Motion pictures for instruction (1926)

410 MOTION PICTURES FOR INSTRUCTION Reel 3 — The Engine Reel 4 — The Engine (Concluded) Reel 5 — The Carburetor THE HUMAN BODY Statement (Condensed) from the Producers "The Human Body" prepared by Jacob Sarnoff, M.D., associate in the Department of Anatomy in the Long Island Medical College. Made originally in connection with Dr. Sarnoff 's work at the Long Island Medical College, the pictures were prepared for specific educational purposes. As their success in classroom work was demonstrated, they were reedited and enlarged for general educational use. "For the first time the attempt is made to utilize human dissection for general anatomical and physiological instruction. This would be obviously impossible in any other way than through the motion pictures. Dissection is supplemented by animated drawings to reveal hidden processes and functions and by mammalian organs functioning in actual ]if e. By the Pneumo-Viscera method, originated by the author to demonstrate the organs of the body by inflating them with air, much that is obscure even in ordinary laboratory dissection is made plain." A brief synopsis from the producers of this five reel series follows : Reel 1 — The Digestive Tract. Animated drawings portray the entire digestive tract, and the relation of the different organs to each other. Actual dissection of the human abdomen shows the anatomical arrangements of these organs. Then animation demonstrates the passage of food from the mouth through the gullet, stomach and small and large intestines. Reel 2 — A Respiratory System. Animated drawings first show the location and inter-relation of the respiratory organs. Then dissection and demonstration by the Pneumo-Viscera method of the lungs as they