Outer Space Surgery
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Outer Space Surgery. DESCRIPTION: Pictures show an eye operation in progress in Birmingham. Demonstrating a new device - a stainless steel probe cooled by liquid nitrogen down to as low as minus 120 degrees centigrade. It can be used to remove a cataract or weld a detached retina back into place. SHOTLIST: MCU man places glass cap over steel probe and switches freezer on. MCU freezer dial. MCU probe under glass cap. MS surgeon operating. MCU ditto. CU ditto. LA ditto. MS doctor lifting probe off of freezer. MCU doctor wipes probe and hands to surgeon. CU surgeon using probe on patient’s eye. MS ditto. CU ditto. CU surgeon. CU surgeon cleaning patient’s eye. MCU surgeon and doctors. MS surgeon operating.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology
- Locations
- Birmingham
- Card file number
- 90479
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 119
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