Stump conditions and sockets.
- Date:
- c.1950
- Videos
About this work
Description
This compelling film shows, in close up and dramatic stage lighting, a series of males from the waist down who have one or two legs amputated. They rotate their stumps and have their movement assessed while standing and sometimes sitting, then they are shown putting on and wearing prosthetic legs. One sequence in particular shows a man with a double amputation go from sitting on a chair to successfully putting on two prosthetic legs then walking around without sticks. In between each person a blackboard telling the patient's name, the details of their amputation, its date and its reason appears in the background.
Publication/Creation
UK, c.1950.
Physical description
1 videocassette (12.36 min.) (VHS) : silent, color
1 videocassette (12.36 min.) (DIGIBETA) : silent, color
1 DVD (12.36 min.) : silent, color
1 videocassette (12.36 min.) (DIGIBETA) : silent, color
1 DVD (12.36 min.) : silent, color
Notes
This film forms part of a collection of films donated to Wellcome Trust in 2006 by Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton Lane, London.
Copyright note
Queen Mary's Hospital, London
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