RAF Mae West.
- Date:
- [between 1940 and 1949]
- Film
About this work
Description
This is a clinical film showing experiments on an anaesthetised male subject in order to test the 'righting behaviour' of five different life jackets / buoyancy aids (including a German model) in a swimming pool. The experiments took place during WWII. The models are preceded with intertitles with the relevant model details: RAF Mae West, USAAF Life Waistcoat, BOT Victory Lifebelt, Morner Life Bag, German kapok life waistcoat with chin support.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]
Physical description
1 film reel (09:30 mins) : silent, black and white; 16mm.
Contributors
Notes
Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
Copyright note
Copyright previously held by Nuffield
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4163FCan't be requested Note