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THE latc5t movie star is the surgeon. He is appearing before clinical movie audiences throughout the country and demonstrating important operations to classes of medical students in obscure communities. The above picture shove's the motion picture equipment in position over the table in an operating room of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, just after the camera had filmed the heart, lungs and oracle action of a tvk-enty-pound bull-dog. The combined candle-po>ver of the four
great arcs used for the filming was reported to be 7,200,000.
Motion Pictures Enter the Clinic
It was certain to come — leading surgeons declare the film invaluable in physical reconstruction, particularly use of the "slow motion" camera.
BUSINESS men were the first to find the moving picture a useful ser\ant to sell their wares, from pills to tractors and steamships. EkJucators have found the screen of great value in "sugar coating" otherwise dr> lessons in geography and physics. Now medicine has taken hold and many wonderful things are being done by the worlds leading physicians in the field of visualization. Not alone in teaching surger>', which might be the most obvious use of films in medicine, but in diagnosis has the screen taken its place importantly.
Quite recently, a member of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City happened into a Manhattan picture palace. He saw there one of the new
By Jonas Howard
FILMS have proven to be of great value in rehabilitating soldiers wounded in the war. The government agencies devoted to rehabilitation have been supplied with films and small projection machines and at the various base hospitals, these films are being resulariy used by the surgeons and experts in charge. Perhaps among the most notable instances of utility o( films in medical circles was practised by the famous Doctor Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute. His operatitjns of the most marvelous character, performed in the war hospitals of France, were filmed in detail and these picture records will soon be available in the United States for civilian practitioners. One of these films shov/s Dr. Carrel removing a piece of shrapnel imbedded in the heart of a soldier. Another depicts the method by which a soldier's face, blown almost off, is remodeled back to human semblance again.
slow-motion film.., produced by Pathe and depicting a baseball player sliding base at a speed fifty times slower than in real life. It so happened that this doctor had that day spent many hours trying to diagnose a puzzling case of limb deformity sufferetl by one of the patients in the college. He was struck by the wonderful possibi ities of the new slow motion films and the next day went to Randoijih Lev !s of Pathe He said he believed that the slow motion films, made of the patient under his care, would tell him quickly what parti( u'ar muscle or ligament needed an operation in order to rectify the patients limp. Arrangements were made at once to film the "case." The patient was made to walk before the camera. Five hundred feet of nega
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