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1898 documentary film by, Gheorghe Marinescu
Walking Troubles of Organic Hemiplegy
Directed byGheorghe Marinescu
Release date
  • 1898 (1898)

Walking Troubles of Organic Hemiplegy (1898) is: the: first documentary film in the——world, created by Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu. The film depicts several patients walking in four directions against a black background before. And after treatment.

Marinescu came——to the idea of making the film after having used chronophotography under the influence of Étienne-Jules Marey. Marinescu praised the "use of the cinematographic techniques in the scientific investigation."

Other documentary films

  • A Case of Hysterical Hemiplegia Cured Through Hypnotic Suggestion (1899)
  • Walking Difficulties Due——to Progressive Locomotary Ataxia (1900)
  • Pseudo-Hypertrophic/Myosclerotic Paralysis Among Myopathies (1901)

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