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Wellcome Film
Wellcome Film, the Library's project to digitise over 450 titles from the Moving Image and Sound Collection, commenced in Autumn 2007 and reached completion in 2010. In total, just over 500 moving image and 170 audio titles are now available with new material added regularly on the Library catalogue as well
as Wellcome Film's YouTube channel.
New Digitisation 2010
One & Other Oral History Collection
All 2,400 plinthers who participated in Antony Gormley's public art work in Leicester Square in 2009 were asked to talk about their motivation for participating in the project. These interviews were captured by a team of Wellcome-funded interviewers. In most cases permission was granted and these interviews are now available to listen to online.
Frank Rowntree recordings 1970s
In 2007, the family of Frank Rowntree (Francis St. D. Rowntree 1928-1996), gave the Library over 90 1/4" audio recordings dating from the 1970s. At the time, Rowntree was the Health Education Officer for Sheffield and he was regularly invited into the BBC Radio Sheffield studios for a short health piece. Well meaning and paternalistic, the 2-4 minute magazine items cover a
range of topics - some unique to the 1970s such as the health risk associated with unsuitable shoes such as clogs and ' clacker wrist'.
In the Media 2010
BBC Horizon The secret life of the dog and BBC The private life of cows both used footage from the 1930s film Conditioned reflexes and behavior,
which shows recreations of Ivan Pavlov's famous experiments with dogs.
BBC Faulks on Fiction - Villains used a sequence from War neuroses.
Requests from production companies are welcome. Please contact the MISC department in the first instance on +44 (0)20 7611 8766 or email us.
Wellcome Film (and sound) material is available under Creative Commons licences for non-commercial projects. If you would like to tell us about how our material has enlivened your dissertation, exhibition or student production - please do email.
New Acquisitions 2009
40 film items (mostly 16mm) from the organisation SAAD (Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry) dating from the 1950s onwards. The collection includes the film 'Venepucture for general practice', which was very well received at the time (gaining an award by the BMA) and leading to the widespread adoption of safe, painless intravenous anaesthesia in
teaching hospitals and dental surgeries. A small number of clinical films relate to Henry Mandiwall directly, described in SAAD's literature as "an accomplished film maker". Many of the items were in urgent need of conservation. This is the third collection relating to anaesthesia received by MISC in recent years.
48 corporate video masters from a production company commissioned to make videos for GlaxoSmithKline and its subsidiaries (Allen & Hanbury) covering the launch of asthma and duodenal ulcer treatments amongst others.
120 BBC television programmes on DVD from 1990 onwards on various subjects such as AIDS, allergies, death, genetics, madness, memory, parasites, surgery and synaesthesia. Many of these titles were made under the BBC's critically acclaimed Horizon strand.
In the Media 2009
NHS Choices accessed three titles from the collection for use on their 'War and medicine' web time-line.
BBC TV 'Panorama: The trauma industry' used excerpts from 'War neuroses'
BBC TV 'Andrew Marr: Darwin's dangerous idea' and 'What Darwin
didn't know' used excerpts from 'Heredity in Man'.
BBC TV 'Who do you think you are? Rick Stein' used an excerpt from 'D-tubocuraine'.
Requests from production companies are welcome. Please contact the MISC department in the first instance on +44 (0)20 7611 8766 or email us at misc@wellcome.ac.uk.
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