Helping the Blind
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Helping the Blind. DESCRIPTION: In New South Wales, Australia, braille maps to help the blind find their way around. SHOTLIST: SV people working in office. SV Tom Beaton making plan of aircraft. CU Beaton. CU plan of aircraft in braille. SV plan is put under a thermiform machine to reproduce it in braille form. CU dials on machine. SV machines lid being lifted. SV map being lifted out of machine. SV Beaton talking to assistant. SV two people around table. SV women typing and women reading aloud. SV braille machine. SV braille being put onto map. SV young blind boy reading braille then feels model of aircraft. CU blind boy’s face. SV Beaton with blind boy.
- Keywords
- Disabled persons
- Locations
- Australia; New South Wales
- Footage sources
- Australia
- Card file number
- 99314
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 125
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How to cite this record
'Helping the Blind', British Movietone News Issue No. 2307A, 23 Aug 1973. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/30023 (Accessed 04 Mar 2025)