People Apart
Demonstrates different types of epilepsies in various personalities and age groups.
Guy Brenton
Director
Guy Brenton
Writer
Demonstrates different types of epilepsies in various personalities and age groups.
Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.
Story of four sufferers from polio.