JAV Bates clinical films.

12 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.

Sections comprise:

JAV1 Patient B pre-op

JAV2 Patient D

JAV3 Patient D

JAV4 Patient E

JAV5 Patient K

JAV6 Patient G

JAV7 Patient M

JAV8 Patient P

JAV9 Patient P

JAV10 Patient T

JAV11 Patient V

JAV12 Patient Z

Publication details: UK, No date.

In April 2006 these individual patient films were compiled onto a single digibeta master videotape. The patient names have been removed from the description.

These film reels have been transferred to video and DVD. Click here to view the catalogue record.

Digitised version can be found at GC/179/C/2/12a.

1950s-1960s

12 film reels

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.

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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.