A Case of Hysterical Hemiplegia Cured Through Hypnotic Suggestion
Original title: Un caz de hemiplegie isterica vindecat prin sugestie hipnotica
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Historical value - one of the first documentaries
Like in many other countries, it was the Lumiere brothers who introduced the movie camera to Romania. But unlike in many other countries, here it was not an inventor or an entertainer, but a doctor, who purchased it.
Gheorghe Marinescu was a neurologist who purchased the first movie camera in Romania and recorded patients with neurological disorders in a "before and after" style between 1898-1901. This made him not only the first Romanian filmmaker but also the world's first documentarist.
This is the context you need to know to view this film, because all you can see is a woman limping and then walking normally after a cut. In between, likely there was a "hypnotic suggestion", as the title implies. For us, everyday viewers, this would have been more interesting, but then again, this film was not shot with the purpose of aesthetics or entertainment, this was done for medical reasons.
Gheorghe Marinescu was a neurologist who purchased the first movie camera in Romania and recorded patients with neurological disorders in a "before and after" style between 1898-1901. This made him not only the first Romanian filmmaker but also the world's first documentarist.
This is the context you need to know to view this film, because all you can see is a woman limping and then walking normally after a cut. In between, likely there was a "hypnotic suggestion", as the title implies. For us, everyday viewers, this would have been more interesting, but then again, this film was not shot with the purpose of aesthetics or entertainment, this was done for medical reasons.
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