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This lecture was one of several events held in 2019 to celebrate the centennial of Houston Methodist Hospital. Several speakers honored the legacy of Dr. Michael DeBakey, a world-renowned cardiologist who was instrumental in the development of the hospital and its cardiology unit. Speakers include Marc L. Boom, MD, Michael J. Reardon, MD, Craig A. Miller, MD, and William L. Winters Jr., MD. Dr. Miller presented the main portion of the lecture in his talk Through a Distant Lens: Images of the Life of Michael E. DeBakey, MD, followed by a question and answer session.

This film describes the history, the facilities, and the inner workings of the National Library of Medicine. It also shows part of the 1961 dedication ceremony for the original Bethesda building and of a Board of Regents meeting. Speakers include Dr. Worth B. Daniels and Senators Abraham Ribicoff and Lister Hill. Dr. Michael Debakey is seen in the audience during the ceremony. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8600194A.

Artist-animator-medical illustrator Frank Armitage combines footage from his professional medical animations with historical images to provide a lecture about the history of anatomical illustration, as well as the present-day (circa 1970) uses of anatomical animation in medical film. Why the film was made or where it was presented is unknown: no title or credits appear. Armitage had then recently worked on the set-design for the film Fantastic Voyage as well as on animation for surgical instruction films and Walt Disney studios.

Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Connections: Personal and Professional Reflections on Gene Kelly's 1945 Film "Combat Fatigue Irritability," an interview at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Interviewers: Jeffrey S. Reznick, Chief, History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine; and Michael J. Sappol, Historian, History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

This instructional video will walk you through the installation and deinstallation of traveling exhibitions from the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, 2013.

This film is a start-to-finish record of the dedication ceremonies for the new building of the National Library of Medicine that were held on December 14, 1961. Dr. Worth Daniels was the master of ceremonies. He introduced a clergyman who gave the invocation. Daniels then read a message from President John F. Kennedy and introduced a number of dignitaries in the audience and on the podium. This was followed by brief remarks by Frank B. Rogers, then NLM director, and by Abraham Ribicoff, then Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Filmed in the Lister Hill Center Auditorium at NLM, speakers introduce and address Dr. Donald Lindberg as the new director of the National Library of Medicine, the swearing-in ceremony takes place, and Dr. Lindberg gives a brief address to the audience about trends affecting NLM and about his own priorities. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101629547.

Changing the Face of Medicine presents Dr. Eliza Ann Grier, a former slave who went on to become the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Georgia.

Celebrates the 175th anniversary of the founding of the institution that would become the National Library of Medicine. Starting with the swearing-in of Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, then looking back, the video traces the development of the library from the days of Dr. John Shaw Billings in the late 1800s through the establishment of the National Center for Biotechnology Infomation in 1988 and beyond to its accomplishments through 2011.

This short video presents a montage of still images and captions from the 2017 book US National Library of Medicine, authored by Jeffrey Reznick, Kenneth Koyle, and other NLM staff, part of the Images in America series, and published in 2017 by Arcadia Publishing of Charleston, South Carolina.