JAV Bates. Box 9 Reels 141-182.

A compilation of short pre-operative and post-operative neurological films featuring adults and children displaying a range of different physiological movements from gross activities such as walking, standing and sitting to finer activities such as creating facial expressions and maniuplating objects. The films may have been made during Bates' time at the Neurological Research Unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Contains extremely sensitive material throughout including scenes containing patient nudity.

In April 2009 these individual patient films were compiled onto a film reel. The patient names have been removed from the description.

Sections comprise:

Film 141 Patient A (w) post-op.

Film 142 Patient A (w) pre-op. Undecipherable walking to... undecipherable 16.2.59

Film 143 Patient A (w) at op.

Film 144 Patient A (w) pre-op. Undecipherable walking to... undecipherable 16.2.59

Film 145 Patient A26.2.60

Film 146 Patient B 26 Sept '56 (Whittington). Undecipherable Ep. Part. Contenant.

Film 147 Patient B (w) at op.

Film 148 Patient B (w) pre 2nd op.

Film 149 Patient B (w) at 2nd op.

Film 150 Patient B 1.3.60

Film 151 Patient C (female sign) 12 Ep. Wt Carotid injection of Sal. Amytal and John J (undecipherable)

Film 152 Patient C 59882 29.1.60

Film 153 Patient E Huntington Chorea (no op).

Film 154 Patient G 8841 13.10.50

Film 155 Patient H (bilat, idio?) at op.

Film 156 Patient H pre and post op copy.

Film 157 Patient H k 3rd op 26.6.59

Film 158 Patient H 67924 6.3.59 attempt at 2nd side

Film 159 Patient H at op (Camera Druj?

Film 160 Patient J 1st op 22/3/60

Film 161 Patient K (w) (Bilat. idio) pre-op

Film 162 Patient K 83583 29.5.59

Film 163 Patient K (Bilat idio) at op.

Film 164 Patient L 82961 at op. 6.2.59

Film 165 Patient L 16.1.59

Film 166 Patient L at oop. Rt Post Ehc Taken 1.11.58 [NO FILM IN BOX].

Film 167 Patient M 83680 30.1.59

Film 168 Patient O 1st op 29.12.59

Film 169 Patient O 2nd op 29.12.59

Film 170 Patient R (w) Ep Spontaneous adversine fits

Film 171 Patient R at op.

Film 172 Patient S 82491 at op 30.1.59

Film 173 Patient S pre op and post op. Handling pencils.

Film 174 Patient W Cortext and capule 11.3.53 [NO FILM IN BOX].

Film 175 Patient W (1) 84797 at op 20.3.59

Film 176 Dr P. W. [MISSING].

Film 177 Patient W (Dr Patterson ?) 25.3.55 Rt 1/2 Pl.

Film 178 Patient W 84245 at op 27.2.59

Film 179 Whittington cases Carotid Thrombosis, BP raising

Film 180 Whittington Ep Antonation Feb 57 Female Sign 4

Film 181 Whittington [MISSING].

Film 182 Capsular Movements.? (six words removed) for 1/2 ? ? Thrift (the wpring toe cathuter female sign. ? Good enough taken from Queen Square Centre (?) Nov 58 when preparing chaplth (?) undecipherable March 59.

Film 183 Torticollis (pre op) [MISSING].

Publication details: UK, no date.

1956-1960

1 film reel

John A.V. Bates was born in 1918 and died in 1993. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge and underwent his clinical training at University College Hospital, London. In 1946 he was part of the External Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council based at the Neurological Research Unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London, where he worked until he retired in 1978. Much of Bates' research work was in the field of neurophysiology where he coined the term 'voluntary movement.' He was the founder of the Ratio Club, a group of young physiologists, mathematicians and engineers who met to discuss cybernetics. Bates was a member of the Physiological Society from 1949, a member of the Electroencephalography Society (now the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology), serving as President between 1976-8 and the Association of British Neurologists.

All J. A. V. Bates material was handed to Moving Image and Sound Collection; the individual patient reels which were boxed alphabetically have been compiled onto larger reels for conservation. Some of the loose reels are separate as Bates may have used these for teaching purposes.

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