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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

2722

Title

THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

Producer

Universal Talking News

Date

1933

Gauge

35mm N

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

2 mins 46 secs

Description

A fund-raising film for Christie Hospital's cancer research film. Narrated by a newsreel man, the film tells about the hospitals activties, showing cancer patients being examined, operations being done, nurses preparing and distributing food on the wards, and finally, collecting money on the streets.

 

 



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