 Between 1898–1902 he conducted a cinematographic project, recording and analyzing a series of neurological conditions in patients.He perfected the application of filming techniques to clinical neurology and published five articles based on cinematographic analysis.Marinescu wrote that the role of cinematography is “to complement and even replace, in whatever measure possible, the descriptive exposition of phenomena by more rigorous, more exact analysis, which consists of recording movement with the help of special procedures” 

In 1905 Arthur Van Gehuchten (Belgian anatomist and neurologist) began to film neurologic patients and built up a collection of films for teaching purposes.