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James
Synopsis
Gloucestershire, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world’s first smallpox vaccine. http://jamesphipps.tumblr.com
Details
- Year
- 2014
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 15 mins
- Format
- 16mm
- Director
- Claire Oakley
- Producer
- Terhi Kylliainen, Felix Levinson
- Editor
- Sacha Szwarc
- Screenwriter
- Felix Levinson
- Director of Photography
- Taina Galis
- Production Designer
- Antonia Lowe, Thalia Ecclestone
- Sound
- Tom Lock Griffiths
- Music
- Isobel Waller Bridge
- Principal Cast
- Jack Hollington, Morgan Watkins, Robert Cavanah
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 17th October 2014
