Overview
The Story Of John M'Neil was Britain's first public health education film, produced in 1911 by Dr Halliday Sutherland. It was a silent film which dramatised a Scottish family living in slum housing and showed how tuberculosis was spread between family members, as well as how it was treated.
Several copies of the film were produced in the 35 mm format suitable for projection in cinemas. Only 22 minutes long, the film was aimed at mass audiences who regularly flocked to the relatively new and hugely popular form of entertainment, the cinema.
Copies of the film were acquired by the National Film Library and are held in its collection.
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