The mid-brain infant (normal infants and titles).

Date:
1960
Reference:
GC/179/C/3/4
Part of:
Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club
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About this work

Description

This footage was created for J.A.V. Bates' re-edit in London, 1960, of neurologist Eduard Gamper's original 1925 film made in Innsbruck. The film has the footage of normal infants and then Bates' handwritten intertitles and a medical illustration of the brain stem.

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Publication/Creation

1960

Physical description

1 film reel 1 film reel; 16 mm. Negative.

Biographical note

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.

Notes

A digital copy of the original film with finished intertitles has been created reference: 0055-0000-7008-0000-0-0000-0000-0

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