The Shaftesbury Society has a number of schools and hostels in Britain to look after mainly physically handicapped people. The film concentrates on children with muscular dystrophy and spina bifida and shows them at various activities.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
011948
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped children - Care and treatment
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Physically handicapped - Recreation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Physically handicapped children
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Spina Bifida
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Physically handicapped - Recreation
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)