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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE

1972-0113

Film

Man Is a Universe

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1954

National Film Board

director/scenario, Ronald Weyman; producer, Nicholas Balla; photography, Hector Lemieux; sound, Joseph Champagne; Clarke Daprato; editing, Fergus McDonell; sound editing, William Greaves; narrator, John Drainie; music, Robert Fleming

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This film reveals, in layman's language, something of the progress made at the Montreal Neurological Institute in un-ravelling the mysteries of the human brain and nervous system. It show some of the highly complex equipment used in neurological research and diagnosis, and follows a brain operation performed on an epileptic. The human brain and nervous system are a vast, unexplored universe about which much remains to be discovered. There are interviews of Dr. Cyril James, principal of McGill University, and Dr. Denis White, Associate Professor of Medicine at Queen's University. Footage includes shots of Dr. Wilder Penfield, head of the Montreal Neurological Institute, examining a patient's head, students fighting in a school yard, electrodes attached to a patient's head to electronically record impulses from the brain, and surgery underway. <12mn>

English

Libre

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of the NFB