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This is an unique and historically valuable film depicting the important medical aid that the Frontier Nursing Service provided in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. The Service provided child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health, and emergency surgery for poor, mountain people. Film shows patients' and nurses' cabins, children, town, and gives flavor of their lives, language, and problems.

This silent film advocates leading a healthy, productive life and recommends particular rules to make this so. These include: good mental habits, a contented mind, proper reading and entertainment, Sunday school, and church. Bodily cleanliness, fresh air, sleep, and exercise are advised. Girls are seen playing tennis, roller skating, and swimming. Good posture is advised and demonstrated by girls in bathing suits. The need for sunlight is stressed. Children are advised to cross streets carefully and respect policemen. The duties of the local health department are outlined as well.

Cinefluorography shows chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, and carcinoma at the lesser curvature and advanced carcinoma in the upper part of the stomach. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8701015A Learn more about the National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films

A Rediscovered Cancer Film of the Silent Era This version has been modified with the addition of a sound track, titles, and credits. In 1921 the American Society for the Control of Cancer released The Reward of Courage. The film, a silent melodrama, was designed to persuade viewers to visit a physician for regular checkups and at the first sign of the disease.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.