Learning on ScreenSeeing The Invisible: Cold Heart
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Novel forms of photography that are making our society safer, is the theme of this week’s programme. Infra-red cameras, activated by heat rather than light. Image intensifiers that can boost low light levels, allowing us to see defects that were once invisible. A way of revealing unexpected dangers in the jet engine; in high voltage power cables and providing an instant check after heart surgery. Open heart surgery for bypass operations have become commonplace. But until now, surgeons could never see whether their work had been a complete success: only time could tell. But by injecting a cold saline solution into the heart and photographing it with a heat camera, the invisible has become visible. One trauma of heart surgery has been removed.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Photography; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/256
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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