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  1. Driver Overcomes Disability

    Date released
    21 Jul 1966
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1937A
    NoS ID
    026516
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Driver Overcomes Disability. DESCRIPTION: Anyone feeling depressed or badly done by might consider Harley Hellier. Born without arms, Harley just passed his driving-test after only...

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  2. Mobile Environment

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    100
    NoS ID
    325445
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Paul Bates is a successful sales executive, yet he’s almost totally paralyzed. Refusing to accept after polio that his disability should dictate his life-style, he lives a very active existence.

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  3. Keeping In Touch

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    291
    NoS ID
    350308
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Aids for the blind range from simple mechanical devices to complicated electronic cones. How the newly blind learn to use them to overcome their disability.

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  4. Mobile Environment

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    100
    NoS ID
    329496
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Paul Bates is a successful sales executive, yet he’s almost totally paralyzed. Refusing to accept after polio that his disability should dictate his life-style, he lives a very active existence.

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  5. Displays: Speech Patterns

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    207
    NoS ID
    325885
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Scientists in Cambridge, in their research into human language, have used computer models which create line displays representing the shape of the vocal tract during speech. Their computer...

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  6. Migraine Clinic

    Date released
    1973
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    778
    NoS ID
    329019
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Migraine is no ordinary headache. For millions of people it’s a disability which can completely disrupt their lives. This week Michele Brown visits the only clinic of its kind in the world...

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  7. Bravery of Long Distance Walker

    Date released
    21 Aug 1969
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2098A
    NoS ID
    027977
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bravery of Long Distance Walker. DESCRIPTION: After walking 860 miles on crutches from John O’Groats to Lands End, polio victim David Ryder is greeted by film star Elizabeth Taylor...

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  8. SAMMY ROAN

    Date released
    Aug 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345925
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a paraplegic is champion angler and fly-tier NCB Commentary - Along the roads of Fife in his motorised invalid car, ex-miner Sammy Roan is a familiar sight. Paralysed in a pit accident in...

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