hands cover her face.
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| 01:05:00 300.16 |
Various other shots in the tent of sad, malnourished African children and families. Graphic shots of the sick children.
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| 01:05:36 336.64 |
CU on the face of a young boy, flies on his ears, lips and ears. And a tiny child wrapped in n a blanket, eyes closed, flies on its face and a tube attached with electric tape due to the shortages.
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| 01:06:12 372.68 |
A young African mother with baby in her arms, the Clinic doctors examine the baby with a stethoscope. CU on the face of the beautiful baby and hand holding the steth to its chest.
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| 01:07:34 454.1 |
Ws of the clinic, the female IRC doctor helps with discharge paperwork. She states they have people who are being discharged but won't go home until the sun goes down.
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| 01:09:14 554.88 |
The female IRC doctor talks with an unseen interviewer about a specific baby she had examined and talks about the underlying conditions of the baby, malnourishment, dehydration. She states this is typical of the patients referred to the IRC Clinic - they are too sick to eat. She talks about coping with the devastating death and illness and states that after awhile you get used to it and separate yourself from it. She talks about the frustrations of the shortages of food and medicine.
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The male doctor in the IRC tent is interviewed by unseen interviewer. He talks about the reason he's there - that he enjoys doing refugee work, the medicine, and the time well spent. He talks about coping by keeping focused and thinking about what they can do and how they can get around what they can't do. He states he is busy thinking about how they can identify the people who have very marginal nutrition before they end up there and states it's very easy to keep his mind fully occupied and busy. He talks about a heartbreaking case in Thailand where he he cared for a lady for 6 weeks ,then later found out she relapsed and died - he still thinks about her.
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Year: 1980-1989
Color: Color
Genre: AFRICA
Specialty CollectionGenre: AFRICA
Description: Sudan Hunger Crisis - African refugees seek help at an IRC Clinic (International Rescue Committee). A camera follows the IRC workers and doctors around the clinic as they tend to the extremely malnourished babies and children. Graphic shots of sick and malnourished children.
Keywords: Sudan
