PORTRAIT OF A DISADVANTAGED CHILD: TOMMY KNIGHTS Part 1

Description

RE-ENACTED DOCUMENTARY: Film brings the audience face-to-face with the reality of a day in the life of a slum child, Tommy Knight, and his inability to learn, The relationship of the inner city to his inability to learn becomes clearer as he plays in the street, awakens with fatigue, shivers in his clothes, eats a meager breakfast and falls asleep over a book that uses words which he has never heard.

Collection

Records of the Community Services Administration

Series

Moving Images Relating to Anti-Poverty Programs