Scenes from the Dorcas Ward of Old St Thomas' Hospital

Описание: Scenes from The Dorcas Ward

Once you are standing in the operating theatre situated in the roof of St Thomas’ Church, you may start to wonder how the patients were brought into the space. It is a question we are often asked at the Museum. It wasn’t up the spiral staircase in the bell-tower, as this would have only been used by the bell-ringers when the church still had a bell. Instead, patients would have already been in the female ward of St Thomas’ Hospital, the Dorcas Ward.

The Dorcas Ward was just next door to the theatre space at the same level on the second floor. A doorway connected the two spaces.

This short film allows us to take a peek into what might have happened in the Dorcas Ward leading up to an operation.

Cast:
Ward Sister : Lauree R Stephens
Patient : Xinqian Li
Surgeon : Angel Chobanov
Medical students : Pete Goding & Mukhtar Moalin
Porters : Pete Goding & Mukhtar Moalin

Production:
Director, Produced & Editor : Charlie Murphy
Production Assistant : Yutong Sun
Camera : Shona Goolab
Camera Assistant : Leo Little
Hair & Makeup : Lauree Stephens
Production support : Leo Little, Nicole Mojta & Shona Goolab
Greenscreen studio & Technical Support : Phil Hollins & Dave Hallett, Moving Image Dept
Kingston School of Art

With thanks to:
Kingston School of Art Moving Image Dept.
BA Photography, Architecture & Drama undergraduate students
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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