Eternal Children

195929 min 30 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Don Haldane

Production: David Bairstow

Script: Sally Lindsay

Children who through heredity, brain injury or various other causes are not equipped to keep pace in a competitive world--are they to be society's unwitting castaways? This film gives a frank appraisal of the problem and shows methods of care and training being developed in special schools and institutions for the mentally disabled.

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Subject categories

  • Psychology and Psychiatry > Children
  • People with disabilities > Children with DisabilitiesPeople with Mental Illness or Intellectual DisabilitiesTreatment and Rehabilitation
  • Education > Children with disabilitiesVocational Education
  • Children and Youth > Young persons with disabilities

Credits

director
Don Haldane
producer
David Bairstow
script
Sally Lindsay
photography
Reginald Morris

Awards

  • Blue Ribbon AwardItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
  • Chris Statuette International Film and Video Festival