RAF Mae West. Normal floating position.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949]
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Description

This is a clinical film showing experiments on an anaesthetised male subject in order to test the 'righting behaviour' of different life jackets / buoyancy aids in a swimming pool. The experiments took place during WWII. This version is NOT preceded with intertitles and the beginning sequence is quite scratched.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]

Physical description

1 Digibeta (09:30 mins) : silent, black and white; PAL.
1 VHS (09:30 mins) : silent, black and white; PAL.
1 DVD (09:30 mins) : silent, black and white; PAL.

Contributors

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Nuffield

Notes

Conservation and access copies made from the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.

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    4196S

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    4196D

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