Film content is scenes from the play “A Day In The Death of Joe Egg” by Peter Nichols. It provides an extremely rich and provocative learning resource in which the actors role-play sketches within the play to caricature situations faced by parents of a handicapped child Cast includes Romona Kaye, Harriet Buchan, Jack Shepherd.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
013271
Language
English
Subject categories
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Family relationships
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Rehabilitation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped children
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)