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  1. The Army’s Young Sweats

    Date released
    26 Mar 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1712
    NoS ID
    024564
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Army’s Young Sweats. DESCRIPTION: At the Medical Research Council Labs in London, volunteer guinea-pigs from the Royal Sussex Regiment helped in a test, because the Army (as well...

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  2. Nobel Textiles: Marrying Scientific Discovery to Design (5 Parts) (2009)

    Director
    Kiki von Glasgow
    Subject
    Design; Science

    The "Nobel Textiles" film series show a journey whose origins are scientific discoveries and whose destination is design. In this project, based at Central St Martin’s College Art and sponsored by the MRC,...

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  3. Cancer risk to children of nuclear power station workers (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Clayre Gribben reports on demands for new safety measures and improved compensation by workers at British nuclear power plants following a Medical Research Council survey revealing fathers working in...

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  4. Arctic Research

    Date released
    23 Dec 1957
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    156
    NoS ID
    120488
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Copper wire "combinations" for particularly cold weather is only one ingenious item designed at the Medical Research Council at Hampstead for use in this year’s Antarctic Expedition. The...

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  5. Air Pollution

    Date released
    11 Apr 1968
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    694
    NoS ID
    121984
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Londoner’s don’t suffer pea soup November fogs anymore, mainly thanks to the Medical Research Council’s air pollution research unit at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. This is where they...

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  6. MOD to investigate Gulf War syndrome (1996)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Political correspondent Robert Allen reports on the announcement by the Ministry of Defence of a major investigation into Gulf War syndrome. The Medical Research Council inquiry will centre on the birth...

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  7. The junk food generation (1986)

    Genre
    Consumer advice; Documentary; Interview; Special

    The Junk Food Generation, presented by Michael van Straten. Looks at the effect of the modern diet on health and behaviour, research on children’s diets, public awareness of good diet and effect of...

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  8. Test tube explosion (documentary on IVF) (1982)

    Genre
    Advertisement; Documentary; Interview; Special

    Thames TV documentary about the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF), entitled, The Test Tube Explosion. Includes interview with parents Maria and David Curtis; unidentified female guests (for whom...

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