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Michael Sappol--historian at the National Library of Medicine ,  author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies , and curator of Dream Anatomy - -just shared news of a mysterious film in his Library's collection. This 1933 film contains, in the Library's own words, "an autopsy, perhaps the first ever performed before a motion picture camera. On screen, a bespectacled man in a white coat happily cuts open an unidentified dead man, chatting all the while with students and colleagues..." You can watch the film (probably NSFW) above. The full description of the film follows; you can also read a post about it on the Circulating Now blog. Herr Professor Doktor Jakob Erdheim Search the transcript 1933 / 5:16 Film fragment, no producer, no director, Vienna, Austria Silent, black-and-white. Sometime in the last century a fragment of silent film landed at the National Library of Medicine. How it got there is a mystery: no paperwork survives to tell the tale; no other prints of the fi...

Our good friend Michael Sappol--author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies , curator of Dream Anatomy , and historian at the National Library of Medicine-- just alerted us to a rare 1957 film about conjoined twins produced by the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow that has recently been digitized by the National Library of Medicine. Full details on the film follow, and a few stills from the film can be found above. You can view the film in its entirety above (click play on top image) or at Medical Movies on the Web by clicking here . In 1957, the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow released an unusual motion picture, Neural and Humoral Factors in the Regulation of Bodily Functions (Research on Conjoined Twins) (Исследования на неразделившихсия близнетсах). The Russian-language film was never widely circulated and is extremely rare: today the only accessible copy can be found in the historical audiovisuals collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The 45 minute movie...