Electronic Production of Coordinated Limb Movements
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 1: Technical Films
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content: 1 Film reel (color, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm; 285 feet; duration: approximately 6 minutes.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960
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content: Reel OF 222.8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Supported in part by a U.S.P.H.S. Grant #1-4462 and by the Ottinger Research Foundation. 


Credits: Adrian Kantrowitz, M.D. & Rene Khalif, M.D., Department of Surgery - Maimonides Hospital of Brooklyn and the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. Photography by Howard Friedman, BPA. 


Summary: Walking is a coordination of automatic movements of the muscles of the trunk and shoulders as well as the leg and foot. This experiment, shown on a dog, is concerned only with the basic motion of one leg. Electrodes are implanted in that leg. Conclusion: In an anesthetized dog we can perform a basic automatic walking motion which is completely under control.

Edgecode on film stock: 1968