Spectacular World of Science and Medicine Through Cinematography
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WARNING: contains graphic scenes of medical operations.; Sponsored film that explores science and medicine through cinematography microphotography and medical photography. The film begins with footage of photomicrographs and ends with footage of surgical operations.
Credits
Loyola University of Chicago (producer); Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center (producer); Margaret Conneely (cinematographer)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Sponsor: National Heart and Lung Institute; Department of Health Education and Welfare
Subjects: Health; Medicine
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Maywood
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - ECU colorful textures of unknown objects, light changing colors, look like moving paintings; 01:33 - ECU moving organisms under a microscope; 02:01 - CU wand pointing over the internal workings of a transparent image [MRI?] of a human head [may be blood vessels, not sure type of medical image or parts within head]; 02:13 - HA MS doctors performing brain surgery, CU cutting incision with scalpel, lifting skin, cutting circular opening into skull bone, cutting open lining, ECU cutting around lining, lifting and isolating individual vessels [?] to be operated on, HA MS doctors operatiing; 07:05 - MS doctor standing beside a patient with head in MRI [?] machine, CU hanging images of brain from Loyola University Medical Center
Cfa elements: 300 feet, 1/2; 1,000 feet, 2/2
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2621; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2622
Sponsor: National Heart and Lung Institute; Department of Health Education and Welfare
Subjects: Health; Medicine
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Maywood
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - ECU colorful textures of unknown objects, light changing colors, look like moving paintings; 01:33 - ECU moving organisms under a microscope; 02:01 - CU wand pointing over the internal workings of a transparent image [MRI?] of a human head [may be blood vessels, not sure type of medical image or parts within head]; 02:13 - HA MS doctors performing brain surgery, CU cutting incision with scalpel, lifting skin, cutting circular opening into skull bone, cutting open lining, ECU cutting around lining, lifting and isolating individual vessels [?] to be operated on, HA MS doctors operatiing; 07:05 - MS doctor standing beside a patient with head in MRI [?] machine, CU hanging images of brain from Loyola University Medical Center
Cfa elements: 300 feet, 1/2; 1,000 feet, 2/2
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2621; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2622
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:06