An Efficient Substitute - Artificial Limbs AKA Veteran Fitted With Artificial Limb C 1916 (1916)

This film probably dates from around 1916. A veteran who has had an amputation has an artificial leg fitted. The wooden leg is first seen in a vice. It has a boot on the foot and looks quite bizarre. C/U of the leg being fitted. Strings are pulled and straps fastened. Disabilities; medical aids, artificial limbs. Note: there is a flash-frame title which reads: “An efficient substitute. Modern science supplies artificial limbs almost equal to nature.“ FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to