The Fight: Science Against Cancer

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Movie
Original title The Fight: Science Against Cancer
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1950
length 21 minutes
Rod
Director Morten Parker
script Maurice Constant
Morten Parker
production Guy Glover
music Louis Applebaum
camera Grant McLean
cut Douglas Tunstell

The Fight: Science Against Cancer is a Canadian documentary - short film by Morten Parker from 1950, which for a Oscar nominee.

content

The film is devoted to the disease cancer from around the middle of the 20th century. The question of how cancer cells develop and how they can be combated is examined. Studies are consulted to try to understand what the differences are that lead to normal cell growth or cancer cell growth in the body and how they do so. It is also mentioned that there are a few cures for certain types of cancer that were once considered invincible, but that cancer still poses numerous puzzles and that many questions cannot be answered to this day.

A network of scientists around the world exchanges information with one another, investigates every hint and checks it with the greatest care, as it could possibly help to solve a pending problem.

production

The film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in cooperation with the Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The film was advised by David Ruhe, MD and Bernard V. Dryer, and VV Bazilauskas, MD as scientific advisor and as advisor to producer Maurice Constant. Colin Low and Evelyn Lambart were responsible for the animated sequences.

Award

Guy Glover, who produced the film, was nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Documentary Short Film” in 1951 , but this was attributed to Edmund Reek and his film Why Korea? went.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 23rd Academy Awards | 1951 at oscars.org (English)