Silent by The National Library of Medicine

Blood Vessels and their Function [Silent] (J. Sarnoff, Bray Productions, 1925)

The functions of the blood vessels are discussed. A post-mortem specimen of the heart, great vessels, kidneys, uterus, ureters, and adnexa is shown with the heart pulsating. Diagrams with moving arrows illustrate blood flow. Blood flow through the arteries and veins is shown cinemicrographically. Animated graphics illustrate oxygen, carbon dioxide, and cell waste movement. A physician is shown feeling the radial pulse. A male model, nude to the waist and with a pulsating heart photographically superimposed on his chest, has his chest listened to by a physician with a stethoscope.

Facial Paralysis (Columbia University Department of Neurology, 1946)

This film addresses facial paralysis and is likely meant for an audience of medical students. It begins by following the facial nerve on diagrams of the brain and skull, labeling specific parts of the brain, including but not limited to the thalamus, caudatum, putamen, pallidum, cerebral penduncle, chorda tympani, and ganglion sphenopalatium. The film then shows a series of patients, each of whom has varying degrees of facial paralysis and disorders including Bill's Phenomenon, Peripheral Palsy, Nuclear Facial Palsy, and Central Facial Palsy.

Construction work, NIH Clinical Center (NIH, 1951?)

This film consists entirely of footage shot during the construction of the foundation of the NIH Clinical Center. There are no legends, no sound, and no film title. Excavation of the hole has progressed to the point where wooden supports are being erected at the perimeter of the hole. Workmen are seen carrying lumber, hammering nails, driving earth-moving equipment, and walking around the work site. Part of the foundation has been prepared to the point where forms are in place for the pouring of cement. The camera pans around the site which includes sheds and automobiles.

An Experimentally Produced "Social Problem" in Rats (O. H. Mowrer, 1939)

This film is a demonstration of how social situations pattern behavior in rats. The film shows a competitive food-obtaining situation in which rats develop sharing or altruistic behavior. It also shows a situation in which competitive behavior becomes increasingly severe instead of developing into sharing. Displaced aggression, hoarding, and other socially significant behaviors are shown.

Competition and Dominance Hierarchies in Rats (O.H. Mowrer, J.S. Kornreich, Isabelle Yoffe, 1940)

This film shows experiments on competition and dominance hierarchies in rats. From an economy of abundance, rats are put into situations where competition for food is essential. At first the rats behave very similarly; they compete but do not fight. When insufficient food for their complete satisfaction is given, savage fighting develops. A definite dominance hierarchy (i.e., dominant, intermediate, subordinate) soon emerges. Personality typing based on this kind of social experience seems to be relatively permanent.

Animal Studies in the Social Modification of Organically Motivated Behavior (O.H. Mowrer, 1938)

This film is a demonstration of how social situations pattern behavior in rats. The film shows a competitive food-obtaining situation in which rats develop sharing or altruistic behavior. It also shows a situation in which competitive behavior becomes increasingly severe instead of developing into sharing. Displaced aggression, hoarding, and other socially significant behavior are shown.