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Your Doctors Today

Date released

1947

Series name

The March of Time 12th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

352272

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: War, points out the film, was responsible for the mass production of such remarkable new medicines as the sulfa drugs, streptomycin and the British discovery penicillin, and it...

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Atom Power. First Decade. What It Means to You

Date released

26 Feb 1953

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2295

NoS ID

044270

Story no

6 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Pictures just released by US Security afford fascinating peep behind atomic curtain, where scientists report progress in medical and fuel research. Harwell British atomic headquarters make parallel advance...

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TEN YEARS ON: HEALTH IN THE MINES

Date released

Oct 1956

Series name

Mining Review 10th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

345931

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: advances in medical care for miners. Survey of the expansion of health services. NCB Commentary - Research on rheumatic and arthritic diseases has made significant advance. With British pits...

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Conquering Cancer

Date released

1937

Series name

The March of Time 2nd Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

352160

Story no

2 / 3

The March of Time synopsis: Of significant interest to every man and woman in Great Britain is the episode entitled "Conquering Cancer", which reviews the increasingly successful efforts of science to combat...

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Dust: 1. Medical Report

Date released

May 1948

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

334751

Story no

3 / 4

NoS synopsis: The first of a three-part series of items about the effects of dust on working miners. It begins by explaining the problem in layman’s terms - what is now technically known as pneumoconiosis...

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Riker Labs

Date released

Oct 1964

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

29

NoS ID

327647

Story no

5 / 6

COI synopsis: Achievements of medical research at a laboratory in the Midlands (particularly in the field of bronchial complaints).

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Blood Donors

Date released

1977

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

983

NoS ID

329224

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: A single surgical operation can take up to 15 pints of blood to allow it to go ahead - and medical research needs a constant supply too. In Britain, people give blood voluntarily and Maggie...

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Living On Smoke

Date released

1966

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

363

NoS ID

350532

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Although one million pounds a year is being spent by the tobacco companies in medical research to determine the effect of smoking on health, the Chancellor budgets on getting from smokers the...

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H-Bomb: US Scientists Go Ahead

Date released

23 Feb 1950

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

50/16

NoS ID

103339

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Background story to the Hydrogen Bomb. Cameras visit Oakridge Laboratory, USA, where US scientists are working on the bomb; hear a statement from Mr David Lilienthal, retiring US atomic chief; to to...

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Pollution: Submariner’s Environmental Medical Unit

Date released

1974

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

148

NoS ID

325615

Story no

1 / 5

COI synopsis: As production increases on the one hand, we’ve realised that we can’t accept the pollution that increases on the other. This issue examines a few products of the latest growth industry: the...

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