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 1955
IC043: Total Excision of Aortic Arch for Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute