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Title: SPASTICS FILM

Reference number: 6477

Date: 1963*

Sound: silent

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20.50 minsc

Description: Amateur general views of care and outings with children with disabilities.

Shotlist: [b&w] Woman holding child with a disability, outside front of house. Woman smiles and then walks to the car and enters back seat carrying child. Gvs various children with disabilities walking and being carried to car. Pan shot children seated at table, playing games and with balloons. Girl to front in wheelchair. Nursing staff beside them. Various babies in prams. Gvs three children washing clothing in a bowl. Two children walking outside with staff, one with the aid of sticks and leg in callipers. Woman carrying toddler into front garden. Two boys playing with wooden cars on table. Various children playing with toy musical instruments at table. Boy painting at table outside, with aid of nurse. various children painting at table covered in newspaper. Child looking at book. Gvs children crawling on floor, playing with toys and each other. Boy building tower with wooden blocks. [col] Children outside on sunny day. Resting on blankets and playing with toys and small box filled with water. Children being carried into cars which then drive off. Children on blankets on grass in park, playing in front of wooden bench. Young boy throws doll from bench. Gvs children playing with bucket, pram. Children having wheelchair race. Children seated around bonfire as it is lit, many performing 'heads, shoulders, knees and toes'. Children being given sweets or biscuits from tin, lit bonfire in foreground. Children on swings, nurses pushing them. Children and staff in large gardens outside building. Many children in wheelchairs. Children being lifted and carried into building. Young boy in top hat bowing for camera. Children waving on wooden terrace around building.