Irradiation of living tissue by beta and gamma rays.

Date:
1927
  • Film

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Description

A film demonstrating Canti's research into how cells behave once exposed to radium, then cancerous cells growing shot in time-lapse (high-speed cinemicrography). The nature of the research is outlined in detail.

Publication/Creation

England : [s.n], 1927.

Physical description

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

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Previous copyright holder unknown

Notes

16mm b&w reduction print from the 35mm copy held at the BFI National Archive (marked 'National Film and Television Archive'). Canti was a pioneer in making films for scientific research, especially relating to cancer. He died in 1936 aged just 52. He worked at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, for the British Empire Cancer Campaign and Strangeways Research Laboratory.
This film formed part of an accession in 2004 from the Strangeways Laboratory SA/SRL.

Creator/production credits

R. G. Canti

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