Film of barefooted man walking, from experiments performed by Dr. Peter V. Karpovich
Description:
A short film of an experiment conducted by Dr. Peter V. Karpovich, showing a man walking barefoot on a treadmill. The man is shown from the knee down and from two angles: one from behind and one from the side. The man is wearing an electrogoniometer, a device created by Dr. Peter Karpovich and George Karpovich, his son, to measure joint movements. For a time, when filmed from the side, the camera also moves back and forth with the stride of the foot. The short film ends with by showing Dr. Josephine Rathbone and an unidentified women sitting at a table talking. The film is a digital copy of the original 16mm black and white silent film. The original reel is undated, but many of the experiments conducted by Karpovich on walking took place after 1960. For more information on Peter V. Karpovich, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/571 For biography of Josephine L. Rathbone, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/102. Film reel is in a Cine-Kodak Tri-X reversal Safety Film box. There is some writing on the box, including, "C2972", "Back Bay Lab.", "Vall(?) RE47946", and "Bay - RE-43164"; This file is shown at 30 frames for second;
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