Heart embryology movie
This is Dr. Richard Blandau’s classic animation on development of the heart.
Dr. Blandau (1911-1998) was renowned for his basic studies of ovulation, fertilization and embryonic development. He made many groundbreaking motion pictures. One of them, “Congenital Malformations of the Heart”, contains this 9 minute animation sequence. The film was made in 1951 at the University of Washington, in collaboration with Dr. Robert Rushmer.
The 16mm film was widely used in embryology courses. Well-worn copies of it were subsequently transferred to early videotape; and videotapes in turn have been recopied to digital media. So great is the film’s instructional quality that in spite of severe degradation these twice copied versions are still in use today. It was felt that a high quality digital restoration would be valuable, both for students and teachers of embryology, and as an object lesson in the art of instructional animation. This restored version was made from Dr. Blandau’s personal copy of the film, using the best available film scanning technology. The new sound track uses the same words as the original film.
Thanks to the University of Washington Special Collections, for permission to make this restoration available online.
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