Stars in Town

A wet and cold evening on Southbank did not dampen the spirits of fans who were there to cheer the stars of RED at its premiere as part of the BFI film festival.
Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren were charming and funny spending time signing autographs and shaking hands.

Wellcome Film has a new homepage

Wellcome Film, the Library's film digitisation project, has a new home page. This page includes a dedicated search function for this collection. Some interesting keyword suggestions are: 'birth', 'diabetes' and 'brain tumour.' The search returns results from our online catalogue providing comprehensive descriptions of the titles and links to the videos.

Follow the highlighted links on the new homepage to see some of our video suggestions on topics ranging from the tsetse fly to Russian recreations of Pavlov's conditioning experiments.

The search term 'public health' will find public information films on medicine and health provided by the BFI National Archive, such as the following video Dying for a smoke (1967), a cartoon warning schoolchildren against smoking:

Wellcome Film also has its own YouTube channel with a selection of titles from our collections.