USS REPOSE (AH-16) ON BOARD ACTIVITIES Heart Surgery Part 1

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1) MCU Doctors gathered around patient on operating table preparing him for the operation, doctors are DOCTOR SNYDER, DOCTOR VERDI, WILLIAMS (HM3), <*><*>DOCTOR KENNETH NEUGEBAUER, DOCTOR McFEE and DOCTOR MUND, two doctors shift positions, tray of instruments are placed in FG, nurse adjusts overhead light; zoom in to patient"s chest more preparations are being made, back of doctor in direct FG blocking most of scene, leaves scene at right.2) CU Preparations being made for the heart surgery, many instruments in right FG, DOCTOR NEUGEBAUER making incision in chest of patient, incision is made wider as the cutting continues, doctors and assistants are crowded on left and right, hands moving quickly back and forth with sponges and instruments, sponges used to mop up blood around incision. G3) CU Hands of doctor, incision being daubed by sponge, large metal clamp moved into position to hold ribs apart during the operation, doctor continues his work through wide opening of the metal wedge, hands moving back and forth across the scene to give doctor instruments, some stitching being done, tied off. G4) CU Down over area of operation, work continues by doctor, hands move back and forth across the area, passing instruments to doctor, doctor ties off some area, another person snips off excess cat gut.5) CU Doctor working over the incision, metal wedge placed in BG, two areas are being operated on at one time, two teams of doctors continue two operations on patient. VG6) HA CU Down over hands of doctors working on incision, operation in BG continues, man"s heart pumping momentarily until another hand moves into scene obscuring the heart, small incision in FG believed to be done by doctors to tie off arteries to allow the heart surgery, hands move away, heart is seen throbbing through opening in man"s chest, hands in FG tying off more of the arteries, hands move back and forth through scene while operation continues; zoom in closer, throbbing heart, doctor holds the heart in his hand, second hand moves in around heart. G7) CU Down over the operation "n progress. G8) CU Faces of doctors and assistants during heart operation, arms move away momentarily, heart is again seen. VG9) CU Faces of doctors G10) CU Hands of the doctors working over man"s heart, large opening in man"s chest, heart throbbing, pumping away. VG11) ECU Face of doctor at work over heart operation.12) CU Doctor bent down over patient. (SV); PAN down, incision in chest, heart throbbing VG<*>Corrected spelling---DOCTOR NEUGHBAUER

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities