Evocaciones y Reliquias del Cine Quirúrgico

Overview

Historical documentary about how the oldest surviving (the first?) surgical film was found by Dr. Sanguinetti in Argentina among the ruins of the old Hospital de Clínicas in Buenos Aires, demolished in 1975. Features the recovered shorts of an operation by Dr. Alejandro Posadas (ca. 1899), and by the French surgeon Dr. Eugène-Louis Doyen, 1905.