 The film, with its forcible assault upon both eye and ear, is a powerful weapon of propaganda.And it could be used with effect for ‘putting across’ to the public the idea of preventive medicine.Perhaps the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, a master of propaganda, might enlist the help of the moving picture in his campaign for the improved health of the people.” 

By the 1980s, medical films had become an established vehicle of both medical and patient training.