Learning on ScreenSoviet Surgeons Sew It Up
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Soviet Surgeons Sew It Up. DESCRIPTION: Seen here demonstrating some fascinating new instruments used by Soviet surgeons, Professor Romashov, who is visiting London with a trade mission. They’ve been taking big strides forward in the techniques of heart surgery, and these instruments have been developed to speed up and improve the suturing, or stitching up of blood vessels. Metal staples are used in place of the old needle-and-thread. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU pan - new instruments. CU Professor Romashov. CU pins taken from box. CU same being placed in jaws of instrument. LS tube placed in jaws of instrument. CU same. CU clamp being operated. CU runner tube joined. CU Professor Romashov. CU threading rubber through second instrument. CU Professor Romashov. CU threading rubber. CU Professor Romashov. CU threading other end of rubber through instrument. CU Professor Romashov. CU places the two ends together and joining them. CU Professor Romashov. CU opening the instrument and showing the joined ends. (This is a new method to join severed blood vessels, metal staples are used in place of needle and thread).
- Keywords
- Health and medicine
- Locations
- London; Balham; St James Hospital
- Card file number
- 85959
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 99
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