Moving Image and Sound Collection

The Moving Image and Sound Collection is the largest of its kind in Europe. It is an excellent starting point for any researcher, educator, student or browser interested in witnessing the evolution of medicine and health over the past 100 years and wanting to engage with the use of media as a communication tool in the medical sciences.

As well as Wellcome-originated titles, material has been sourced from broadcast television programmes, departmental collections from universities (The University of London Audio-Visual Unit, Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia, Oxford), associations (Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry), charities (Scope, formerly the Spastics Society) and eminent individuals (such as the Mellanbys) - to name but a few.

New acquisitions are added regularly.

In addition, Wellcome Film is a new digital collection of moving images of 20th-century healthcare and medicine. Over 450 titles - 100 hours of film and video - have been transferred and are freely available online under Creative Commons licences.