Saward, Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-2213 (2025) Colonial entanglements on film. The Moving Image, 23 (1). pp. 137-148.

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Abstract

Using the lens of films from Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health and human experience based in London, United Kingdom, this article considers some of the issues in understanding colonial-era film archives. The films and archives under consideration arose from the collecting activity started by Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936), an American, who founded a pharmaceutical business, then collected at scale all things medical, resulting in medical professionals being well represented in the collection. The titles studied cover organizational history, veterinary medicine, drug development, and a series of films that record an extensive world tour undertaken by ship by members of the British Medical Association in 1935. Both the chronology and geographies represented in all these films provide some evidence of their entanglement with colonialization, speaking to the way that medicine can be viewed as a borderless profession, providing a passport to normally inaccessible people and places.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	https://muse.jhu.edu/article/949656
Subjects:	Media > Media history and theory
Related URLs:	https://www.upress.umn.edu/journals/the-...
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2025
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14375

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