Institute of Ophthalmology Persian Films. 1967-1972.
- Date:
- 1967-1972
- Film
About this work
Description
A grouping of amateur films which relate to a travelling eye-clinic (mobile trachoma unit) which was in Iran in 1965 (film already catalogued and digitised), 1967 and perhaps later in the early 1970s. The black and white films are under-exposed and dark and relate to setting up the patient clinics and treating men, women and children and keeping records. There is a single undated colour film with the mobile unit still in the UK. The material isn't edited but compiled in a sequence suggested by a numbering scheme annotated on the original boxes.
Publication/Creation
1967-1972.
Physical description
1 film reel (20 min.) : silent, mixed colour and black and white, 16 mm.
Contributors
Copyright note
Unknown.
Notes
This is a compliation of 10 out of 58 films which formed part of an additional accession in 2015 to a group of films donated to the Wellcome Trust in 2006 by The British Medical Association. The material originates from the Institute of Ophthalmology and it isn't clear when they arrived at the BMA.
Boxes for the individual film reels have been retained and packed flat.
Contents
No title 1967, Silent, black and white. Waiting for treatment. Old Man squatting, perhaps blind? Clinic building. Exterior shot. Interior writing. Mountains. Point-of-view Landrover.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. ?
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Landrover shots. Hospital /clinic. Children digging.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Wide shot village. Farmer. Nurse and children. Old man wearing a hat.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Institute of Ophthalmology staff - sterilising equipment. Microscope. Village scene.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Child showing distress (with mother). Family scene. Portable mobile clinic. Family scene. Doctor administering drops.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Mother cradling child. Eye cataract. Record keeping.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Clinic shots, people awaiting treatment.
No title no date, silent, colour. Jeep and Landrover; the latter marked 'London to Tehran'. Lettering on vehicle is 'Trachoma Field Unit; Prevention of Blindness and Trachoma Mobile Unit. Provided by the order of St John, Jerusalem.' This material was shot in the UK prior to the journey (Farley Green, Surrey indicated on the box). There are three men outside the vehicles, who are difficult to identify from the footage which isn't in focus.
No title 1967, silent, black and white. Child showing distress - eye examination. Surgical scene.
Language note
In English.
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores8321FCan't be requested Note