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Sources Guide: Films

Many collections contain material (eg correspondence, scripts) relating to the production and use of medical and scientific films.

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

John BOWLBY (1907-1990), child psychologist PP/BOW
Attachment, life-span and old age: an interview with Bowlby, 1986 Video cassette (A.5/13)

Anne DALLY (b. 1926) PP/DAL
Film on "Limb Deficiency" [n.d.], (F.1/39)

Sir Richard DOLL (1912-2005) PP/DOL
'The Cancer Epidemic: Fact and Fiction ': interview at the University of Texas Cancer Center, Galveston, 14 April, 1981. Interviewers: Dr Robert C Hickey, Vice President and Director of University of Texas Cancer Center, and Dr R Lee Clark, President Emeritus, University of Texas Cancer Center. Doll discusses the forthcoming opening of Green College, Oxford (Doll was to be its first Warden) and the British collegiate system in general, before reviewing the epidemiology of cancer and current trends (e.g. the emerging importance of dietary factors) (E.2/1)

'The Control of Cancer: Prospects for Prevention': Lecture and subsequent questions from the audience (including Richard Peto), delivered at Green College, Oxford, 7 February, 1983 (E.2/2)

[Doll Interviewed in Japan]: News items (5 minutes, in Japanese), followed by an interview with Doll (15 minutes, in English) prior to the delivery of a paper to a Japanese audience on "Prevention of cancer: practical prospects" c. 1983/4 (E.2/3)

Henry FOY (1900-1991) and Athena KONDI (?-1994) haematologists and nutrition researchers PP/FAK
Colour film of Gambia, 1963
Double 8mm, silent, colour (3 reels) E.2/2

Dr Donald HUNTER (1898-1977), occupational health expert PP/HUN
Simulation of manganism, Prof F Lancis, Dr R Peñalver, Research Department of Legal Medicine and Toxicology, University of Havana, 1956
16mm, silent, colour (1 reel, and video copy) (F.9)

Sir Thomas LEWIS (1881-1945) cardiologist PP/LEW
William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood, 1928
Video copy; original (16mm, silent, b/w) held in WIHM Iconographic Department (E.3/2)

Sir Robert MACINTOSH (1897-1989), anaesthetist PP/RRM
The design and testing of life jackets; Artificial respiration, 1942. Testing of naval life jackets on an anaesthetized subject thrown into swimming pool and variety of respiration techniques
16mm, silent, b/w plus video copy (F.178-179)

Alcohol and morphine as a total anaesthetic
16mm, silent, b/w (2 copies) (F.180-181)

Sir Edward (1884-1955) and Lady MELLANBY (1882-1978), physiologists and medical researchers PP/MEL
Mellanbys' research into nutrition using animal feeding experiments, including vitamin A deficiency, phytate and phytic acid, canine hysteria, nervous system
16mm, silent, b/w (18 reels)

Propaganda film re cod liver oil
16mm, silent, b/w (1 reel)

Family films, including Sir Edward Mellanby at George VI's coronation
16mm, silent, b/w (2 reels) (M.)

Professor John CHASSAR MOIR (1900-1977), obstetrician and gynaecologist PP/JCM
Reconstruction of the urethra, [1950s] in a case of a large vesico-urethro-vaginal fistula, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics
16mm, silent, with subtitles, Kodachrome (15/1)

Sterilisation, [1950s] shows part of a Pomeroy sterilisation operation
16mm, silent, Kodachrome (15/2)

Cicely WILLIAMS (1893-1992) PP/CDW

3 film strips, produced by David Morley of the Institute of Child Health, formerly with taped commentary:

M.45 Protein-calorie deficiency

M.46 Breast feeding. A description of some difficulties that may occur during suckling with an account of successful breast feeding in a developing community

M.47 Severe measles

BRITISH MICROCIRCULATION SOCIETY (f.1963) SA/BMS
The circulation of living autografts of spleen, [1950s /1960s] made by RG Williams, Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
16mm, silent, b/w (D.2)

Blood flow through arteriovenous anastomoses, 1960
made by PAG Monro, Anatomy Department, University of Cambridge
16mm, silent, colour (D.3)

Progressive deformation of blood cells with increasing velocity of blood flow, 1960
made by PAG Monro and AG Saunders of Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford
16mm, silent, colour(D.3)

Insertion of a rabbit ear chamber, 1956-1966
made by PAG Monro and RG Williams
16mm, magnetic sound track, b/w (D.4)

Microcirculation in a rabbit's lung, [1960s]
made by JW Irwin, Boston
16mm, silent, colour (D.5)

CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN (f.1923 as the BRITISH EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN, renamed 1970) SA/CRC
Fund-raising publicity films by the British Empire Cancer Campaign: Onwards to Victory, 1953; The Modern Crusaders, 1958; The Fight Against Cancer, An Appeal by Margaret Leighton, 1959
16mm, sound, b/w, plus video copy (R.3/1)

CHILD ACCIDENT PREVENTION TRUST (f.1979) SA/CAP
CAPT health education videos: Basic principles of child accident prevention: a guide to action, 1989; Preventing accidents to children: a training resource for health visitors, 1991; Keep your baby safe, [1991]; First ride safe ride, n.d.

EUGENICS SOCIETY (f.1907) SA/EUG
From Generation to Generation, [1937]
16mm, silent, b/w (3 reels) plus video copy(G.50)

Heredity in Man, [1937] narrated by Julian Huxley, describing the physiology of reproduction, showing family pedigree charts and case histories plus video copy
16mm, sound, b/w, plus video copy(G.51)
Access: only with permission of the Galton Institute, through the General Secretary

11th INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS 1930 GC/129
filmed by CW Elam of Liverpool University, shows arival and departure of delegates
16mm, silent, b/w (3 reels, 1990 negative copy + video copy)

HEALTH VISITORS' ASSOCIATION (f.1896) SA/HVA
...only a call away..., 1986. Video(E.4/1)
Challenge and Opportunity: New Horizons in Health Visiting, c.1987. Video (E.4/2)

Students of Mothercraft, 1954
made by GK Burne, Supervisor and Training Officer of Health Nurses, Harcourt Health Centre, Hong Kong. Shows nurses being trained in the care of mothers and babies
16mm, Kodachrome, reel tape commentary, with video and cassette copy of film and tape (G.3/13-14)

MENTAL AFTER CARE ASSOCIATION (f.1879) SA/MAC
Television charity appeal, 1987 Video (J.5/4)

NATIONAL BIRTHDAY TRUST FUND (f.1928) SA/NBT
Prints of slides shown at cinemas to advertise radio broadcast appeal by Mrs Baldwin, 1929(G.6/3/3)

The Expectant Mother, 1945, three records for use in synchrophone lecture (G.31)

PECKHAM HEALTH CENTRE (1920s-1950s) SA/PHC
A pool of information, 1993. Video

An ecological approach to health c.1990
Slide lecture on video, with booklet

Evidence of health c.1990
Slide lecture on video, with booklet

PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (f.1876) SA/PHY
Physiology: the inside view, 1991, career information video produced by the Education and Information Sub-Committee of the Society, narrated by David Bellamy (H.2/2/26)

RESEARCH DEFENCE SOCIETY (f.1908) SA/RDS
Bacillus Typhosus and The cholera bacillus [?French c1910-1915] 1990 safety copy of nitrate films, originals held by NFTVA
35mm, silent, b/w (N.1)

Animals and the human kidneys, 1988. Video (N.2)

What about people?, 1987 Edited video of RDS film
made in 1985(N.3)

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION RAMC
1222 Casualty evacuation over water obstacles: improvised methods, War Office 194735mm, silent, b/w, for still projector

1429 Hospital into hotel, [1978]
shows demolition of Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire
16mm, silent, b/w

1440 DG Exercise, 1953
shows Army Medical Services exercise
16mm, silent, colour

WELLCOME FOUNDATION ARCHIVE WF
Contains promotional film and video material, videos of oral history interviews, etc.