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A silent, color film in which various faces look straight ahead while a hand inserts an unknown instrument into subjects’ ears. Subjects do not appear in discomfort or pain. Film is dark and difficult to discern what is happening. It ends abruptly.

Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic surgical footage. An endoscopic motion picture camera provides an up close view of a stapes mobilization surgery in this silent, color film. Intertitles are used to describe the procedure. The stapes, or stirrup bone, is not only the smallest bone in the human ear, but the smallest bone in the human body. The surgery is recommended as a preliminary to fenestration.By George E. Shambaugh, Jr., MD, Eugene L. Derlacki, MD, and Wiley H. Harrison,...