Film day at the Old Operating Theatre Museum
We showed old film of the Old Operating Theatre Museum today. Alison, a volunteer transferred all our old VHS tapes to DVD and my daughter and I edited them into a couple of DVD's worth. They were projected using a new Optoma projecter which has a built in DVD player and speaker.
We set up a small corner of the Museum, with a few stalls and happily sat there watching films from about 1990 - 2002. Weird looking at the fashions - particularly old film of me. I gave the occasional comment to the audience to tell them who was in the shot and so on. It was an interesting afternoon.
I think I could now re-edit the film and make a pretty good introduction to the Museum - would it be too weird to have an introduction to a museum made up of excepts from a motley crew of documentaries or should I just get a new video shot?
At the same time a visiting lecturer gave 3 lectures on the history of Surgery - really heroic of him to do the same talk 3 times. But the Museum seemed really buzzing and what is interesting is that we get quite a young crowd at the Museum on Saturdays
Saturday 13th June, at 1.00, 2.00 & 3.00 pm
"Leeches, Lancets and Toothpulling"
with Colonial Surgeon Richard Kennedy
Richard Kennedy is an author and historian who will talk about the differences in the practice of medicine in the American colonies and the practice in London during the same era. He will demonstrate the use of leeches, saws and chisels for amputation without anaesthesia and the "latest" devices used for rotted teeth.
We set up a small corner of the Museum, with a few stalls and happily sat there watching films from about 1990 - 2002. Weird looking at the fashions - particularly old film of me. I gave the occasional comment to the audience to tell them who was in the shot and so on. It was an interesting afternoon.
I think I could now re-edit the film and make a pretty good introduction to the Museum - would it be too weird to have an introduction to a museum made up of excepts from a motley crew of documentaries or should I just get a new video shot?
At the same time a visiting lecturer gave 3 lectures on the history of Surgery - really heroic of him to do the same talk 3 times. But the Museum seemed really buzzing and what is interesting is that we get quite a young crowd at the Museum on Saturdays
Saturday 13th June, at 1.00, 2.00 & 3.00 pm
"Leeches, Lancets and Toothpulling"
with Colonial Surgeon Richard Kennedy
Richard Kennedy is an author and historian who will talk about the differences in the practice of medicine in the American colonies and the practice in London during the same era. He will demonstrate the use of leeches, saws and chisels for amputation without anaesthesia and the "latest" devices used for rotted teeth.
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