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THE CINEMA IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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answered by accepting the first hypothesis, but not in other circumstances. Like all arts, surgery has always a personal touch to it, which is far from being unimportant, and we cannot think that teaching can be done by adapting one's ideas to those of another. Dr. de Feo has stated that there are over fifty motion pictures of operations for appendicitis, and there is nothing to be surprised at in this, because there are a great number of possibilities of variations of technique in this connection. For the purpose of teaching students, it is not advisable to vary the technique much. The picture should be made to follow the lines of how the operator ordinarily does the operation.
Otherwise, the picture will be more suitable for a student already acquainted with the technique, and be rather a finishing method than anything else. We have, as a matter of fact, such finishing schools already in use for men holding degrees, and they are generally frequented by surgeons anxious to learn the latest ideas m technique, especially foreign school technique.
Surgeons often visit other clinics and hospitals for this particular purpose, and also
to watch the latest developments. It is therefore logical that they should see operations on the screen, which system costs much less, is more convenient and more profitable, and will continue to be more so as the technique of the film improves.
It is therefore to be hoped that with this end in view exchanges of surgical motion pictures be encouraged among the various national and foreign schools, since films of this special character are naturally limited in number, and must belong to the major institutes.
The difficulties of spreading a didactic means, which is so important as this, depend less on technical than economic reasons.
If we teachers take the matter in hand, the solution of the problem ought not to be difficult, and it is hoped it will be solved in a short time. The sub-standard film is a step in the right direction. Under the auspices of the International Institute of Educational Cinematography, it ought not to be difficult to arrange a free or at least a semi-gratuitous exchange of films between the various best known scientific institutes, confining the matter for the time being to university schools and post-graduates courses.