The Fight: Science Against Cancer

The Fight: Science Against Cancer
Directed byMorten Parker
Produced byGuy Glover
Production
companies
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada (Canada)
International Film Bureau (United States)[1]
Release date
  • 1950 (1950)
Running time
21 minutes
CountriesCanada
United States
LanguageEnglish

The Fight: Science Against Cancer is a 1950 Canadian-American short documentary film directed by Morten Parker. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Association of American Medical Colleges for the National Cancer Institute and the Department of National Health and Welfare, Canada.[2] The Fight is a shortened version of The Challenge: Science Against Cancer.[1] It covers the topic of cancer using animation.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Film Clips". Film News. Vol. 14, no. 6. 1954. pp. 16–17. ISSN 8750-068X – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Medical Film News". Film News. Vol. 10, no. 5. February 1950. pp. 12–13. ISSN 8750-068X – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  4. ^ "NY Times: The Fight: Science Against Cancer". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 24 November 2008.


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