A MOVING PICTURE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 202, 5 December 1910, Page 6

A MOVING PICTURE

■■l. ■■- ■!■—■ .«q^^——■ ■■ ■■■■»-»- THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT. The latest development in the art of cinematography suggests that the patrons of moving picture entertainments may have some disconcerting experiences. Messrs Pathe Freres 'have devised an apparatus for using the X>rays in connection with the production of films, and they are able now to show upon a screen- the movements of the internal organs of a living man. The display, according to a newspaper representative, who was present at a private exhibition in London, is "exceptionally instructive." The film that was shown on that occasion presented first the interior of a doctor's consulting room and laboratory. A patient entered and was examined by a doctor, apparently with the idea that his digestive apparatus was not in proper working order. Presently the doctor prepared a solution of bismuth and gave the liquid to the patient to drink. The effect of this preparation, which is used extensively in connection with X-ray examinations, is to render the linings of the internal organs opaque ts the rays, i so that they will cast a shadow upon a < screen. When the draught had been taken the patient was placed between a floureseent screen and a Crookes tube fitted on the stand level with the body.: The operator explained that the tube was connected with a powerful coil and that when the electrical current was turned on it would produce rays which I would pass through the patient, except ' where bore or bismuth interposed, and -would give a picture on the screen. The final section of the film showed the screen, with a clear representation of the patient's interior. "It was a most unusual display," remarked one astonished individual who had been present. This can be easily believed, and probably it will remain unusual, but the apparatus

should be of great ralue to medical men and their patients.