In the 1970s, a series of video interviews captured the stories of Texas Medical Center leaders and important visitors. Meanwhile, audio and video had emerged as valuable tools in medical education and community outreach.
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Historical Resources Project records contain video oral histories of notable personalities associated with or visiting the TMC. Beginning in 1973, the initial group of interviews focuses on individuals involved in the founding or early days of the TMC. Later “video profiles” also include significant visitors to the TMC.
Several of these feature national and international figures in cancer research on their visits to Houston. In total the collection features forty-seven unique recordings of interviews with thirty-eight different individuals. All 47 unique recordings have been digitized..
For additional questions about this collection, contact an archivist at 713-799-7145, 713-799-7165 or mcgovern@library.tmc.edu
Submissions from 1969
IC043: Origin of Right Pulmonary Artery From Aorta: Surgical Correction, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Second World Symposium on Heart Transplantation, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Staged Cardiac Replacement, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1968
IC002: Reel #3. Side #1. Recording of a Meeting, Texas Medical Center
IC002: Reel #3. Side #2. Recording of a Meeting, Texas Medical Center
IC043: Cyst of Left Ventricle with Outflow Obstruction: Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Houston Hearts BBC Documentary, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Prosthesis for Aortic Valve Replacement, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Surgical Treatment of Post Infarction Left Ventricular Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1966
IC043: Simplified Technic for Excision of Thoraco-Abdominal Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Surgical Treatment of Muscular Subaortic Stenosis by Septectomy, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1965
IC043: Aortico-Pulmonary Septal Defect: Division and Suture Using Pump Oxygenator for Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Single Left Coronary Artery with Fistula to Right Ventricle: Correction Establishing Two-Coronary System, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1964
IC002: The First 20 years of the Medical Center, KPRC-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
IC043: Raw Footage of Thoracic Surgery, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1963
IC043: Excision of Massive Cardiac Hemartoma During Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1960
IC002: A Television report on the Texas Medical Center, KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Submissions from 1958
MS238: Help Wanted, Mental Health Council of Harris County and Junior League of Houston
Submissions from 1955
IC043: Total Excision of Aortic Arch for Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1952
IC002: The Texas Medical Center: as featured on Television by Humble Oil & Refining Co., Black and White film, Humble Oil and Refining Company (Incorporated in Tex.)
Submissions from 1951
MS076: Dr. Edward Kendall and Philip Hench, Bob Considine Television Show, WHAM-TV, Phillip Showalter Hench, Edward Calvin Kendall, and Bob Considine
Submissions from 1950
MS002: Phonograph Record. Dr. E. W. Bertner Addresses the 4th Symposium of Cancer Research, Ermst William Bertner (1889-1950)
Submissions from 1948
MS007: Interview with Harry Stack Sullivan, part 6 of 6, Hilde Bruch
MS007: Man and Woman in Conversation, Hilde Bruch (1904-1984)
MS007: Woman's Dictation (likely Hilde Bruch), Hilde Bruch 1904-1984