Donnie
Film Identifier: F.2014-06-0013
Part Of: Jerome L. Schulman Collection
Run Time
0h 20m 30s
0h 20m 30s
Format
16mm
16mm
Color
Color
Color
Sound
Optical
Optical
Date Produced
1976
1976
Abstract
A short film about a 2-1/2 year old child named Donnie, who spent years in a pediatric intensive care unit. The film considers his personality development, the impact on the family and the social issues raised by the hospitalization. A follow-up film to this title - "Mostly I Can Do More Things Than I Can't" (1983) - also resides within the Jerome Schulman Collection.
Doctors Allen Goldberg (then the Director of Respiratory Care at Chicago Memorial Hospital) and C. Everett Koop (who worked at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) created the first program to send children on mechanical ventilators home. Donnie was one of their patients, and the work this film captures led to changes in public policy which defined and funded current programs for Children with Special Needs that benefit children with disabilities and their families today.
A short film about a 2-1/2 year old child named Donnie, who spent years in a pediatric intensive care unit. The film considers his personality development, the impact on the family and the social issues raised by the hospitalization. A follow-up film to this title - "Mostly I Can Do More Things Than I Can't" (1983) - also resides within the Jerome Schulman Collection.
Doctors Allen Goldberg (then the Director of Respiratory Care at Chicago Memorial Hospital) and C. Everett Koop (who worked at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) created the first program to send children on mechanical ventilators home. Donnie was one of their patients, and the work this film captures led to changes in public policy which defined and funded current programs for Children with Special Needs that benefit children with disabilities and their families today.
Description
Awarded the Cine Golden Eagle (CINE Film Festival)
Awarded the Cine Golden Eagle (CINE Film Festival)
Main Credit
Shanahan, Richard (is director)
Schulman, Jerome L. (is producer)
Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill.) (corporate name)
Additional Credit
Bloomquist, Dick (is editor)
Fink, Peter, M.D. (is contributor)
Jewell, Steven, M.D. (is contributor)
Kinzie, Nan (sound)
Schullman, Mary (is contributor)
Schullman, Hal (is cinematographer)
Schulman, Martha (is contributor)
Stiman, Jean (is contributor)
Vaughn, Carol (is contributor)
Actors, Performers and Participants
Wartenberg, Donnie (is participant)
Schulman, Jerome L. (is participant)
Wartenberg, Don (is participant)
Wartenberg, Betty (is participant)
Vaughn, Carol (is participant)
O'Flynn, Margaret, M.D. (is participant)
Temple, Palmer (is participant)
Form
Related Place
Chicago (production location of)