Box 3

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Different types of nystagmus are exhibited across five patients in this silent, black and white film. Intertitles describe each type of nystagmus, while the viewer is shown extreme close ups of involuntary eye movements.

From the Department of Otology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago Illinois.

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,...

Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic images of childbirth.Cut footage, outtakes, and retakes from Manual Rotation in the Management of Occiput Posterior and Transverse Positions. Spread across four reels of color, silent film. Reel one contains episiotomy and other birthing footage, as well as retakes of a doctor handling a pelvic model. Reel two shows different takes of forceps pulling on baby, a shot of an episiotomy wound sewn up, and a baby pulled from...

Scope and Contents Warning: graphic content of human cadaver.This silent, black and white film shows a demonstrator presenting anatomical features of the abdomen on a male cadaver. Intertitle cards and physical cards placed on the cadaver are used to identify the anatomical structures while the demonstrator shows it on the previously dissected cadaver using tools and his hands.Arranged by Howard B. Kellogg and William Windle, faculty members of Northwestern University Medical School, in...

Scope and Contents Warning: graphic content including footage of oral surgery performed on children.Silent, color film about the care of children’s teeth and preventive surgical measures that should be taken to ensure dental health in adulthood. Footage of surgeries includes display of the instruments used and preparation with alcohol swab and novocaine in addition to step-by-step demonstrations of the procedures with intertitle cards describing each step.Reel 1 includes: the removal of...

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This black and white sound film provides an overview of the human skeleton, detailing how groups of bones work together to provide movement and protection for organs. A model skeleton, footage of male aquatic athletes, and fluoroscopy are used.

Coronet instructional films, educational collaborator Barry J. Anson, PhD, Professor of Anatomy, Northwestern University Medical School.