The Texas Heart Institute Film Collection contains 277 reels of 16mm film and 86 videotapes. It consists of final distributed films as well as work prints, camera original footage, and other production elements. This collection contains films related to heart surgery at the Texas Medical Center, primarily during the 1960s and 1970s. Films are typically instructional with brief surgical and case histories at the beginning.
The collection documents surgeries performed by Dr. Denton Arthur Cooley and his associates in the Texas Medical Center. The McGovern Historical Center digitized and shared online many of the films in the Texas Heart Institute Film Collection. See more digitized historical A/V at Historical A/V from the Texas Medical Center.
For additional films and archival collections, search via archives.library.tmc.edu.
Submissions from 1982
IC043: Medtronic Model 4951 Permanent Lead: “A New Alternative in Epicardial Pacing”, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1980
IC043: Aneurysm Transverse Aortic Arch Surgical Repair Using Hypothermia, Circulatory Arrest, and Carotid Artery Profusion, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1978
IC043: Septoplasty, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1976
IC043: Cooley-Meadox Double Velour Grafts in Vascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Methods of Myocardial Preservation for the High Risk Coronary Artery Bypass Patient: Preoperative Balloon Support Interoperative Topical Hypothermia, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1974
IC043: Combined Mitral and Aortic Valve Replacement Using Improved Prostheses, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Comprehensive Surgical Management of Tetralogy of Fallot, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1973
IC043: Transaortic Repair of Ventricular Septal Defect, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1972
IC043: Ventricular Assist. Electrical Drive HTAH LVAD, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1970
IC043: Surgical Correction of Tri-Atrial Heart, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1969
IC043: Camera Original Footage With Magnetic Sound-On-Film Stripe, Liotta Total Artificial Heart Console and Interview With Karp, Haskell 12 Hours After His Artificial Heart Implant April 4, 1969, Texas Heart Insitute
IC043: Liotta Total Artificial Heart Console and Interview With Karp, Haskell 12 Hours After His Artificial Heart Implant, Texas Heart Institute
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
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
IC043: Raw Footage of Thoracic Surgery, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1963
IC043: Excision of Massive Cardiac Hemartoma During Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Texas Heart Institute