{"id":17378,"date":"2017-11-24T10:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:53","slug":"film-screening-miracles-modern-medicine-spots-remaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/film-screening-miracles-modern-medicine-spots-remaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening &#8220;Miracles in Modern Medicine&#8221; &#8211; few spots remaining!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>Join us for the film that made thousands faint at Expo 67!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Library and Archives Canada cordially invites you to a free screening of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Miracles in Modern Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Library and Archives Canada, Auditorium<br>\n395&nbsp;Wellington Street, Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, November&nbsp;27, 2017<br>\nDoors open at 6:30&nbsp;p.m.<br>\nScreening starts at 7:00&nbsp;p.m.<br>\nWith a presentation by Steven Palmer, Professor of History, University of Windsor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the six months of Expo&nbsp;67, some 2.5&nbsp;million people watched Robert Cordier\u2019s multimedia show at the so-called Meditheatre; some 200 of them fainted each day. Cutting-edge medical procedures in Montr\u00e9al hospitals, filmed and edited using avant-garde cinematic techniques, were projected on giant screens above actors who interacted with the film as they performed medical roles on sets that included real hospital equipment. The film showed the first-ever explicit depiction of a live birth seen by a mass public, and it also contained revolutionary footage of open-heart and brain surgery. Lost for almost 50&nbsp;years, this revolutionary film was rediscovered in pristine condition at Library and Archives Canada, and a stunning new version scanned from the negative will be shown in Ottawa for the first time. Before the screening, medical historian Steven Palmer will give a brief presentation explaining the context in which the film was originally viewed at Expo&nbsp;67, as well as crucial details about the filmmakers and the subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/the-movie-that-shocked-canada\/&amp;data=01%7c01%7ccraig.moyes%40kcl.ac.uk%7ca656f93852974e4915ea08d504f367f6%7c8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7c0&amp;sdata=IujtyOu8du6V6Gupx3RMPgcgE4v77ZBWtlZtDo\/pyUs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">a recent article about this groundbreaking film<\/a> in <em>The Walrus<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Register today! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/about-us\/events\/Pages\/2017\/Miracles-Modern-Medicine.aspx\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/about-us\/events\/Pages\/2017\/Miracles-Modern-Medicine.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the film that made thousands faint at Expo 67! Library and Archives Canada cordially invites you to a free screening of Miracles in Modern Medicine Library and Archives Canada, Auditorium 395&nbsp;Wellington Street, Ottawa Monday, November&nbsp;27, 2017 Doors open at 6:30&nbsp;p.m. Screening starts at 7:00&nbsp;p.m. With a presentation by Steven Palmer, Professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17379,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378\/revisions\/17379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}