Description: Exteriors of Harvard Medical School, Longwood Campus. Main building with ionic columns on Shattuck Street. A few students in front of the building. Countway library next door. Audio goes in and out throughout.
Description: Matthew Shelales being prepared for and undergoing heart transplant surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Donor heart carried in cooler. Gloved, gowned, and masked doctors and nurses in operating room. Transfer of silent amateur video.
Description: Press conference with two heart transplant patients in recuperation at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Matthew Shelales. Cardiac surgeon Gilbert Mudge.
Description: History of kidney transplants starting in 1954 with identical twins, narrated by Dr. Joseph Murray, pioneer in the technique and current Nobel laureate in medicine. B+W visuals.