Irradiation of living tissue by beta and gamma rays.

Date:
1927
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Irradiation of living tissue by beta and gamma rays. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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 encoded moving image (15:02 min.) : silent, black and white

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Duration

00:15:02

Notes

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.

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R. G. Canti

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