Movietone Records the Heart Beat
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Movietone Records the Heart Beat. DESCRIPTION: Mr Hickson demonstrates his delicate invention for testing irregularities of blood count. SHOTLIST: Shot of Mr Hickson with apparatus on table explaining same. Woman puts apparatus to heart and the heart beats are heard through an amplifier. They are quickened by Mr Hickson firing a pistol. (Shock). Man sitting at table as above. Heart beats are shown on screen through an ex-ray plate. Actually moving.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Weapons; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 1560
- Length of story (in feet)
- 113
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How to cite this record
'Movietone Records the Heart Beat', British Movietone News Issue No. 132A, 17 Dec 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/3372 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)