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Wellcome Film of the Month: The Wellcome Trust in Thailand (1987)
This week we launched a 20 year review of research into malaria, coinciding with World Malaria Day. This film portrays the work of the Wellcome Trust-supported clinical research unit based in Mahidol...
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Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
The general thrust of each of the Wellcome Trust’s challenge areas are, on the face of it, fairly self-evident. For instance, ‘Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics’ pretty much says...
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Focus on stroke: The loss of language
In this short film, we meet Tess and Michael, two people who suddenly found themselves robbed of the ability to talk following a stroke. Thanks to the brain’s remarkable ability to regain function,...
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Focus on stroke: Walk with me
A few weeks ago, I went up to the Hawkshead campus of the Royal Veterinary College to meet Dr Jim Usherwood, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow who studies locomotion, and ‘Bob’, a contraption designed...
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Focus on Stroke
It’s estimated to cost the economy £8 billion per year in England. It causes more than 50 000 deaths every year in the UK and leaves hundreds of thousands more people disabled. A quarter of cases occur...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Defeat tuberculosis (1950)
This month’s film was produced by the government funded Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health. The Central Office of Information was established in 1946 as the successor to the...
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An interview with Sir David Attenborough
There are two things I clearly remember from my youth. The first is a book about animals I received as a gift from a wonderful, arty aunt. The second is being agog at The Living Planet. It’s almost...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Get Fit!
This jaunty black and white public health film sponsored by the British Medical Association (BMA) aims to encourage the audience to use the National Eye Service, an organisation aimed at providing eye...
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Imagine Science in Dublin
Imagine’s travelling Google Cinema – a tardis of visual fun The beauty of Dublin took me by surprise. Like many, my only previous experience of this energetic city was a stag night many years ago – a...
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Replay: Living with Dwarfism – sport and “disability”
With the Paralympics starting this week I was reminded of a film interview I did a few years ago with Nichola Dean and Stefan Garde. Both have achondroplasia, or dwarfism, and are also keen...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Stoke Mandeville Games, 1972
It’s impossible to miss – London is currently playing host to the Paralympic Games, the most successful games in terms of tickets sales and gaining unprecedented media exposure for athletes with...
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Galloping to a screen near you
‘Gallop’ isn’t a run-of-the-mill public information film. It was screened last night along with a sequel at the UCL Institute of Neurology. The first two films produced by charity Shift.ms, they aim to...
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‘Belong’: sequel to film ‘Gallop’
Enjoyed Shift.ms’ first film, ‘Gallop’? Well they’ve just released their second! ‘Belong’ is the sequel to the love story which began in ‘Gallop’, featuring Dave, a young man struggling to come to...
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Where is the weather?
Have you ever thought about how tall buildings could affect our health? High rise towers in big cities block air flow, resulting in bad ventilation and an increase in air pollution. High densities of...
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As easy as riding a bicycle?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the Guardian and the Observer. This year, one entry in the...
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December 2012 Public Engagement Events
Shock Head Soul – the DVD is released this month The country is being swept by snow, sleigh bells and seasonal promotions. The only thing missing from the festive frivolities is a sprinkling of...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Spot the midwife
The topic of childbirth appears in a large number of the films and videos in the Moving Image & Sound collection of the Wellcome Library (a list below). Although many of the titles show in some...
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Around the world in 80 days: Filming Art and Global Health – Part 1
Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art and Global Health project. In the first of his journal...
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How I write about science 2013: Video
With the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2013 open for entries, three science writers – Geoff Brumfiel, a former senior reporter for Nature; Jo Marchant, author of Decoding the Heavens; and Linda...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 3: Malawi
Scientists in Malawi working with ‘locals’ around 30km from the nearest hospital Over the course of four months, Barry J Gibb visited the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia...
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