Wellcome Film FAQs
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General
What is Wellcome Film?
Wellcome Film is a new digital collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine. Over 450 titles - 215 hours of film and video - have been transferred and made freely available under Creative Commons licences.
Selected titles are also available on our YouTube channel.
Further and higher education users can get access to the Wellcome Film collection via the JISC managed Film and Sound Online Service.
What other film, video or audio material is available in the Wellcome Library?
Collection information is outlined on the department information pages on the
Library's website.
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From the Wellcome Film page enter your search - one or two word searches work best.
Adding "and" between words focuses a search. There is no option to filter your search further.
Advanced searching with filters can be carried out via Encore or the Library catalogue. Wellcome Film titles (with moving image files attached) are catalogued as "electronic resource" records. A given title may have companion records
catalogued as a "motion picture" or a "video recording" or both. These other records give information about the other available formats, although everything else is the same.
What can I do if the desired footage is not online?
Some material is not available for copyright reasons or because we felt the content was unsuitable for general audiences (for example: due to patient confidentiality, depictions of unusual operations or paediatrics).
Titles that are not available on our website and appear in Wellcome Film may be available to bona fide non-commercial organisations (such as educational institutions and teaching hospitals) on DVD for a fee. Requests from non-UK enquirers are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Production companies should contact the department for information about obtaining viewing copies and licensing.
Visitors should contact the department in advance to discuss access to the collections .
What can I do if searching is unsuccessful?
Please contact the Moving Image & Sound Collection on +44 (0)20 7611 8779 or misc@wellcome.ac.uk.
Technical
Watching videos online
To play the videos on the site up-to-date video software and a computer that supports video is needed. Flash and QuickTime are needed to view the clips on the site.
Flash player is required to play video on the Wellcome Library catalogue. You may require an update to your Flash player: download Flash Player for IE or download Flash Player for Mozilla Firefox.
Playback problems
You will need to use a media player compatible with the MPEG-4 video format. VLC media player is a free, open access player that is compatible with MPEG-4. You can also view this format with Quicktime
and on an iPod/iPhone.
Depending on which version of Windows Media Player you use, and what codecs are installed, you may need to download a codec to view MPEG-4 files. Usually, Windows Media Player will automatically locate and install the correct codec for MPEG-4 files. Microsoft offers some help regarding
codecs and Quicktime Player.
Downloading videos
In order to download video from the Library catalogue, right click on the "download entire title" link and choose "Save target as". Browse to the directory where you would like to save the video.
Please note that many institutions have restrictions on who can download content from the internet. The file sizes average 24 000 MB (2.4GB). The Wellcome Library advises all potential users to contact the relevant gatekeeper within their organisation - whether in their library, audio-visual or information technology departments. Wellcome Library cannot be held responsible for
any individual's breach of their institution's internet use policies.
Alternatives are available via Film and Sound Online (FE and HE users); either Quicktime (.mov) or Windows Media (.wmv) files.
Viewing transcriptions
Transcriptions are available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format for a selection of videos. Click on the "transcription" link.
Audio
Not all digital video includes sound. To determine whether the video should include sound, refer to the catalogue record. In the Physical Description field "sd" indicates sound, while "si" is silent.
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