Wellcome Film

A new digital collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine is now online. Over 450 titles - 100 hours of film and video - have been transferred and are freely available under Creative Commons licences.

The resource has been created by the Wellcome Library in partnership with JISC Collections. Highlights include:

• Sir Henry Wellcome in Gebel (or Jebel) Moya in Sudan
• story of the Wellcome Foundation Ltd
• breakthrough drug treatments which laid the foundations of the Wellcome Trust of today
• research into areas of tropical medicine such as schistosomiasis and the tsetse fly
• early bacteriological research into typhus and cholera
• reconstructed experiments in Ivan Pavlov’s laboratory
• forgotten treatment regimens for respiratory paralysis caused by polio
• UK public health information films on subjects such as immunisation and smoking.

Featured film

Wellcome Film showreel, 2009
Running time 6 min 34 s.

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