The cultivation of living tissue. Part 1.

Date:
1933
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The cultivation of living tissue. Part 1. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Tissue culture; living cells cultivated in vitro shown in time-lapse. There is a long explanatory intertitle at the beginning which includes how the images are captured. This is then demonstrated. Embryonic cells are shown in time-lapse (speeded up 960 times). Wandering cells and fibroblasts; cell division. There is a hand drawing of a fibroblast, with annotations. Daughter cells. Chromosome arrangement. Phagocytosis; dgenerative culture of the central nervous system (note; there is a clock in the corner to illustrate time passing). Dark ground illustration; polarisation of the sequence illuminating the internal cellular structure. End of Part 1.

Publication/Creation

England : [s.n], 1933.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (16:36 min.) : silent, black and white

Duration

00:16:36

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Copyright previously held by Strangeways Research Laboratory, London.

Notes

From the G.B. Film Library.
The intertitles are very dark.

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Creator/production credits

G.B. Equipments present the British Empire Cancer Campaign Film: Cultivation of living tissue. From the Strangeways Research Laboratory Cambridge, England and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

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