Sponsored Films

Working and Playing to Health (1953)
Sponsors: Mental Health Film Board; Illinois Dept. of Public Welfare. Production Co.: Affiliated Film Producers. Director: Willard Van Dyke. Camera: Kevin Smith. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 35 minutes.

Institutional profile of Manteno State Hospital in Illinois. Produced for health care workers, Working and Playing to Health shows the mental hospital’s occupational, recreational, and industrial therapy programs. One of the largest facilities of its kind in the United States, in 1953 it treated some 7,900 patients with illnesses ranging from schizophrenia to Parkinson’s disease.

Note: Received a Golden Reel Award from the American Film Assembly in 1954. For more about the hospital, see the Manteno Project.

Resources
Unsigned review, Physical Education and Rehabilitation 26 (Feb. 1955): 52; Educational Film Guide (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1954–58), 349.