Reflex locomotion.

Date:
[late 1930s]
  • Film

About this work

Description

The film depicts locomotion test on a number of laboratory animals (cats). The animals are suspended slightly and a moving treadmill is underneath. There are various views of the equipment. The treadmill operates at different speeds and angles of elevation. Finally there is footage of a circular turntable with a cat walking on it.

Publication/Creation

UK, [late 1930s]

Physical description

2 film reels (negative and positive) (22 min. ea.) : silent, black and white

Contributors

Notes

This material originated at the Physiological Society who passed their archive films to the BMA.
This film forms part of a group of films donated to the Wellcome Trust in 2006 by The British Medical Association.
This film is associated with Thomas Graham Brown who was an experimental physiologist of the nervous system. Graham Brown was also an eminent mountaineer.

Creator/production credits

There are no credits on the film.

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Unknown

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Where to find it

  • Copy 2

    Location Access
    Closed stores
    7040FM
    		 Can't be requested

    Note

  • Copy 1

    Location Access
    Closed stores
    7040F
    		 Can't be requested

    Note

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