British Empire Cancer Campaign compilation.

Date:
1953-9
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About this work

Also known as

The fight against cancer : an appeal by Margaret Leighton.
Modern Crusaders.
Onwards to Victory.

Description

A compilation of three related cancer campaigning films originating from the organisation Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign. For more information about this organisation, please consult the Wellcome Library's Archives & Manuscripts catalogue under the collection heading SA/CRC.

Publication/Creation

1953-9.

Physical description

1 film reel (08 min.) : sound, black and white 16 mm

Contents

Title 1; The Fight against Cancer: An appeal by Margaret Leighton, 1959. Sealed Fund-raising appeal for the British Empire Cancer Campaign's research programme, made by 1940s/50s British film star Margaret Leighton (complete with pearls and fur stole) for screening in public cinemas. Filmed in the former St. George's Hospital building, Hyde Park Corner, London (now the Lanesborough Hotel); shows maternity wards, radiotherapy department, electron microscope, X-Ray machines. Length 02:10:00
Title 2 The Modern Crusaders, 1958. A fund-raising appeal 'short' for the British Empire Cancer Campaign's research programme, which celebrates the heroic struggle of the white-coated 'mid-twentieth century crusaders' and their surgical colleagues against cancer. Filmed at the British Empire Cancer Campaign's Chester Beatty Research Institute at the Royal Cancer Hospital (aka Royal Marsden Hospital), Sutton, Surrey. Includes remarkable footage of electron microscopes, radio-therapy machines, etc. Length 02:15:00
Title 3 Onwards to Victory, 1953. Fund-raising appeal film which attempts to build on the metaphor of science and technology's contribution to Britain's victory over Nazi Germany during World War II to persuade the public to give generously in support of the campaign to defeat the peacetime menace of cancer. Illustrated with newsreel footage of the London Blitz, the Battle of Britain, etc., fund-raising appeal posters and members of the public making donations to the British Empire Cancer Campaign in Trafalgar Square, under the watchful gaze of the lions. Length 02:50:00

Creator/production credits

Title 1; Rank Screen Services.

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