Box 9

Scope and Contents Warning: graphic surgical content on live rabbits.A silent black and white and color film that details the reaction of the gall bladder of a rabbit to an injection of cholecystokinin (a peptide hormone), three subjects shown before and after injection. Two subjects shown to react favorably, gall bladder evacuates and contracts; a third subject did not react favorably, no contraction seen. Reasons for different reactions not given.Film by D. N. Danforth, H. Doubilet,...

Scope and Contents Warning: graphic surgical content, including head and neck surgery. A silent, color film in which a female and a male patient undergo surgery to remove a tumor of the parotid gland. Color illustrations and intertitle cards indicate incision location and the facial anatomy involved. The film ends with both patients showing their healed incisions. An adolescent male is shown as a third example of a post-surgical scar.Passed by the Committee on Medical Motion Pictures of...

Scope and Contents Raymond McNealy, MD diagrams the development of an inguinal hernia and surgical procedures on a chalkboard. Intertitle cards describe the processes and anatomy shown. Film glitches heavily, intertitle cards difficult to read, film ends abruptly.Passed by the Committee on Medical Motion Pictures of the American College of Surgeons.Film by Raymond W. McNealy, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. Presented through...

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A technique to test the vestibular apparatus of a man in his mid- to late 20s is demonstrated in this black and white, silent film. Cold water is injected into the man’s left ear canal with a syringe. Onset of nystagmus (rapid and involuntary eye movements) begins after about twenty seconds. Intertitles describe the procedure.

From the Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University Medical School.

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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.

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: 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: graphic content of surgical operations on research dogs.A silent black and white film detailing gallbladder reaction to injections of cholecystokinin. Apparatus for measuring gallbladder pressure used to record pressure movements in research dogs. Diagrams and close-up photography detail use of apparatus. Three research dogs given injections and observed through photography and x-ray, all subjects show gallbladder evacuation. Human subject with pericholecystitis also...

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Warning: graphic content of surgical operations on various research animals.

A grainy black and white silent film in which the vagus nerve is stimulated in three animals—a dog, a rabbit, and a cat—effects on stomachs and intestines are observed. Intertitle cards point out specific movements of note, such as peristalsis and segmentation.