Just one of those things (TEFC)

United Kingdom, 1982

Film
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Episode of Series “A Dependent Future Pt. 1”.
A film about the hopes, joys and fears of a group of mentally handicapped children and their parents. They live in Swadlincote in Derbyshire where since 1971 all mentally handicapped children have been educated in ordinary schools

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Credits

producer

James Burge

production company

BBC-TV

Open University

Duration

00:23:00:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1982

Appears in

A Dependent Future Pt. 1

Group of items

A Dependent Future Pt. 1

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

323631

Language

English

Subject categories

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Mainstreaming in education

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Mentally handicapped

Short films

Short films → Short films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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