The Reward of Courage (1921)

 

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Title	The Reward of Courage
Year of production	1921
Country of production	États-Unis
Director(s)
Duration	30 minutes
Format	Muet - Noir et blanc - 35 mm
Original language(s)	English
Subtitles and transcription	French
Production companies	Eastern Film Corporation
Commissioning body	American Society for the Control of Cancer
Archive holder(s)	United States National Library of Medicine

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Main credits

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THE REWARD OF COURAGE

An Eastern Film Corporation
220 West 42nd St.

New York, N.Y.

Content

Medical themes

• Tumours. Neoplasms. Blastomata. Choristomata. Hamartomata. Oncology

Theme

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Prévention du cancer

Main genre

Fiction

Synopsis

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Context

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Structuring elements of the film

• Reporting footage  : No.
• Set footage  : No.
• Archival footage  : No.
• Animated sequences  : No.
• Intertitles  : Yes.
• Host  : No.
• Voice-over  : No.
• Interview  : No.
• Music and sound effects : No.
• Images featured in other films : No.

How does the film direct the viewer’s attention?

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How are health and medicine portrayed?

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Broadcasting and reception

Where is the film screened?

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Presentations and events associated with the film

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Audience

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Local, national, or international audience

National

Description

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Supplementary notes

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References and external documents

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Cantor David, Between Movies, Markets and Medicine - The Eastern Film Corporation, Frank A. Tichenor, and Medical and Health Films in the 1920s in Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century, edited by Christian Bonah, David Cantor and Anja Laukötter, University of Rochester Press, Rochester, 2018.

• David Cantor, The Reward of Courage (1921), A rediscovered cancer film of the Silent Era, Medical Movies on the Web
  https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films/medicalmoviesontheweb/therewardofcourage.html