Wellcome addition to Film & Sound Online

EDINA is pleased to announce that the first titles in the new Wellcome Film Collection have now been added to Film & Sound Online.

Users are able to witness the evolution of medicine and health over the past 100 years and engage with the use of film as a communication tool in the medical sciences.

Many of the films were originally made for professional audiences such as doctors, surgeons, nurses and students of medicine, so some of the material of a more sensitive nature is available to medical students only.

Representing the seventeenth separate collection to be included in Film & Sound Online, 212 films became available on 26th February. A further 230 or so Wellcome titles will be added in batches in a process due to finish in December 2009.

The core collection consists of about 60 Wellcome Trust titles that were made by the corporate arm of the organisation, in the guise of the Wellcome Foundation. The earliest footage is of archaeological digs in the Sudan, at Gebel Moya, featuring the founder, Sir Henry Wellcome himself (A day at Gebel Moya, season 1912–13), as well as more jaunty corporate fare about the business of running a pharmaceutical company (Looking Around, The Story of the Wellcome Foundation).

Subscription to Film & Sound Online is free to UK FE/HE institutions, and all current subscribers have immediate access to the Wellcome Film Collection.

We welcome feedback on the content to edina@ed.ac.uk or via the Keep in Touch link within the service, which also allows users to register an email address for alerts to new material as it appears online.

Foxgloves in medicine

Living anatomical model

Ergot: the story of a parasitic fungus

Feet