Category: film

An Epidemiological Expedition, 1954

Posted on December 1, 2022

By Paul Theerman ~ Reconnaissance for Yellow Fever in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan, 1954 is one of the several dozen films that Dr. Telford Continue reading Source: NLM

The National Commission on AIDS, 1989–1993

Posted on January 7, 2022

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new Profiles in Science site! Unlike most of our earlier Profiles, which Continue reading Source: NLM

International Film Festival Includes NLM Titles

Posted on September 23, 2021

By Sarah Eilers ~ Coming up September 24-26, the Healthy Scepticism Film Festival, a free virtual program  organised by the Wellcome Trust, features a range Continue reading Source: NLM

Rodney, 1950

Posted on June 24, 2021

By Kathy High and Michael Sappol ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011 and also available on Medicine on Screen: Films Continue reading Source: NLM

Films of State: Using Government Film

Posted on April 15, 2021

By Sarah Eilers ~ Last week I presented (Zooming, of course) at the “Films of State: Moving Images Made by Governments” conference, cosponsored by the Continue reading Source: NLM

Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Posted on August 13, 2020

By Mark S. Micale ~ This essay was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011 and also available on Medicine on Continue reading Source: NLM

Opening the Vault: Finding Aids for Film

Posted on January 10, 2019

By Gabrielle Barr ~ Every day, staff at the National Library of Medicine are working to maintain and expand the online catalog that provides the Continue reading Source: NLM

Love…at the 2018 Orphan Film Symposium

Posted on May 15, 2018

By Sarah Eilers ~ Last month, I had the privilege of collaborating with Dr. Oliver Gaycken, professor of film studies at the University of Maryland-College Continue reading Source: NLM

Edgar Ulmer, The NTA, and the Power of Sermonic Medicine

Posted on August 23, 2017

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dr. Devin Orgeron, an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, teaching courses in Film Theory, Film History Since 1940, The Continue reading Source: NLM

“RUSS EXPLODE H-BOMB”: Let’s Face It, 1954

Posted on August 7, 2017

By Sarah Eilers ~ Three-inch type and spinning fast, the headline hurtles toward the viewer. When it comes to a stop, you know: the Soviets Continue reading Source: NLM

Escape to Iron Mountain

Posted on June 20, 2017

By Sarah Eilers and James Labosier ~ At the National Library of Medicine (NLM), what you see is not all you can get. The library Continue reading Source: NLM

World War I Centenary Forum: Masking Devastation

Posted on April 4, 2017

Sarah Eilers, will speak at 2 PM ET on April 6 in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium on “Masking Devastation: Inside Anna Ladd’s Paris Studio” Continue reading Source: NLM

LSD: Insight or Insanity?, 1968

Posted on March 30, 2017

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Erika Dyck, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Today, Dr. Continue reading Source: NLM

The Road to Health and Happiness, 1937

Posted on January 5, 2017

By Sarah Eilers ~ The road to abundant life is not hard to follow and it is not expensive. So we are told in the Continue reading Source: NLM