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1950s Innovative Childcare Gadget

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Channel: Kinolibrary · 2013 · Entertainment

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00:54:06:14 INT, DAY, Budapest, hospital nursery. A baby looks to camera as it is lying in cot. VO '...playful prediction from Budapest.' The baby is lying on top of a curve-edged tray which rises, with the baby cradled, into the air and is lifted out of frame. A nurse in uniform sits in front of a purpose built desk with a control panel built in, VO 'a nurse at a central control panel will be able to manage a whole brigade of babies and the tykes will spend happy, antiseptic infancies untouched by human hands.' Camera shows the baby being lowered back into the crib, the strings are visible in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The tray breaks in half releasing the baby back into the crib and the pieces fly away out of shot. The baby blanket moves over the baby, VO 'they'll even be tucked into their cribs by remote control.' 
00:54:25:07 CU nurses hands press buttons on control panel beneath large letters which light up, referring to the different cribs, the buttons also flash. CU baby in crib, without blanket, has legs in the air, a bottle of milk is lowered on strings which the baby clutches between its legs and pulls towards him to drink. VO 'bringing up baby by push button, a grandiose conception indeed, but there is one flaw apparent in this brave new world, after the bottle how are they going to burp 'em.' CU baby's face as he drinks from the bottle. 
00:54:38:18 ENDS

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