Joint heart-lung transplantation project.

Date:
1966
  • Film

About this work

Description

This silent colour film opens with an intertitle on a door which opens to reveal an operation in progress. The opening credits are 'British Heart Foundation and Royal Veterinary College'. The film follows the pattern of the heart beating in the open chest, the heart being removed, the heart operating independently, an ECG, the heart in operation in the chest cavity with the ECG and stop watch in view.

Publication/Creation

UK, 1966.

Physical description

2 film reels (5 min. each) : silent, colour, 16 mm

Contributors

Copyright note

Unknown.

Notes

Copy 1; the colour is stable but the film is warped. Copy 2; excellent condition (originally labelled Longmore 7 and Royal Society of Medicine Per 56973).
Mr. D. B. Longmore was Papworth Hospital's consultant in clinical physiology in 1968 when the first heart transplant was perfomed in the UK.

Creator/production credits

Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, Professor E.C. Amoroso, Mr D. B. Longmore

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Where to find it

  • Location Access
    Closed stores
    5215F
    		 Can't be requested

    Note

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    5215F COPY TWO
    		By appointmentManual request

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