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Between July 1898 and 1901 the Romanian professor Gheorghe Marinescu made several science films in his neurology clinic in Bucharest: The walking troubles of organic hemiplegy ( 1898 ), The walking troubles of organic paraplegies ( 1899 ), A case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis ( 1899 ), The walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy ( 1900 ) and Illnesses of the muscles ( 1901 ).

All these short films have been preserved.

The professor called his works " studies with the help of the cinematograph ," and published the results, along with several consecutive frames, in issues of " La Semaine Médicale " magazine from Paris, between 1899 and 1902.

In 1924, Auguste Lumiere recognized the merits of Marinescu's science films: " I've seen your scientific reports about the usage of the cinematograph in studies of nervous illnesses, when I was still receiving " La Semaine Médicale ," but back then I had other concerns, which left me no spare time to begin biological studies.

I must say I forgot those works and I am thankful to you that you reminded them to me.

Unfortunately, not many scientists have followed your way.