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All articles filed in anatomy

Frank Armitage Drawing
Educational & Instructional Animation Color SoundJanuary 23, 2019January 6, 2020

Informative Beauty

By Oliver Gaycken, PhD

The archival record is mostly silent on the origins of this short film produced and narrated by Frank Armitage, a medical illustrator who also worked as a Disney animator and mural artist, and whose work demonstrates the rare beauty of medical art. By tracing Armitage’s career, we can contextualize and elucidate Anatomical Animation.

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The Human Body
Educational & Instructional Animation Black & White SilentJuly 8, 2015January 15, 2020

“Stronger and Whiter Light Down Deeper and Darker Holes”: Jacob Sarnoff and the Strange World of Anatomical Filmmaking

By Miriam Posner, PhD

As a historian of medicine’s visual culture, I’ve seen some weird films. But The Blood Vessels and Their Functions (1924–1925) still took me aback.

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A group of women and childrensit on woven matting watching a projection outdoors. The Films of Telford Work, by Dwight Swanson

“He trudged everywhere loaded with a tripod and 16mm Bolex cameras, documenting epidemiological events as they unfolded ‘as a journalist does in a notebook’.” These evocative words by Dr. Telford Work’s research partner and wife, Martine Jozan, allow the mind’s eye to imagine Dr. Work’s devotion both to science and to the craft of filmmaking. The National Library of Medicine is home to 83 films created by virologist Telford H. Work documenting his life’s work and travels. The films supplement Work’s manuscript collection, which covers his education, career, hobbies, and achievements. Captured between 1942 and 1988, the films were primarily shot on 16mm film, with video copies made later. Although some of Work’s California wildlife films were donated to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Work’s widow Martine Jozan, MD, Ph.D. (also a virologist) donated the vast majority of the material to the NLM in a series of gifts between 1999 and 2006.  His film Reconnaissance for Yellow Fever in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan was previously the subject of a “Medicine on Screen” essay by Paul Theerman.

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A woman in a sari and a man in a tie and shirtsleeves smile at three children on a swing. Happy Families (1968)
Set in Singapore, this film dramatically presents the personal, family, and national implications of too many pregnancies and too many children born. One woman dies after a botched abortion and another takes her own life, both unable to cope with an additional pregnancy when multiple children already need care at home. Another mother whose children are grown lives a lonely life, having neglected her marital relationship in order to raise a large number of children. These situations are contrasted with calm, contented families that have only two or three children, well-spaced. The biggest family of all is "the state," which cannot succeed in providing jobs, education, and housing for its people if stressed by overpopulation. Learn more about the collection on Circulating Now.

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