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September 2017 467 C&RL News

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

The Washington University Libraries Film and  
Media Archive has received a grant from the 
National Film Preservation Foundation to pre-
serve Code Blue, a 1972 
recruitment film aimed 
at bringing minorities 
into the medical profes-
sion. Code Blue is one 
of the earliest existing 
films created by Henry 
Hampton’s Boston-
based documentary 
company Blackside Inc., 
which produced the 
Emmy Award-winning 
civil rights series Eyes 
on the Prize. Blackside 
became the largest Af-
rican American-owned 
film production company of its time and was 
home to many filmmakers from diverse back-
grounds, including African Americans, immi-
grants, and 
women. The 
2 7 - m i n u t e 
d o c u m e n -
tary includes 
footage from 
an emer-
gency room 
in Harlem, a 
tour through 
areas of 
N a s h v i l l e 
with a doc-
tor who did 
o u t r e a c h 
to poor families, and discussions with young 
men and women from different backgrounds 
who could explain the value of medical educa-
tion. Code Blue helped to bring new talent into 

Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann-
Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
agalloway@ala.org.

the medical field and was used in hundreds 
of high schools and medical training curricula 
nationwide for more than 20 years. The film 

won a CINE Golden Ea-
gle Award and was seen 
around the world, in-
cluding at film festivals 
as far away as Venice’s 
Festival dei Popoli. 

A c q u i s i t i o n s

Two historic paintings 
of early structures of 
Marietta, Ohio, have 
been acquired by the 
Legacy Library of Mari-

etta College. The City of Marietta, estab-
lished in 1788, was the first organized settle-
ment in the Northwest Territory following 

the adop-
tion of the 
N o r t h w e s t 
O r d i n a n c e 
by Con-
gress. The 
p a i n t i n g s 
of Campus 
Martius, by 
Charles Sul-
livan, and 
of Fort Har-
mar, attrib-
uted to Sala 
B o s w o r t h , 

were both created in the mid-1830s. Donated 
by two brothers in memory of their father, 
Frank Putnam Wilton, the recently conserved 
paintings had been in the family for several 
generations. The Wiltons are descendants of 
General Israel Putnam (of Revolutionary War 
fame) through Douglas Putnam, who was a 
founding trustee and secretary of the board 
of Marietta College. 

Film from Code Blue, a 1972 recruitment film 
aimed at bringing minorities into the medical 
field. 

A painting of early Marietta, Ohio, from the mid-1830s.