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Control of Body Temperature

Reel Number: 221637-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 11:28:17

TC Ends: 11:38:29

Duration: 00:10:12

Control of Body Temperature Erpi Classroom Films Inc. 11:28:34 Montage: man & dog team thru deep snow; Africans in front of thatched huts; man in hospital, machine reading & printing out continuous temperature reading. CU of graph of temperature. 11:29:08 Temperature control chamber w/ turtle & thermometer attached; CU thermometer in chamber showing same temperature as turtle; both thermometers drop at same rate. 11:29:34 Rabbit in control chamber w/ different temperatures. Machines irrigating turtle heart & rabbit heart in petri dishes w/ warm solution, then cool liquids & hearts beat slower. 11:30:35 Montage: CU Squirrel eating on branch; Title card of sugars burned w/ carbon dioxide giving off heat; squirrel running along branches; injecting drug into rabbit paralyzing it, then put into temperature chamber & giving lower temperature which lowers rabbit temperature. 11:31:38 Montage: man on machine reading body tempertaure; graph. Man riding stationary bicycle w/ monitoring device & graphing temperature; graph showing rising temperature. Two men laying on park lawn, one wipes sweat. man sitting in chamber w/ blocks of ice shivering violently. 11:32:33 Montage: man sitting attached to monitoring machine; graph; thermometers stuck deep & shallow into roast w/ different temperatures shown. 11:33:02 Magnification of blood vessels thru skin showing examples of constriction & expansion w/ temperature. 11:33:42 Men working in front of furnace door in steel mill. 11:33:54 Experiment w/ fan blowing over moist bulb on thermometer to evaporate & lower temperature. 11:34:20 Montage: man in steel mill (GOOD); German Shepherd dog panting on lawn w/ tongue, CU. 11:34:38 Animated illustration of body sweating when humidity is low & high. 11:34:57 Cu pigeon head, temperature. Illustration of destroying hyperthalamus of bird’s brain; shown dying when its normal temperature is not maintained. 11:35:36 Montage: cross-section drawing of human brain w/ animation; thermostat CU, furnace firing, temperature rises, mercury switch opening, fire out. Drawing of human brain nerves to skin causing sweating & relaxation of muscles affecting heat production. 11:37:22 Montage: man lying in bed w/ thermometer in mouth; woman checks temperature; animated graph showing higher temperature & normal. Pigeon in cage removed, CU reaction to artificial fever, dying of heat stroke. Man rowing on park pond; man skiing; rotary snow plow. The End. Science Film; 1940; 1940s; Biology; Sickness; Animal Testing; Biomedical Research; Vivisection;

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